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where I can leave my books about and dissect a marine 

 nastiness if I think fit, sallying forth to meet the world 

 when necessary, and giving it no more time than necessary. 

 If it were not for a fear that P. would take it unkindly, 

 I should go at once. I must summon up moral courage 

 somehow (how difficult when it is to pain those we love !) 

 and trust to her good sense for the rest. 



And later : 



... I have been very busy looking about for the last 

 two days, and have been in fifty houses if I have been in 

 one. I want some place with a decent address, cheap, and 

 beyond all things, clean. The dirty holes that some of 

 these lodgings are ! such tawdry finery and such servants, 

 with their faces and hands not merely dirty, but absolutely 

 macadamised. And they all make this confounded great 

 Exhibition a plea for about doubling the rent. 



So in April 1851 he removed to lodgings hard by, 

 at 1 Hanover Place, Clarence Gate, Regent's Park 

 (" which sounds grand, but means nothing more than 

 a sitting-room and bedroom in a small house "), then 

 to St. Anne's Gardens, and after that to Upper York 

 Place, while making a second home with his brother. 

 His other great friends already in London were the 

 Fannings, who had left Australia a few months before 

 his own return. In the scientific world he soon made 

 acquaintance with most of the leading men, and began 

 a close friendship with Edward Forbes, with George 

 Busk (then surgeon to H.M.S. Dreadnought at 

 Greenwich, afterwards President of the College of 

 Surgeons) and his accomplished wife, and later in the 

 year with both Hooker and Tyndall. The Busks, 



