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** tisfadion of feeing apple-trees growing befide our 

 *' bananas, and beech-trees mixing their foliage 

 *' with that of the cocoas : you will fancy your- 

 *' felf in Normandy again, which you ftill love fo 

 ** much. 



"You enjoin me to communicate to you my 

 " joy, and my forrows: joy, I can never experience 

 ** when at a diftance from you ; and, as for my 

 *^ forrows, I foothe them by reflefting, that I am 

 *' in a fituation where you thought proper to place 

 " me, in obedience to the will of Heaven. My 

 *' moil cruel mortification is, that not a fingle per- 

 " fon here mentions your name to me, and, that 

 *' I am not allowed to talk of you to any one. My 

 " -waiting women, or rather thofe of my grand- 

 " aunt, for they are her's more than mine, tell me, 

 " when I attempt to converfe about thofe objefts 

 *' which are fo dear to me : Madam, remember 

 ^^ that you are now a Frenchwoman, and, that you 

 " mud forget the country of favages. Ah! I fliall 

 *' fooner forget myfelf, than forget the place where 

 ** I was born, and where you ftill live ! It is the 

 " country where I am, which, to me, is the coun- 

 *' try of favages, for I live alone, without a fingle 

 *' perfon to whom I can communicate that love 

 ** for you, which 1 Ihall carry with me to the 



"grave. 



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