A Tory Governor-General is not very likely to agree with me about the very important law reforms which I am about to bring before the Council.

But he is not likely to treat me ill personally; or, if he does, all ou ti khairon, en tod orthothe Belos, ["It shall be to his cost, so long as this bow carries true."] as Philoctetes says.

In a few months I shall have enough to enable me to live, after my very moderate fashion, in perfect independence at home; and whatever debts any Governor-General may choose to lay on me at Calcutta shall be paid off, he may rely on it, with compound interest, at Westminster.
My time is divided between public business and books.

I mix with society as little as I can.

My spirits have not yet recovered,--I sometimes think that they will never wholly recover,--the shock which they received five months ago.