They are too spooney and wild.

Young ladies ought not to be called upon to read them in cold blood.

Bide your time, young women; perhaps you will get and write them on your own account soon.

Meanwhile we will respect Mr.Pen's first outpourings, and keep them tied up in the newspapers with Miss Fotheringay's string, and sealed with Captain Costigan's great silver seal.
The Major came away from his interview with Captain Costigan in a state of such concentrated fury as rendered him terrible to approach! "The impudent bog-trotting scamp," he thought, "dare to threaten me! Dare to talk of permitting his damned Costigans to marry with the Pendennises! Send me a challenge! If the fellow can get anything in the shape of a gentleman to carry it, I have the greatest mind in life not to baulk him .-- Psha! what would people say if I were to go out with a tipsy mountebank, about a row with an actress in a barn!" So when the Major saw Dr.Portman, who asked anxiously regarding the issue of his battle with the dragon, Mr.Pendennis did not care to inform the divine of the General's insolent behaviour, but stated that the affair was a very ugly and disagreeable one, and that it was by no means over yet.
He enjoined Doctor and Mrs.Portman to say nothing about the business at Fairoaks; whither he contented himself with despatching the note we have before mentioned.

And then he returned to his hotel, where he vented his wrath upon Mr.Morgan his valet, "dammin and cussin upstairs and downstairs," as that gentleman observed to Mr.Foker's man, in whose company he partook of dinner in the servants' room of the George.
The servant carried the news to his master; and Mr.Foker having finished his breakfast about this time, it being two o'clock in the afternoon, remembered that he was anxious to know the result of the interview between his two friends, and having inquired the number of the Major's sitting-room, went over in his brocade dressing-gown, and knocked for admission.
Major Pendennis had some business, as he had stated, respecting a lease of the widow's, about which he was desirous of consulting old Mr.
Tatham, the lawyer, who had been his brother's man of business, and who had a branch-office at Clavering, where he and his son attended market and other days three or four in the week.