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The letter which she had been ordered to write by her confessor of the moment, and had written to M. de La Mole, had dealt the final blow to this creature weakened by an ever-present sorrow.
S.'It was after he had sent off this letter that for the first time, Julien, having slightly recovered himself, became extremely unhappy.
'An astonishing thing!' he said to himself, 'I thought that by her letter to M. de La Mole she had destroyed my future happiness for all time, and, in less than a fortnight after the date of that letter, I no longer think of all that was occupying my mind ...Two or three thousand livres a year to live quietly in a mountain village like Vergy ...I was happy then ...I did not recognise my own happiness!'
When he had recovered his breath: 'Only the day before yesterday, I received your letter from Strasbourg, with your five hundred francs for the poor of Verrieres; it was brought to me up in the mountains at Liveru, where I have gone to live with my nephew Jean.
'Miscreant, it was only from your letter that I learned where you were.
She implored her rival to obtain a letter for M. de Frilair, written throughout in the hand of the Lord Bishop of ----.
My sons will have the honour to present this letter to you: they are children.
The President of the Assize Court was assailed with requests for cards of admission; all the ladies of the town wished to be present at the trial; Julien's portrait was hawked through the streets, etc., etc.Mathilde was keeping in reserve for this supreme moment a letter written throughout in the hand of the Lord Bishop of ----.
On the eve of the trial, Mathilde took this letter to the all-powerful Vicar-General.
'Who would ever have said, last time I saw you, in your bedroom, at Verrieres ... ?''Who would ever have said then that I should write M. de La Mole that infamous letter ... ?''Know that I have always loved you, that I have never loved anyone but you.''Is it really possible?' cried Madame de Renal, equally enraptured.
The letter sent to M. de La Mole had been written by the young priest who directed Madame de Renal's conscience, and then copied out by her.
I got her letter today and, of course, I came straight here.
I can read you out the part of the letter that concerns you."
He drew the letter out from his wallet.
"And what do you have to say about that?" asked his uncle,who had forgotten all his rush and excitement as he read the letter, and seemed to be about to read it again.
Here they've got every means of showing the powers at their disposal and they're automatically bound to use them against you; in the country they'll either have to delegate authority to different bodies or just have to try and bother you by letter, telegram or telephone.
And this affair of yours came largely unexpected, although, oddly enough, I had expected something of the sort after I'd read Erna's letter, and today when I saw your face I knew it with almost total certainty.
Here's the letter of recommendation and here's the address."
Disappointed, K. took the letter and put it in his pocket.
If it was possible that he might invite a questionable character into the bank with a clear letter, and ask advice from him about his trial, separated from the deputy director by no more than a door, was it not possible or even very likely that there were also other dangers he had failed to see or that he was even running towards?
So he drew the manufacturer's letter out from his pocket, held it out to the painter and said, "I learned about you from this gentleman, an acquaintance of yours, and it's on his advice that I've come here".
The painter glanced through the letter and threw it down onto the bed.
What did the letter actually say?
K. had taken it as a matter of course that the manufacturer had explained to the painter in his letter that K. wanted nothing more with him than to find out more about his trial.
"Yes," said the painter, and he took the shirt hanging over the easel and threw it onto the bed after the letter.
"You want to learn something about the court, like it says in your letter of recommendation, but then you start talking about my pictures to get me on your side.
Even before he rang he considered whether it might not be better to give the lawyer notice by letter or telephone, a personal conversation would certainly be very difficult.
"I berry like heself to lose an ear for carrying a little bit of a letter; dere much mischief come of curiosity.
These last instructions, or rather commands, for they admitted of no departure from their letter, completed the sum of Dunwoodie's uneasiness.
In obedience to the commands of his superior, an officer, with a small party, was sent to the cottage to conduct Henry Wharton to the place directed; and the gentleman who was intrusted with the execution of the order was charged with a letter from Dunwoodie to his friend, containing the most cheering assurances of his safety, as well as the strongest pledges of his own unceasing exertions in his favor.
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