Do you believe that Donovan Brown is fifty times as drunken and improvident as my father was ?" "Certainly not.

I do not deny that there is much in what you urge.
Still, you ask me to take a rather important step." "Not a bit of it.

I don't ask you to subscribe to, join, or in any way pledge yourself to any society or conspiracy whatsoever.

I only want your name for private mention to cowards who think Socialism right, but will not say so because they do not think it respectable.

They will not be ashamed of their convictions when they learn that a baronet shares them.