I could not be supposed therefore, affected and interested as I then was, to be cool and tranquil on this occasion.

And yet what would my worthy friend have said, if in this first instance I had opposed him?
I had a very severe struggle in my own feelings on this account.

At length, though reluctantly, I obeyed.

But as the passions, which agitate the human mind, when it is greatly inflamed, must have a vent somewhere, or must work off as it were, or in working together must produce some new passion or effect; so I found the rage, which had been kindling within me, subsiding into the most determined resolutions of future increased activity and perseverance.

I began now to think that the day was not long enough for me to labour in.