. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. of Richard Feverel, Evan Harrington, is very clever, original, and amusing. We soonbecame great allies. He is a widower of thirty-two,with a boy of eight years —one of the finest lads Iever saw ... his little man, as he calls him. Heis immensely proud of this boy, and the boy is wellworthy of his fathers pride and affection. . Con-trary to the usual habit of authors, he is not asilent man, and when he is present conversationgoes glibly enough. Although only a new chum,he is quite like an old one. . Meredith chaffs me, and
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. of Richard Feverel, Evan Harrington, is very clever, original, and amusing. We soonbecame great allies. He is a widower of thirty-two,with a boy of eight years —one of the finest lads Iever saw ... his little man, as he calls him. Heis immensely proud of this boy, and the boy is wellworthy of his fathers pride and affection. . Con-trary to the usual habit of authors, he is not asilent man, and when he is present conversationgoes glibly enough. Although only a new chum,he is quite like an old one. . Meredith chaffs me, and says I resemble in manyways the man (Cobbett) whose biography I haveundertaken. The reason of his opinion is, that Icome down in the midst of his many poeticalrhapsodies with frequent morsels of hard common-sense. I interrupt him with a stolid request todefine his terms. I point out discrepancies between They were introduced by Robert Cooke, of Balham. Mrs Hardmanwas the daughter of James Radley, of Liverpool.^ Meredith was thirty-three at this Sir William Hardmax, the original oi Blackhurn Ilt kiiamIN Beauci[AM1s (.areek? I>-om a jthoto£7-aJ>li o/ JS63 WILLIAM HARDMAN 117 his most recent sentence and some previous consequence of this is that we get into longarguments, and it was only last Sunday, during oneof our country rambles, that, in spite of the raw,inclement January day,i we stopped a long time ata stile, seated on the top of which he lectured me,quite ineffectually, on his views of the future destiniesof the human race. And now follow some delightful glimpses of lifeat Copsham Cottage and rambles in Surrey duringthe autumn of 1861 and the spring of 1862 : We have just returned from a charming littlecountry run of two days and one night. Yesterdaymorning we left the Waterloo Station at forEsher. All our mutual requirements were con-densed into a little black bag, which I carried, andwe started from the station at Esher triumphantly,regardles
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