Note 4: — Chapter II
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The friendship which grew up between these two men, who were so different, was not wholly without the shadow of romance. The relations between them were of the kind that parents would wish to exist between father and son. A great deal of affection on both sides there certainly was. The journey together which they took to Harwich on the occasion of Boswell's departure for the Continent4 is significant enough of Johnson's feelings, and Boswell's account of their parting may speak for his: