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to take to a double-bedded room that opens directly 

 into the road or yard. Sat latterly in the coffee-room, 

 an English chatterbox, an Indian-looking dragoon, a 

 sensible German, and another man being our fellows. 

 We amused each other pronouncing difficult words 

 for the others to imitate. My Llanfairpwllgwyngyll 

 puzzled all of them. 



2&amp;lt;^th. Sir H. taken suddenly worse during the 

 night with English cholera, or something like it. He 

 was so bad that by and by he got alarmed, and I 

 jumped out of bed, got a car, drove to Bangor, 

 roused Mr. Charles, the surgeon, expounded the case, 

 and fetched him out with the needful medicines. 

 Miss Roberts in a dreadful way about the bed-room 

 we were in. I brought in Mr. Charles, and Sir H. 

 talked and made him laugh so about what he had 

 eaten and how he felt. . . . The doctor gave him 

 a dose, which almost on the instant put all right. 



I read Sir Roger de Coverley, and thought how 

 like the two knights are to each other in many points 

 of character, such as their jollity and harmless humours. 



* Between four and six I crossed to Anglesey by the 

 ferry, and saw that old affair of Selwyn s where the 

 Cambrians are supposed to lie unconformably on the 

 older schists. There is every appearance of a fault 

 there, for there is a good Q-inch quartz-lode between 

 them. 1 



* 30^. Sir H. quite well and jolly this morning. 

 He vowed that I was his guest here, and that I must 

 not pay any share in the bill, because I would not 

 have stayed had it not been for his illness, so I took 

 an opportunity of slipping into the bar and paying my 

 shot unknown to him. 



1 See ante^. 172, and postea, p. 207. 



