 Complete the following phrase:  His work was tiresome and demanding, requiring him, amongst other things, to keep a fire burning at a constant temperature. Quite often he would wake up in the night, troubled that things were not going well. Concerns over servants, fires, and the cost of fuel were steady preoccupations. He was also pursued by fairly constant bad luck: God send me better fortune or else I am clean discouraged and will turn from philosophy to husbandry and go and get me unto the plough. When England 