As it is your desire that I should deal rather with practical realities than with generalities or theories, let us come in my next, without preliminaries, to plain suggestions, presented somewhat in detail, with the usual simplicity and frankness of that "plain, blunt man,"
Your affectionate uncle
Hal.
Footnotes:
[3] After you are served, madam, I beg.
LETTER IV.
MANNER CONTINUED:—PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS.
My Dear Nephews:
If I rightly remember, I concluded my last letter to my young correspondents with a promise of attempting in my next, some practical directions in regard to Manner. I will, then, commence, at once premising only in the impressive words of the immortal senator, who just at present holds so large a space in the world's eye: "In now opening this great matter, I am not insensible to the austere demands of the occasion."