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The presence of his old classmate, Tait, was one of his early attractions to the Chair; and now that Fleeming is gone again, Tait still remains, ruling and really teaching his great classes.
The virtues which accompanied him into public life did not desert him in private. In losing him, we have lost not only a powerful intellect, but a bright example, and an amiable man. The late Fleeming Jenkin, Professor of Engineering in Edinburgh University, was remarkable for the versatility of his talent.
About a month later, I met him at dinner at a common friend's. 'Now, said he, on the stairs, 'I engage you like a lady to dance for the end of the evening. You have no right to quarrel with me and not give me a chance. I have often said and thought that Fleeming had no tact; he belied the opinion then.
So that each of the two races from which Fleeming sprang, had an outpost by his very cradle; the one he instinctively loved, the other hated; and the life-long war in his members had begun thus early by a victory for what was best. We can trace the family from one country place to another in the south of Scotland; where the child learned his taste for sport by riding home the pony from the moors.
'Poor mother, I find Fleeming writing, 'I cannot get the tones of her voice out of my head. . . I may have to bear this pain for a long time; and so I am bearing it and sparing myself whatever pain seems useless.
Edinburgh Colleagues Farrago vitæ I. The family circle Fleeming and his sons Highland life The cruise of the steam-launch Summer in Styria Rustic manners II. The drama Private theatricals III. Sanitary associations The phonograph IV. Fleeming's acquaintance with a student His late maturity of mind Religion and morality His love of heroism Taste in literature V. His talk His late popularity Letter from M. Trélat.
The drawing-room was filled with presents and beautiful bouquets; these, to Fleeming and his family, the golden bride and bridegroom displayed with unspeakable pride, she so painfully excited that the guests feared every moment to see her stricken afresh, he guiding and moderating her with his customary tact and understanding, and doing the honours of the day with more than his usual delight.
He had his fill of weeping on that occasion; and when the piece was at an end, in front of a café, in the mild, midnight air, we had our fill of talk about the art of acting. But what gave the stage so strong a hold on Fleeming was an inheritance from Norwich, from Edward Barren, and from Enfield of the "Speaker."
In another Manchester family, whose name will be familiar to my readers that of the Gaskells, Fleeming was a frequent visitor. To Mrs. Gaskell, he would often bring his new ideas, a process that many of his later friends will understand and, in their own cases, remember.
Uncle John was but an outsider after all; he had dropped out of hail of his nephew's way of life and station in society, and was more like some shrewd, old, humble friend who should have kept a lodge; yet he led the procession of becoming deaths, and began in the mind of Fleeming that train of tender and grateful thought which was like a preparation for his own.
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