schooldays at East Sheen, 80, 108, 114 schoolfellows expelled, 89 “Sieges--the most dangerous game since the world began,” 39 _Sketches from Marlborough_, publication of, 232 Sundays at Lincoln and at Addington, 46, 183 Swiss mountain-climbing, 41 _et seq._ the charm of the sea, 56 the passing-bell at Marlborough, 209 the tragedy of a stickleback, 67 tours Normandy and Brittany, 244 Turkish delight, midnight revels, and the sequel, 115 _et seq._ Wellington and the beginning, 13 _et seq._ widening horizons of, 147 _et seq._ wins a foundation scholarship, 145 Benson, Edward White (father), a wet holiday in the Lake District, 209 accompanies author to Marlborough, 137 Algerian tours of, 254, 276, 277 and his son Hugh, 127 and Robert Browning, 237 and the erection of Truro Cathedral, 101 and the Lincoln judgment, 250, 253 appointed Bishop of Truro, 62 as picture-hanger, 25 becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, 163 Chancellor of Lincoln, 32 death of his eldest son, 78 dinner parties at Lambeth Palace, 237 Easter visits to Florence, 181 frequent fits of depression, 103, 105, 180 headmaster of Wellington College, 13 his death at Hawarden Church, 322 his dislike of tobacco, 238 his sternness, and the cause, 103 holiday “leisure” of, 132, 133, 210, 278 last farewell to his children, 321 love of the classics, 181 Press reviews of _The Rubicon_, and, 300 Queen Victoria and, 277 relentless Sundays of, 183 tour through Ireland, 321 visits Carthage, 278 Benson, Maggie (sister), 22, 25, 54, 127, 178, 275 conducts excavations of a Karnak temple, 312, 315 develops congestion of the lungs in Egypt, 317 guinea-pig rearing by, 93 her _Venture of Rational Faith_, 314 ill-health of, 312 in Athens, 303 prizes at Truro High School, 127 publishes _Subject to Vanity_, 314 researches in Chemistry, 94 trips to Algiers and to Egypt, 254, 276 Benson, Martin (brother), 22, 23, 25, 30 at Winchester, 124 death of, 78 precocity of, 75 Benson, Mrs. (mother), a stanza by, 94 and her children, 40, 106, 167 at Addington, 179 death of, 254 death of her daughter Nellie, 252 fear as her enemy, 173, 318 friendship with Mr. Gladstone, 165 her subscriptions as “honorary member,” 99, 100 how she whiled away a wet afternoon, 212 informs author of the _Dodo_ “boom,” 294 letters to “Beth” on illness and death of her son Martin, 76, 77 religious instincts of, 78, 102, 168, 175 smokes a pipe on the Alps, 240 Benson, Nellie (sister), 22, 65, 98, 99, 251 an article in _Temple Bar_ by, 177 an attack of pleurodynia, 209 and her father, 105 ascends the Zienal Rothhorn, 243 at Truro High School, 126 Bishop Wordsworth and, 52 death of, 252 distributes prizes at Marlborough, 206