And I dare say I shall find many like it when I examine you with more sang froid.-I remember you told me, when we parted, you would come to see me at Monticello. Now you must agree that I christian this very mildly when I call it a folly only. It is that you give all your attention to your friends, caring nothing about yourself. For, trying myself to-day, by way of exercise, I recollected immediately one fault in your composition. When you come again, I will employ myself solely in finding or fancying that you have some faults, and I will draw a veil over all your good qualities, if I can find one large enough. I think I have discovered a method of preventing this dejection of mind on any future parting. She is now here, just triste enough to shew her affection, and at the same time her discretion. I went in the evening to Madame de Corny’s, where we talked over our woes, and this morning I found some solace in going for Kitty and the girls. Denis, had he told me you were then broke down at Luzarches, I should certainly have spurred on to that place, and perhaps not have quitted you till I had seen the carriage perform it’s office fully by depositing you at Boulogne. Some spirit whispered this to me: but he whispered by halves only: for, when I turned about at St. I mounted my horse earlier than common, and took by instinct the road you had taken. I took it into my head he shone only to throw light on our loss: to present a chearfulness not at all in unison with my mind. Even the sun shine was provoking, with which I never quarelled before. What you kindly call such were but the gratifications of my own heart: for indeed that was much gratified in seeing and serving you. You speak, Madam, in your Note of Adieu, of civilities which I never rendered you.
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