What follies are these I write!
In the long evenings of winter, the children escaped it is a long time
from the maternal nest, a silent old man my only company,--I live but of
the past; and play with its souvenirs as the detained caress little
birds, little flowers, in their prisons. I was born for the happiness; my
God! I have learned it in knowing you. In losing you I have lost it. It
is not against the will of Heaven I oppose myself. It is man, who makes
himself so much of this evil and misery, this slavery, these tears, these
crimes, perhaps.
"This marriage of the young Scotch Marquis and the fair Ethel (I love her
in spite of all, and shall see her soon and congratulate her, for, do you
see, I might have stopped this fine marriage, and did my best and more
than my duty for our poor Clive) shall make itself in London next spring,
I hear. You shall assist scarcely at the ceremony; he, poor boy, shall
not care to be there. Bring him to Paris to make the court to my little
Antoinette: bring him to Paris to his good friend, Comtesse de Florac.
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