So the carp makes a new study of life under altered circumstances in other waters; and to pass the time he wonders about it all.

It happens even to men of masterful character, accustomed to directing events.

An illness takes such a man out of his sphere for a few months.

He comes back and finds his pond turned into a vegetable-garden and his ploughed field into a swamp; and then for a time he is fain to ask advice and take it, like any other mortal.

So Claudius, who felt himself in an atmosphere new to him, and had tumbled into a very burning bush of complications, had fallen in with Mr.Horace Bellingham, a kind of professional bone-setter, whose province was the reduction of society fractures, speaking medically.