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ties; but, when i perceive you exalted, but not enslaved by them, i exult and glory in my child! William's youth, inexperience, instability, and habits of dependence, are the only reasonable obstacles which oppose your mutual wishes: should his attachment prove worthy its object, these obstacles, though threatening, are far from insuperable. his destiny will not permit us to confine him in rural shades: let him try the world, and prove his boasted strength: if, in the arduous warfare, victory crown his efforts, let him return, and claim the recompense of his toils: the invaluable heart of my child will be a victor's rich reward.
