I am going to put you in a school where you will be looked strictly after, and where you will have every chance of retrieving yourself.

I have just written to a friend of mine, a post captain in his majesty's service, asking him to receive you as a midshipman.

I have told him frankly that you have been somewhat over indulged, and that the discipline of the sea life will be of great benefit to you, and have requested him to keep a tight hand over you, and let me know occasionally how you are going on.

I have told him that your position as my heir will, to a very large extent, depend upon his reports, and have asked him, in the name of our old friendship, to be perfectly frank and open in them with me.
I have said 'he is my eldest nephew, but I have others who will take his place, if he is unworthy of the position, and although I should be sorry if he should be found wanting, I will commit the interests of all the tenants and people on my estate to no one who is not, in every respect, an honourable gentleman.' "That will do, sir.

You need not remain longer in your room, but you will not leave the grounds.