But when our circumstances began to grow very doubtful, and we really didn't know what was before us, my son consented to follow a business career--that of wine merchant, with which his father was connected.

And he exerted himself so nobly, and gave proof of such ability, that very soon all our fears were at an end; and now, before he is thirty, his position is quite assured.

We have no longer a care.
I live here very economically--really sweet lodgings on the road to St.
Martin's; I _do_ hope you will come and see me.

And the girls go backwards and forwards.

You see we are _all_ here at present.