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the only objection and that would not exceed about $10. addition. If I do not my necessary expenses will be $20 or 30 before I could realize any thing from school: I must have some additions to wardrobe immediately. I should prefer to let my U.J. note stand if I could but do not care much - if you can lend me $30 or 40, I will give you a note and send for U.J.'s next winter if C cannot make it out;-- if you are willing I should depend upon your money for the present, we will make no certain conclusion about it until I ascertain whether I stay at Bangor as this might alter my arrangements and destination.
In respect to aristocratic sentiments, it is barely possible that you have imbibed some prejudice or rather may fail to apprehend justly the characteristics and feelings of that class of persons, you indiscriminately term 'aristocrats': - There are people who possess highly educated minds, refined and cultivated taste, manners graceful, winning, polished, and essentially polite from kind Christian feelings and true humility, who are so far from exalting themselves above others, that they make some approach to the feeling inculcated in the precept, 'Let each esteem other better than himself?' yet who are, from early habits and associations as well as regard to the customs of society, fashionable, observant of forms, etiquette, and the appliances of mere external show as a matter of course, and, as I believe, without being any more engrossed by them than others who lack means thus to gratify, pride and love of display, are, by more grovelling things. It is folly says one, to brave the opinion of mankind, - and it seems to me, to be sound wisdom to regulate our conduct according