When will old men understand young ones?
I burn your letters, and beg you to follow the example.

Old letters are the dreariest ghosts in the world, and you cannot keep more treacherous rubbish in your possession.

A discovery would exactly ruin me.
"Your purchase of a black-velvet bonnet with pink ribands, was very suitable.

Or did you write 'blue' ribands?
But your complexion can bear anything.
"You talk of being annoyed when you walk out.

Remember, that no woman who knows at all how to conduct herself need for one moment suffer annoyance.
"What is the 'feeling' you speak of?
I cannot conceive any 'feeling' that should make you helpless when you consider that you are insulted.