The Nemesis of Faith

ISBN: 9781331807957 出版年：2016 页码：274 James A Froude Forgotten Books

I promised so long ago to write to you, dear Arthur, that by this time, if you have not already forgotten me, you will at least have begun to think it desirable to forget me as soon as possible, for an ungrateful, good-for-nothing fellow; but I am going to be very just, and pay heavy interest — and I think letter debts are like all other debts. If you pay them when they are due, they are taken as a matter of course, and without gratitude; but leave them till your poor creditor leaves off expect ing, and then they fall in like a godsend. So I h0pe you are already delighted at the sight of my handwriting, and when you get to the end of these long sheets, which I am intending to fill to you, I shall be quite back again in my old favour. Per haps, though, I am too sanguine; I have nothing.