This is the footing on which you must place matters.

It is not worth while to be told that one is in some sort of age when the consequence is that you are not consulted in what concerns you most personally.

Avoid in future to say much about your great _youth_ and _inexperience_.

Who made the letter?
Was it yourself, or came it from your Mother?
You have now the Baron at your elbow, and even your Mother was most anxious for his arrival.

_Speak sometimes with him_; it is necessary to accustom you to the thing.
About the King's health.[43] I am doubtful what to think.