{109} The Agamemnon. {110} FitzGerald frequently referred to a story from Wesley's Journal, which he quotes in Polonius, p. LXX. 'A gentleman of large fortune, while we were seriously conversing, ordered a servant to throw some coals on the fire. A puff of smoke came out. He threw himself back in his chair, and cried out, "O Mr. Wesley, these are the crosses I meet with every day!"' {111} The Holy Grail. {116a} Printed in the East Anglian Notes and Queries for 1869 and 1870. {116b} The partnership was dissolved in June 1870. {118a} Ten years before, Nov. 2, 1860, FitzGerald wrote to his old friend, the late Mr. W. E. Crowfoot of Beccles: 'I have been reading with interest some French Memoirs towards the end of the last century: when the French were a cheerful, ingenious, witty, trifling people; they had not yet tasted of the Blood of the Revolution, which really seems to me to have altered their character. The modern French Novels exhibit Vengeance as a moving Virtue: even toward one another: can we suppose they think less well of it towards us? In this respect they are really the most barbarous People of Europe. {118b} 29 Oct. 1870. {120} Gilbert's Palace of Truth. {122a} Edwin Edwards. {122b} Cornhill, June 1870. 'A Clever Forgery,' by Dr. W. Pole. {127} Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, vol. i. p. 162. {128} In 1879 he wrote to Professor Cowell, 'O, Sir Walter will fly over all their heads "come aquila" still!' {133} Not 'Yaffil' but 'yaffingale.' {135a} In Hamlet, ii. 2. 337, 'Whose lungs are tickle o' the sear.' {135b} 'Read rascal in the motions of his back, And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee.'--_Sea Dreams_. {136} Thus far written in pencil by Carlyle himself. The rest of the letter except the signature and postscript is in Mr. Froude's hand. {139a} This appears to be a mistake. {139b} At Whitsuntide. {139c} As Thackeray used to call Carlyle. {140} Old Kensington. {141a} In 1873 he wrote to Miss Thackeray,