I obeyed with the greatest exactness.

I wrote very fast, and very ill.

I sent this wretched production to M.de Richelieu, imagining he would make no use of it, or that I should have it again to make the necessary corrections.

Happily it is in your hands, and you are at full liberty to do with it whatever you please: I have entirely lost sight of the thing.

I doubt not but you will have corrected all the faults which cannot but abound in so hasty a composition of such a very simple sketch, and am persuaded you will have supplied whatever was wanting.
"I remember that, among other stupid inattentions, no account is given in the scenes which connect the divertissements of the manner in which the Grenadian prince immediately passes from a prison to a garden or palace.
As it is not a magician but a Spanish nobleman who gives her the gala, I am of opinion nothing should be effected by enchantment.
"I beg, sir, you will examine this part, of which I have but a confused idea.
"You will likewise consider, whether or not it be necessary the prison should be opened, and the princess conveyed from it to a fine palace, gilt and varnished, and prepared for her.