As it is I have not deserved it, and your condemnation of me has been altogether unjust.

Should I not now receive from you a full withdrawal of all charge against me, I shall be driven to think that after all the insight which circumstances have given me into your character, I have nevertheless been mistaken in the reading of it.
I remain, Dear Duke of Omnium, Yours truly, M.FINN.
I find on looking over my letter that I must add one word further.

It might seem that I am asking for a return of your friendship.

Such is not my purpose.

Neither can you forget that you have accused me,--nor can I.What I expect is that you should tell me that you in your conduct to me have been wrong and that I in mine to you have been right.
I must be enabled to feel that the separation between us has come from injury done to me, and not by me.
He did read the letter more than once, and read it with tingling ears, and hot cheeks, and a knitted brow.