“God is Goodness,” said Duvernay.
“God is evil,” said Franchot, “and we shall extinguish it.”
Both of them, and Marcel also, took leave of Sophie.
“Adieu, gentlemen,” she said. “Let us all cry, ‘Hurrah for Liberty, and long live the King!’ And you, dear neighbour, do not hinder us from dying when we shall need to die.”
MADAME DE LUZY
TO MARCEL PROUST
MADAME DE LUZY
(From a manuscript dated September 15th, 1792.)