Translations:CP 02892/6/en
And then, the day before yesterday, in a newspaper, I saw the list with the members of the Bar… Your family name was there[1] ! I had a dreadful fright but I hoped that it was just the same name. But now I know. I know that you, the person among all others who I wished would prosper in the greatest of joys, this person has a broken heart. I cannot think of nothing but this, and it hurts me, and I wish I could stop thinking about it but instead I come back to it as often happens when we hurt, we disturb the wound a hundred times and make it only worse. It’s no doubt the young man I caught a glimpse of at Larue[2] ? How I wish to see you, I am so saddened with your pain that my company wouldn’t be a burden neither for you nor me.