You may be away for some years, but I trust that, on your return, you will find me sitting here to welcome you back.

A creaking wheel lasts long.

I have everything to make my life happy and peaceful--the best of wives, a well-ordered farm, and no thought or care as to my worldly affairs--and since it has been God's will that such should be my life, my interest will be wholly centred in you; and I hope to see your children playing round me or, for ought I know, your grandchildren, for we are a long-lived race.
"And now, Philip, you had best go down and see your uncle, and thank him for his good intentions towards you.

Tell him that I wholly agree with his plans, and that if he and your aunt will come up this evening, we will enter farther into them." That evening John Fletcher learned that it was the intention of Gaspard that his wife should accompany Philip.
"Marie yearns to see her people again," he said, "and the present is a good time for her to do so; for when the war once breaks out again, none can say how long it will last or how it will terminate.
Her sister and Lucie's, the Countess de Laville, has, as you know, frequently written urgently for Marie to go over and pay her a visit.

Hitherto I have never been able to bring myself to spare her, but I feel that this is so good an opportunity that I must let her go for a few weeks.
"Philip could not be introduced under better auspices.