Follow my advice: go to Italy, and do not shorten your life by the sorrows which may await you in England." "The advice is no doubt good," replied Deodati; "but I cannot follow it.
However guilty he may be, Geronimo is the only son of my deceased brother, whom I promised on his death-bed to watch over his child as if he were my own.

Were I to abandon Geronimo entirely, he might be pushed by want and misery into the path of vice, perhaps of infamy.

I will fulfil my duty to the last.

If I love him less than formerly, at least I will save him from utter ruin." "What generosity!" exclaimed Mr.Van de Werve, in admiration.

"You travel about in search of your nephew; you endanger your health.