"Have you heard of any house?
I am very anxious to have a home where my friends might be made welcome." As usual, in undertakings of every kind, he chafed under delays, and he was ready to take the first that seemed suitable.

"I really wish you would buy the house at Turnham Green," he writes her within a week.

The raising of the money, it is true, presents some difficulty, for he has in hand but L3,000.

"It is, my dear friend," he moralizes, "extraordinary, but true, that the man who is pushed forward to defend his country, has not from that country a place to lay his head in; but never mind, happy, truly happy, in the estimation of such friends as you, I care for nothing." Lady Hamilton, however, was a better business-man than himself, and went about his purchase with the deliberation of a woman shopping.

At the end of three weeks he was still regretting that he could not "find a house and a little ece of ground, for if I go on much longer with my present command, I must be ruined.