If you love me as I love you, you will be saving till the battle is over; and I feel I could find energy and fortitude for both.

Your father, who thinks so much of wealth, can surely settle something on YOU; and I am not too poor to furnish a house and start fair.

I am not quite obscure--my lectures have given me a name--and to you, my own love, I hope I may say that I know more than many of my elders, thanks to good schools, good method, a genuine love of my noble profession, and a tendency to study from my childhood.

Will you not risk something on my ability?
If not, God help me, for I shall lose you; and what is life, or fame, or wealth, or any mortal thing to me, without you?
I cannot accept your father's decision; YOU must decide my fate.
You see I have kept away from you until I can do so no more.

All this time the world to me has seemed to want the sun, and my heart pines and sickens for one sight of you.
Darling Rosa, pray let me look at your face once more.
When this reaches you I shall be at your gate.