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a way as would at least bring a smile to your lips.
Mine is an ardent temperament, & rather impulsive.
What is felt. I like to express. & when said, it
comes, however crudely, right from the heart.
It is no small satisfaction to me I assure you,
to feel that I possess your esteem, and particularly
has the pleasure been enhanced by the evidences I
have recently had of it. – You should, only, never
suppose me so incapable of appreciating the
beautiful, - the sensible – the elegant as to find
a single objection to the delicate little mission
recently received. – I must confess that to my
mind, all seemed, "au fait," and had I been called
on to pronounce seperately on each feature of it,
I could only have said, the same thing.
I think I see you smile as you peruse this,
and say, Well! really Mr [C?]. is very extrava-
-gant! – If it seems to you, rather an
extensive eulogy on so trivial a matter as
letter writing, let me say, it is elicited by
your too unjust concern of what, to me seemed
"par excellence" a specimen of epistolary style.