"I have your letter of yesterday, and however Noah's-Arky and silly-birdy it may be, I will review once more the flood of disappointment and difference in the hope of descrying ground of confidence and a green olive leaf of agreement. My state of mind may reek of anachronistic metaphysic, but yours has a whiff of Mid-Victorian spinsterliness, with its fussy underlining over-emphasis of forcing and cannoting, which gives only a sham bloom of importance and precision to those futile and faded bouquets of speech."