If you please, Sir, I will read on.--I might have been excused signing a
name, almost as hateful to myself [you are pleased to say]--as I KNOW it
is to YOU--
Well, Mr. Hickman, I must interrupt you at this place. In what I wrote
to Miss Howe, I distinguished the word KNOW. I had a reason for it.
Miss Howe has been very free with my character. I have never done her
any harm. I take it very ill of her. And I hope, Sir, you come in her
name to make excuses for it.
Miss Howe, Sir, is a very polite young lady. She is not accustomed to
treat any man's character unbecomingly.
Then I have the more reason to take it amiss, Mr. Hickman.