Chapter I
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CHAPTER I.
TRIESTE—HIS FOURTH AND LAST CONSULATE.
We meet by accident in Venice and go to Trieste—Richard as a "Celebrity at Home"—Articles by Alfred Bates Richards—Cicci—A wild race—Opçina—Trieste life—And environs—Rome and the Tiber—Vienna—The Imperial family—Fiume—Castellieri—Duino—Venice—Good-bye to Charley Drake—Excursions—Proselytizing—Richard is very ill—Charley Drake's death—Travelling for his health—The Nile on the tapis again—My Arab girl goes home to be married—Gordon—Winwood Reade's death—K.C.B.—Meeting Mr. Gladstone—Incidents of London life—Excursions—More London life—Leave England.