I will tell you the cause more in detail than I had the heart to do while under your hospitable roof.

You will often hear it mentioned, and perhaps with different and unfounded circumstances.

I will therefore speak it out; and then let the event itself, and the sentiments of melancholy with which it has impressed me, never again be subject of discussion between us.
'Sophia, as you well know, followed me to India.

She was as innocent as gay; but, unfortunately for us both, as gay as innocent.

My own manners were partly formed by studies I had forsaken, and habits of seclusion not quite consistent with my situation as commandant of a regiment in a country where universal hospitality is offered and expected by every settler claiming the rank of a gentleman.