Ernest Maltravers — Volume 07

Being got out of town, the first thing I did was to give my mul lier head. Gw Bias. Although the character of Maltravers was gradually becoiriiiig more hard and severe; although, as his reason grew more muscular, his imagiiiation lo. sl something of its early bloom, nnd he whs already very different Irom the wild bi ywho had set the Gf-rman youths in a blaz, and liad changed into aeasile of indolence the little cottage tenanted with poetry and Alire, he still pre. -erved many of his old habits; he loved, at frequent intervals, to disappear from the great world to get rid of books and friends, and luxury and wealth, and make solitary excursions, sometimes on foot, sometimes on horseback, through this fair garden of England.