“Dear Patmore,—You
tantalize worse than ever, and make me quite angry by the disappointing
structure of your sentence, informing me that you had overcome your scruple
about communicating your ‘bright thought,’ which you would
unfold—in a day or two. ‘O, most lame, and
impotent conclusion!’ And all the worse for my knowing what with
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“Well! you make up for it (if anything can) by the very pretty things you say of my dear heroines, and the encouragement this gives me as to their final success. Nor can anything be more delicate than the manner in which you convey a good opinion which, I need not tell you, is the most valuable I could have. So I gird myself for the battle, and care nothing for the Sourkrouts.