And who cannot excuse the honest pride of the old man--the stout old man?
In the interval the war had ended, and Napoleon had departed for St.
Helena.

Peace had led to the pensioning of militia officers, or reducing to half-pay of the juniors.

The elder Borrow had settled in Norwich.
George was set to study at the Grammar School there, while his brother worked in Old Crome's studio, for here was a moment when Norwich had its interesting Renaissance, and John Borrow was bent on being an artist.

He had worked with Crome once before--during the brief interval that Napoleon was at Elba--but now he set to in real earnest, and we have evidence of a score of pictures by him that were catalogued In the exhibitions of the Norwich Society of Artists between the years 1817 and 1824.

They include one portrait of the artist's father, and two of his brother George.[15] Old Crome died in 1821, and then John went to London to study under Haydon.