Others have done much for the lepers, our own ministers, the government physicians, and so forth, but never with the Catholic idea of meriting eternal life .-- Yours, etc., 'C.

M.HYDE.' {65} To deal fitly with a letter so extraordinary, I must draw at the outset on my private knowledge of the signatory and his sect.

It may offend others; scarcely you, who have been so busy to collect, so bold to publish, gossip on your rivals.

And this is perhaps the moment when I may best explain to you the character of what you are to read: I conceive you as a man quite beyond and below the reticences of civility: with what measure you mete, with that shall it be measured you again; with you, at last, I rejoice to feel the button off the foil and to plunge home.

And if in aught that I shall say I should offend others, your colleagues, whom I respect and remember with affection, I can but offer them my regret; I am not free, I am inspired by the consideration of interests far more large; and such pain as can be inflicted by anything from me must be indeed trifling when compared with the pain with which they read your letter.