It had been written six weeks after he had left them, and had, curiously enough, arrived in England on the very day after his own letter had reached home.

The count wrote expressing their anxiety regarding him, and their earnest hopes that he had effected his escape.

He said that his wife and daughters diligently read every paper they could get from end to end, but having seen no notice of the capture of two young Englishmen in disguise, they entertained strong hopes that their friends had effected their escape.
The count said he was sure that Jack would be glad to hear that things in Russia looked brighter; that it was rumored that the Emperor Alexander intended on the occasion of his coronation to proclaim a general emancipation of the serfs, and that other measures of reform would follow.

The party of progress were strong in the councils of the new monarch.

The decree for his own banishment from court had been cancelled, and he was on the point of starting for St.Petersburg with his wife and daughters.