I was always a very aristocratic Whig, and since these reforming days am well-nigh become a staunch Tory, for pretty nearly the same reason that converted you--a dislike to mobs in action....

Refinement follows wealth, but not often closely, as witness the parvenu people even in dear England....

I heard of your plunge into the Backwoods first from Mr.
Owen himself, with whom I foregathered three years ago in London, and of whom you have given so very true and graphic a picture.

What extraordinary mildness and plausibility that man possesses! I never before saw an instance of actual wildness--madness of theory accompanied by such suavity and soberness of manner.

Did you see my friend, Miss Sedgwick?
Her letters show a large and amiable mind, and a little niece of nine years old, who generally writes in them, has a style very unusual in so young a girl, and yet most youthful and natural too....