Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3

Name: Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3
Author: Octave Feuillet

by Octave Feuillet

Pages: about 104
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 1.9 h at 250 wpm

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After passing the few weeks of the honeymoon at Reuilly, the Comte and Comtesse de Camors returned to Paris and established themselves at their hotel in the Rue de l'Imperatrice. From this moment, and during the months that followed, the young wife kept up an active correspondence with her mother; and we here transcribe some of the letters, which will make us more intimately acquainted with the character of the young woman.
"Am I happy? No, my dearest mother! No--not happy! I have only wings and soar to heaven like a bird! I feel the sunshine in my head, in my eyes, in my heart.
"It blinds me, it enchants me, it causes me to shed delicious tears! Happy? No, my tender mother; that is not possible, when I think that I am his wife! The wife--understand me--of him who has reigned in my poor thoughts since I was able to think--of him whom I should have chosen out of the whole universe! When I remember that I am his wife, that we are united forever, how I love life! how I love you! how I love God!
"The Bois and the lake are within a few steps of us, as you know. We ride thither nearly every morning, my husband and I!--I repeat, I and my husband! We go there, my husband and I--I and my husband!
"I know not how it is, but it is always delicious weather to me, even when it rains--as it does furiously to-day; for we have just come in, driven home by the storm.
"During our ride to-day, I took occasion to question him quietly as to some points of our history which puzzled me. First, why had he married me?
"'Because you pleased me apparently, Miss Mary.' He likes to give me this name, which recalls to him I know not what episode of my untamed youth--untamed still to him.

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Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3

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