The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

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work,' such as the Secretaryship of the Church Extension Society, had all given way before the fascination of
the metrical Psalter.
In I841 Mrs. Jowett and Emily returned from Bath
to Blackheath with Alfred and William 1, whose Indian
careers were now in prospect, and towards the end of
1842 removed to Teignmouth. By this time William
was in India, and Alfred must have been 'walking the
Hospitals' in London. In 1846 (Alfred also being now
in India) the home trio, father, mother, and surviving
daughter, took up their abode in a neatly furnished
apartment on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue
Madeleine in Paris, spending the summer months
mostly at St. Germains or Fontainebleau. In I848 they
were driven by fear of the Revolution to sojourn for
a while at Bonn and Aix-la-Chapelle. But they soon
returned to their old quarters, and in i850 were visited
there by Mr. F. T. Palgrave, who has thus recorded his
impressions:
'Mr. Jowett had some theories upon Milton's rules of
versification, in which he took great interest, and tried to
set them forth for me. He looked like a man rather past
middle age, and had the manner, more easily recognized
than defined, of one who had not been successful in his
profession... The mother (venerated as much by Jowett
as the father) was a pale, white, graciously dignified lady
of about her husband's age; her voice, her features, her
bearing, wore the air of a long, perfect, uncomplaining resignation 2. The sister, apparently rather younger than the Master,
was also of a thoughtful cast of mind. She had a true feeling
for music, and used to play for me, when I called, several
During this brief sojourn Mammas, fell to talking about
at Blackheath, Lord Lingen's their sons at Oxford.'
mother, in visiting her sister, 2 This was the year in which
Mrs. Rea, met Mrs. Jowett, 'and William and Frederick died.
the two, after the manner of