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MADAME RECAMIER. 377
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this character for me . I do not write to you so often as I should wish . Sometimes there are no couriers , for I dare not trust my that
letters to the post ; sometimes business is so overwhelming I have to work all night . .... When cellu shall l ? I be Tell again this indepen write
to dent me , and . Do when not will send you me return those short to your dry notes e , and remember me ; that you wrong me without cause . It is , a double pain to suffer without for life
having deserved it . - Yours , yours . " It was in November 1842 that Madame Recamier , accompanied b . her niece and MBallanche , , arrived in Rome shortly after the
death y of Pius VII . . and the electio , n of Leo XII . as his successor . The first weeks of her residence were full of anxiety and sorrow ; attached
the dangerous illness of her maid , to whom she was much , to found occup Cardinal her ied , in for her her his Consalvi time the great comfort and was friend thoug dy , she ing the hts , so . and Duchess much this too needed of Devonshire was . a Her source extreme , sou of g distress ht and and
tender and uncontrollable R anxieties i sympath ' s writing of anguish y friendshi was which rea was d p y . poured have for One all not distresses forth of the been to few Madame , destroyed especiall fragments Recamier y g for ives of the Madame a , whose griefs lively
ecamer o account f St . Peter of her ' s who meeting turned with out a veiled to be lad Hortense y one , evening Duchess in de the St church . Leu . Recamier
The two friends could not meet openly , as Madame was so intimatel was y connected therefore with conducted all the with French a mystery royalists , and and concealment their
intercourse which afforded additional pleasure to the romantic Hortense , and seems even to have had a kind of charm for Madame Recamier ' s
more exactl They simp alike amused le and and candid themselves the consequent nature by . going mystifications to a masked were incessant ball , dressed ; the
members y of , the French legation paying assiduous attention to the exiled Recamier princess on the , supposing other hand her to receiving be Madame treasonable Recamier whispers ; and Madame which A
, , the royalist were deepest certainl . The grief y never death and intended of Madame Eugene to Beauharn Recamier be confided ai throwing s to p the lunged ear aside of Hortense so decided all lesser into a
considerationswent , openly to her Mend to , comfort and console her . The friendshi , between them lasted through life . Hortense wrote
p thus after her % return to Arenenberg : — " 10 th June , 1824 .
" You are kindmadameto want news of me . I cannot say that I am well very when I , have lost , everything in this world ; however ,
re do my ndin not health g shrink emotions is not , from bad ; I grief . have I have and seen perhaps just all th had at belonged in to the endure midst to my the of brother most it one heart finds . I -
some comfort : this life , so , full of troubles , does not afflict those we
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Madame Recamier. 377
MADAME RECAMIER . 377
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/17/
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