mutton, as much bitter ale as you can drink; a bedroom and a little
sitting-room joining it all for your own self, and the most
beautiful look-out from the window that I have ever seen. You may
vary your retirement. You may change your rooms for the flower-
garden, which is an island in the river, or for the edge of the
waterfall, the music of which will every night lull you to sleep.
Last of all, you will have the society of myself, and of my wife,
and, what ought to weigh with you too, you will give us the great
pleasure of yours."

Clough neither fished, nor shot, nor boated, but as a walking
companion there was no one, in Froude's opinion, to be put above
him. For fishing he gave pre-eminence to Kingsley, and together they
carried up their coracles to waters higher than ordinary boats could
reach. Kingsley was ardent in all forms of sport, and an enthusiast
for Maurician theology, holding, as he said, that it had pleased God
to show him and Maurice things which He had concealed from Carlyle.
He had concealed them also from Froude, who regarded Carlyle as his
teacher, feeling that he owed him his emancipation from clerical
bonds.

Froude and Kingsley did not agree either in theology or in politics.
"I meant to say," Froude wrote to his wife's brother-in-law in 1851,
"that the philosophical necessity of the Incarnation as a fact must
have been as cogent to the earliest thinkers as to ourselves. If we
may say it must have been, they might say so. And they might, and
indeed must, have concluded, each at their several date, that the
highest historical person known to them must have been the Incarnate
God; so that unless the Incarnation was the first fact in human
history, there must have been a time when they would have used the