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How to Write Love Letters : LETTER LXXVIII. From a Gentleman to a Young Lady...by Madame le Fontaine (Carleton B. Case, ed)
Return to "How to Write Love Letters" Index LETTER LXXVIII. From a Gentleman to a Young Lady...LETTER LXXVIII. From a Gentleman to a Young Lady with whom he has Long been on Terms of Intimacy.Staten Island, February 7, 1914. Notwithstanding the intimacy which has existed between us for so many years, I have never ventured to address you in warmer terms than friendship warrants. Nevertheless, I have long secretly entertained a tender regard for you, and I feel that the privilege of calling you mine would be the greatest felicity on earth. You cannot doubt the sincerity of my passion, since it is not of recent existence, but has grown out of my long intercourse with you, and has been fed and nurtured by those charms of mind and person which, above all other ladies of my acquaintance, you possess. For myself, you have doubtless seen sufficient of me to lead you to a favorable or unfavorable judgment, and now that I have confessed how dear you are to me, need I tell you with what mingled sensations of hope and mistrust I count upon your verdict? With each post I shall anxiously expect to receive the dear, welcome missive, and I shall mark that day of my life with a white stone which enables me to exchange the title of friend for that of lover. I am, dear Miss Trevor, Your sincere admirer, Lanodon Keys. |
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