The billet was an excellent one, with very decent pay and charming quarters.

It carried a pension, it was the completest sort of provision.

There was a long vacation, with opportunities for original effort, and I had heard Fry call the work interesting.

Fry was the kind of man to be interested in anything that gave him a living, but there was no reason why a more captious spirit, in view of the great advantages, should not accommodate itself to the routine that might present itself.

The post was in the gift of the Government of Bengal, but that was no reason why the Government of Bengal should not be grateful in the difficulty of making a choice for a hint from us.