FROM MINETTE TO BÉBÉ.EIGHTH LETTER (written in pencil).“While I write to you, Bébé, my maid—the one kept for me by my mistress—is engaged in making a linen bag, when finished I will be thrust into it, it will be sewn up, and I shall be carried off by the footman and thrown into the river.“This is to be my fate.“Do you know why, Bébé. It is because I am sick, and my mistress, who has the most superfine feelings, dreads the sight of suffering and death. ‘Poor Rosa Mika,’ she said, ‘how she is changed!’ and in a sad voice gave the fatal order, ‘Be sure to drown her well, do not have her suffer pain.’“Ah, Bébé, what do you say now? Do you still envy my miseries? My illness prevented me from writing. Adieu.“Bébé, in a few minutes all will be over.“MINETTE.”You know the history of my married life, would you wish me to begin again?As for Bébé, her lot in life was a happy one, only marred by the death of her mother, who expired in her arms while blessing her daughter.Pompon proved a devoted husband and father, for Bébé soon became the mother of a numerous family of little Pompons and Minettes.
“While I write to you, Bébé, my maid—the one kept for me by my mistress—is engaged in making a linen bag, when finished I will be thrust into it, it will be sewn up, and I shall be carried off by the footman and thrown into the river.
“This is to be my fate.
“Do you know why, Bébé. It is because I am sick, and my mistress, who has the most superfine feelings, dreads the sight of suffering and death. ‘Poor Rosa Mika,’ she said, ‘how she is changed!’ and in a sad voice gave the fatal order, ‘Be sure to drown her well, do not have her suffer pain.’
“Ah, Bébé, what do you say now? Do you still envy my miseries? My illness prevented me from writing. Adieu.
“Bébé, in a few minutes all will be over.
“MINETTE.”
You know the history of my married life, would you wish me to begin again?
As for Bébé, her lot in life was a happy one, only marred by the death of her mother, who expired in her arms while blessing her daughter.
Pompon proved a devoted husband and father, for Bébé soon became the mother of a numerous family of little Pompons and Minettes.