But now, for the reasons that you mention, I have given up all this sport, which formerly to me was so great an excitement and relaxation.

Yet I admit that I still fish.

Only last year I caught a large hatful of perch and dace, of which I persuaded Madame to cook some that Juliette would not eat and gave to the cat.
Once, too, there was a big trout in the Lake Lucerne.

He broke my line, but, my boy, we will go to fish for that trout.

No doubt he is still there, for though I was then young, these fishy creatures live for many years, and to catch him would be a glory." After Godfrey had given up his fox-shooting, not because in itself is a terrible crime, like fishing for salmon with herring roe, but for reasons which most of his countrymen would consider effeminate and absurd, he took to making expeditions, still in company with Juliette, for Madame stretched Continental conventions in his case, in search of certain rare flowers which grew upon the lower slopes of these Alps.