In the latter capacity he wrote for his boys a new Latin grammar, to mitigate some of the difficulties of traversing that terrible jungle by means of ingenious bypaths and short cuts.

Perhaps because he had reached the perilous forties he had suddenly determined to abandon the safe highway and seek adventure in miry bypaths.

You know what Robert Louis says about married men?that there is no wandering in pleasant bypaths for them, that the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.