His death removed all my scruples upon this subject.

But the want of a legal proof of the death of my brother created a difficulty which Gauffecourt undertook to remove, and this he effected by means of the good offices of the advocate De Lolme.

As I stood in need of the little resource, and the event being doubtful, I waited for a definitive account with the greatest anxiety.
One evening on entering my apartment I found a letter, which I knew to contain the information I wanted, and I took it up with an impatient trembling, of which I was inwardly ashamed.

What?
said I to myself, with disdain, shall Jean Jacques thus suffer himself to be subdued by interest and curiosity?
I immediately laid the letter again upon the chimney-piece.

I undressed myself, went to bed with great composure, slept better than ordinary, and rose in the morning at a late hour, without thinking more of my letter.