My thoughts, hopes, and wishes will be on the moment that shall restore me to the Black Fort, and its lovely valley.

Let me hope that yours will sometimes rest on the lonely exile, whom nothing could render such, but the command of honour and duty.

Do not fear that I mean to involve you in a private correspondence, and let not your father fear it.

I could not love you so much, but for the openness and candour of your nature; and I would not that you concealed from Major Bridgenorth one syllable of what I now avow.

Respecting other matters, he himself cannot desire the welfare of our common country with more zeal than I do.