I made Robert read it aloud--with omissions--so that I know all your kindness.

I feel it deeply; through tears of pain I feel it; and if, as I dare say you will, you think me very very foolish, do not on that account think me ungrateful.
Ungrateful I never can be to you, my much loved and kindest friend.
I hear your book is considered one of your best productions, and I do not doubt that the opinion is just.

Thank you for giving it to us, thank you.
I don't like to send you a letter from Paris without a word about your hero--'handsome,' I fancy not, nor the imperial type.

I have not seen his face distinctly.

What do you think about the constitution?
Will it work, do you fancy, now-a-days in France?
The initiative of the laws, put out of the power of the legislative assembly, seems to me a stupidity; and the senators, in their fine dresses, make me wink a little.