After Having Listened, With The Utmost Attention, To All The Countess
Said Of Him, And Other Matters Becoming The Topic Of Discourse, She Took
Her Leave, In Order To Reflect Alone What She Ought To Do In
This Affair.
She debated not long within herself before she resolved to write to him,
and prevent the unprofitable journey he
Was about to take; and having
heard, by madam d' Espargnes, the name of the village where he was
obliged to wait, both for the recovery of his wounds and for remittances
for his expences, she wrote to him in the following terms:
To monsieur DU PLESSIS.
"I should ill return the proofs I have received
of your generous disinterested friendship,
to delay one moment that I had it in my power,
in endeavouring to convince you that it was a
quite contrary motive than ingratitude to you,
that carried me from Bolognia: - but the story
is too long for the compass of a letter; when
you know it, you will, perhaps, own this action,
whatever you may now think of it, merits
more, than any thing I could have done, your
approbation: - this seeming riddle will be easily
expounded, if, on the recovery of your
wounds, you repair immediately to Paris, where
you will find
Your much obliged,
LOUISA."
Having finished this little billet, a scruple rose in her head, that
being now under the care of a father, she ought not to do any thing of
this nature without his permission:
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