Note 204 — Chapter XXV

Among some “miscellaneous anecdotes” recorded by Sir R. Hill I find the following: “I used at one time to walk to Camden Town, take an omnibus as far as the corner of Gray’s Inn Lane and Holborn, and thence walk to St. Martin’s Le Grand. One day, while sitting in the omnibus, I overheard one gentleman say to another, ‘I understand that Mr. Rowland Hill often travels in these omnibuses.’ ‘Oh, yes,’ replied the other, who chanced to sit nearly opposite me, ‘I very often meet him—I know him quite well.’ Of course I held my peace, not deeming it necessary to disconcert my familiar acquaintance.”—Ed.