We do not think of doing or suffering for a friend;
but the friend ministers to our weakness, and exalts our strength. He
sympathizes gently with our self-love, he magnifies every excellence. He
is perpetually charmed, alike with the novelty and the similarity of our
experience, and unwearied in comparing thoughts and balancing opinions.
All, and more, that he gives us, he receives; and so an incipient
friendship is one of the most intoxicating delights of life. What long
leaps in acquaintance we took during our first hour, and while Mr.
Remington still walked up-hill before us!
"You will probably have an opportunity to see and judge for yourselves
of Mr. Remington, as we are together a great deal, and he is a cousin of
Mrs. Lewis's. This will be better than for me to attempt a description,
I think, and, on the whole, more satisfactory. He annoys me, and offends
me frequently; and then I am not just to him, of course. But he is a
fine fellow, honorable and agreeable; and with a love of natural science
that leads him, for the time, like a dog.
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