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visits,' said he, ' say at eleven.' Oif drove his coach. This 

 morning, before anybody else was up, I went below for my 

 spectacles. On the sideboard was a basket of fine peaches, 

 ' which was not so before.' In the morning bouquets came in. 

 I could fill pages with a list of such offerings as are daily 

 poured in. He has game at every meal. * Our friends,' said 

 one, 'keep us supplied with game.' His family pass the 

 summer in a very pleasant place a few miles from the city, but 

 his house affairs go on by themselves, very much as of them- 

 selves, and knew how, and are all in perfect order. Said he to 

 me when he caiTied me bodily from my hotel, 'I am a bachelor 

 — no woman ; but come away, you shall have the best I have.' 

 Night before last he was called into the country. I found him 

 at table in the morning, and with a heavy but hearty yawn said 

 he, ' I had a drive last night, over a stony road, in a carnage 

 without springs. I changed it, but was no better off, and I feel 

 well pounded.' This was not a complaint, but an experience, 

 and as soon as breakfast was over, eaten as it was with all sorts 

 of interruptions, he was ready for his visit to the Duchess of 



, and everybody else. He eats little, and as if almost 



unconscious of the function. In this he constantly reminds me 



of . 



" He receives a great deal of money, I have heard. But he 

 seems wholly regardless of money, and, as I have further heard, 

 it is only lately that he had begun to accumulate property. 

 He is paid at the visit or consultation, which saves him from 

 one of the most inconvenient offices, charging and collecting 

 fees. We feel both the inconvenience and loss in America. I 

 have seen fees paid him. It is when the patient is leaving him 

 and by offering the hand for farewell the fee is deposited in his. 

 I really think if he were subjected to our system he would get 



