Chapter 37: February

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌⁠God bless you, my dear friends, and may he grant you that happiness which he denies to me!

I thank you, Albert, for having deceived me. I waited for the news that your wedding-day was fixed; and I intended on that day, with solemnity, to take down Charlotte's profile from the wall, and to bury it with some other papers I possess. You are now united, and her picture still remains here. Well, let it