Bride
), and told M'e. de Stael that he had
paid
them to me!! I should be glad to be able to tell her so too. But the truth is, he would; but I thought the fair way was to decline it till May, and, at the end of 6 months, he can safely say whether he can afford it or not—without running any risk by Speculation. If he paid them now and lost by it, it would be hard. If he gains, it will be time enough when he has already funded his profits. But he needed not have told "
la Baronne
" such a devil of an uncalled for piece of—premature
truth
, perhaps—but, nevertheless, a
lie
in the mean time.