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 observe? Do you think it honest to break through engagements, into which you have so solemnly entered, and which are no less the rules of the corporation you are to be one day free of, than those of a private family? Seven years, some of which are already elasped, are not so long a time, but that you may see it determined before you will be fit to be trusted with your own conduct. Twenty-one or twenty-two years of age is full early enough for a young man to be his own master, whatever you may think of the matter; and you may surely stay till then at least, to choose your own hours and your own company. Remember you have no time you call your own, during the continuance of the contract. I have gone through the same servitude with pleasure and credit, and found myself my own master full soon enough for my discretion. What you think of yourself I know not, but I wish you may do as well for your own interest and reputation, as I have done for mine; and I assure you I should not have thought it either creditable or honest to act as you do. I could have stood the laugh of an hundred such vain companions as you choose, for being too narrow-minded to break through all moral obligation to my master in order or show the bravery of a bad heart, and what an abandoned mind dared to perpetrate. A bad beginning seldom makes a good ending; and if you were assured that you could stop when you come for yourself which is very improbable, how will you answer it to equity and good conscience, that you will not do so for your master? There is, let me tell you, more true bravery of mind in forbearing to do an injury, than in giving offence. You are now at