Apart from his own personal case, the allegory means little more than the gospel of work which is the noblest part in the teaching of Carlyle.

Titled personages come off badly, and the most ridiculous figure in the motley throng is an Archbishop.

Not much sympathy is shown with any one, except with a widow who hopes to rejoin her husband, and sympathy is all that Froude can give her.
Of Froude's friendships much has been said.

They were numerous, and drawn from very different classes.

Beginning at Oxford, they increased rather than diminished throughout his life, notwithstanding the gaps which death inevitably and inexorably made.