reature who torments me so much! Were it not
for him, I could talk to you of more agreeable things: he is not greatly
changed; and yet he has taken a great deal o f %t. But he has nearly
killed me with the fetid smell of his breath; for now his is still worse
than your cousin's: you guess that this is a fresh reason for my not
approaching him; on the contrary, I go away as far as I can, and sit on a
chair at the foot of his bed.

"Let us see if I forget anything.

"His father's messenger on the road;
The question about Joachim;
The-state of my house;
The people of my suite;
Subject of my arrival;
Joseph;
Conversation between him and me;
His desire to please me and his repentance;
The explanation of his letter;
Mr. Livingston.

"Ah! I was forgetting that. Yesterday Livingston during supper told de
Rere in a low voice to drink to the health of one I knew well, and to beg
me to do him the honour. After supper, as I was leaning on his shoulder
near the fire, he said to me, 'Is it not true that there are visits very
agreeable for those who pay them and those who receive them? But,
however satisfied they seem with your arrival, I challenge their delight
to equal the grief of one whom you have left alone to-day, and who will
never be content till he sees you again.' I asked him of whom he wished
to speak to me. He then answered me by pressing my arm: 'Of one of those
who have not followed you; and among those it is easy for you to guess of
whom I want to speak.'

"I have worked till two o'clock at the bracelet; I have enclosed a little
key which is attached by two strings: it is not as well worked as I
should like, but I have not had time to make it better; I will make you a
finer one on the first occasion. Take care that it is not seen on you;
for I have worked at it before everyone, and it would be recognised to a
certainty.

"I always return, in spite of myself, to the frightful attempt that you
advise. You compel me to concealments, and above all to treacheries that
make me shudder; I would rather die, believe me, than do such things; for
it makes my heart bleed. He does not want to follow me unless I promise
him to have the selfsame bed and board with him as before, and not to
abandon him so often. If I consent to it, he says he will do all I wish,
and will follow me everywhere; but he has begged me to put off my
departure for two days. I have pretended t