Memoir of the Chisholm

WHILST AT ETON. 15
all of us were so sorry at your going away so
soon, that we did not know what to do after
you had left the house. If you had gone
earlier we should not have felt it so much,
but after we had made up our minds to read,
and had hoped to pass that evening pleasantly
in your society, your sudden departure was
very mortifying. I did not expect that you
would have arrived at Slough so soon as you
mentioned. I should like very much to have
been with you when you walked over to Eton,
accompanied by your torch-bearer. I shall
often think of you, my dear sir, when I am
far distant from you, and remember with
feelings of the warmest gratitude your great
kindness and care for me when I was ill at
Eton ; and I shall always endeavour by every
means in my power to prove both the deep
sense which I entertain of your goodness and
affection for us, and my respect and esteem
for yourself.
"As to my duty to my dearest mamma, were
it only for my own happiness and welfare, I
would strive, by every act of duty, to repay
those pains and cares, which, from the mo-
ment of my birth to the present hour, she has