on a day in august, when mr. stryver (after notifying to his jackal that "he had thought better of that marrying matter") had carried his delicacy into devonshire, and when the sight and scent of flowers in the city streets had some waifs of goodness in them for the worst, of health for the sickliest, and of youth for the oldest, sydney's feet still trod those stones. from being irresolute and purposeless, his feet became animated by an intention, and, in the working out of that intention, they took him to the doctor's door.