428
Political excitement 429
Struggle for tickets 430
American female beauty 432
Sherry to "slop round" with 432
Final impression of Niagara 433
Letter to Mr. Ouvry 434
"Getting along" through water 435
Again attacked by lameness 437
Illness and exertion 437
Seeing prevents believing 439
All but used up 439
Last Boston readings 440
New York farewells 441
The receipts throughout 441
Promise at public dinner 442
The Adieu 443

CHAPTER XVII. 1868-1870.

Pages 444-460.

LAST READINGS. AET. 56-58.

Health improved 444
What the readings did and undid 445
Expenses and gains in America 446
Noticeable changes in him 447
_Oliver Twist_ reading proposed 448
Objections to it 449
Death of Frederick Dickens 450
Macready at _Oliver Twist_ reading 451
Another attack of illness 452
A doctors' difference 454
At Emerson Tennent's funeral 454
The illness at Preston 455
Brought to London 456
Sir Thomas Watson consulted 456
His note of the case 457
Guarded sanction to other readings 458
Close of career as public reader 460

CHAPTER XVIII. 1869-1870.

Pages 461-477.

LAST BOOK. AET. 57-58.

The agreement for _Edwin Drood_ 461
First fancy for it 462
Story as planned in hi