One word more, and I implore of your candour to take it as it is meant.

No one supposes that Mr.Fairford's zeal in his friend's service needs to be quickened by mercenary motives.

'But report says, that Mr.Alan Fairford, not having yet entered on his professional career, may, in such a case as this, want the means, though he cannot want the inclination, to act with promptitude.

The enclosed note Mr.
Alan Fairford must be pleased to consider as his first professional emolument; and she who sends it hopes it will be the omen of unbounded success, though the fee comes from a hand so unknown as that of 'GREEN MANTLE'.
A bank-note of L20 was the enclosure, and the whole incident left me speechless with astonishment.

I am not able to read over the beginning of my own letter, which forms the introduction to this extraordinary communication.