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NOVEMBER 8.

Charlotte  has  reproved  me  for  my  excesses,  with  so  much  tenderness  and

goodness! I have lately been in the habit of drinking more wine than heretofore.

“Don’t do it,” she said. “Think of Charlotte!” “Think of you!” I answered; “need

you bid me do so? Think of you — I do not think of you: you are ever before

my  soul!  This  very  morning  I  sat  on  the  spot  where,  a  few  days  ago,  you

descended from the carriage, and — “ She immediately changed the subject to

prevent  me  from  pursuing  it  farther.  My  dear  friend,  my  energies  are  all

prostrated: she can do with me what she pleases.