CHAPTER VIII 



CAMBEIDGI'J 



Another Change — Town and Gown — Lawyers— A Literary Barrister 

 — Barnwell — Politics and Eeligion — An Unlucky 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 Eing — A Sporting Baronet — Strange Customer — 

 Death of a Gladiator — ^The double Dandy — Chance Set-to — 

 Merit Eewarded. 



Perseverance in business, and a determination to over- 

 come all obstacles in the way of self-interest or advance- 

 ment, 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 caused 

 me in little less than two years to tire of my continual 

 long drive. In the morning, particularly in the winter, 

 from bed to the box, and in the evenino; from the box to 

 bed, became too wearing to suit either my inclination or 

 my constitution. I had no time for the employment of 

 the mind, while the hands were thus daily and hourly 

 occupied ; and though to all appearance I was revelling 

 in out-door enjoyment, I could but consider myself a 

 prisoner, as I was confined to the same scenery daily, and 

 to the same drudgery, as such continual work made it. I 

 could not escape, even for a day, without the indulgence 

 being embittered with the loss of the profits of the day's 



