It is to appropriate to another use the sum with which you destined to bring me into Parliament; to employ it, not in making me great, but in rendering me happy.

I have often heard you say yourself that the allowance you had been so indulgent as to grant me, though very liberal in regard to your estate, was yet but small when compared with the almost necessary extravagances of the age.

I have indeed found it so, notwithstanding a good deal of economy, and an exemption from many of the common expenses of youth.

This, dear sir, would be a way of supplying these deficiencies without any additional expense to you.

But I forbear--if you think my proposals reasonable, you want no intreaties to engage you to comply with them, if otherwise all will be without effect.
"All that I am afraid of, dear sir, is that I should seem not so much asking a favour, as this really is, as exacting a debt.