In answer to the reveries and speculations which I sent to him respecting this subject, Ludloe informed me, that they had led his mind into a new sphere of meditation.

He had long and deeply considered in what way he might essentially promote my happiness.

He had entertained a faint hope that I would one day be qualified for a station like that to which he himself had been advanced.

This post required an elevation and stability of views which human beings seldom reach, and which could be attained by me only by a long series of heroic labours.

Hitherto every new stage in my intellectual progress had added vigour to his hopes, and he cherished a stronger belief than formerly that my career would terminate auspiciously.