I should thank you if you would write in your own person, saying that you act for a friend; you are probably well known in those quarters.

If it is accepted, time enough to claim my glory.

If it seems to you to have no chance, keep it till I return, as I hate the humiliation of refusals .-- Don't think I made an ass of myself the other night.

We will never speak on that subject again.

All I said was horribly sincere, but I'm afraid you can't understand that side of my nature.