Volume 1 — LETTER XVI
Reading edition
FROM ARTHUR MURDEN TO CLEMENT MONTGOMERY
SIR
Your letters, one and all, I suppose, have come in safety to my hands. In your last you are urgent for my answer. It is this. Although you, Mr. Montgomery, amuse your spleen or your fancy, by talking of my cold killing indifference, I have such feelings as tell me your conduct is neither that of a lover nor a man.
Farewel, Sir. I renounce your friendship. I desire only to remain a stranger to your name and remembrance.
ARTHUR MURDEN