then on his way to town and back. Jem will not be back in town when
he goes up for the Judicial Committee work, so he will be rather
solitary there, won't he. I am not, however, sure about the number
of weeks Jem must reside to keep his term....'

The enjoyment of the last few days at Dresden 'was much marred by a
heavy cold, caught by going to see an admirable representation of
'Egmont,' the last of these theatrical treats so highly appreciated.
The journey to Berlin, before the cold was shaken off, resulted in an
attack of illness; and he was so heavy and uncomfortable as to be
unable to avail himself of his opportunities of interesting
introductions.

He returned to his rooms at Merton direct from Germany. Like many
men who have come back to Oxford at a riper age than that of
undergraduate life, he now entered into the higher privileges and
enjoyments of the University, the studies, friendships, and
influences, as early youth sometimes fails to do. He was felt by his
Oxford friends to have greatly developed since his Balliol terms had
been over and the Eton boy left behind. Study was no longer a toil
and conscientious effort. It had become a prime pleasure; and men
wondered to find the plodding, accurate, but unenthusiastic student
of three years back, a linguist and philologist of no common power
and attainment. Mr. Roundell says, 'He had become quite another
person. Self-cultivation had done much for him. Literature and art
had opened his mind and enlarged his interests and sympathies. The
moral and spiritual forces of the man were now vivified, refined, and
strengthened by the awakening of his intellectual and esthetic
nature.'