I'd rather take a happy medium, and look forward to coming back before my liver is all gone, or my temper all destroyed, with lots of money to make you and the girls comfortable.
"There is only one thing.

I wish it had been a cadetship, instead of a writership." "That is my only comfort," Mrs.Marryat said.

"If it had been a cadetship, I should have written to say that I would not let you go.
It is bad enough as it is; but if you had had to fight, I could not have borne it." Charlie did his best to console his mother, by telling her how everyone who went to India made fortunes, and how he should be sure to come back with plenty of money; and that, when the girls grew up, he should be able to find rich husbands for them; and at last he succeeded in getting her to look at matters in a less gloomy light.
"And I'm sure, Mother," he said, "Uncle means most kindly.

He sends twenty pounds, you see, and says that that is for immediate necessities; so I have no doubt he means to help to get my outfit, or at any rate to advance money, which I can repay him out of my salary.
The letter is rather stiff and businesslike, of course, but I suppose that's his way; and you see he asks about your income, so perhaps he means to help for the girls' education.

I should go away very happy, if I knew that you would be able to get on comfortably.