CHAPTER XXI.
"Whereto we 're bound? Alack or we must lose
The country."
However agreeable the town of W proved as a winter residence, yet it by no means afforded the advantages sought for in summer, when nature, blooming in vegetation and sweets, invites to the more peaceable and retired walks in life. A continuation of company and midnight parties had become irksome even to weariness; no sooner, therefore, had the winter months, with their gay festivities and amusements, passed away, than, anxious to diversify a mode of existence so little congenial to their sober tastes and former domestic habits, the General and his Lady hastened to resume their summer quarters at the Fort of D. Thither then they resorted in the month of May, when the spring breezes are everywhere the most delightful and refreshing, but doubly so when inhaled from so elevated a position as the Fort.
