His letter has put it into my head to think matters over, and in a different spirit from that in which I had previously regarded it, and I have come to the conclusion that I have acted wrongly; first, that I did not make allowances enough for the boy; second, that I insisted on keeping him to a trade he disliked; third, that I have given too willing an ear to what Andrew Carson has said against the boy; lastly, that I took such means of freeing myself from him.

I today give Andrew Carson notice to quit my service--a matter in which I have hitherto withstood you.

I am willing to forget the words which you spoke to me in anger, seeing that there was some foundation for them, and that when a woman is in a passion her tongue goes further than she means.
"Now, as I am ready to put this on one side, I trust that you also will put aside your anger at my having obtained the pressing for a soldier of your cousin.

You can see for yourself by his writing that he does not desire that any enmity shall arise out of the manner of his going.

For fifteen years we have lived in amity, and I see not why, after this cloud passes away, we should not do so again.
"I miss you sorely.