40/268 I shall be very thankful to have better news of you; to hear of your being out of that room and loosened into some happy condition of liberty. It seems unnatural to think of you in one room. _That_ seems fitter for _me_, doesn't it? May God bring you out with the chestnut trees and elms! It's very sad meanwhile. He's an extraordinary man beyond all doubt; and that he has achieved great good for France, _I_ do not in the least doubt. |