Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-30

NAvARRs, April 10, 1910.

M NAVARRO, april III, 1910.
Sire: received this morning, your welcome
note which was written on the eve Of your depar-
ture for Saint Cloud, and hasten to reply to its
tender and ahectionate contents. These, indeed,
do not in themselves surprise me, but only as be-
ing received 20 early 90 fifteen days after my es-
tablishment here, 90 perfectly assured was that
your attachment would search out the means of
consoling me, under e separation 90 necessary to
the tranquility of both. The thought that you
can follow me into my retreat renders it almost
agreeable.
After having known all the sweets of love
that is shared, and all the sune7ings of one that
il no longer after having exhausted all the hap
pincss that supreme power can confer, and the
happiness OF beholding the man whom loved
enthusiastically. admired, is there ought else,
save repose, to be desired? What illusions can
now remain for me? Ali such vanished when it
became necessary to renounce you. Thus the on
~ ties which yet bind me to life are my senti-
ments for you, attachment for my children, the
possibility of being able still to do some good,
and, above all. the assurance that you are happy.
Do not, then, condole with me on my being here,
distant from court which you appear to think
regret.
Surrounded by those who are attached to me,
free to follow my taste for the arts, find myself
better at Navarro than anywhere else, for enjoy
more completely the society of the former, and
form q thousand projects which may prove useful
to the latter, and which will embellish the scenes
l owe to your bounty. There is much to be done
here, for all around are discovered the traces of
destruction; these would eface, that there may
exist no memorial of those horrible inaictions
which your genius has taught the nation almost
to forget. In repairing whatever these rufians
of revolution labored to annihilate, shall diff
fuse comfort around me, and the benedictions of
the poor will afford me infinitely more pleasure
than the feigned adulation of courtiers.
have already told you what think of the
functionaries in this department, but have not
spoken sufficiently OF the respectable bishop, NJ.
Bourlier. Every day | learn some new trait,
| which causes me still more highly to esteem the
| man who unites the most enlightened benevolence
with the most amiable disposition. He shall be
| entrusted with nay alms-deeds in Eyreux, and as
he visits the INDECENT himself, shall be assured
that my charities are properly bestowed.
cannot sufficiently thank you, sire, for the lib
erty you have permitted me of choosing the men,
bers of my household, all of whom contribute to
the pleasures of delightful society. One cir
cumstance alone gives me pain, namely, the eti-
| iquette of costume, which becomes little tire
some in the country. You fear there may be
something wanting to the rank have preserved,
should slight infraction be allowed in the tot
lette of these gentlemen. But believe you are
wrong in thinking they would for one minute for
| get the respect due to the woman who was your
companion. Their respect for yourself, Joined to
the sincere attachment which they bear to me,
which l cannot doubt, secures me against the dan
gers Of being ever obliged to recall what is your
wish they should remember. My most honorable
title is derived, not from having been crowned,
but assurcdly from having been chosen by YOU.
None other is Of value. That alone suf6ces for my
Immortality.
expect Eugene. doubly long to see him, for
he will doubtless bring me new pledge of your
remembrance; and can question him ut nv ease
| OF thousand things concerning which desire
to be informed, but cannot inquire of you; things
too, of which you ought still less speak of to me.
My daughter will come also, but later, her health
not permitting her to travel. beseech you, sire,
to recommend that she take care of herself; and
insist, since am to remain here, that she do ev-
erything possible to spare me the insupporable
anxiety feel under any increase of her i'll health
The weakness of her chest alarms me beyond oil
| expression. desire Corvisart to write me his
opinion without reserve.
lad My circle is, at this time, somewhat more nu-
merous than usual, there being several visitors,
besides many of the inhabitants of Evreux and
the environs, whom see, of course. am pleased
with their manners, and with their admiration OF
you-a particular in which, as YOU know am
not easily satisfied; in short, find myself per-
fectly at home in the midst of my forest, and en-
you sire, no longer to fancy to yourself that
there is no living at distance from court. Be-
sides you there is nothing there regret-since
will have my children with me soon. and already
enjoy the society Of the small number of friends
who remain faithful to me. Do not forget your
friend. Tell her sometimes that you preserve for
her attachment which constitutes the felicity
of her life; often repeat to her that YOU are hap
py, and be assured that for her the future will
then be peaceful, as the past has been stormy and
often sad. JOSEPHINE.