He liked best to wander along the cliffs or across the downs by the sea.
Mr. Downs, one of the Committee of Thirteen, and an advocate of the measures, said:
There were many sheep on the downs, and there was one special flock that Florence knew very well.
He took up his hat and set forth to walk home across the downs, all the while thinking, thinking over what had happened.
They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, and strolled over the Downs towards the dull evening sea.
"All in the Downs," and "Tom Bowling," intermingled with pictures of sea-fights, among which the battle of Camperdown held a distinguished place.
He had afterwards experienced many ups and downs in life until he got into the navy, where his leg was carried away by a cannon-ball at the battle of Camperdown.
Beethorpe was an ancient town, mysteriously sown, centuries ago, like a wandering thistle-down of human life, amid the silence and the nibbling sheep of the great chalk downs.
As I said, Florence and the vicar were riding along on the green downs; and here I must stop again a moment to tell you what the downs are, for when I was a child I used to wonder.
And now, as he returned home after the tragedy, about midway in his walk across the downs, the thought came upon him that the breaking off of his engagement might have been sufficient reason in an affected mind for suicide.