I hope a few months more will release me from it altogether.' 'Indeed!--Perhaps you think of leaving England ?' 'I should be very sorry to do that--for any length of time.

My wish is to settle somewhere in the country, and spend a year or two in quiet study.' Mrs.Warricombe looked amiable surprise, but corrected herself to approving interest.
'I have heard some of our friends say that their minds get unstrung, if they are long away from town, but I should have thought that country quietness would be much better than London noise.

My husband certainly finds it so.' 'People are very differently constituted,' said Godwin.

'And then it depends much on the nature of one's work.' Uttering these commonplaces with an air of reflection, he observed that they did not cost him the self-contempt which was wont to be his penalty for concession to the terms of polite gossip; rather, his mind accepted with gratitude this rare repose.

He tasted something of the tranquil self-content which makes life so enjoyable when one has never seen a necessity for shaping original remarks.