Letters from a Friend in Paris 16
LETTER XVI
Harry’s de***********ion of Louisa’s and Tom’s departure for their honeymoon is lacking. X Video Suspecting these to be her sentiments, I at once reassured her by saying,
‘My dear Mamma, how delighted I am, and how fortunate you are, in having such a charming and handsome youth to serve you; it is the very thing I most wished you to have, and I little thought I should meet with such a delightful companion in the joys I came to seek in your arms. We shall now have twice the pleasure we should otherwise have enjoyed.’
My rather long exordium had the desired effect, and gave her time to reconcile herself to my discovery of her intimacy with William, so that she had at once the good sense to see that,
