Chapter III: 1824-1830

Pages 71-95.

SCHOOL-DAYS AND START IN LIFE. AET. 12-18.

Outcome of boyish trials 71
Disadvantage in later years 72
Advantages 73
Next move in life 74
Wellington House Academy 74
Revisited and described 75
Letter from a schoolfellow 76
C. D.'s recollections of school 77
Schoolfellow's recollections of C. D. 77
Fac-simile of schoolboy letter 79
Daniel Tobin 81
Another schoolfellow's recollections 82
Writing tales and getting up plays 83
Master Beverley scene-painter 84
Street-acting 84
The schoolfellows after forty years 85
Smallness of the world 86
In attorneys' offices 87
At minor theatres 88
The father on the son's education 89
Studying short-hand 90
In British Museum reading-room 90
Preparing for the gallery 91
D. C. for C. D. 91
A real Dora in 1829 92
The same Dora in 1855 93
Dora changed into Flora 94
Ashes of youth and hope 95