Cavendish's davenport when it was broken open by
her husband, and produced on the trial. The Count had evidently dreaded
such an event, and it will be seen he constantly implores her to
destroy his letters as soon as read. But, with the infatuation of her
sex, she kept them to furnish the sole evidence by which she lost her
place in society and became a lost woman. It is added that she was a
woman of forty-five, and the mother of several children, but it is
these randy voluptuous matrons who have the most attractions to a young
man who feels flattered and is proud of, as he thinks, conquering a
woman in a good position in society. It is evident enough that she was
no tyro in every depravity of lust, and probably had passed through
many hands before he gained her. He appears to have been really
cunt-struck, which, as I have before observed, is one of the strongest
infatuations that a man can have.

END OF VOLUME IV.

ADDENDA

LETTERS

PRODUCED IN THE DIVORCE-CASE

CAVENDISH

_v_.

CAVENDISH AND ROCHEFOUCAULT.

Rome, _Saturday_

_August 6th, 1859, 10 o'clock_.

I tried last night, my angel, to write you a half sheet, but it was as
much as I could do to read your letter a second time, and it was only
by making a great effort that I was able to write a few lines. However,
this morning I will try and continue, in order to reward you, not for
that one which you have deprived me of from pique, but for those
bewitching ones which I have lately received.

I have just received your letter 17, begun August 3rd, 11 o'clock at
night, and bless you for the idea of addressing it to Pal. B., it is
infinitely preferable, and there is no fear of any risk ("indiscretion"
in original) either now or later.

I am delighted when I think of the pleasure you derived from what I
sent you the other day. I only decided upon it in fear and trembling. I
do not understand what you mean by letter direct to Albert. If you do
not send it per Embassy bag I should not have it here till Monday; you
would have done much better to have put it in the parcel. All last
night I slept very badly, no doubt in consequence of a presentiment I
had that I should not receive a half sheet, and that you were annoyed
at my going to Albano, and I thought of a mass of things as
disagreeable as they are painful. Of your birthday, for instance, the
1st of October, which will be an opportunity for II * [* II stands for
her husband] to make yo