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MEETING AT RUGBY 129
marks " I and with minds set on this thrilling theme
they subsequently went to bed.
But the most moving incident took place later at Rugby,
when even the great Frederick Temple, who gave the addresses,
was almost overcome by the cold in the dininghall.
There were seventeen degrees of frost. We had
had one hour and a half in Chapel before breakfast, and
something at first was immeasurably wrong in the catering
department. A tiny bit of toast each was all we got
at our table for twenty minutes l not a drop of sustaining
cofiee ; not a word of sympathy from any quarter, nothing
but a prevailing and ingem deaiderium : when just as we
were on the point of succumbing, the French master,
chosen to be the reader from some " holy book " to assist
our meditations, mounted the bema and iil a foreign
accent and a voice cavernous from hunger gave us a long
extract from Jeremy Taylor on the suppression of the
carnal appetites.