B)Notes The backbone structure of the second sentence is l was summoned by my country., from a treat.,--a retreat The backbone structure of a retreat which l had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years is a retreat I had chosen. as. also in the second sentence -a retreat which was rendered., is appositive to a retreat before it. And. by the addition of habit to inclination and of frequent interruption in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time could be made explicit as: . by addition of habit to inclination, and by gradual waste committed on it by tim ealth to the addition of frequent interruption in my(3) Notes： • The backbone structure of the second sentence is I was summoned by my country… from a treat…--a retreat…. The backbone structure of a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years is a retreat I had chosen… as…. Also in the second sentence,– a retreat which was rendered… is appositive to a retreat… before it. And …by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruption in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time could be made explicit as … by addition of habit to inclination, and by addition of frequent interruption in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time