I therefore see no wrong in any part of the transaction.

It is true, I went off secretly; but that was more your fault than mine.

Had I let you into the secret, you would have defeated the enterprise entirely; but for this, I should have been really glad to have made you acquainted with my intentions to leave.
You may perhaps want to know how I like my present condition.

I am free to say, I greatly prefer it to that which I occupied in Maryland.

I am, however, by no means prejudiced against the state as such.