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PICCADILLY

A FRAGMENT OF CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY

BY LAURENCE OLIPHANT

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD DOYLE

ELEVENTH EDITION

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCXCII

This Work originally appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine,'and has been since revised and altered by the Author.



"Some make love in poetry,
And some in—Piccadilly."
Praed.

"Faithful.—'I say, then, in answer to what Mr Envy hathspoken, I never said aught but this, That what rule, or laws,or customs, or people, were flat against the Word of God, arediametrically opposed to Christianity. If I have said amiss inthis, convince me of my error, and I am ready here, before youall, to make my recantation.'"—Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress.'



PREFACE.

Five years have elapsed since the following pages were penned, andperiodically issued, under an impulse which seemed at the timeirresistible. I found myself unable, by any conscious act of volition,to control either the plot or the style. Nor from my present point ofview do I particularly admire either the one or the other. At the sametime, I have reason to hope that the republication of this sketch now,with all its defects, is calculated to do more good than harm to thesociety it attempts to delineate.

This conviction must be my apology for again forcing upon the public afragment so hostile to it in tone and spirit. I would reiterate theobservation made elsewhere in the work, that none of the characters areintended to represent any members of society who were then, or are now,alive.


CONTENTS.

PREFACE.
PART I. LOVE
PART II. MADNESS
PART III. SUICIDE
PART IV. THE WORLD
PART V. THE FLESH
PART VI. THE "——"
CONCLUSION—MORAL


PICCADILLY.


PART I.

LOVE.

Piccadilly, 2d February 1865.

In a window, a few doors from Cambridge House, the following placardsome time since invited, apparently without much effect, the notice ofthe passers-by,—"To let, this desirable family mansion," After aconsiderable period the "desirable family" seem to have been given up indespair, and the words vanished from the scene; but the board in thewindow, beginning "to let" remained, while the "mansio

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