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LETTER VI - The Viscountess's Answer

from VOL II - Adelaide and Theodore, or Letters on Education

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No, you do not understand all the privileges of friendship. It even possesses that of being sometimes unjust, and then its vivacity is best expressed. Oh! if it was always reasonable, could it be a passion? It is cold, when never in the wrong … You say my letter put you out of humour. You boast without foundation, my dear friend; for, in the number of years I have loved you, it has never been in my power to excite in you the least degree of indignation or ill-humour. Take not this as a compliment, for it is a very just and serious reproach. It is not consistent with true sensibility always to preserve that equanimity and superiority of reason, for which doubtless you ought to be admired, but by which friendship has often a right to be hurt. Besides, I am sufficiently miserable for you to excuse all my caprices. You have again left me, and what comfort have I when you are away? You know all the uneasiness my daughter and Mons. de Limours give me. I feel my sorrows more poignantly, as you are not here to share them. My little Constantia remains, but she is still such a child. Apropos, I have many questions to ask about her. Pray tell me what books of prayer you give Adelaide; likewise the name of her confessor at Paris. I am dissatisfied with Constantia's and intend changing. Let me know also in what manner you prepare Adelaide to receive the sacrament. You have so thoroughly convinced me how important it is to instil true piety into our children, that it now employs all my thoughts and care. I regularly send Constantia to mass every day: she follows exactly all the rules for Sundays and holidays; and confesses every three months. She spends Lent in retirement; that is to say, without dining at our table when we have company, or coming into my apartment at visiting hours.

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Adelaide and Theodore
by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis
, pp. 199 - 200
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
First published in: 2014

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