XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE
e grant t it is, and a very serious one -- to a mans friends, and to all t o do o be deplored, may admit of a question. e can speak a little to it, being ourself but lately recovered -- of a long and desperate fit of tion , came too clearly to leave a scruple of t tself oo self-pleasing, ed -- once . e still brood over ook itute some pom -- a Caius or a titius -- as like o form it, to unsatisfied resentments on. It is mortifying to fall at once from t; to forego tumaciously treated by an old friend. t to aggrandise a man in , is to conceive of ed. t o undeceive o deprive tickling morsel tery can come near it. s ice; but supremely blest, o t ts joy -- at enduring satisfaction in t not, of discontent. ere o recite one ery, o by our late dissatisfaction, all t; , and neglects and contumacies ter for courtso t mysterious book in tudy of tery is unpalatable only in t. t sting of a suspicion is grievous; but -- out of t o be extracted. Your friend passed you on suc you conceived oreet notice. to be sure sig o ed facts and sane inferences are trifles to a true adept in tisfaction. empt. It galls you, and may. But ience. Go of it and you are a made man from time. S yourself up, and -- rejecting, as an enemy to your peace, every but insinuates take -- reflect seriously upon tances ion too t te to clenc agreeable. But noo your relief comes in tive faculty. You conjure up all t you o you ation, and so forto you t [p 274] spite of itself, yearns to for a restraining pr