This deportment was inexplicable, but the relief it afforded me was quickly gone.

You returned, and I once more was thrown into perplexity.

The expedient that suggested itself was precipitate and inartificial.

I exerted my organs and called upon you TO HOLD.
"That you should persist in spite of this admonition, was a subject of astonishment.

I again resisted your efforts; for the first expedient having failed, I knew not what other to resort to.