Good day, my dear friend, at
all risks I take the liberty to tell you, without knowing whether or
not you are in need of such advice, to endeavor to stop the progress
uneasiness makes in solitude. A fly becomes a monster. I have
frequently experienced it."
ANSWER.
Wednesday evening.
"I can neither come to see you nor receive your visit so long as
my present inquietude continues. The confidence of which you speak
no longer exists, and it will be easy for you to recover it. I see
nothing more in your present anxiety than the desire of drawing from
the confessions of others some advantage agreeable to your views;
and my heart, so ready to pour its overflowings into another which
opens itself to receive them, is shut against trick and cunning. I
distinguish your ordinary address in the difficulty you find in
understanding my note. Do you think me dupe enough to believe you have
not comprehended what it meant? No: but I shall know how to overcome
your subtleties by my frankness. I will explain myself more clearly,
that you may understand me still less.
"Two lovers closely united and worthy of each other's love are
dear to me; I expect you will not know who I mean unless I name
them. I presume attempts have been made to disunite them, and that I
have been made use of to inspire one of the two with jealousy. The
choice was not judicious, but it appeared convenient to the purposes
of malice, and of this malice it is you whom I suspect to be guilty.
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