He learned there on the island that language was not given to man merely that he might make a noise, but that he might use it as a great marksman uses a rifle.
Work and study together filled his days.

They kept far from him also any feeling of despair.

He had an abiding faith that a ship of the right kind would come in time and take him away.

He must not worry about it.
It was his task now to fit himself for the return, to prove to his friends when he saw them once more that all the splendid opportunities offered to him on the island had not been wasted.
Almost unconsciously, he began to reason more deeply, to look further into the causes of things, and his mind turned particularly to the present war.

The more he thought about it the greater became his conviction that England and the colonies were bound to win.