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Much of the time and energy which might have built an imperishable name for himself was spent in encouraging others; but it was not waste, for he left his broad thumb-mark upon all that passed beneath it. A dozen second-hand Henleys are fortifying our literature to-day. Alas that we have so little of his very best! for that very best was the finest of our time.
Close to me, as I write, is a bookcase on whose shelves Henley and Henley's Young Men Marriott Watson, George Steevens, Charles Whibley, Leonard Whibley, Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, Arthur Morrison, G.S. Street jostle each other in the big and little volumes that were to create the world anew. The small green-bound Henleys stand in a row.
Pure most pure must that passion be which at once possesses the strength of his and his forbearance! There are indeed but few Frank Henleys! Surely, Louisa, I may do him justice? Surely to esteem the virtuous cannot merit the imputation of guilt? Who can praise him as he deserves? And can that which is right in others be wrong in me?
Till the crops were off the ground there was no sporting, except an occasional cock-match at Winchester, and a bull-baiting at Hexton Fair. Harry and Will rode off to many jolly fairs and races round about the young Virginian was presented to some of the county families the Henleys of the Grange, the Crawleys of Queen's Crawley, the Redmaynes of Lionsden, and so forth.
Philip was at breakfast with the Henleys, on the following morning, a Sunday, or rather, sitting at the breakfast-table, when the letters were brought in. Mrs. Henley, pretending to be occupied with her own, had an eager, watchful eye on her brother, as one was placed before him. She knew Mr. Edmonstone's writing, but was restrained from exclaiming by her involuntary deference for her brother.
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