Suffer of course
we must, but we know to whom to look in our affliction, and are filled
with anxiety rather on your behalf than our own. Your mother is
wonderful. She is pretty well in health, and desires me to send you
her love.
"Have you considered your prospects on leaving prison? I
understand from Mr. Overton that you have lost the legacy which your
grandfather left you, together with all the interest that accrued
during your minority, in the course of speculation upon the Stock
Exchange! If you have indeed been guilty of such appalling folly it is
difficult to see what you can turn your hand to, and I suppose you
will try to find a clerkship in an office. Your salary will
doubtless be low at first, but you have made your bed and must not
complain if you have to lie upon it. If you take pains to please
your employers they will not be backward in promoting you.
"When I first heard from Mr. Overton of the unspeakable calamity
which had befallen your mother and myself, I had resolved not to see
you again. I am unwilling, however, to have recourse to a measure
which would deprive you of your last connecting link with
respectable people. Your mother and I will see you as soon as you come
out of prison; not at Battersby- we do not wish you to come down
here at present- but somewhere else, probably in London.
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