Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE STORY OF A PASSION. 9 Two or three weeks?months?years?don't know, he replied, wearily. You will leave London to-day, said Sir William, quietly. You will go down to some quiet place and stay there for a month. Lord Clive sighed. Well, I might get Wally and one or two other fellows; and we could take a drag, and get some baccarat in the even ing? No, you will not take Lord Walter; or any one else, nor a drag, nor baccarat. You will go alone?without even Parsons. Lord Clive laughed. I should go melancholy mad in three days, he remarked. Oh, no, you would not; but you will go mad if you stay here, I assure you. Let me see. He glanced round the room. Yes, yon can take your rods and get some fishing. All over. Not sea trout, said Sir William, firmly. Wait He oed up and down the room. Yes. Do you know Trentis- hoe?' No; and?excuse me, Sir William?I don't want to. It is in Devonshire. There is a capital little river there. It runs into the sea at Trentishoe, and there is some good peal and salmon-fishing. You had better go there. Go by this evening's train. There s an inn you could stay at?or, better still, take rooms in one of the cottages or farm-houses. You may read? Thanks; your kindness overwhelms me ? But not too much. No sitting up late at night with a fin de siecle novel, as rotten in its grammar as its morals Fish or ride all day, and go to bed at eleven. You forget the Sunday-school And hadn't I better take a pocket camera with me, and a butterfly net, and a book to press ferns in? Ferns grow in Devonshire, don't they? said Lord Clive, sarcastically. . Sir William took up his hat. There is my advice; you may take it or leave it, Lord Clive. The young man rose. ...