In the meantime be persuaded that
innocence will find a defender sufficiently powerful to cause some
repentance in the slanderers, be they who they may."
SECOND NOTE FROM THE SAME.
Packet A, No. 45.
"Do you know that your letter frightens me? What does it mean? I
have read it twenty times. In truth I do not understand what it means.
All I can perceive is, that you are uneasy and tormented, and that you
wait until you are no longer so before you speak to me upon the
subject. Is this, my dear friend, what we agreed upon? What then is
become of that friendship and confidence, and by what means have I
lost them? Is it with me or for me that you are angry? However this
may be, come to me this evening I conjure you; remember you promised
me no longer than a week ago to let nothing remain upon your mind, but
immediately to communicate to me whatever might make it uneasy. My
dear friend, I live in that confidence- There- I have just read your
letter again; I do not understand the contents better, but they make
me tremble. You seem to be cruelly agitated. I could wish to calm your
mind, but as I am ignorant of the cause whence your uneasiness arises,
I know not what to say, except that I am as wretched as yourself,
and shall remain so until we meet. If you are not here this evening at
six o'clock, I set off to-morrow for the Hermitage, let the weather be
how it will, and in whatever state of health I may be; for I can no
longer support the inquietude I now feel.
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