[4] Madame Dornal and Serigny. Confessions of le Comte ... of Duclos. See the note to p. [50]: death of General Abdallah at Bologna.
[5] I cried almost every day. (Precious words of the 10th of June.)
[6] Salviati.
CHAPTER XXXIX
(Part III)
Her passion will die like a lamp for want of what the flame should feed upon. (Bride of Lammermoor, II, Chap. VI.)]
The friend in need must beware of faulty reasoning—for example, of talking about ingratitude. You are giving new life to crystallisation, by procuring it a victory and a new enjoyment.
In love there is no such thing as ingratitude; the actual pleasure always repays, and more than repays, sacrifices that seem the greatest. In love no other crime but want of honesty seems to me possible: one should be scrupulous as to the state of one's heart.
The friend in need has only to attack fair and square, for the lover to answer:—