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LETTERS OF MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ

FROM 1655 TO 1669.

ADDRESSED TO THE COUNT DE BUSSY.

LETTER I.

, June 26, 1655.

no doubt that you would take some opportunity of bidding me adieu, either at my own house or from the camp at Landrecy. As I am not a woman of ceremony, I am content with the latter ; and have not even thought of being angry, that you failed in coming to me before you set out.

I have not stirred from this desert, since your departure; and, to speak frankly, I am not much afflicted to find that you are with the army. I should be an unworthy cousin of so