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I waited about until it was noon, and I went upon 'Change, and I saw

fluey , whoh I couldn't understand why they should all be

out of spirits When Herbert came, ent and had lunch at a celebrated

house which I then quite venerated, but now believe to have been the

most abject superstition in Europe, and where I could not help noticing,

even then, that there was ravy on the tablecloths and knives

and waiters' clothes, than in the steaks This collation disposed of at

a ed for), ent back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau, and then took

coach for Hammersmith We arrived there at two or three o'clock in

the afternoon, and had very little way to walk to Mr Pocket's house

Lifting the latch of a gate, we passed direct into a little garden

overlooking the river, where Mr Pocket's children were playing

about And unless I deceive myself on a point where my interests or

prepossessions are certainly not concerned, I saw that Mr and Mrs

Pocket's children were not growing up or being brought up, but were

tu up