you, and I am obliged to make an end.

"I cannot prevent myself, however, from filling up hastily the rest of my
paper. Cursed be the crazy creature who torments me so much! Were it not
for him, I could talk to you of more agreeable things: he is not greatly
changed; and yet he has taken a great deal o f %t. But he has nearly
killed me with the fetid smell of his breath; for now his is still worse
than your cousin's: you guess that this is a fresh reason for my not
approaching him; on the contrary, I go away as far as I can, and sit on a
chair at the foot of his bed.

"Let us see if I forget anything.

"His father's messenger on the road;
The question about Joachim;
The-state of my house;
The people of my suite;
Subject of my arrival;
Joseph;
Conversation between him and me;
His desire to please me and his repentance;
The explanation of his letter;
Mr. Livingston.

"Ah! I was forgetting that. Yesterday Livingston during supper told de
Rere in a low voice to drink to the health of one I knew well, and to beg
me to do him the honour. After supper, as I was leaning on his shoulder
near the fire, he said to me, 'Is it not true that there are visits very
agreeable for those who pay them and those who receive them? But,
however satisfied they seem with your arrival, I challenge their delight