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CHAPTER IV. 



CAMBRIDGE. 



Another Change Town and Gown Lawyers A Literary 

 Barrister Barnwell Politics and Religion An Un- 

 lucky Blow A Post Captain and his Wife An Original 

 Character A Member of the Cloth Fifty- two Miles 

 from London Select Party Glass of Wine The 

 Ring A Sporting Baronet Strange Customer 

 Death of a Gladiator The Double Dandy Chance 

 Set-to Merit Rewarded. 



PERSEVERANCE in business, and a deter- 

 mination to overcome all obstacles in 

 the way of self-interest or advancement, 

 are, we all know, worthy of general 

 adoption. Whether I was deficient in 

 one, or failed in the other, I cannot say, 

 but perhaps I fell short in both, which 



