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“ What could have induced a youth so fortunate, gifted and ambitious to put aside the cup that was held brimming to his lips?
It was in the hope of solving this enigma that I embarked on my journey to London—the first that I had undertaken beyond the boundaries of my native land. My only sister, Joan, had some years before married a British officer. Major Philip Dalrymple, was residing in London, and would guide my first footsteps there. ”

“ Rush under great obligations to him, but he won the personal liking of the British Premier, Lord Canning. He was a handsome, dashing young soldier, with a romantic and adventurous life behind him,and was now evincing intellectual endowments of a high order; the best society of London opened its doors to him ”

“ It may be proper to mention that I am now approaching forty years of age, have always been of a studious turn, and, after leaving the university, took a post-graduate course in mental science and religious philosophy ”