But I agree heartily with your feeling that you are too young, yet, to assume their mastership.

I have a good steward there looking after things, seeing that all goes well, and that the house is kept in order.

But it is best, as you say, that a few years should pass before you go to reside there.

We need not settle, for a time, whether you shall return to France, or go to see service with those sturdy Dutchmen against the Spaniards.

But I should say that it is best you should go where you have already made a name, and gained many friends.
"There is no saying, yet, how matters will go there.