Re: A cheeky request

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My dear Mr Fathers,

  You will not be surprised to learn, I hope, that your recent communication
gave me the greatest of pleasures.  "Cheeky" was what you termed your
request.  Be it crimson with confusion or pallid at its own temerity, my
dear sir, may your cheek long continue unabashed.   Such requests are what I
long to hear.  To them I am eager to comply.
  The children at your school, you declare, are not yet ready to read my
books.  So be it. They shall become friends with Oliver Twist and make merry
with the Christmas Carol, in their own good time.  To such things they must
be led, not driven.
  Thanks to this very remarkable successor to the telegraph, they need no
longer read my books to find out what I know and think and feel, though I
hope they will do so, and soon.
  The Inimitable was about to remove his coat, roll up his sleeves and, with
both hands, launch into the questions you listed, but a moment of calm
contemplation intervened, and a thought suggested itself.  These are
question the children should themselves ask.  Let them do so.  To say no
more, it will do them good to master the mysteries of this cybernetic telegraph.
  I am, sir,

Faithfully yours,

Charles Dickens

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