Chapter 99

Pages 177-201.

WHAT HAPPENED AT THIS TIME. ÆT. 45-46.

Disappointments and distastes 177 What we seem and are 178 Compensations of Art 179 Misgivings 180 A defect and a merit 181 Reply to a remonstrance 182 Dangerous comfort 183 One happiness missed 184 Homily on life 185 Confidences 186 Rejoinder to a reply 187 What the world cannot give 189 An old project revived 189 Shakespeare on acting 191 Hospital for sick children 192 Charities of the very poor 192 Unsolved mysteries 194 Appeal for sick children 195 Reading for Child's Hospital 195 Proposal for Paid readings 196 Question of the Plunge 198 Mr. Arthur Smith 199 Separation from Mrs. Dickens 200 What alone concerned the public 201