, etc. As Betty is no longer a boy, how can this be applied to him? He is now to be judged as a man. If he acts still like a boy, the public will but be more ashamed of their blunder. I have, you see,
now
taken it for granted that these things are reformed. I confess, I wish that part of the
Address
to stand; but if W. is inexorable, e'en let it go. I have also new-cast the lines, and softened the hint of future combustion, and sent them off this morning. Will you have the goodness to add, or insert, the
approved
alterations as they arrive?
"come like shadows, so depart,"