CHAPTER X.
The celebrated Dr.P---- -- Society of Medical Men--Dr.
Guthrie--Requisites for a Surgeon--Celebrity and Merit--The Road to Fortune, as related by Dr.P---- -- Successful Stratagem--Fancied Illness--Superfluity of _Embonpoint_--Mode of Treatment--Another Patient--The Doctor a-la-mode--Mr.P.C.Scarlett--Lord Erskine--Mr.
H.B---- -- Visit to the Theatre Italien--Madame Malibran's "Desdemona"-- Defect in her Singing--The Princesse Pauline Borghese--The Family of Napoleon--Particulars of the Duchesse d'Abrantes--The Luxembourg Palace and Gardens--A Loving Couple--Holiness of Marriage--Story of the Old Bachelor and his Crafty Housekeeper, 105..