These lonely wanderings have led me to discover a vein of seriousness in my nature which I was ignorant of until now.

How thoroughly some men are the creatures of their surroundings! With Paget I have been a Paget.

But a few hours _tete-a-tete_ with Nature renders one averse from the society of Pagets, be they never so brilliant." From moralising thus, I fell into a delicious day-dream.

All my dreams of late had moved to the same music.

How happy I could be if Fate gave me Charlotte and three hundred a year! In sober moods I asked for this much of worldly wealth, just to furnish a nest for my bird.