86 The Hon. Adolphus Lightfoot, 



pleasure and denies himself nothing if he possibly can help 

 it, he takes great care of his constitution, for, the moment 

 he feels that he has been overdoing it, he leaves off and 

 retires gracefully to the Pre for a v^hile. This is v^hat he 

 pleasantly terms " taking a pull." '' Nothmg like a run in 

 the country, and a course of new-laid eggs, fresh milk, 

 early morns, and all that sort of thing, if you're a bit off 

 colour," says he. And, after a fortnight or so of voluntary 

 rustication, Dolly, being tired of country life and feeling 

 that '' Richard is himself again," will once more hie away 

 to the pleasures of the town. 



How in the world he manages to do all the things he 

 does in the course of the year, without breaking down, is 

 to us, and numerous other people, a perfect marvel. 

 Cosmopolitan in his tastes to ^a degree, nothing ap- 

 parently can go on in the shape of amusement without 

 his being there ; he is one of those men, in short, that 

 you are perfectly certain to meet wherever you go. We 

 really believe if we were to make a journey to the North 

 Pole to-morrow, we should find Dolly there before us. 

 You'll meet him at eleven o'clock p.m. at a reception at 

 the Foreign Office, and an hour afterwards you will 

 find him assisting at a glove contest between two aspiring 

 novices at Billy Daw's well-known crib off the Haymarket. 

 We never yet went to Cremorne on a fine summer's night 

 without seeing him, and the only time we ever ventured 

 inside the Casino in Great Windmill Street, which we did 

 at the instigation of a graceless nephew, who was anxious 

 to initiate us into what he called "life in London," the very 

 first person we came across was naughty Dolly, who was 

 whirling what the police-court reporters call a "■ stylishly- 

 dressed " young lady along at the rate of a hundred 



