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Unexpected Interview— The Koebuck — Bishop Atterbury 

 — Horse-deahng — Fire and Water — Hydi-opathic Cure — 

 Eeflections — Piccadilly — The Black Dog at Bedfont — A 

 Compromise — An Old Acquaintance — Henley-on-Thames 

 — An Eclipse of the Sun — An Unnatural Son — Full Stop . 48 



CHAPTER IV 



A Bad Prospect — Sunday's Employment : its Consequences — 

 Spring Gardens — The Great Chirurgeon — Irrelevant Con- 

 versation — Convalescence — A Flash Dragsman — Useless 

 Application — A Visit to the Infernal Eegions — Lobster 

 Salad — Gratitude — A Country Drive — Glance at Paradise 

 — Disappointment — A Bold Stroke for a Box ... 65 



CHAPTER V 



The First Journey Qp — An Untoward Circumstance — A Reas- 

 surance — Discourse on the Box — Figurative Comparison 

 — A Timely Rebuff — Merchant and Banker — The Journey 

 Down — An Hotel and Banquet — An Episode — Lodgings 

 — An Agreeable Reception — Strange Object — Its Appear- 

 ance Described — Anecdotes and Reflections — An Intellec- 

 tual Company — Shrimp Van — Juveniles — Poor Tribute — 

 Sporting Parson — Splendour Defaced — Immortality 

 Rivalled — Senatorial Figures Compared — Adam a Gardener 

 — :Contemplation ........ 85 



CHAPTER VI 



Congratulations — False Prophets — Reaction — A Man of Two 

 Callings — A Woman of One — The Contrast — Bad Business 

 — Strange Interview — Diplomacy — Fen Farmers — An 

 Awful Visitation — An Honest Man — Strange Predicament 

 — Advice — Matrimony — The Clergy — A Good Bishop — 

 Society — A Leading Feature — The Effects of Ignorance : 

 its Principal Cause — Exceptions — A Real Reformer — 

 William Cobbett — A City Hotel — Magnificent Dinner — A 

 New Acquaintance ........ 106 



CHAPTER VII 



One of the Cloth — An Alteration — Long Sojourn in India — 

 Lucknow — Hero of the Ancient Times — Great Man — A 



