compliments
on my own account. I am now about to answer her letter, though I shall scarcely have patience, to treat her with civility, far less with affection, that was almost over before, and this has given the finishing stroke to
filial
, which now gives way to
fraternal
duty. Believe me, dearest Augusta, not ten thousand
such
mothers, or indeed any mothers, Could induce me to give you up. — No, No, as the dowager says in that rare epistle which now lies before me, "the time has been, but that is past
long since
," and nothing now can influence your