With you I deplore this family feud.

It is not of my seeking; and as for this lawsuit, it is one in which the plaintiff is really the defendant.

Sir Charles has written a defamatory letter, which has closed every house in this county to his victim.

If, as I now feel sure, you disapprove the libel, pray persuade him to retract it.
The rest our lawyers can settle, "Yours very respectfully, "RICHARD BASSETT." When Lady Bassett read this, she saw she had an adroit opponent.

Yet she wrote again: "MR.