And, Allan, before so very long I shall be of age, if I live.

Still I dare say you no longer think of marriage with me, who, perhaps, are already married to someone else, especially as now I and all of us are no better than wandering beggars.

Yet I have thought it right to tell you these things, which you may like to know.
"Oh, why did God ever put it into my father's heart to leave the Cape Colony just because he hated the British Government and Hernan Pereira and others persuaded him?
I know not, but, poor man, he is sorry enough now.

It is pitiful to see him; at times I think that he is going mad.
"The paper is done, and the messenger is going; also the sick child is dying and I must attend to her.

Will this letter ever come to your hands, I wonder?
I am sending with it the little money I have to pay for its delivery--about four pounds English.