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Men of his own standing had by this time become aware that he was in Oxford, and sick, consequently there was always someone to look after him. "Brown," said Maitland to a friend, on the fifth day after his illness began, "would you mind giving me my things? I'll try to dress." "Now will you howl for Dakyns, and make him have this telegram sent to the post?
Dakyns writes: "The lovely scenery of the place, to this day lovely; the delicious atmosphere; the rare combination of mountain, wood, and stream; the opportunity for sport; the horses and the dogs; the household, the farmstead, and their varying occupations; the neighboring country gentlemen, and the local politics; the recurring festival at Olympia with its stream of visitors; the pleasures of hospitable entertainment; the constant sacrifices before the cedar image of Artemis in her temple these things, and above all the serene satisfaction of successful literary labors, combined to form an enviable sum total of sober happiness during many years."
Trattles!" cried Maitland, and his own voice sounded faint in his ears. "Mrs. Trattles!" The lady thus invoked answered with becoming modesty, punctuated by sniffs, from the other side of the door: "Yes, sir; can I do anything for you, sir?" "Call Dakyns, please," said Maitland, falling back on his pillow. "I don't feel very well." Dakyns appeared in due course.
"Sorry to hear you're ill, sir; you do look a little flushed. Hadn't I better send for Mr. Whalley, sir?" Now, Mr. Whalley was the doctor whom Oxford, especially the younger generation, delighted to honor. "No; I don't think you need. Bring me breakfast here. I think I'll be able to start for town by the 11.58. And bring me my letters." "Very well, sir," answered Dakyns.
In autumn the Pyrenees were visited by Tennyson in company with Arthur Clough and Mr Dakyns of Clifton College. At Cauteretz in August, and among memories of the old tour with Arthur Hallam, was written All along the Valley. The ways, however, in Auvergne were "foul," and the diet "unhappy."
Anywhere but in college, Maitland would, of course, have rung the bell and called his servant; but in our conservative universities, and especially in so reverend a pile as St. Gatiens, there was, naturally, no bell to ring. Maitland began to try to huddle himself into his greatcoat, that he might crawl to the window and shout to Dakyns, his scout.
M. Taylor, M.D. Conway, Benj. Eyre, E. Dannreather, Rev. T.E. Brown, C.W. Sheppard, E.J.A. Balfour, P.B. Marston, A.C. De Burgh, J.H. McCarthy, J.H. Ingram, Rev. R.P. Graves, Lady Mount-temple, F.S. Ellis, W. Brockie, Rev. A.B. Grosart, Lady Hardy, Hubert Herkomer, Francis Hueffer, H.G. Dakyns, R.L. Nettleship, W.J. Stillman, Miss Blind, Madox Brown, H.R. Ricardo, Messrs.
"She's every right to expect a handsome present from me, of course," she thought, looking vaguely at the leopard on its hind legs, "and I've no doubt she does! Money goes a long way with every one. The young are very selfish. If I were to die, nobody would miss me but Dakyns, and she'll be consoled by the will! However, I've got no reason to complain. . . . I can still enjoy myself.
I closed my grammar, with all the miserable and complicated stuff about tnpto and its aorists, the enclitic and the double-damned Digamma, to open my Jowett's Plato, my Dakyns' Xenophon, and, later, Gilbert Murray's Dramatists and Mackail's Anthology.
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