I know little of what is said, but it sells fast, and is being read, and is producing sorrow this time, I understand, as much as anger, but the two feelings will speedily unite." If he could have appealed to a court of law, the authorities would probably have failed for want of evidence, and Froude would have retained his Fellowship.

But he was sensitive, and yielded to pressure.

He signed the paper presented to him as if he had been a criminal, and shook the dust of the University from his feet.

Within ten years a new Rector, quite as orthodox as the old, had invited him to replace his name on the books of the college.

It was long, however, before he returned to an Oxford where only the buildings were the same.