They ate on the road one large basket of sandwiches, another of fruit, and a boiled fowl; besides which there was not an orange-girl, an old man with cakes, or a boy with filberts, who came to the coach-side when we stopped to change horses, of whom they did not buy something.
I am living here by myself with no society, or scarcely any, except my books.

I read a play of Calderon before I breakfast; then look over the newspaper; frank letters; scrawl a line or two to a foolish girl in Leicestershire; and walk to my Office.

There I stay till near five, examining claims of money-lenders on the native sovereigns of India, and reading Parliamentary papers.

I am beginning to understand something about the Bank, and hope, when next I go to Rothley Temple, to be a match for the whole firm of Mansfield and Babington on questions relating to their own business.

When I leave the Board, I walk for two hours; then I dine; and I end the day quietly over a basin of tea and a novel.
On Saturday I go to Holland House, and stay there till Monday.