I answered your first letter by return of post and at great length.

About a fortnight ago, Robert heard from Madame Mohl, who heard from somebody at Pau that you were 'waiting anxiously to hear from me,' upon which I wrote a second letter.

And that, too, did not reach you?
Is it possible?
But I am innocent, innocent, innocent.

See how innocent.
Now, if M.le President has stopped my letters, or if he ponders in his imperial mind how to send me out of Paris, he is as ungrateful as a king, because I have been taking his part all this time at a great cost of domestic _emeutes_.

So you would have known, if you had received my letters.