Friends Sir Philip carried his good-humour everywhere abroad and left at home a solitary mansion and a pining spouse. At length inconvenienced in his money affairs and tired even of the short time which he spent in his own dull house Sir Philip Forester determined to take a trip to the Continent in the capacity of a volunteer. It was then common for men of fashion to do so; and our knight perhaps was of opinion that a touch of the military character just enough to exalt but not render pedantic his... read more
