You'll observe very much that's comical and old-fashioned about Pinch, but you needn't mind laughing at him; for he'll not care about it.

He'll rather like it indeed!' 'I don't think I shall put that to the test, Martin.' 'You won't if you can help it, of course,' he said, 'but I think you'll find him a little too much for your gravity.

However, that's neither here nor there, and it certainly is not the letter; which ends thus: "Knowing that I need not impress the nature and extent of that confidence upon you at any greater length, as it is already sufficiently established in your mind, I will only say, in bidding you farewell and looking forward to our next meeting, that I shall charge myself from this time, through all changes for the better, with your advancement and happiness, as if they were my own.

You may rely upon that.

And always believe me, my dear Tom Pinch, faithfully your friend, Martin Chuzzlewit.