To one of Walter's temperament there is two-fold danger.
Walter is gambling, too, and bets high; he will, of course, be a prey to the more experienced ones, who will take advantage of his youth and generosity to rob him.

For, is a professed gambler better than a common thief?
"'It is needless for me to say, I have shed many tears over this letter.

Tears are for the living, and I expect to shed them while I wear this garment of mortality.

Can it be that in this case the wise Creator will visit the sins of the father upon the child?
Are are all my tears and prayers to fail?
I cannot think so, while He reigns in heaven in the same body with which He suffered on earth.
In the very hand that holds the sceptre is the print of the nails; under the royal crown that encircles His brow, can still be traced the marks of the thorns.

He is surely, then, touched with a feeling of our infirmities, and He will in the end, bring home this child of my love and my adoption.