'Why, my good fellow, you have just got home,' I said.

'Are you weary of your freedom, after only a few hours' experience of it ?' His answer rather startled me.

He said, 'I am weary of my life, sir.

I have come home and found a trouble to welcome me, which goes near to break my heart.

If I don't take refuge in absence and hard work, I am a lost man.