"
Ah! but you will cry out, "What a chatterbox!" All the people
round me say, on the contrary, "Mademoiselle is very taciturn."
O. d'Este M.
CHAPTER XI
WHAT COMES OF CORRESPONDENCE
The foregoing letters seemed very original to the persons from whom
the author of the "Comedy of Human Life" obtained them; but their
interest in this duel, this crossing of pens between two minds, may
not be shared. For every hundred readers, eighty might weary of the
battle. The respect due to the majority in every nation under a
constitutional government, leads us, therefore, to suppress eleven
other letters exchanged between Ernest and Modeste during the month of
September. If, later on, some flattering majority should arise to
claim them, let us hope that we can then find means to insert them in
their proper place.
Urged by a mind that seemed as aggressive as the heart was lovable,
the truly chivalrous feelings of the poor secretary gave themselves
free play in these suppressed letters, which seem, perhaps, more
beautiful than they really are, because the imagination is charmed by
a sense of the communion of two free souls.
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