CHAPTER ONE
Birth--My father--Tamerlane--Ben Brain--French 1-9
Protestants--East Anglia--Sorrow and troubles--True
peace--A beautiful child--Foreign grave--Mirrors--The
Alpine country--Emblems--Slowness of speech--The
Jew--Some strange gestures
CHAPTER TWO
Barracks and lodgings--A camp--The viper--A delicate 10-16
child--Blackberry time--_Meum_ and _tuum_--Hythe--The
Golgotha--Daneman's skull--Superhuman stature--Stirring
times--The sea-bord
CHAPTER THREE
Pretty D-----The venerable church--The stricken 17-26
heart--Dormant energies--The small packet--Nerves--The
books--A picture--Mountain-like billows--The
footprint--Spirit of De Foe--Reasoning powers--Terrors of
God--Heads of the dragons--High-Church clerk--A
journey--My father recalled to his regiment--The drowned
country
CHAPTER FOUR
Norman Cross--Wide expanse--_Vive l'Empereur_--Unpruned 27-34
woods--Man with the bag--Froth and conceit--I beg your
pardon--Growing timid--About three o'clock--Taking one's
ease--Cheek on the ground--King of the vipers--Frenchmen
and water
CHAPTER FIVE
The tent--Man and woman--Dark and swarthy--Manner of 35-45
speaking--Bad money--Transfixed--Faltering tone--Little
basket--High opinion--Plenty of good--Keeping
guard--Tilted cart--Rubricals--Jasper--The right
sort--The horseman--John Newton--The alarm--Gentle
brothers
CHAPTER SIX
Three years--Lilly's grammar--Proficiency--Ignorant of 46-53
figures--The school bell--Order of
succession--Persecution--What are we to do?--Northward--A
goodly scene--Haunted ground--The feats of
chivalry--Rivers--And over the brig
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Castle--A father's inquiries--Scotch language--A 54-62
determination--Bui hin Digri--Good Scotchman--Difference
of races--Ne'er a haggis--Pugnacious people--Wha are ye,
man?--The Nor' Loch--Gestures wild--The
bicker--Wild-looking figure
CHAPTER EIGHT
Expert climbers--The crags--Something red--The horrible 63-67
edge--David Haggart--Fine
materials--Victory--Extraordinary robber--Ruling passion
CHAPTER NINE
Napoleon--The storm--The cove--Up the country--The 68-74
trembling hand--Irish--Tough battle--Tipperary
hills--Elegant lodgings--Fair specimen
CHAPTER TEN
Protestant young gentlemen--The Greek letters--Open 75-79
chimney--Murtagh--To Paris and Salamanca--Nothing to
do--To whit, to whoo!--Christmas
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Templemore--Devil's Mountain--No companion--Force of 80-85
circumstance--Way of the world--Ruined castle--Grim and
desolate--Donjon--My own house
CHAPTER TWELVE
A visit--Figure of a man--The dog of peace--The raw 86-94
wound--The guardroom--Boy soldier--Person in
authority--Never solitary--Clergyman and
family--Still-hunting--Fairy man--Near
sunset--Bagg--Left-handed hitter--At Swanton Morley
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Groom and cob--Strength and symmetry--Where's the 95-101
saddle?--The first ride--No more fatigue--Love for
horses--The pursuit of words--Philologist and
Pegasus--The smith--What more, agrah?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
A fine old city--Norman master-work--Lollards' Hole--Good 102-110
blood--The Spaniard's sword--Old retired officer--Writing
to a duke--God help the child--Nothing like Jacob--Irish
brigades--Old Sergeant Meredith--I have been
young--Idleness--The bookstall--A portrait--A banished
priest
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Monsieur Dante--Condemned musket--Sporting--Sweet 111-117
rivulet--The Earl's Home--The pool--The sonorous
voice--What dost thou read?--The man of peace--Of Zohar
and of Mishna--The money-changers
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Fair of horses--Looks of respect--The fast trotter--Pair 118-123
of eyes--Strange men--Jasper, your pal--Force of
blood--The young lady with diamonds
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The tents--Pleasant discourse--I am Pharaoh--Shifting for 124-132
one's self--Horse-shoes--This is wonderful--Bless your
wisdom--A pretty manoeuvre--Ill day to the Romans--My
name is Herne--A singular people--An original speech
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
What profession?--Not fitted for a Churchman--Erratic 133-136
course--The bitter draught--Principle of woe--Thou
wouldst be joyous--What ails you?
