text:  Why if not in rank cowardice and pitiful ambition entangle yourself in the perplexities of such a household with all that heap of woe already on your soul? Why when your London agents refused in consequence of your irregularity and neglect to advance your further loans--why take a base advantage of that heroic generosity that placed its all unquestioning at your command? Why when you pretended with so much ceremony and regard to effect an insurance on your worthless life did you fail to pay up the policy even for a second year and so resign all claim and right to such assurance making it null and void? Let it stand here recorded to your disgrace that in the prosecution of your views in the working out of your insane ambition no one single thought of her who gave her wealth as freely as ever fount poured forth its liberal stream deterred you in your progress for an instant; that no one glow or gush of feeling towards the fond and faithful wife interposed to save her from the consequences of your selfishness and to humble you with shame for inhumanity as vile as it was undeserved