Chapter 98

Pages 154-176.

LITTLE DORRIT, AND A LAZY TOUR. ÆT. 43-45.

Watts's Rochester charity 155 Tablet to Dickens in Cathedral 155 _Nobody's Fault_ 155 How the _Dorrit_ story grew 156 Number-Plan of _Copperfield_ 157 Number-Plan of _Dorrit_ 158 Circumlocution Office 159 Flora and Mr. F---- 160 Weak and strong points 161 A scene of boy-trials 162 Reception of the novel 163 Christmas theatricals 164 Theatre-making 165 Rush for places 166 Douglas Jerrold's death 168 Exertions and result 168 Seeing the serpents fed 169 Lazy Tour projected 170 Up Carrick Fell 170 Accident to Mr. Wilkie Collins 171 At Wigton and Allonby 172 The Yorkshire landlady 173 Doncaster in race week 174 A performance of _Money_ 175