191 ("Delices, 19th August, 1759").] TO D'ALEMBERT (a week later)....

"What say you of Maupertuis dying between Two Capuchins! He was ill, this long while, of a repletion of pride; but I had not reckoned him either a hypocrite or an imbecile.
I don't advise you ever to go and fill his place at Berlin; you would repent that.

I am Astolpho warning Roger (Ruggiero) not to trust himself to the Enchantress Alcina; but Roger was unadvisable." [Ib.

lxxviii.

197 ("Delices, 25th August, 1759").] TO THE SAME (two years later: Luc, on certain grounds, may as well be saved).