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MADAME RECAMIER. 379
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stay could there to render , -which , a her time friends of enj M oyment . and Madame and rest Lefebvre would indeed did all have they
, M been de months Chateaubriand of _pleasiire ' s account and service embittered to her all had her not days her and anxiet rendered y on
. her She nights returne almost d to entirel Rome y sleep late less in . the autumn , with the antici pleasant
tion antici which pation his of a strong , visit - from sense _Matthieii of filial de duty Montmorency and affection , an compelled _pa-r
him most reluctantly to disappoint . " He Vallee writes aux _Lioups to her Sept : — . 1824 .
, , where _"I write the recollections you a few words of , dear surround friend , me from in my many solitary ways valley , and , you
will which alread , five y days have ago told , I you expected that to my leave plans for were several altered months , which . Adrien that was
when trul and y when a my great journ disappointment heart ey was was full settled to of me , the . He d thoug my will ht trunks have of that told half day you , packed when , , my
arrived in the immortal city , I should have nothing more pressing cherishe to do than d hopes to seek vanished your tranquil , my unreasonable courage , pleasant failed retrea me t of , — , suddenl and mother I could y all and not my
leave meet the her extreme unwellattributing and really her indisposition grief to my my departure , , and maternal saying . that tone I which ' , should would not have find her rendered on my me return the most / in that unhappy severe of
p men lace , had you she would reall have y fallen done ill the whom while same . I was I was away strong . to enoug I think journey h , against in my I
olitical friendsmost of were opposed my ; was my p weak against be , a defended feeling , which even she But the who image expressed of Rome it ,
sufficientl — allowed your , im could age not above motive all for —and Providence this by reason holy to season . overrule , which the last obstacles was not I y my
had always feared ; know all this how is much ever I _^ before regret the me ; loss pity of me this winter
No near , you you will —this never initiation under your kind auspices into all the wonders of art . Pity medo me justice , and believe in a feeling
, which which Madame will her love endure Recami of art as er long and found her as myself a friendshi characteristic . _" were equall solace y in satisfied Rome . , She in
p ordered taken from of the Chateaubriand celebrated scul ' s ptor poem Tenerani and , " "Les a > Martyrs bas valued -relief . ' it on extremel She a subject went
_sonstantly to wa / fcch its progress , always y , Leaving We should it at her delay death too to long the , did museum we pause of St . to Malo note . the new friends must
whom ion one Madame who has Recamier a special ye interest arly added to our to her readers list value j , but and to we the whose testimony noble
_men-) $ haracter he renders and to refine Madam d taste e Recamier give a 's peculiar power of exciting admiration
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Madame Recamier. 379
MADAME RECAMIER . 379
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/19/
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