Nevertheless, I grieve
for his death. I lament bitterly that he should have been
cut off in his sins, and hurried before the judgment
seat of the great Judge without an hour given to him for
repentance. Let us pray that the mercy of the Lord may
be extended even to him. I beg that you will express my
deepest commiseration to his widow, and assure her that
she has my prayers.
And now, my dearest wife, let me approach my own affairs.
As I have come out unscorched from the last fiery furnace
which has been heated for me by my enemies seven times
hot, so shall I escape from that other fire with which the
poor man who has gone from us endeavoured to envelop me.
If they have made you believe that I have any wife but
yourself they have made you believe a falsehood. You, and
you only, have my hand. You, and you only, have my heart.
I know well what attempts are being made to suborn false
evidence in my old country, and how the follies of my
youth are being pressed against me,--how anxious are proud
Englishmen that the poor Bohemian should be robbed of the
beauty and wit and wealth which he had won for himself.
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