Chapter XIII: 1846

Pages 277-294.

LITERARY LABOUR AT LAUSANNE. AET. 34.

A picture completed 277
Great present want 277
Daily life 278
Imaginative needs 278
Self-judgments 279
The Now and the Hereafter 279
Fancies for Christmas books 280
Second number of _Dombey_ 280
A personal revelation 281
Craving for streets 281
Food for fancy 282
Second _Dombey_ done 282
Curious wants of the mind 283
Success of the Reading 283
First thought of Public Readings 284
Two stories in hand 285
Unexpected difficulties 286
Work under sensitive conditions 286
Alarm for _Dombey_ 287
Doubts and misgivings 287
Change of scene to be tried 287
At Genoa 288
Disquietudes of authorship 288
Wanting counsel 289
At the worst 289
Report of Genoa 290
A new social experience 290
Feminine eccentricities 291
A ladies' dinner 291
Elephant-quellers 292
"Like a Manchester cotton mill" 292
Again at Rosemont 293
Visit of the Talfourds 293
Lodging his friends 294
Intentions and hope 294