text:  I thought of him only as the remembered playfellow of my early days; and could say in heart--"Alas my brother!" The landscape before me at last sank into night; and with feelings darkened like it yet calm and still I saw the closing of a day which painful as was the cause yet called me to new duties gave me a stronger hold upon society and placed me in that position which I fully believe to combine more of the true materials of happiness and honour than any other on earth--that of an opulent English nobleman