shield of reason!' In a pecuniary point of view I am confident, nay, the
calculations may be established as irresistibly as an algebraic equation,
that I can realise, as incumbent of Lady Whittlesea's chapel, the sum of
not less than one thousand pounds per annum. Such a sum, with economy
(and without it what sum were sufficient?), will enable me to provide
amply for my wants, to discharge my obligations to you, to my sister, and
some other creditors, very, very unlike you, and to place Miss Honeyman
in a home more worthy of her than that which she now occupies, only to
vacate it at the beck of every passing stranger!

"My sister does not disapprove of my plan, into which enter some
modifications which I have not, as yet, submitted to her, being anxious
at first that they should be sanctioned by you. From the income of the
Whittlesea chapel I propose to allow Miss Honeyman the sum of two hundred
pounds per annum, paid quarterly. This, with her private property, which
she has kept more thriftily than her unfortunate and confiding brother
guarded his (for whenever I had a guinea a tale of distress would melt it
into half a sovereign), will enable Miss Honeyman to live in a way
becoming my father's daughter.

"Comforted with this provision as my sister will be, I would suggest that
our dearest young Clive should be transferred from her petticoat
government, and given up to the care of his affectionate uncle and tutor.
His present allowance will most liberally suffice for his expenses,
board, lodging, and education while under my roof, and I shall be able to
exert a paternal, a pastoral influence over his studies, his conduct, and
his highest welfare, which I cannot so conveniently exercise at Brighton,
where I am but Miss Honeyman's stipendiary, and where I often have to
submit in cases where I know, for dearest Clive's own welfare, it is I,
and not my sister, should be paramount.