I feel an absolute conviction that, if this advantage were allowed us, it would be the making of us for life.

Papa will, perhaps, think it a wild and ambitious scheme; but who ever rose in the world without ambition?
When he left Ireland to go to Cambridge University, he was as ambitious as I am now.

I want us _all_ to get on.

I know we have talents, and I want them to be turned to account.

I look to you, aunt, to help us.