George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals . er-ings :Letter to Dear friends, Mr. Bury told us last nicrht that he thought the Brays;, ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ half-past father would not last till mornino^. I sat by him with nine, ... Wednes- my hand in his till four oclock, and he then became day mom- ^ ing,3ist quieter and has had some comfortable sleep. He is May, 1849. . obviously weaker this morning, and has been for thelast two or three days so painfully reduced that Idread to think what his dear frame may become beforelife gives way. My brother slept here last night, andwill be here
George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals . er-ings :Letter to Dear friends, Mr. Bury told us last nicrht that he thought the Brays;, ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ half-past father would not last till mornino^. I sat by him with nine, ... Wednes- my hand in his till four oclock, and he then became day mom- ^ ing,3ist quieter and has had some comfortable sleep. He is May, 1849. . obviously weaker this morning, and has been for thelast two or three days so painfully reduced that Idread to think what his dear frame may become beforelife gives way. My brother slept here last night, andwill be here again to-night. What shall I be withoutmy father? It will seem as if a part of my moral nat-ure were gone. I write wdien I can, but I do not knowwhether my letter will do to send this evening. P. S.—Father is very, very much weaker this even-ing. Mr. Evans died during that night, 31st May, 1849. SUMMARY. MAY, 1846, TO MAY, 1849. Visit to Mrs. Hennell at Hackney—Letters to Mrs. Bray —Strauss translation published—Visit to Dover with father—Clas-. M^ ROBERT EVAN S 7^^7z- .,cxy cy^^O(^^cay«iUt^^ uyu>Oi:i 1849.] Summary of Chapter III. 149 sical books wanted—Pleasure in Strausss letter—Brays suspectnovel-writing—Letters to Miss Sara Hennell—Good spirits—W icksteeds review of the Strauss translation—Reading Fosters life—Visit to Griff—Childs view of God (^ propos of Miss HennellsHeliados)—Visit to London—Elijah—Likes London less—The Sibree family and Mrs. John Cashs reminiscences—Let-ter to Miss Mary Sibree—Letters to Miss Sara Hennell—Mentaldepression—Opinion of Charles Hennells Inquiry—Visit tothe Isle of Wight with father—Admiration of Richardson—BlancoWhite—Delight in George Sands Lettres dun Voyageur—Letters to Mr. John Sibree—Opinion of Mrs. Hannah Moras let-ters—Tancred, Coningsby, and Sybil—DIsraelis theoryof races—Gentile nature kicks against superiority of Jews—Bowsonly to the supremacy of Hebrew poetry—Su
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