Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. MY MISCELLANIES. BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF 'THE WOMAN IN WHITE,' 'NO NAME,' 'THE DEAD SECRET,' &C. &C. &C. IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. II. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1863. The Author reserves the right of Translation. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE CASES WORTH LOOKING AT: I. Memoirs of an Adopted Son 1 SKETCHES OF CHARACTER: IV. The Bachelor Bedroom 30 NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY: III. A remarkable Revolution 55 DOUGLAS JERROLD 75 SKETCHES OF CHARACTER: V. Pray employ Major Namby! 95 CASES WORTH LOOKING AT: II. The Poisoned Meal 114 SKETCHES OF CHARACTER: VI. My Spinsters 173 DRAMATIC GRUB STREET. (Explored in Two Letters) 193 TO THINK, OR BE THOUGHT FOR? 211 SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: IV. Save Me from my Friends 230 CASES WORTH LOOKING AT: III. The Cauldron of Oil 250 BOLD WORDS BY A BACHELOR 281 SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: V. Mrs. Bullwinkle 292 MY MISCELLANIES. CASES WORTH LOOKING AT.--I. MEMOIRS OF AN ADOPTED SON.[A] I.--CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH PRECEDED HIS BIRTH. Towards the beginning of the eighteenth century there stood on a rock in the sea, near a fishing village on the coast of Brittany, a ruined Tower with a very bad reputation. No mortal was known to have inhabited it within the memory of living man. The one tenant whom Tradition associated with the occupation of the place, at a remote period, had moved into it from the infernal regions, nobody knew why--had lived in it, nobody knew how long--and had quitted possession, nobody knew when. Under such circumstances, nothing was more natural than that this unearthly Individual should give a name to his residence; for which reason, the building was thereafter known to all the neighbourhood round as Satanstower.