...gratification to me, that I should repay the present loan, only upon one condition, that the first instalment of the repayment should not commence till that day...consanguinity? My son will have enough; and I am sure he will not repine, that you should be made a partaker of the opulence with which Providence has blessed...

...family feeling by recounting to him Fleetwood's father's rationale for treating Ruffigny as his son: "Are all the kindnesses of the human heart to be shut up within the paltry limits of consanguinity? . . . You are my son, a son whom the concourse of sublunary events has given me, no less dear to me...