but your letter caused infinite satisfaction to the Queen, in whose eyes I saw, for the first time, a little liveliness.
Aw. EC: See! He does care about me! Me: Oh EC.
Our family seems to me a forest in which a hurricane has knocked down the most beautiful trees, and where from distance to distance you can see some thinned out fir tree hanging on by its roots, only to contemplate the fall of his companions, and the damage and devastation the storm has wrought.
Yeah, this is a sad one :( And Countess Camas herself died not too long after, right?
Re: Camas Letters II - Countess Camas Part Three (1764/65)
Aw.
EC: See! He does care about me!
Me: Oh EC.
Our family seems to me a forest in which a hurricane has knocked down the most beautiful trees, and where from distance to distance you can see some thinned out fir tree hanging on by its roots, only to contemplate the fall of his companions, and the damage and devastation the storm has wrought.
Yeah, this is a sad one :( And Countess Camas herself died not too long after, right?