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see. If Millais [strikethrough] becomes [/strikethrough] drops his mannerisms
and becomes only so far prominent
from others' styles as high excellence
stands out from mediocrity, then
how unfair to say he is leaving his
school, when that school, represented
in the greatest perfection by him, pas-
sing through stage after stage, is at
last arriving at Nature's self, which
is of no school - in as much as diffe-
rent schools represent Nature in their
own more or less truthful different
ways, Nature meanwhile having only
one way.

I will be humble to you on of
your tenets, I mean General Rules.
Although I had had opinions resem-
bling yours before, yet you had ar-
rived at a definite decision on
them [strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] which I could not at
first fully enter into. You were
in advance. I am now seeing the