CHAPTER III

The Austen family--Choice of a profession--Restlessness--Enters a solicitor's office--'Vivian Grey'--Illness--Travels abroad--Migration of the Disraelis to Bradenham--Literary satires--'Popanilla'--Tours in the East--Gibraltar--Cadiz--Seville--Mountain adventures--Improved health--Malta--James Clay--Greece--Yanina--Redshid Pasha--Athens--Constantinople--Plains of Troy and Revolutionary epic--Jaffa--Jerusalem--Egypt--Home letters--Death of William Meredith--Return to England 20