If you had been a Hillsborough hand, you would insist upon a brain-fever, and a trip to the lunatic asylum, just to vex me, and hinder me of my hobby." Henry stared.

This was too eccentric for him to take it all in at once.
"What!" said Dr.Amboyne, observing his amazement, "Did you never hear of Dr.Doubleface ?" "No, sir." "Never hear of the corpulent lunatic, who goes about the city chanting, like a cuckoo, 'Put yourself in his place--put yourself in her place--in their place ?' "No, sir, I never did." "Then such is fame.

Well, never mind that just now; there's a time for every thing.

Please observe that ruined house: the ancient family to whom it belongs are a remarkable example of the vicissitude of human affairs." He then told him the curious ups and downs of that family, which, at two distant periods, had held vast possessions in the county; but were now represented by the shell of one manor house, and its dovecote, the size of a modern villa.

Next he showed him an obscure battlefield, and told him that story, and who were the parties engaged; and so on.