It's a bit like what I wished to do when I was a boy.

Because I had a fancy for looking out over the plain, I wished to go down there--where I couldn't look out over it any longer.

Was not that fine reasoning?
Dear, dear, if they only thought of it, all the world would do like me; and you would let your flowers alone, just as I stay up here in the mountains.' Suddenly he broke off sharp.

'By the Lord!' he cried.

And when she asked him what was wrong, he turned the question off and walked away into the house with rather a humorous expression of face.
He was silent at table; and after the night hid fallen and the stars had come out overhead, he walked up and down for hours in the courtyard and garden with an uneven pace.