"I think you have got a
letter to give me," I began.
Anna Mikhaylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped the tears from his eyes and from the
letter, then having dried her own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God's help, would inform her.
They were the two
letters which he had forwarded to Baden.
returning to his
letter, she was disappointed at the outset.
But her hesitation was only for an instant, though long enough to display a scarlet
letter on her breast.
"Well, for my part," replied the gentleman, shaking his head, "it appears to me that this
letter is very light to contain all that."
Always the earliest riser among the ladies of the house, Miss Garth was alo ne in the breakfast-room when the
letter was brought in.
The
letter lay upon the table no longer than till Mrs Miller was out of sight; for then Sophia opened and read it.
"His eminence asks for the
letter," said Bernouin, passing back into the ante-chamber.
"I had no notion that he liked me so very much," said Harriet, contemplating the
letter. For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that
letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say,
Writing to my legal adviser in this sense, I had a word of my own to add on the subject of the torn
letter.
Reminding her that she had herself proposed writing to me when we met that evening, I suggested that she should wait to tell the sad story of her troubles until it was convenient to her to send me the narrative in the form of a
letter. "In the mean time," I added, "I have the most perfect confidence in you; and I beg as a favor that you will let me put it to the proof.