Chapter 46

"_P.S._--I have this minute received your letter of the 5th of this month, in which you inform me of M. de Mérona's[234] arrival. I thank you for your good friendship; be sure that I have looked for nothing else in your letters. "CHATEAUBRIAND[235]." THE VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND TO THE COMTE DE SERRE[236] "PARIS, 23 _June_ 1824. "My dismissal, monsieur le comte, will have proved to you my inability to serve you; it but remains for me to express the wish to see you where your talents call you. I …