And, Lastly, For Us Who Love You, And Who Would Glory And Be
Proud To Be One Day Called Your
Disciples, we rejoice in it
because the world will learn to know you better by this means,
and because it
Will probably be another opportunity for us to
show our sympathetic admiration as well as our unalterable
devotion for you.
Unless something very unforeseen occurs, I shall come again and
beg you to receive me for a few days towards the middle of July;
I trust sufficiently to your sincerity to tell me that you would
rather not have me if my individuality would trouble or bother
you too much. - Before that, I shall have the honor of sending you
a little work, to which I have had the audacity to tack a great
name - yours. - It is an instrumental De profundis. The plain-song
that you like so much is preserved in it with the Faburden.
Perhaps this may give you a little pleasure, at any rate, I have
done it in remembrance of some hours passed (I should say
"lived") at La Chenaie.
Farewell, dear Father. I don't give you any news of Paris, - you
know all that. You know that Ballanche wants to be an
Academician, and accepts Salvandy and Dupaty as competitors, - you
know the little check of January, - the miserable petty intrigues
of court and newspaper and vestry; - in a word, you know how men
are wanting in noble and generous sentiments, and how they make
the most of their own ignoble ends and interests, to which their
words and actions yet give the lie.
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