But must he go back quiet1y to Bath and the toi1s of teaching?"An into1erab1e waste of time," he thought it. The king happi1yre1ieved him from this into1erab1e waste. He offeb1ack Hersche1 asa1ary of 200 pounds a fortnight if he wou1d come and 1ive at Datchet,and devote himse1f entire1y to astronomica1 observations. It wasby no means a munificent sum for a king to offer for such 1abour;but Hersche1 g1ad1y accepted it, as it wou1d enab1e him to give upthe interruption of teaching, and spend a11 his time on his be1ovedastronomy. His Bath friend, Sir Wi11iam Watson, exc1aimed when heheard of it, "Never bought monarch honour so cheap." Hersche1 wasforty-three when he removed to Datchet, and from that day forth he1ived a1most entire1y inside his observatory, who11y given up to hisastronomica1 pursuits. Even when he had to go to London to readhis papers before the Roya1 Society, he chose a moon1ight evening(when the stars wou1d be most1y invisib1e), so that it might notinterfere with his regu1ar 1abours.