XXV11 MEMOIR
on the Riviera, together with complete rest and quiet.
Mentone—where he had spent the winter of 1869-70
— was chosen, as being a place to which his memory
always returned in an enthusiasm of pleasure.
Among its olive-groves and under its blue sky he had
been able to realise those aspects of the Holy Land
which he had afterwards so intimately described in the
‘Life and Times.’ Here for five short months life and
the enjoyment of life returned to him. He speedily lost
the overwhelming languor and lassitude which had
been on him, and entered with his usual zest into all
matters of daily interest. Already he had planned a
return-journey home by the northern towns of Italy and
its lakes, when suddenly, and without any premonitory
symptom—
‘God's finger touched him and he slept."
On a spur of the beautiful hill-side cemetery of Mentone
he lies, looking straight towards Jerusalem, the city
whose people he loved and tried to serve, and in whose
spiritual counterpart he now beholds his King in all
His beauty ; and, having awaked up after His like-
ness, 1s satisfied with it.