“I am quite shocked, on looking over your letter of the 31st to see that I omitted, in our conversation yesterday, to advert to its more immediate object.
“The truth is, that I put your letter by, intending to read it over again before I should see you, and that I had unluckily left it among my papers in town, when you called upon you [me] yesterday.
“I hope you have understood silence to mean consent, so far as my consent was necessary; and that you will have the goodness to signify so much to me, and to accept my best wishes on behalf of my young godson.
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“I again beg you to believe that I am most truly sorry for my inadvertence, and that I am, dear Sir,
