"Impossible! This gentleman is so mild, so gentlemanly."
"Ask the captain if it be not Mr. Garrison."
It was an important point. The captain was asked. This mild, courteous, simple, sprightly, gentlemanly person was Garrison.
FOOTNOTES:
[20] Channing's Letter to Birney. 1837.
[21] Godwin's Inquirer.
[22] Sober Thoughts on the State of the Times. Boston, 1835, p. 27.
[23] This reminds me of a singular instance of confusion of ideas. The landlady of a hotel declared my trumpet to be the best invention she had ever seen: better than spectacles. Query, better for what?
[24] "Mr. Richard Masey requests the pleasure of Mrs. Miken's, and Miss Arthur's company, on Saturday evening at seven o'clock, in Dr. Smith's long brick-store."