If you had half as much sense as you have ill-nature, you would
(notwithstanding the exuberance of the latter) have been able to
distinguish between a kind intention to you all (that you might have the
less to reproach yourselves with, if a deplorable case should happen) and
an officiousness I owed you not, by reason of freedoms at least
reciprocal. I will not, for the unhappy body's sake, as you call a
sister you have helped to make so, say all that I could say. If what I
fear happen, you shall hear (whether desired or not) all the mind of