501
People governing and governed 502
Alleged offers from her Majesty 503
Silly Rigmarole 504
The Queen sees him act (1857) 505
Desires to hear him read (1858) 506
Interview at the Palace (1870) 507
What passed at the interview 507
Dickens's grateful impression 508
A hope at the close of life 509
Games in Gadshill meadow 510
Home enjoyments 512
Habits of life everywhere 513
Family dependence on him 514
Carlyle's opinion of Dickens 514
Street walks and London haunts 515
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 517
The first attack of lameness 518
Effect upon his dogs 518
Why right things to be done 519
Silent heroisms 519
At social meetings 520
Delight in "assumption" 520
Humouring a joke 522
Unlucky hits 522
Ghost stories 524
Predominant feeling of his life 525
Sermon of the Master of Balliol 525

CHAPTER XX. 1869-1870.

Pages 527-545.

THE END. AET. 57-58.

Last summer and autumn 527
Showing London to a visitor 528
His son Henry's scholarship 529
Twelve more readings 530
Medical attendance at them 531
Excitement incident to them 532
The Farewell 533
Last public appearances 535
At Royal Academy dinner 535
Eulogy of Daniel Maclise