LOVE LETTER FROM MARIE

"জাতি জাতি" গোৱা চয়তান মুখাপিন্ধা 420 কেলা Nazi গুণ্ডাবোৰ ! মৰিবি চালা হাৰামী চুৱৰ মুখাপিন্ধা Nazis কুকুৰহঁত !

দেৱজিত এটা চয়তান Nazi কুকুৰ !

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LOVE LETTER FROM MARIE

GUY THE MAUPASSANT AND MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF INTRIGUE EACH OTHER'S CURIOSITY

[AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS]

Editor: Marie was prompted by one of her romantic impulses to write to Guy de Maupassant, a rising literary star, whose widely heralded conquests of the heart had endowed him for her with the attributes of an Apollo.

"... with romantic dreams of becoming the confidante of your beautiful soul ..."

MONSIEUR:

I read your works, I might almost say, with delight. In truth to nature, which you copy with religious fidelity, you find an inspiration that is truly sublime, while you move your readers by touches of feeling so profoundly human, that we fancy we see ourselves depicted in your pages, and love you with an egotistical love.

... you are sufficiently great to inspire one with romantic dreams of becoming the confidante of your beautiful soul.

For a year past I have had the wish to write to you and was many times on the point of doing so. Two days ago, however, I saw suddenly, in the Gaulois, that someone had honored you with a flattering epistle. I at once became jealous, your literary merits dazzled me anew and - here is my letter.

And now let me say that I shall always preserve my incognito for you... All I know of you now is that you are young and that you are not married, two essential points, even for a distant adoration.

But I must tell you that I am charming...

Miss Hastings

P.O. Station of the Madelaine

Editor: De Maupassant's curiosity was clearly piqued for he acknowledged this letter from an "unknown" by replying as follows:

MADAME:

My letter surely will not be what you expected. At the outset I want to thank you for your kindness to me and for your compliments. Now let us talk like sensible people...

You allude to one letter which I received recently. It was from a man who asked my advice. Now look. To return to letters from unknown women. In the last two years, I have received in the neighborhood of fifty or sixty. How am I to choose from these women the confidante of my soul, as you put it?

You ask to become my confidante. By what right?...

Guy de Maupassant

(From "A Treasury of the World's Great Letters: From Alexander the Great to Thomas Mann", Selected and edited by M. Lincoln Schuster, SIMON AND SCHUSTER; 562 pages.)

Peter Funk: "Dear Mr. Funk: My father would have been delighted with your [Your] letter."

Marie ... Marian ... Margaret ...

Maupassant: short story "Miss Harriet" (French prostitute) - I read this story many years ago when I was a young college student.

Madelaine ... Magdalene ...

Kishalay Sinha [G]