Chapter 26

"Bear me kindly in your remembrance, I pray you, and accept the renewed expression of my inviolable devotion and of the high regard with which I have the honour to be, etc., etc. "BERNSTORFF." "BERLIN, 25 _August_ 1821. I had hastened to express my friendship and my regrets to M. Ancillon: his very beautiful reply (leaving my praises on one side) deserves to be recorded here: "BERLIN, 22 _September_ 1821. "And so, monsieur and illustrious friend, you are irrevocably lost to us? I foresaw this misfortune…