His answer was kind and ready, that Virginia did not yield any great plenty of wives, and that since I talked of going back to England, I should send him a wife from London.
Sa réponse, tendre et prompte, fut que la Virginie ne produisait point abondance de femmes et que puisque je parlais de retourner en Angleterre, il me priait de lui envoyer une femme de Londres.