“I know it is more or less a shamefaced thing to speak of one’s feelings before others; and yet here am I talking like this to you, and am not a bit ashamed or shy. I am an unsociable sort of fellow and shall very likely not come to see any of you again for some time; but don’t think the worse of me for that, it is not that I do not value your society; and you must never suppose that I have taken offence at anything.
