Well, go where
you are called or as occasion drives, though you have much to keep you
at home. I would that you were wed, since marriage is an anchor that few
ships can drag. Yet I am not sure, for how know I whom you should wed,
and once that anchor is down no windlass will wind it up and death alone
can cut its chain. One word more. Though you are so young and strong
remember that as I am, so shall you be. To-day for me, to-morrow for
thee, said the wise old man, and thus it ever was and is.
"Hubert, I do not know why we are born to struggle and to suffer and at
last be noosed with the rope of Doom. Yet I hope the priests are right
and that we live again, though Solomon thought not so; that is, if we
live where there is neither sin nor sorrow nor fear of death. If so, be
sure that in some new land we shall meet afresh, and there I shall ask
account of you of the wealth I entrusted to your keeping. Think of me
kindly at times, for I have learned to love you who are of my blood, and
while we live on in the hearts of those we love, we are not truly dead.
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