Autobiography (1830)

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248

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The due de Cosse Brissac?The opinion of the due d'Aignillon resnect- ing that nobleman?Conversation with the marechale de Mirepoix? Letter to madame de Mirepoix from the due de Cosse?An excursion in the forest of Fontainebleau?" A tit of pastoral meditation"?A meeting with a dangerous enemy?The letter?My reply?A conversation?The king?Madame de Mirepoix. I Fear I have almost wearied your patience in thus long dwelling upon the affairs of others; I will now terminate my digressions by resuming the proper thread of my narrative, and again speaking of my own immediate actions and concerns with the same candour and ingenuousness, of which I have furnished such abundant proofs in the course of these letters. I cannot expect to be praised for the invariable prudence or propriety of my actions, but I may safely claim that indulgence which is promised to those who truly and sincerely confess the faults of which they heartily repent. You will judge by this long preface that I have some fresh error to acknowledge; but, my friend, I pray your patient hearing ere you condemn me, and request you will lay aside the stern severity of the judge, whilst I proceed to relate, what, I flatter myself, will not either excite your indignation or lower me in your esteem. You are not one of those pitiless censors of our sex, who frown alike on errors of the head or heart; had you been so, I should never have selected you as the depositary of my confidence; and, surely, if any excuse can be urged in favour of a woman's weakness, 'tis when the susceptibility of her heart, and tenderness of her nature, are called forth by a true and genuine passion for one well deserving her love. Ah ! had I no other fault to reproach myself with than this ! When first I had the good fortune to attract th...

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