“I will certainly not fail you, God willing, on Tuesday. Sentimental hypocrisy you know I treat nearly the same as other hypocrisy, therefore I think you will not blame me for telling you we were yesterday, as I told you we should be, driven, &c. But I know you—what is who can resist? Had I but the power to remove difficulties from all of us—oh, there would be rare doings! For heaven’s sake do not torment yourself; times and seasons have strange variations, and who knows that the sun will never shine.
