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with their requeff ; and appointed them a particular 

 day to call upon her, in order that Hie might read 

 the beginning of it to them. Here it is, 



" MEMOIRS 

 OF 



MADAME GEOFFR IN". 



In Six Volumes, in Duodecimo. 



PREFACE. 



* c For the eonliffcency of my character, the natural 

 turn of my mind, the fimplicity and variety of my 

 tafte, I am indebted to that good fortune which has 

 accompanied me in all the events of my life. How 

 delicious it is to me now to tranfport myfelf by recol- 

 lection into the different fcenes of it ! and how charm- 

 ing, to think, that I am going to unveil myfelf to my 

 own infpecYion ! 



" This work will be to me what large plans of needle- 

 work or embroidery are in general to us women ; the 

 choice of the deiign delights us, the execution em- 

 ploys us for fome time, we work a little at it, we have 

 got enough of it, and then leave off." And this was 

 the whole of the work. 



The vivacity and graces of her mind were particu- 

 larly dtffufed through the whole of her coriverfation 

 and her letters : the latter were rather fimple than light, 

 the ftyle compact and clear, the thoughts jufr 3 and their 

 application original ; but fhe took time to compofe 

 them. Her tete a tete converfations were gentle and 

 lively. She poffeffed in an eminent degree, the agree- 

 able and captivating talent of leading the perfons with 

 whom me cohverfed to fuch fubjects as were interefting 



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