ROGER DE MONBERT _to_ M. DE MEILHAN,
Pont-de-l'Arche (Eure.)
Paris, May 19th, 18--.
Dear Edgar,--It cannot be denied that friendship is the refuge of
adversity--the roof that shelters from the storm.
In my prosperous days I never wrote you. Happiness is selfish. We fear
to distress a friend who may be in sorrow, by sending him a picture of
our own bliss.