This you need not mind, for the fortune you will inherit will leave you free and able to purchase other estates in the Blue Mountains or elsewhere that you may select in the world.
If others attack, attack them, and quicker and harder than they can, if such be a possibility.

Should it ever be that you inherit the Castle of Vissarion on the Spear of Ivan, remember that I had it secretly fortified and armed against attack.

There are not only massive grilles, but doors of chilled bronze where such be needed.
My adherent Rooke, who has faithfully served me for nearly forty years, and has gone on my behalf on many perilous expeditions, will, I trust, serve you in the same way.

Treat him well for my sake, if not for your own.

I have left him provision for a life of ease; but he would rather take a part in dangerous enterprises.