Claremont is the place where in younger days you were least plagued, and generally I saw you there in good spirits.

You will also _nolens volens_ be compelled to think of me, and maybe of poor Charlotte.
This gives me an opening for saying a few words on this subject.

I found several times that some people had given you the impression that poor Charlotte had been hasty and violent even to imperiousness and _rudeness_.

I can you assure that it was _not so_; she was quick, and even violent, but I never have seen anybody so open to conviction, and so fair and candid when wrong.

The proverb says, and not without some truth, that ladies come always back to the first words, to avoid any symptom of having been convinced.