"I have a deep and indestructible affection for you, and I should be very unhappy if we became estranged. My feeling is not sexual, and that, I fear, will not revive; but the affection I feel is all the more reliable on that account."

"I have felt for a long time uncomfortable because you were so poor, and it seems to me that I can afford to give you £200 a year, beginning with £50 at midsummer."