your personal feelings.

_Ibid. July 22._--The separation from friends in politics is indeed
very painful.... I have been instructed, perhaps been hardened, by
a very wide experience in separation.--No man has been blessed more
out of proportion to his deserts than I have in friends: in
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old standing who were nearest to me, I ask where are they, I seem
to see around me a little waste, that has been made by politics,
by religion, and by death. All these modes of severance are sharp.
But the first of them is the least so, when the happy conviction
remains that the fulfilment of duty, such as conscience points to
it, is the object on both sides. And I have suffered so sorely by
the far sharper partings in death, and in religion after a fashion
which practically almost comes to death, that there is something
of relief in turning to the lighter visitation. It is, however, a
visitation still.

_To the Bishop of Oxford, July 21._--... Do not join with others in
praising me, because I am not angry, only sorry, and that deeply.
For my revenge--which I do not desire, but would battle if I
could--all lies in that little word "future" in my address, which I
wrote with a consciousness that it is deeply charged with meaning,
and that that which shall come will come. There have been two
great deaths or transmigrations of spirit in my political
existence. One, very slow, the breaking of ties with my original
party. The other, very short and sharp, the breaking of the tie
with Oxford. There will probably be a third, and no more....
Again, my dear Bishop, I thank you for bearing with my
waywardness, and manifesting, in the day of need, your confidence
and attachment.

The bishop naturally hinted some curiosity as to the third