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CHAPTER VII. 



OXFORD. 



King Charles An Indiscreet Act A New Country 

 Proprietor The Cheltenham Coach Scions of the 

 Nobility An Unexpected Interview The Roebuck 

 Bishop Atterbury Horse-dealing Fire and Water 

 Hydropathic Cure Reflections Piccadilly The Black 

 Dog at Bedfont A Compromise An Old Acquaintance 

 Henley-on-Thames An Eclipse of the Sun An Un- 

 natural Son Full Stop. 



KING CHARLES THE FIRST has been made to 

 state, that in mundane affairs there is no 

 such thing as fortune or misfortune, but 

 that all is either discretion or indiscretion. 

 No man had a greater right to say so than 

 that unfortunate monarch. I must have 



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