I remember on one occasion, when he was making a call, he stopped short in his walk in the midst of a declamation on some subject, and said, 'You have a brick floor here.' The hostess confessed that it was true, though she hoped that it had been disguised by double matting and a thick carpet.

He said that his habit of always walking enabled him to tell accurately the material he was treading on." His faults were such as give annoyance to those who dislike a man rather than anxiety to those who love him.

Vehemence, over-confidence, the inability to recognise that there are two sides to a question or two people in a dialogue, are defects which during youth are perhaps inseparable from gifts like those with which he was endowed.

Moultrie, speaking of his undergraduate days, tells us that "To him There was no pain like silence--no constraint So dull as unanimity.

He breathed An atmosphere of argument, nor shrank From making, where he could not find, excuse For controversial fight." At Cambridge he would say of himself that, whenever anybody enunciated a proposition, all possible answers to it rushed into his mind at once; and it was said of him by others that he had no politics except the opposite of those held by the person with whom he was talking.