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380 MADAME BECAMIEB.
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— : » • ' ¦ I '.' Madame Recamiee's Retu...
Madame Swetchine came to Rome prejudiced against the celebrated French , lady , but she could not resist her fascinationsand they
very shortly became intimate . Madame Swetchine writes , thus to her from Naples ; —
u . . As the sky grew clearerthe air softer " _Kap I regretted , 1825 .
more and more having prevented your , coming . It was , indeed complete forgetfulness of myself . . . . It is thus , however , that I always
wish to act with regard to you ; it seems to me as if a voluntary sacrifice sometimes purchases for us some little exemption from the
pains we most dread ; and when you find me generous tell yourself that it is a kind of superstitious calculation which is the secret of
my courage . " Our acquaintance , our quick impressionsmy joymy sorrowall
appear to me like a dream , I only know I , wish always , to have , dreamed . I felt myself bound before I could think of defence ; I
yielded to that indefinite penetrating charm by which you subjugate even those about whom you do not concern yourselfI miss
you as if we had passed a long time together , as if we had , many remembrances in common . How can we feel so impoverished
through losing what yesterday we did not even possess ? It would be inexplicable were there not something of eternity in certain
feelings . It is as though souls , when united , are freed from the conditions of our poor human existence , and , grown more free and
more happy , already obey the laws of a better world . ... I would give already all I possess and all I desireonly to know
happy . Be happy without me , I say gladly ; but , in your sorrows you I demand my share . Believe me , there is no claim better founded ,
and none which I am more determined to have allowed . _" her In way the Venice spring and of Trieste 1825 Madame where she Recamier paused left to see Rome Caroline , visiting Murat on .
Their meeting was a source of deep pleasure to both . Madame Murat writes thus to Madame Recamier after her departure : —
" You are very far from me , my dear Juliette " Trieste , , and 11 th I May ask , 182 myself 5 .
whether I only dream that I have had the happiness of embracing you . It passed so quickly , and nothing is left me but
the uneasiness of knowing that you are travelling , and ill . I fear that that my anxious friendshi not p to did lose not sufficientl of the y few calculate minutes your which strength could , and , any
you spare me , I may have helped to increase your _indisjDOsition . You have also had to suffer from extreme heat and rainthe weather
t he s changed everity of since the frost you left as you . Winter approach is returned the Simp , l and on . ; you will feel
" Send me news of yourself , my dear kind Juliette . Let your letter
p reassure retty niece me had as to suffe your red health the las . t Louise day from told that me even how ing . much which your to
380 Madame Becamieb.
380 MADAME BECAMIEB .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/20/
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