Here they both are; they speak for themselves loudly enough: ALFRED,-- It is extremely painful for me to have to write to you in the strain I must; but please understand that I decline to receive any answers from you in writing in return.

After your recent hysterical impertinent ones I refuse to be annoyed with such, and I decline to read any more letters.
If you have anything to say do come here and say it in person.

Firstly, am I to understand that, having left Oxford as you did, with discredit to yourself, the reasons of which were fully explained to me by your tutor, you now intend to loaf and loll about and do nothing?
All the time you were wasting at Oxford I was put off with an assurance that you were eventually to go into the Civil Service or to the Foreign Office, and then I was put off with an assurance that you were going to the Bar.

It appears to me that you intend to do nothing.

I utterly decline, however, to just supply you with sufficient funds to enable you to loaf about.