It was odd that from the care of his father he
should immediately pass on to the care of one who had made such a
disastrous mistake as I had made. But I feel the less compunction
at the thought of the amount of sympathy I called for at that time,
because I notice that the giving of sympathy is a necessity for
Derrick, and that when the troubles of other folk do not immediately
thrust themselves into his life he carefully hunts them up. During
these two years he was reading for the Bar--not that he ever
expected to do very much as a barrister, but he thought it well to
have something to fall back on, and declared that the drudgery of
the reading would do him good. He was also writing as usual, and he
used to spend two evenings a week at Whitechapel, where he taught
one of the classes in connection with Toynbee Hall, and where he
gained that knowledge of East-end life which is conspicuous in his
third book--'Dick Carew.' This, with an ever increasing and often
very burdensome correspondence, brought to him by his books, and
with a fair share of dinners, 'At Homes,' and so forth, made his
life a full one.
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