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Agreeable delusions--Youth--A profession--Ab 137-144
Gwilym--Glorious English law--There they pass--My dear
old master--The deal desk--The Language of the
tents--Where is Morfydd?--Go to--Only once
CHAPTER TWENTY
Silver grey--Good word for everybody--A remarkable 145-148
youth--The archdeacon--Reading the Bible
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
The eldest son--Saying of wild Finland--The critical 149-154
time--Vaunting polls--One thing wanted--A father's
blessing--Miracle of art--The Pope's house--The young
enthusiast--Pictures of England--Persist and wrestle--Of
the little dark man
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Desire for novelty--Lives of the 155-162
lawless--Countenances--Old yeoman and dame--We live near
the sea--Uncouth-looking volume--The other
condition--Draoitheac--A dilemma--The
Antinomian--Lodowick Muggleton--Anders Vedel
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
The two individuals--The long pipe--The 163-171
Germans--Werther--The female
Quaker--Suicide--Gibbon--Jesus of Bethlehem--Fill your
glass--Shakespeare--English at Minden--Melancholy Swayne
Vonved--Are you happy?--Improve yourself in German
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The alehouse-keeper--Compassion for the rich--Old English 172-179
gentleman--How is this?--Madeira--The Greek Parr--Twenty
languages--Winter's health--About the fight--A sporting
gentleman--Flattened nose--That pightle--The surly nod
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Doubts--Wise king of Jerusalem--Let me see--A thousand 180-187
years--Nothing new--The crowd--The hymn--Faith--Charles
Wesley--There he stood--Farewell, brother--Death--Wind on
the heath
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
The flower of the grass--Days of pugilism--The 188-195
rendezvous--Jews--Bruisers of England--Winter,
spring--Well-earned bays--The fight--The huge black
cloud--A frame of adamant--The storm--Dukkeripens--The
barouche--The rain-gushes
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
My father--Premature decay--The easy-chair--A few 196-204
questions--So you told me--A difficult language--They
call it Haik--Misused opportunities--Saul--Want of
candour--Don't weep--Heaven forgive me--Dated from
Paris--I wish he were here--A father's
reminiscences--Vanities
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
My brother's arrival--A dying father--Christ 205-207
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
The greeting--Queer figure--Cheer up--The cheerful 208-211
fire--The trepidation--Let him come in
CHAPTER THIRTY
The sinister glance--Excellent correspondent--Quite 212-218
original--My system--A losing trade--Merit--Starting a
Review--What have you got?--_Dairyman's Daughter_--Oxford
principles--How is this?
