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.