...suffered myself to be persuaded. Beaumetz, I remembered afterwards displayed an unusual officiousness in aiding me to close my desk and put away my papers,...the restless desire for change, the love of activity wiih which he seemed to have been devoured during the whole period of our delay. " We walked through...
... and let us take a turn on the Battery ; perhaps the wind may be chopping round; we may be nearer our departure than we imagine. 
