



God bless you, my dear friends, and may he grant you that happinesswhich he denies to me!
I thank you, Albert, for having deceived me. I waited for thenews that your wedding-day was fixed; and I intended on that day,with solemnity, to take down Charlotte's profile from the wall,and to bury it with some other papers I possess. You are nowunited, and her picture still remains here. Well, let it remain!Why should it not? I know that I am still one of your society,that I still occupy a place uninjured in Charlotte's heart, thatI hold the second place therein; and I intend to keep it. Oh, Ishould become mad if she could forget! Albert, that thought ishell! Farewell, Albert farewell, angel of heaven farewell, Charlotte!