Congreve is down-hearted about Oxford: not so I.I quite look to coming back in a very few years." The Archdeacon, conceiving that the best remedy for free thought was short commons, stopped his son's allowance.

Froude would have been alone in the world, if the brave and generous Kingsley had not come to his assistance.

Like a true Christian, he invited Froude to his house, and made him at home there.

To appreciate the magnanimity of this offer we must consider that Kinglsey was himself suspected of being a heretic, and that his prominent association with Froude brought him letters of remonstrance by every post.

He said nothing about them, and Froude, in perfect ignorance of what he was inflicting upon his host, stayed two months with him at Ilfracombe and Lynmouth.