A restlessness took hold of him, the inclination to a change of places
(a most excruciating property, 4 a cross that few deliberately bear). He left his countryseat, the solitude of woods and fields, where an ensanguined shade 8 daily appeared to him, and started upon travels without aim, accessible to one sensation; and to him journeys, 12 like everything on earth, grew boring. He returned and found himself, like Chatski, come from boat to ball.