The Doctor had a heart too grateful and too gentle to roughly awaken4 such friendship from its error; he endured, therefore, its annoyance5, till the intrusion upon his limited leisure became a serious persecution6. He then, almost perforce, sought to render him more considerate by neglect, in wholly omitting to answer his letters.
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But Mr. Cutler, though hurt and chagrined7, was not quieted. Letter still followed letter, detailing at full length his own ideas upon every subject he could start; with kind assurances of his determined8 patient expectance of future replies.
The Doctor then was reduced to frankly9 offer a remonstrance10 upon the difference of their position with respect to time,—and its claims.
This, though done with softness and delicacy11, opened all at once the eyes of this pertinacious12 friend to his unreflecting insufficiency; but, of course, rather with a feeling of injury, than to a sense of justice; and he withdrew abruptly13 from all correspondence; powerfully piqued14, yet in silent, uncomplaining dismay.
To give an idea of his singular style, some few extracts, of the most uncommon15 sort, will be selected for the correspondence, from the vast volume of letters that will be consigned16 to the flames.[55]

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