CHAPTER X.
The celebrated Dr. P—— —Society of Medical Men—Dr.
Guthrie—Requisites for a Surgeon—Celebrity and Merit—The Road to
Fortune, as related by Dr. P—— —Successful Stratagem—Fancied
Illness—Superfluity of Embonpoint—Mode of Treatment—Another
Patient—The Doctor à-la-mode—Mr. P. C. Scarlett—Lord Erskine—Mr.
H.B—— —Visit to the Théâtre Italien—Madame Malibran's
"Desdemona"—Defect in her Singing—The Princesse Pauline Borghese—The
Family of Napoleon—Particulars of the Duchesse d'Abrantes—The
Luxembourg Palace and Gardens—A Loving Couple—Holiness of
Marriage—Story of the Old Bachelor and his Crafty Housekeeper, 105.