I have been treated ungenerously--if I understand what is generosity.--You
seem to me only to have been anxious to shake me off--regardless whether
you dashed me to atoms by the fall.--In truth I have been rudely handled.
_Do you judge coolly_, and I trust you will not continue to call those
capricious feelings "the most refined," which would undermine not only the
most sacred principles, but the affections which unite mankind.--You would
render mothers unnatural--and there would be no such thing as a
father!--If your theory of morals is the most "exalted," it is certainly
the most easy.--It does not require much magnanimity, to determine to
please ourselves for the moment, let others suffer what they will!
Excuse me for again tormenting you, my heart thirsts for justice from
you--and whilst I recollect that you approved Miss ----'s conduct--I am
convinced you will not always justify your own.
Beware of the deceptions of passion! It will not always banish from your
mind, that you have acted ignobly--and condescended to subterfuge to
gloss over the conduct you could not excuse.--Do truth and principle
require such sacrifices?