I was interested in your way of describing things.

I only wondered that, with your occasional sense of the ludicrous, you should not have been aware of the impression which you yourself must have made on others.

Burns's "giftie," "to see oursel's," etc., we all, more or less, need.

I told Hattie the other day that I thought some parts of your letter did you very great credit, but that the monomania of the North has fallen upon you, and that you have it, as it seemed to me, in one of its worst forms.

Some it makes fierce, others, flat, according as the victim is, naturally, more or less amiable.
Your mother gave you in charge to me in her last sickness, and I must do all in my power for your best good.