CHAPTER I.

TRIESTE--HIS FOURTH AND LAST CONSULATE.

We meet by accident in Venice and go to Trieste--Richard as a "Celebrity at Home"--Articles by Alfred Bates Richards--Cicci--A wild race--Opçina--Trieste life--And environs--Rome and the Tiber--Vienna--The Imperial family--Fiume--_Castellieri_--Duino--Venice--Good-bye to Charley Drake--Excursions--Proselytizing--Richard is very ill--Charley Drake's death--Travelling for his health--The Nile on the _tapis_ again--My Arab girl goes home to be married--Gordon--Winwood Reade's death--K.C.B.--Meeting Mr. Gladstone--Incidents of London life--Excursions--More London life--Leave England.