It has now become a source of humiliation and mortification.
I again repeat, my dear Sir, that I do not blame you in the least.
This, however, only makes matters worse.

If you had used me ill, I might complain, and might hope to be better treated another time.

Unhappily you are in a situation in which it is proper for you to do what it would be improper in me to endure.

What has happened now may happen next quarter, and must happen before long, unless I altogether refrain from writing for the Review.

I hope you will forgive me if I say that I feel what has passed too strongly to be inclined to expose myself to a recurrence of the same vexations.
Yours most truly T.B.MACAULAY.
A few soft words induced Macaulay to reconsider his threat of withdrawing from the Review; but, even before Mr.Napier's answer reached him, the feeling of personal annoyance had already been effaced by a greater sorrow.