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The next day was spent in putting everything in order for our short journey, and Le Duc went off in his litter, intending to rest for the night at four leagues from Soleure.
It is thus, you will see, that for my next four days or five, which were passed among the German-speaking Swiss, I was utterly alone. This book must not go on for ever; therefore I cannot say very much about Soleure, although there is a great deal to be said about it.
She herself immediately resumed her usual voice and manner, and questioned him on his journey. He told her, in reply, that he proposed to go by the route of Soleure, and to stay there a day in order to visit in Gurzelengasse the house where Kosciuszko, the greatest of Poles, had died. He had thought of this pilgrimage for a long time. He added: "Still another useless action.
"Is there any story about it, Miss Harson?" "No," was the reply, "not much of a story; only descriptions of some very large and very ancient trees. One of these, the old linden tree of Soleure, in Switzerland, was spoken of by an English traveler two hundred years ago as 'right noble and wondrous to behold.
After we had been a fortnight at Berne, my housekeeper received a letter from Soleure. It came from Lebel. As I saw she read it with great attention, I asked her what it was about. "Take it and read it," said she; and she sat down in front of me to read my soul by the play of my features. Lebel asked her, in concise terms, if she would become his wife.
Her sallies made me laugh and recalled the happy moments I had passed with her, but the idea of her happiness prevented my regretting having yielded my rights to another. As Lebel was obliged to return to Lausanne in order to get back to Soleure in two days, we had to part.
I procured a carving-knife, tied my hair in a queue, took off my coat, and put on the apron over my scarlet waistcoat ornamented with gold lace. I then looked at myself in the glass, and thought my appearance mean enough for the modest part I was about to play. I was delighted at the prospect, and thought to myself that as the ladies came from Soleure they would speak French.
I had formerly known something of the Chevalier Beauteville, at the castle of Montmorency; he had shown me marks of esteem; since his appointment to the embassy he had given me proofs of his not having entirely forgotten me, accompanied with an invitation to go and see him at Soleure.
They are all golden grains, which are dispersed throughout the work in the best taste." The conversation was then directed towards various topics, and at last we got to the 'Ecossaise' we had played at Soleure. They knew all about it. M. de Voltaire said that if I liked to play it at his house he would write to M. de Chavigni to send the Lindane, and that he himself would play Montrose.
At the first pause I took the opportunity of saying that I had only come to Soleure for her sake, that it was for her sake that I had disguised myself at Zurich, and that I hoped she would permit me to pay my addresses to her. "I cannot invite you to my house," said she, "for certain sufficient reasons; but if you will stay here some time we shall be able to see each other.
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