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I recieved your letter 4 days ago and am very much obliged to you for your kind
permission, to go to
From the tener of your letter, it seems to me that I have been the unintentional cause of offence to you. Nothing could give me more sorrow; and I assure you, that is a source of great mortification to apply myself closely to my studies, to be strict in morals and to attempt a faithful discharge of my duties, and then to fail to give satisfaction, when nothing would afford me more pleasure than to do so, and when there are many others who are idle, prodigal, dissipated and yet seem to give perfect satisfaction. Of course, it is not my wish to appear, in the slightest degree whatever, censorial, but merely to show, as far as words can, that I know, what is right, if I know not how to perform it. I rest, however, in the full confidence, that after June, I may be able to minister to the cares of your declining age, in such a manner, as such a father as you have a right to expect from all your children. I am fully conscious, of having done many, countless improper actions, but let this be a partial extenuation, that a sojourn of two years and a half in a place like this, is enough to ruin a saint much more a mortal.
A short time ago, I recieved a very agreeable letter from
Please give my love to