But I feel that chance circumstances have put me into a position for which I am unfit, and which yet I have been unable to avoid.

How much better would it be that you should do this alone,--you yourself." "Utterly out of the question.

I do know and think that I always have known my own powers.

Neither has my aptitude in debate nor my capacity for work justified me in looking to the premiership.

But that, forgive me, is now not worthy of consideration.