It is quite right and natural
that you should feel as you do except as regards one passage, the
impropriety of which you will yourself doubtless feel upon reflection,
and to which I will not further allude than to say that it has wounded
me. You should not have said 'in spite of my scholarships.' It was
only proper that if you could do anything to assist me in bearing the
heavy burden of your education, the money should be, as it was, made
over to myself. Every line in your letter convinces me that you are
under the influence of a morbid sensitiveness which is one of the
devil's favourite devices for luring people to their destruction. I
have, as you say, been at great expense with your education. Nothing
has been spared by me to give you the advantages, which, as an English
gentleman, I was anxious to afford my son, but I am not prepared to
see that expense thrown away and to have to begin again from the
beginning, merely because you have taken some foolish scruples into
your head, which you should resist as no less unjust to yourself than
to me.
"Don't give way to that restless desire for change which is the bane
of so many persons of both sexes at the present day.
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