Chapters lviii.
to lxxxii.

are taken up with the foregoing incidents, which lead up to the central episode of the autobiography, the settlement in the dingle, with which the reader is here presented.

This episode, forming the second panel in the detailed scheme, occupies chapters lxxxiii.

to cxvi., but it is bisected near the middle by the termination of _Lavengro_ at chapter c.

The two parts are united now for the first time, and are given a prominent setting in relief from the rest of the narrative.