Your letter of the 21st September, dear Miladi, has been
received in our colony with a sentiment which could only be surpassed by the
happiness of receiving yourself. I am equally proud and happy at your
partiality for our towers and for their inhabitants, whose distant admiration
for you has become tender and con-
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We show less philosophy than you about the misfortune for which we were already very sorry before we knew how much worse it was. It is vexing to think that the work which fulfilled so perfectly the expectations of your friends, should have been for you alone the occasion of a disappointment. The copy you had the goodness to send to me has not come to hand. I expect it with great impatience.
I see that you have much amusement in retracing the
articles of the last royal ordinance upon the physiognomies of your different
friends. The party that you have left pretty well united, finds itself cut in
two, like a polypus, and makes two distinct bodies, which make grimaces at each
other, en attendant, the moment to
eat each other up. The friends of Legitimacy, however, must not confound
themselves by making part of a body of a different nature. Your acquaintances
of the salons will be able to tell you that the ministerialists are the
constitutionalists of ’89; it is a calumny to impute to them that they
would use force. The others do not share their moderation. It is with the
impartiality of a true patriot that I ought to seek to render justice to all.
There are, nevertheless, in the new chamber, some of my friends whom I
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My daughters, my grandchildren and all the generations here desire to offer you the expression of their gratitude and attachment, which sentiments animate all the inmates of La Grange. Believe me, my dear lady, I join with them in the renewal of the tender and respectful homage with which I am
