CHAPTER II

THE VISITORS

No Thoroughfare--Occasional Visitors--Negotiations--Fox --M.P.’s--Ex- and Prospective M.P.’s--Peers and their Families--Baronets--Soldiers--Sailors--Functionaries-- Lawyers--Doctors--Clergymen--Savants--Artists--Actors-- Inventors--Claimants and Men of Business--Writers on France--Other Authors--Residents--Ancestors--Fugitives-- Emigrés, 12