Now after the great achievements and responsibilities of his Eastern career he found retirement congenial.

The soft equable climate benefited his health.
Rough shooting and good fishing could be had in plenty--stag-hunting, too, in Arnewood Forest, when he inclined to such sport.

The Hard was sufficiently easy of access from town for friends to come and stay with him.

Convenient for crossing to the Continent too, when he took his yearly cure at Aix or at Vichy, or went south for a couple of months, as last winter for instance, to Cette, Montpelier and across, by Pau, to the Atlantic seaboard at St.Sebastian, Biarritz, and Bayonne.
"When my father travels I go with him," Damaris said, raising her head and looking at the young man with proud, deliberate eyes.

"We both suffered too much, we must never be separated again.