138
Banquet at Girardin's 139
Second banquet 141
Bourse and its victims 142
Entry of troops from Crimea 143
Zouaves and their dog 144
Streets on New Year's Day 145
English and French art 146
Emperor and Edwin Landseer 147
Sitting to Ary Scheffer 148
Scheffer as to the likeness 149
A duchess murdered 150
Truth is stranger than fiction 151
Singular scenes described 152
What became of the actors 153

CHAPTER VI. 1855-1857.

Pages 154-176.

LITTLE DORRIT, AND A LAZY TOUR. AET. 43-45.

Watts's Rochester charity 155
Tablet to Dickens in Cathedral 155
_Nobody's Fault_ 155
How the _Dorrit_ story grew 156
Number-Plan of _Copperfield_ 157
Number-Plan of _Dorrit_ 158
Circumlocution Office 159
Flora and Mr. F---- 160
Weak and strong points 161
A scene of boy-trials 162
Reception of the novel 163
Christmas theatricals 164
Theatre-making 165
Rush for places 166
Douglas Jerrold's death 168
Exertions and result 168
Seeing the serpents fed 169
Lazy Tour projected 170
Up Carrick Fell 170
Accident to Mr. Wilkie Collins 171
At Wigton and Allonby 172
The Yorkshire landlady 173
Doncaster in race week