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CHAPTER II. 



REVERSE OF FORTUNE. 



A Wet Season Beneficial Farming A Racing Stud A 

 Commissary Petworth Duke of Somerset Seymour 

 the Painter Scene in a Brook An Alarming Purchase 

 Contagion Pathology Naval Captain Domestic 

 Calamity Alterations and Improvements An Unblush- 

 ing Villain Driving Clubs A Saturnalia Comparison 

 An Attraction A Final Resolution. 



I WOULD willingly draw a veil over this 

 part of my history, for it brings to my 

 memory many circumstances of a sor- 

 rowful nature, as well as an accumu- 

 lation of losses of no ordinary occur- 

 rence, though at the risk of being ac- 

 cused of possessing a mock or morbid 