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
The walk--London's Cheape--Street of the 219-225
Lombards--Strange bridge--Main arch--The roaring
gulf--The boat--Cly-faking--A comfort--No trap
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
The tanner--The hotel--Drinking claret--London 226-231
journal--New field--Commonplaceness--The three
individuals--Botheration--Both frank and ardent
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Dine with the publisher--Religions--No animal 232-237
food--Unprofitable discussions--principles of
criticism--The book market--Newgate lives--Goethe--German
acquirements--Moral dignity
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Two volumes--Editor--Quintilian--Loose money 238-240
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
Francis Ardry--Certain sharpers--Brave and 241-245
eloquent--Opposites--Flinging the bones--In strange
places--A batch of dogs--Redoubled application
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
Occupations--Traduttore traditore--Ode to the Mist--Apple 246-251
and pear--Reviewing--Current literature--Oxford-like
manner--A plain story--Ill-regulated mind--Unsnuffed
candle--Dreams
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
My brother--Fits of crying--Mayor-elect--The 252-256
committee--The Norman arch--A word of Greek--The Church
and the State--At my own expense
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
Painter of the heroic--I'll go!--A modest peep--Who is 257-260
this?--A capital Pharaoh--Disproportionably
short--Imaginary picture--About English figures
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
No authority whatever--Interference--Wondrous 261-267
farrago--Brandt and Struensee--What a life!--The
hearse--Mortal relics--Great poet--Fashion and fame--A
difference--Good for nothing
CHAPTER FORTY
London Bridge--Why not?--Every heart has its own 268-271
bitters--Wicked boys--Give me my book--A fright
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
Decrease of the Review--Homer himself--Bread and 272-276
cheese--Finger and thumb--Impossible to find--Something
grand--Universal mixture--Publisher
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
Francis Ardry--That won't do, sir--Observe my gestures--I 277-282
think you improve--Better than politics--Delightful young
Frenchwoman--A burning shame--Paunch--Voltaire--Lump of
sugar
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
Progress--Glorious John--Utterly unintelligible 283-284
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
The old spot--A long history--Thou shalt not steal--No 285-291
harm--Education--Necessity--Foam on your
lip--Metaphor--Fur cap--I don't know him
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
Bought and exchanged--Quite empty--A new 292-297
firm--Bibles--Countenance of a lion--Clap of
thunder--Lost it--Clearly a right--Goddess of the Mint
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
The pickpocket--Strange rencounter--Drag him along--A 298-301
great service--Things of importance--Philological
matters--A mother of languages
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
New acquaintance--Wired cases--Bread and wine--Armenian 302-307
colonies--Learning without money--What a language--The
tide--Your foible--Learning of the Haiks--Pressing
invitation
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
What to do--Strong enough--Fame and profit--Alliterative 308-311
euphony--A plan--Bagnigge Wells
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
Singular personage--A large sum--Papa of 312-315
Rome--Armenians--Roots of Ararat--Regular features
CHAPTER FIFTY
Wish fulfilled--Extraordinary figure--Bueno--Noah--The 316-319
two faces--I don't blame him--Of money
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
The one half-crown--Merit in patience--Cementer of 320-324
friendship--Dreadful perplexity--The usual
guttural--Armenian letters--Pure helplessness
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
Kind of stupor--Peace of God--Divine hand--Farewell, 325-329
child--The fair--The massive edifice--The battered
tars--Lost! lost!--Good-day, gentlemen
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
Singular table--No money--Out of employ--My bonnet--We of 330-338
the thimble--Good wages--Wisely resolved--Strangest way
in the world--Fat gentleman--Not such another--First
edition--Not easy--Won't close--Avella gorgio--Alarmed
look
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
Mr. Petulengro--Rommany Rye--Lil-writers--One's own 339-343
horn--Lawfully-earnt money--The wooded hill--A
favourite--Shop window--Much wanted
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
Bread and water--Fair play--Fashionable life--Colonel 344-347
B--- or Joseph Sell--The kindly glow
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
Considerably sobered--The power of writing--The 348-350
tempter--The hungry talent--Work concluded
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
Nervous look--The bookseller's wife--The last 351-354
stake--Terms--God forbid!--Will you come to tea?
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
Indisposition--A resolution--Poor equivalents--The piece 355-358
of gold--Flashing eyes--How beautiful
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
The milestone--Meditation--Want to get up?--Sixteen 359-362
shillings--Near-hand wheeler--All right
CHAPTER SIXTY
The still hour--A thrill--The wondrous circle--The 363-367
shepherd--Heaps and barrows--What do you mean?--The milk
of the plains--Hengist spared it
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
The river--The arid downs--A prospect 368-369
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
The hostelry--Life uncertain--Open countenance--The grand 370-375
point--Thank you, master--A hard mother--Poor dear!--The
odds--The better country--English
fashion--Landlord-looking person
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
Primitive habits--Rosy-faced damsel--A pleasant 376-381
moment--Suit of black--The furtive glance--The mighty
round--These degenerate times--The newspaper--The evil
chance--I must congratulate you
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
New acquaintance--Old French style--The 382-392
portrait--Taciturnity--The evergreen tree--The dark
hour--The flash--Ancestors--A fortunate man--A posthumous
child--Antagonist ideas--The hawks--Flaws--The
pony--Irresistible impulse--Favourable crisis--Topmost
branch--Ashamed
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
Maternal anxiety--The baronet--Little zest--Mr. 393-397
Speaker!--Craving--Spirited address--Author
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
Trepidations--Subtle principle--Perverse imagination--Are 398-404
they mine?--Another book--How hard!--Agricultural
dinner--Incomprehensible actions--Inmost bosom--Give it
up--Rascally newspaper
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
Disturbed slumbers--The bed-post--Two wizards--What can I 405-414
do?--Real library--The Rev. Mr. Platitude--Toleration to
Dissenters--Paradox--Sword of St. Peter--Enemy to
humbug--High principles--False concord--The damsel--What
religion?--The further conversation--That would never do!
CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
Elastic step--Disconsolate party--Not the season--Mend 415-426
your draught--Good ale--Crotchet--Hammer and
tongs--Schoolmaster--True Eden life--Flaming
Tinman--Twice my size--Hard at work--My poor wife--Grey
Moll--A Bible--Half-and-half--What to do--Half
inclined--In no time--On one condition only--Don't
stare--Like unto the wind
CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
Effects of corn--One night longer--The hoofs--A 427-434
stumble--Are you hurt?--What a difference--Drowsy--Maze
of bushes--Housekeeping--Sticks and furze--The
driftway--An account of stock
CHAPTER SEVENTY
New profession--Beautiful night--Jupiter--Sharp and 435-442
shrill--Rommany chi--All alone--Three-and-sixpence--What
is Rommany?--Be civil--Parraco tute--Slight
start--Grateful--The rustling
CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
Friend of Slingsby--All quiet--Danger--The two 443-454
cakes--Children in the wood--Don't be angry--In deep
thought--Temples throbbing--Deadly sick--Another blow--No
answer--How old are you?--Play and sacrament--Heavy
heart--Song of poison--The drow of gypsies--The dog--Of
Ely's church--Get up, bebee--The vehicle--Can you
speak?--The oil
CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
Desired effect--The three oaks--Winifred--Things of 455-460
time--With God's will--The preacher--Creature
comforts--Croesaw--Welsh and English--Chester
CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
Morning hymn--Much alone--John Bunyan--Beholden to 461-468
nobody--Sixty-five--Sober greeting--Early Sabbaths--Finny
brood--The porch--No fortune-telling--The master's
niece--Doing good--The groans and voices--Pechod Ysprydd
Glan
CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
The following day--Pride--Thriving trade--Tylwyth 469-473
Teg--About Ellis Wyn--Sleeping bard--The incalculable
good--Fearful agony--The tale
CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
Taking a cup--Getting to heaven--After breakfast--Wooden 474-480
gallery--Mechanical habit--Reserved and gloomy--Last
words--A long time--From the clouds--Momentary
chill--Pleasing anticipation
CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
Hasty farewell--Lofty rock--Wrestlings of Jacob--No 481-490
rest--Ways of Providence--Two females--Foot of the
Cross--Enemy of souls--Perplexed--Lucky
hour--Valetudinarian--Methodists--Fervent in your
prayer--You Saxons--Weak creatures--Very
agreeable--Almost happy--Kindness and solicitude
CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
Getting late--Seven years old--Chastening--Go 491-494
forth--London--Same eyes--Common occurrence
CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
Low and calm--Much better--The blessed effect 495-497
CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
Deep interest--Goodly country--Two mansions--Welshman's 498-504
Candle--Beautiful universe--Godly discourse--Fine
church--Points of doctrine--Strange adventures--The
Pontiff--Evil spirit
CHAPTER EIGHTY
The border--Thank you both--Pipe and fiddle 505-507
CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
At a funeral--Two days ago--Very coolly--Roman 508-517
woman--Well and hearty--Somewhat dreary--Plum
pudding--Roman fashion--Quite different--The dark
lane--Beyond time--Fine fellow--Like a wild cat--Pleasant
enough spot--No gloves
CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
Offence and defence--I'm satisfied--Fond of 518-520
solitude--Possession of property--Winding path
CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE
Highly poetical--Volundr--Grecian mythology--Making a 521-525
petul--Spite of dukkerin--Heaviness
CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR
Several causes--Frogs and eftes--Gloom and twilight--What 526-531
should I do?--'Our Father'--Fellow-men--What a
mercy!--History of Saul--Pitch dark
CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE
