You are enjoying
your holiday deep in the country, and may be inclined to pardon that
incurable old idler, your godfather and former tutor, for a waste of
time which perhaps you would not forgive when you are teaching in
London. Verse-making is out of fashion now. Goodbye. I should like to
spend a week with you wandering through those Devonshire lanes if I
could carry my two rooms with me and stick them in a field.
Affectionately,
G. L.
My Dear Godfather,--The little Musae came safely. My love to you for
them, and for the pretty inscription. I positively refuse to say a
single syllable on your scholarship. I have deserted my Latin and
Greek, and they were never good enough to justify me in criticising
yours. I have latterly turned my attention to Logic, History, and Moral
Philosophy, and with the help of my degree I have obtained a situation
as teacher of these sciences. I confess I do not regret the change.
They are certainly of supreme importance. There is something to be
learned about them from Latin and Greek authors, but this can be
obtained more easily from modern writers or translations than by the
laborious study of the originals.
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