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There was a frost, and torches on the Serpentine. Mrs. The news reached Reeve by a note from Mr. From Mr. E. Twisleton Bonchurch, January 24th. My dear Reeve, I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 18th instant, which has been forwarded to me here.
Henry Reeve is perhaps the most striking illustration in our time of how little in English life influence is measured by notoriety. To the outer world his name was but little known.
I am all anxiety to see your January number. To the Marquis of Lansdowne 62 Rutland Gate, January 25th. My dear Lord Lansdowne, I have omitted, but not from forgetfulness, to express to you the very high gratification Mrs. Reeve and myself derived from your most kind reception of us at Bowood, and I am sure we shall always retain the liveliest recollection of this most agreeable visit.
With the new year the party from Foxholes came to town, and there Reeve was laid up with a serious illness which lasted nearly a month. The Journal notes on February 7th 'I attended a dinner of The Club, and resigned the treasurership, which I had held for twenty-five years. A corresponding entry a month later, on March 7th, is 'At the third dinner of The Club.
Reeve deeply felt the loss of one who had been for so long associated with him; but, independently of this, Mr. Lemon's death at this particular time had an important influence on Reeve's immediate future.
But Sir Robert, nothing heeding, secure in his noble might, scowled about him 'neath lifted vizor, and summoned the Reeve to his stirrup with imperious hand: "How now, master Reeve," quoth he, "I am in haste to be gone: where tarries Sir Gui? Have ye not warned him of my coming?
I think the Cenci article in the new 'Ed. Rev. will interest you. January 22nd. I send you Vols. III. and IV. of the mystic record. Pray keep it locked up. In the 'True Tale of the Cenci, by T. Adolphus Trollope, there was much that Mr. Cheney dissented from, and he wrote a long letter on the subject, which Reeve in due course forwarded to Trollope.
He never regained entire consciousness; and though from time to time he gave some directions about the 'Review, they were not intelligible to those who heard; they probably had no meaning even to himself. On Monday, October 21st, at half-past one in the morning, 'the one last change was made, and he passed away peacefully and without suffering. In a letter of sympathy to Mrs. Reeve Dr.
Then, without the light to show them his helpless body, in the darkness, which would give his mind a freer play, he began to tell his story. It was a long narrative. Far back in the years he had prospected with a youth named Pete Reeve. They had located a claim and they had gone to town together to celebrate. In the celebration he had drunk with Reeve till the boy stupefied.
His literary and other congenial tastes and pursuits, and his industrious habits, will no doubt supply him with full employment for his still active and vigorous mind. In taking their leave of Mr. Henry Reeve on his departure from office their Lordships will only add, 'Let honour be where honour is justly deserved. To this Mr. Aston, Q.C., replied, as the oldest member of the Bar present:
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