None had to teach you those qualities, of which a good God had endowed you, My good father is dead since many years.

He, too, was permitted to see France before to die.
"I have read in the English journals not only that you are married, but that you have a son.

Permit me to send to your wife, to your child, these accompanying tokens of an old friendship.

I have seen that Mistress Newcome was widow, and am not sorry of it.

My friend, I hope there was not that difference of age between your wife and you that I have known in other unions.