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A keen opponent, he was a good listener, and no older friend could have been disposed to entertain more graciously or with less shadow of condescension, the half- formed opinions of a younger. The same welcome greeted me when, in the October of 1868, I rode from Gloucester to spend a day at Noke Place. On this occasion our conversation turned on travel and foreign architecture ; in the course of it I remember quoting Browning's verse in reference to a photograph of Giotto's tower, ' the great C...ampanile is still to finish, ' and Dobell's expressing a belief that the structure was perfect. In our walk round the house and garden, I was more than ever impressed with the minute observation and knowledge of animals (we were inspecting his magnificent dogs), birds, plants, and flowers, exhibited in his ' Sketches from Nature, ' and attested by all who have been privileged with even a i860. ] SYDNEY DO BELL. J 77 few hours of bis company. Like the American Thoreau, he found sermons in stones and theories of life in every tint of cloud or scent of blossom.
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