Cecilia Volanges _to_ Chevalier Danceny.
You was so pensive, Sir, yesterday, and it gave me so much uneasiness
to see you so, that I could not avoid promising to answer the letter
you wrote me. I now think it unbecoming; yet, as I promised, I will
not break my word, a proof of the friendship I have for you. Now I
have made this acknowledgment, I hope you will never more ask me to
write to you again, or ever let any one know I have wrote to you; for
I should most certainly be blamed, and it might occasion me a deal of
uneasiness. But above all, I hope you will not have a bad opinion of
me, which would give me the greatest concern; for I assure you, I
could not have been induced to do this by any one else. I wish much you
would not be so melancholy as you have been, lately, as it deprives me
of all the satisfaction I have in your company. You see, Sir, I speak
very sincerely to you. I wish much that our friendship may be lasting;
but I beg you’ll write to me no more.
I have the honour to be,
Cecilia Volanges.
_Aug._ 20, 17—.