Chapter 15 Letter Thirteen From Julie

I have told you again and again that we are happy.There's nothing quite as sick as I am to the slightest change in our status quo.If there is any severe pain for us, the separation of those two days is the greatest pain!I say "we" because my friend—you—shares my anxieties.You share my sorrow, I feel it, and you feel it yourself, I don't need you to tell me. We were in the country only yesterday evening, and it is not time for me to go back to the city to see you, but it is unbearable for me not to be able to see you in such a change of place.If you had not canceled my geometry lessons, I would tell you that my separation is proportional to the distance of time and place, because I find that distance makes separation more painful!

I brought your letter and study plan with me to study them carefully, and I have reread your letter twice, and I am extremely moved by the end.I can see, my friend, that you feel true love, because it takes no interest in honest things, and you know how to make moral sacrifices in the most sensitive part of your soul.Indeed, using the opportunity of teaching to corrupt a woman is the most despicable of all temptations, and trying to soften one's lover with the help of novels does not have much foundation in itself.If you have ever used philosophy to your own ends in your teaching, if you have tried, in order to deceive me, to establish principles in your own interest, I shall soon be disillusioned.But the most dangerous part of your seduction is to make no use of any of the above methods.Ever since a hunger for love had seized my heart, ever since a need for an eternal remembrance had arisen in my heart, I never asked God to unite me with a beloved, but with a Men of good hearts are united, for I feel deeply that these are the least unpleasant pleasures that men can have, and that rectitude and honesty are imbued with all the sentiments that accompany them.In order to arrange what I like and love well, I have been like Solomon and got what I asked for and got what I didn't ask for.I drew a lot and not only got what I asked for, but other things will also come true.My friend, I firmly believe that some day you too will be happy, if you deserve to be happy then.The method is slow, difficult, and unsafe, and the difficulty is terrible.I dare not promise anything, but please believe that nothing that patience and love will do will be forgotten.However, please continue to please my mother in every way, and you must be prepared to put up with a grumpy old gentleman when my father returns - after thirty years of service he has finally fully retired - You are arrogant, but he is a very upright person. He will like you, but he won't show it. Although he doesn't say it, he will value you in his heart.

I interrupted this letter because I was going for a walk in the woods not far from where we lived.O my tender friend!I want to lead you with me, or take you with me in my heart!I'll pick out some places we'll be visiting together, and mark some hideouts there that deserve our lingering.Our hearts were opened beforehand to each other in these marvelous recesses, which added to our enjoyment of being together.These hideaways are also multiplied in value by the lingering of two true lovers, but I'm amazed that the beauty I found in them with you I didn't see at all when I was alone.

Among the natural groves of this charming place, there is a place more secluded and charming than others, and I am so happy in it that I reserve it for you, my friend, as a surprise. .It's not that you're always dignified and respectful when you're there, and I'm not at all lively and generous there, I just want to make you feel there, despite all vulgar prejudices, that the heart gives more than the entanglement takes of.In short, lest your vivid imagination should become a little too active, I must inform you that we shall not go to that grove together without the presence of my "inseparable cousin."

As for her, I have made arrangements, if this does not offend you too much, to come and see me on Monday.My mother will send a car to pick up my cousin, you go to her house before ten o'clock, she will bring you, you will spend the day with us, and we will return after lunch the next day. As I was writing my letter here, it suddenly occurred to me how to entrust it to you. It is not as convenient here as it is in the city.I would first consider having Gustan, the gardener's son, send you one of your books, wrap it in paper, and put this letter in it, but that's not safe, except that you won't necessarily think of finding it. Believe it or not, it would be an unforgivable carelessness to treat our fate in this way.So I decided to write you a note, stating only that we will meet on Monday, and leave the letter to you personally.In this way, I am also a little worried, whether the secrets of the grove have been revealed too much.