In this way he passed several months, and justified, in the eyes of other people at least, his long journey across the Continent.

At last he made it again, in the opposite sense.

He went back to New York, where the summer had already begun, and here he invented a solution for the difficulty presented by life to a culpably unoccupied and ill-regulated man.

The solution was not in the least original, and I am almost ashamed to mention so stale and conventional a device.

Bernard simply hit upon the plan of returning to Europe.