In half a year, I could acquire a thorough familiarity with French.

I could improve greatly in Italian, and even get a dash of German, i.e., providing my health continued as good as it is now.

Mary is now staying at Brussels, at a first-rate establishment there.

I should not think of going to the Chateau de Kokleberg, where she is resident, as the terms are much too high; but if I wrote to her, she, with the assistance of Mrs.Jenkins, the wife of the British Chaplain, would be able to secure me a cheap, decent residence and respectable protection.

I should have the opportunity of seeing her frequently; she would make me acquainted with the city; and, with the assistance of her cousins, I should probably be introduced to connections far more improving, polished, and cultivated, than any I have yet known.
"These are advantages which would turn to real account, when we actually commenced a school; and, if Emily could share them with me, we could take a footing in the world afterwards which we can never do now.