"Do not think that I mean to dictate as a parent; I only mean to advise as a friend, and an indulgent one too: and do not apprehend that I mean to check your pleasures; of which, on the contrary, I only desire to be the guide, not the censor. Let my experience supply your want of it, and clear your way in the progress of your youth of those thorns and briers which scratched and disfigured me in the course of mine." The tone of this excerpt can best be described as compromising and tender scathing and unapologetic conciliatory and humble indignant and regretful hopeful and conversational. Explain.