I think it must have been in the Pyrenees, many years ago.

I am told your ladies are very pretty.

One of these ladies was very pretty! such a wonderful complexion! She presented me a note of introduction from some one--I forgot whom--and she sent with it a note of her own.

I kept her letter a long time afterwards, it was so strangely expressed.

I used to know some of the phrases by heart.
But I have forgotten them now, it is so many years ago.