These at least were the observations which a second, or rather third visit to the country a few years ago suggested to me, mainly, it is true, as regards the urban population.

And without going into any of the deeper matters which such changes suggest to one's consideration, there can be no possible doubt as to the fact that the country and its people are infinitely less interesting than they were.
My plans were soon made, and I hastened to lay them before Mr.
Colburn, who was at that time publishing for my mother.

The trip was my main object, and I should have been perfectly contented with terms that paid all the expenses of it.

_Di auctius fecerunt_, and I came home from my ramble with a good round sum in my pocket.
I was not greedy of money in those days, and had no unscriptural hankerings after laying up treasure upon earth.

All I wanted was a sufficient supply for my unceasing expenditure in locomotion and inn bills--the latter, be it observed, always on a most economical scale.
I was not a profitable customer; I took nothing "for the good of the house." I had a Gargantuesque appetite, and needed food of some sort in proportion to its demands.