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Monbussy
Nr. Chalons-sur-Marne
France


My dearest Madelaine;


I read your name and my mind is filled with you, my heart. I am sorry
not to be with you on this dayтАФon all days. But the earrings that come with
this letter will remind you of my love and for a time that will have to serve.
You tell me that you are distressed that Paul has decided to marry that
Swedish woman. And you want to be revenged on them for the hurt they
have given you. No, oh, no, Madelaine. It is not good to feel this way, believe
me. Profit from my mistakes, and forgive them. Not everyone can sustain
love as we can. They have so little time, and we have so much. You once
railed at the shortness of the years, before you came to my life. What is a
decade to you, now? Or a century? And what is it to them. Recall, my heart,
that most of those who love us do so because they cannot love as they wish to
and we offer them empathy and our special consolation. I do not say this
 cynically: remember that it took me almost four thousand years to find you,
and even now we cannot love as we would want. Leave Paul to his Swedish
woman and let him believe that vampires are myths to frighten children and
those who read Hoffmann and Polidori.
Yes, I think it would be wise for you to leave Monbussy for a time. The
expedition to Babylon should intrigue you. You are right to deplore most of
the practices of those digging up artifacts. They are anxious to bring up
wonders and in the process destroy greater treasures. Time is your great
asset, as you will learn. When you return to France, you may become your
own niece or granddaughter or any other appropriate fiction.
It is time for me to travel as well; I have been here almost fifteen years.
My country house in England will provide me an interlude of quiet, but I do
not think it would be wise to remain there long. Paris, Lausanne, Madrid, all
of them are too familiar to me. So perhaps I will go to Stockholm, or
Warsaw or St. Petersburg. Wherever I am, I will send you word where you
will reach me. If ever you require my aid, or my company, you have only to