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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VII.
The Chateau at Versailles—Private Apartments of Marie Antoinette—The Secret Door—Paintings of Raphael and David—Arc de Triomphe—Beranger the Poet 91
CHAPTER VIII.
Departure from Paris—Boulogne—Folkstone—London—George Thompson, Esq., M.P.—Hartwell House—Dr. Lee—Cottage of the Peasant—Windsor Castle—Residence of William Penn—England's First Welcome—Heath Lodge—The Bank of England 98
CHAPTER IX.
The British Museum—A Portrait—Night Reading—A Dark Day—A Fugitive Slave on the Streets of London—A Friend in the Time of Need 113
CHAPTER X.
The Whittington Club—Louis Blanc—Street Amusements—Tower of London—Westminster Abbey—National Gallery—Dante—Sir Joshua Reynolds 123
CHAPTER XI.
York Minster—The Great Organ—Newcastle-on-Tyne—The Laboring Classes—The American Slave—Sheffield—James Montgomery 136
CHAPTER XII.
Kirkstall Abbey—Mary the Maid of the Inn—Newstead Abbey: Residence of Lord Byron—Parish Church of Hucknall—Burial-place of Lord Byron 145
CHAPTER XIII.
Bristol: "Cook's Folly"—Chepstow Castle and Abbey—Tintern Abbey—Redcliffe Church—Edinburgh—The Royal institute—Scott's Monument—John Knox's Pulpit—Meetings in City Hall, Glasgow 154
CHAPTER XIV.
Stirling—Dundee—Dr. Dick—George Gilfillan, the Essayist—Dr. Dick at home 167
CHAPTER XV.
Melrose Abbey—Abbotsford—Dryburgh Abbey—The Grave of Sir Walter Scott—Hawick—Gretna Green—Visit to the Lakes 173
CHAPTER XVI.
Miss Martineau—"The Knoll"—"Rydal Mount"—"The Dove's Nest"—Grave of William Wordsworth, Esq.—The English Peasant 182