I remember that he wrote a long, most
earnest letter to Lansbury, pointing out to him that if he subverted
all authority and constitutional government his own party would in its
turn be subverted when it came to govern. Of course, he received no
answer.
During these months I came to love the man. The attraction that I had
felt for him from the very first deeply underlay all my relation to
him, but as I saw more of him I found many very positive reasons for my
liking. He was the simplest, bravest, purest, most loyal, and most
unselfish soul alive. He seemed to me to have no faults at all unless
it were a certain softness towards the wishes of those whom he loved.
He could not bear to hurt anybody, but he never hesitated if some
principle in which he believed was called in question.
He had not, of course, a subtle mind--he was no analyst of
character--but that did not make him uninteresting. I never heard any
one call him dull company, although men laughed at him for his good
nature and unselfishness and traded on him all the time. He was the
best human being I have ever known or am ever likely to know.
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