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The shopman immediately handed down the volume from a shelf, and Manston retired with it to the -bench He turned to the county, and then to the parish of Tolchurch At the end of the historical and topographical description of the village he read:-'Postmistress--Mrs Hurston Letters received at 63O AM by foot-post fro his thanks, he handed back the book and quitted the office, thence pursuing his way to an obscure coffee-house by the Strand, where he now partook of a light dinner But rest see intention kept his body continually on thein his hand, and went out to idle about the streets and over the river till the tiht-mail left the Waterloo Station, by which train he intended to return homeward

There exists, as it were, an outer chamber to the mind, in which, when a man is occupied centrally with the hts are just allowed to wander softly for an interval, before being banished altogether Thus, amid his concentration did Manston receive perceptions of the individuals about hi insignificant; little reat and profound; lost wo; wives, happy by assu careworn and miserable

Each and all were alike in this one respect, that they followed a solitary trail like the inwoven threads which fornificant whole they collectively showed forth

At ten o'clock he turned into Lancaster Place, crossed the river, and entered the railway-station, where he took his seat in the down rove's letter to Graye, far away from London