[269] D'Epinay, ii. 246.
[270] D'Epinay, ii. 269.
[271] Musset-Pathay has collected two or three trifles of her composition, ii. 136-138. Heal so quotes Madame d'Allard's account of her, pp. 140, 141.
[272] Quoted by M. Girardin, Rev. des Deux Mondes, Sept. 1853, p. 1080.
[273] Conf., ix. 304.
[274] Ib. ix. 305. Slightly modified version in Corr., i. 377.
[275] M. Boiteau's note to Madame d'Epinay, ii. 273.
[276] Grimm, to Madame d'Epinay, ii. 305.
[277] This is shown partly by Saint Lambert's letter to Rousseau, to which we come presently, and partly by a letter of Madame d'Houdetot to Rousseau in May, 1758 (Streckeisen-Moultou, i. 411-413), where she distinctly says that she concealed his mad passion for her from Saint Lambert, who first heard of it in common conversation.
[278] Conf., ix. 311.