Chapter LXXXVII: Letter LXXXV: To Mr. G

Feb. 1779.

SIR

THE very handsome manner in which you have apologized for your late lapse of behaviour does you credit.--Contrition--the child of conviction--serves to prove the goodness of your heart--the man of levity often errs--but it is the man of sense alone who can gracefully acknowledge it.--I accept your apology--and, if in the manly heat of wordy contest aught escaped my lips tinged with undue asperity, I ask your pardon, and hope you will mutually exchange forgiveness with

I. SANCHO.