Thus, dear friend, you also receive your first rent from me. In time I hope to get the length of offering you the actual equivalent: perhaps it's not so far off now; then you shall say —
"Hei, unser Held Tristan,
wie der Zins zahlen kann!!" —
And so for to-day, as for ever, my heartiest thanks again for all the goodness and kindness you have shewn me!
Your Richard Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 32