FROM GEORGE VALMONT
TO
CLEMENT MONTGOMERY
Scoundrel,
By means I cannot divine, Sibella has escaped me. I have no doubt you or some of your diabolical agents are concerned in the business.—The deed, Sir, I have burned.—Your draught of it must help to amuse you.
It delights me to think she is not yet nineteen, and that you are pennyless. Beg at my gates if you dare!—The worst of indignities are better than your deservings.—You seal your union under happy auspices.—I give you joy.—Would I could give you destruction!
GEORGE VALMONT
LETTER XXIX
FROM CLEMENT MONTGOMERY
TO
GEORGE VALMONT
Since, Sir, you have extended my punishment to the utmost, I can incur no heavier penalty by thus intruding myself before you.
I could offer many excuses, Sir, for my first fault; but it is now too late. Only, I must say your harshness and severity drove us to that measure, which, in justice to myself, I must also inform you Miss Valmont proposed, and with which I but reluctantly complied.