Here I may mention that in after years, when I grew rich, I rescued that surviving old lady from her lodging-house, although to this day she does not know the name of her anonymous friend.

So by degrees, without saying anything, for I kept on my chambers, I slipped out of practice, to the great disappointment of everybody connected with me, and took to authorship.
A marvel came to pass, my first book was an enormous success.

The whole world talked of it.

A leading journal, delighted to have discovered someone, wrote it up; other journals followed suit to be in the movement.

One of them, I remember, which had already dismissed it with three or four sneering lines, came out with a second and two-column notice.