Free and independent--I don't see why--Oats--A 532-544
noise--Unwelcome visitors--What's the matter?--Good-day
to ye--The tall girl--Dovrefeld--Blow on the face--Civil
enough--What's this?--Vulgar woman--Hands off--Gasping
for breath--Long Melford--A pretty manoeuvre--A long
draught--Animation--It won't do--Nomalice--Bad people
CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX
At tea--Vapours--Of Isopel Berners--So softly and 545-549
kindly--Sweet pretty creature--Bread and water--Truth and
constancy--Very strangely
CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN
Hubbub of voices--No offence--The guests 550-551
CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT
A Radical--Simple-looking man--Church of England--The 552-561
President--Aristocracy--Gin and water--Mending the
roads--Persecuting Church--Simon de Montfort--Broken
bells--Get up--Not for the Pope--Quay of New
York--Mumpers' Dingle--No wish to fight--First
draught--Half a crown broke
CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
The dingle--Give them ale--Not over 562-567
complimentary--America--Many
people--Washington--Promiscuous company--Language of the
roads--The old women--Some numerals--The man in black
CHAPTER NINETY
Buona sera--Rather apprehensive--The steep bank--Lovely 568-575
virgin--Hospitality--Tory minister--Custom of the
country--Sneering smile--Wandering Zigan--Gypsies'
cloaks--Certain faculty--Acute answer--Various
ways--Addio--The best Hollands
CHAPTER NINETY-ONE
Excursions--Adventurous English--Opaque forests 576-577
CHAPTER NINETY-TWO
The landlord--Rather too old--Without a 578-583
shilling--Reputation--A fortnight
ago--Liquids--Irrational beings--Parliament cove--My
brewer
CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
Another visit--Clever man--Another statue 584-586
CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
Prerogative--Feeling of gratitude--A long 587-601
history--Alliterative style--Advantageous
specimen--Jesuit benefice--Not sufficient--Queen Stork's
tragedy--Good sense--Grandeur and gentility--Ironmonger's
daughter--Clan Mac-Sycophant--Lickspittles--A
curiosity--Newspaper editors--Charles the
Simple--High-flying ditty--Dissenters--Lower
classes--Priestley's house--Ancestors--Austin--Renovating
glass--Money--Quite original
CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE
Wooded retreat--Fresh shoes--Wood fire--Ash, when 602-610
green--Queen of China--Cleverest
people--Declensions--Armenian--Thunder--Deep olive--What
do you mean?--Bushes--Wood pigeon--Old Gothe
CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
A shout--A fireball--See to the horses--Passing away--Gap 611-616
in the hedge--On three wheels--Why do you stop?--No
craven heart--The cordial--Bags
CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN
Fire of charcoal--The new-comer--No wonder!--Not a 617-625
blacksmith--A love affair--Gretna Green--A cool
thousand--Family estates--Borough interest--Grand
education--Let us hear--Already quarrelling--Honourable
parents--Not common people
CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT
An exordium--Fine ships--High Barbary captains--Free-born 626-639
Englishmen--Monstrous figure--Swashbuckler--The grand
coaches--The footmen--A travelling expedition--Black
Jack--Nelson's cannon--Pharaoh's butler--A diligence--Two
passengers--Sharking priest--Virgilio--Lessons in
Italian--Two opinions--Holy Mary--Priestly
confederates--Methodist--Like a sepulchre--All for
themselves
CHAPTER NINETY-NINE
A cloister--Half English--New acquaintance--Mixed 640-651
liquors--Turning Papist--Purposes of charity--Foreign
religion--Melancholy--Elbowing and pushing--Outlandish
sight--The figure--I don't care for
you--Merry-andrews--One good--Religion of my
country--Fellow of spirit--A dispute--The next
morning--Proper dignity--Fetish country
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
Nothing but gloom--Sporting character--Gouty 652-655
Tory--Reformado footman--Peroration--Good-night