It was as if, in every excursion or flight, he had but sought to find his home afresh, to approach it by a new path.

But--the wind-fall ?--nay, the God-send of the golden horse, gave him such a feeling of wealth and freedom, that he now began to dream in a fresh direction, namely, of things he would do if he were rich; and as he was of a constructive disposition, his fancies in this direction turned chiefly on the enlarging and beautifying of the castle--but always with the impossibility understood of destroying a feature of its ancient dignity and historic worth.
A portion of the early summer he spent in enlarging the garden on the south side or back of the house.

One portion of the ground there seemed to him to have been neglected--the part which lay between the block in which was the kitchen, and that in which was the drawing-room.

These stood at right angles to each other, their gables making two sides of a square.

But he found the rock so near the surface, that he could not utilize much of it.