Unwilling to separate from his children, who were placed at the school, the traveller adopted this plan that he might be near them.

One of the rooms, overlooking the garden, and opening on a small terrace, became his study.

He was soon at work.
In his writing-desk lay some chapters of a new novel.

The MS.

had crossed the ocean with him, though but little had been added to its pages during the wanderings of the English and French journeys." When, some months later, the story appeared, its effect was immediate on both sides the Atlantic.