Chapter Xvii. 1868-1870.

Pages 444-460.

LAST READINGS. ÆT. 56-58.

Health improved 444 What the readings did and undid 445 Expenses and gains in America 446 Noticeable changes in him 447 Oliver Twist reading proposed 448 Objections to it 449 Death of Frederick Dickens 450 Macready at Oliver Twist reading 451 Another attack of illness 452 A doctors' difference 454 At Emerson Tennent's funeral 454 The illness at Preston 455 Brought to London 456 Sir Thomas Watson consulted 456 His note of the case 457 Guarded sanction to other readings 458 Close of career as public reader 460