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    — : » • ' ¦ I '.' Madame Recamiee's Retu...

    have lost . I have only tears , but doubtless lie is happy . You , who know so well how to feel- —you will guess all I have had to bear .. .

    Cl But I talk a great deal of myself , and I have nothing to tell you except that have been a very sweet consolation to meand that

    I shall always you be happy to meet you again . You are one , of those persons to whom one need not relate one ' s life , one's

    impressionsyour heart guesses all , and , once having guessed , has made itself a necessit '' Farewell y . ... do not quite forget me ; believe that your friendship has

    ; done me good . You know what a friendly voice is , which reaches us from our home in the midst of misfortunes and loneliness . Tell

    " me once more that I am unjust , if I complain too much of my fate , and that some friends still remain to me . Houtense . "

    " I claim your promise of passing through Arenenberg- it will thoug always ht be of very from sweet one to of me my to sorest see _yoii trials . I and cannot that separate means that the

    you , you are dear to me , and that I shall be happy to find an opportunity to assure you of this feeling . "

    "When , worn out by anxiety and _disappointment the ex-queen diedMadame Recamier mourned her sincerely , and was singularly

    touched , to find that she had left her in her will a blade lace veilthe one which Hortense had worn the evening of their meeting , in

    St . Peter's- —a remembrance of the gaiety and the sorrow they had shared in that short time of romance and mystery .

    But to return to Madame Recamier's residence in Rome . The Duchess of Devonshire , who had so lately found in her a

    sympathizing listener and comforter , was seized with a mortal illness , and Madame Recamier , had she been allowed , would have hastened

    to nurse and attend her . But in spite of her desire being seconded hy the duchess ' s own wishthis was not permittedand it was only

    when her friend was speechless , that Madame Kecamier , was admitted for one moment ' s smile of recognition by the death-bed .

    The season was now so far advanced that Madame Recamier ' s friends were urgent with her to return to Paris ; but her niece ' s

    health , still not in her quite intercourse re-established with , Chateaubriand and dread of fresh to avoid storms which and

    she annoyances had gone to Italy , made her hesitate . M . Ballanche , was only too had read in Rome y to be as allowed everywher to e remain , friends in who attendance were eager on and her , deli and ghted she

    , to In retain tne her summer amongst of 1824 them . M . . de Chateaubriand ' s _abrupt dismissal

    from the ministry , and his , somewhat undignified and vehement resentmentpained all his friendsand we need not say how heartily

    Madame Recamier , felt for and with , him . Had she been in Paris , her calm and judicious influence wmdd doubtless have moderated

    Ms resentment went for cha n was e o , f air could to N ales y dep and lore the months excuse of her p

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/18/