[XXVI. I RENEW AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE]
[XXIX. I STILL KNOW HOW TO WAIT]
[XXX. I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY POLICY]
INTRODUCTORY
“I am convinced she rivalled, at fifty, the exquisite Diane de Poitiers herself, in the brightness of her wit and the perfection of her form, and might have passed as triumphantly a like test of the marble.”
The Marquis de C—— in his “Foreword.”