...obvious satisfaction: "I am now, I believe, fixed at this seat with an agreeable consort for life. And I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced amidst the wide and bustling world." And he did. Washington became fascinated with farming and became...

...now, I believe," he wrote to a friend, "fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world. . . . No estate in America is more pleasantly situated. In a high and healthy country; in a latitude...

...kinsman, in London : " I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat •with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in all the •wide and bustling world." All through tho forty years of his after life, Washington found...