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He always really liked the sort of society his sister had brought about him ; but now and then there were intervals when it wore on him a little , I think . Sometimes he came for me in his automobile and we would make a mild excursion to breakfast in the country ; and that is what happened one morning about three weeks after the day when we had sought pure air in the Luxembourg gardens . We drove out through the Bois and by Suresnes , striking into a roundabout road to Versailles beyond St. Cloud . It was June , a dustless and balmy noon , the air thinly gilded by a faint haze , and I know few things pleasanter than that road on a fair day of the early summer and no sweeter way to course it than in an open car ; though I must not be giving myself out for a `` motorist '' -- I have not even the right cap . I am usually nervous in big machines , too ; but Ward has never caught the speed mania and holds a strange power over his chauffeur ; so we rolled along peacefully , not madly , and smoked -LRB- like the car -RRB- in hasteless content . `` After all , '' said George , with a placid wave of the hand , `` I sometimes wish that the landscape had called me . You outdoor men have all the health and pleasure of living in the open , and as for the work -- oh !