Olivia and Sophia too, promised to write, but seem to have forgotten me.

Tell them they are two arrant little baggages, and that I am this moment in a most violent passion with them: yet still, I know not how, tho' I want to bluster a little, my heart is respondent only to softer emotions.

Then tell them, sir, that after all, I love them affectionately, and be assured of my ever remaining Your dutiful son.
'In all our miseries,' cried I, 'what thanks have we not to return, that one at least of our family is exempted from what we suffer.

Heaven be his guard, and keep my boy thus happy to be the supporter of his widowed mother, and the father of these two babes, which is all the patrimony I can now bequeath him.

May he keep their innocence from the temptations of want, and be their conductor in the paths of honour.' I had scarce said these words, when a noise, like that of a tumult, seemed to proceed from the prison below; it died away soon after, and a clanking of fetters was heard along the passage that led to my apartment.