Hortense

These are your words. And they would be hateful to me were I not certain that you had disavowed them, and are sorry for having written them.

\"I sometimes receive honors here which cause me no small degree of embarrassment. I am not accustomed to this sort of homage. And I see that it is displeasing to our authorities, who are always suspicious and fearful of losing their newly-gotten power. If they are envious now,


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These are your words. And they would be hateful to me were I not certain that you had disavowed them, and are sorry for having written them.

\"I sometimes receive honors here which cause me no small degree of embarrassment. I am not accustomed to this sort of homage. And I see that it is displeasing to our authorities, who are always suspicious and fearful of losing their newly-gotten power. If they are envious now,


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