where she was less shy.

"Millais's portrait of her is very good, and so is Watts's; but the
best idea of her is to be got from Josselin's little outlines in
'The Discreet Princess,' and these are out of print. If you have
any, please lend them to me, and I will faithfully return them. I
have more than once tried to draw her in _Punch_, from memory, but
never with success.

"I used to call her '_La belle dame sans merci._'

"I've often, however, drawn Josselin, as you must remember, and
people have recognized him at once. Thanks for all his old sketches
of school, etc., which will be very useful.

"I wish I had known the Josselins better. But when one lives in
Hampstead one has to forego many delightful friendships; and then he
grew to be such a tremendous swell! Good heavens!--_Sardonyx_, etc.
I never could muster courage even to write and congratulate him.

"It never occurred to any of us, either in Duesseldorf or London, to
think him what is called _clever_; he never said anything very
witty or profound. But he was always funny in a good-natured, jovial
manner, and made me laugh more than any one else.

"As for satire, good heavens! that seemed not in him. He was always
well dressed, always in high spirits and a good temper, and very
demonstrative and caressing; putting his arm round one, and slapping
one on the back or lifting one up in the air; a kind of jolty,
noisy, boisterous boon-companion--rather uproarious, in fact, and
with no disdain for a good bottle of wine or a good bottle of beer.
His artistic tastes were very catholic, for he was prostrate in
admiration before Millais, Burne-Jones, Fred Walker, and Charles
Keene, with the latter of whom he used to sing old English duets.
Oddly enough, Charles Keene had for Josselin's little amateur
pencillings the most enthusiastic admiration--probably because they
were the very antipodes of his own splendid work. I believe he
managed to get some little initial letters of Josselin's into
_Punch_ and _Once a Week_; but they weren't signed, and made no
mark, and I've forgotten them.

"Josselin didn't really get his foot in the stirrup till a year or
two after his marriage.

[Illustration: "BETWEEN TWO WELL-KNOWN EARLS"]

"And that was by his illustrations to his own _Sardonyx_, which are
almost worthy of the let