Chapter VII: 1857-1858

Pages 177-201.

WHAT HAPPENED AT THIS TIME. AET. 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