LETTER 130
Madame De Rosemonde, to the Presidente De Tourvel
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Why, my lovely dear, will you no longer be my daughter? Why do you seem to announce that our correspondence is to cease? 30 Is it to punish me for not guessing at what was improbable; or do you suspect me of creating you affliction designedly? I know your heart too well, to imagine you would entertain such an opinion of mine.
-- The distress your letter plunges me in is much less on my own account than yours. Oh! my young friend, with grief I tell you, you are too worthy of being beloved ever to be happy in love -- Where is there a truly delicate and sensible woman, who has not met unhappiness where she expected bliss? Do men know how to rate the women they possess?