Old Friends

I have nussed a many lunacies, Betsy, and in a general way am dispoged to humour them rather than set them right up agin the fire when fractious. But this Pecksniff is the tryingest creature; he having got it in his mind as he is Somebody very high, and talking about the House, and Bills, and clauses, and the sacred cause of Universal Anarchy, for such was his Bible language, though meaning to me no more than the babe unborn.