Chapter 20: Studies in Fog, Gout, an Old Seaman, a Lovely Serpent, and the Moral Effects That May…

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌⁠Money of his father’s enabled Gower to take the coach; and studies in fog, from the specked brown to the woolly white, and the dripping torn, were proposed to the traveller, whose preference of Nature’s face did not arrest his observation of her domino and petticoats; across which blank sheets he curiously read backward, that he journeyed by the aid of his father’s hard-earned, ungrudged piece of