Please act entirely on your own judgment in everything, and as soon as you give a certificate to the builders for the first instalment of their money it will be promptly sent by my solicitors.
'You bid me ask myself if I have used you well in not sending intelligence of myself till a fortnight after I had left you.

Now, George, don't be unreasonable! Let me remind you that, as a certain apostle said, there are a thousand things lawful which are not expedient.

I say this, not from pride in my own conduct, but to offer you a very fair explanation of it.

Your resolve not to be out of humour with me suggests that you have been sorely tempted that way, else why should such a resolve have been necessary?
'If you only knew what passes in my mind sometimes you would perhaps not be so ready to blame.

Shall I tell you?
No.