[28] This was a visit to Six-Mile Bottom, where M. Turguenieff, who was a very highly valued friend of Mr. and Mrs. Lewes, had come to compare his experiences of Russian and English sport. I remember George Eliot telling me that she had never met any literary man whose society she enjoyed so thoroughly and so unrestrainedly as she did that of M. Turguenieff. They had innumerable bonds of sympathy.
[29] This letter is in acknowledgment of a letter from Mrs. Beecher Stowe on "Daniel Deronda."
[30] Mme. Bodichon had been dangerously ill.
[31] Refers to a poem by W. Allingham, "The General Chorus," with a burden:
"Life, Death; Life, Death;
Such is the song of human breath."
[32] The beginning of my mother's last illness.
[33] Dinner at Mr. Goschen's.
[34] "The Impressions of Theophrastus Such."
[35] Madame Belloc.
[36] Mrs. Charles Lewes.