The Romance of Victor Hugo And Juliette Drouet

necessary resumption of your play arises from the belief of the management that the interest you display in me on this occasion will prevent you from enforcing all your rights. I have also been told that they wish to impose, as a condition of my re-engagement, that you produce a piece this year, contrary to your interests. I have just cut short all these little intrigues. I have written to M. Jouslin that it does not appear to me convenient to enter into a re- engagement at his theatre this year. Thematter is no longer in your hands. It is I who free you and myself. You are at liberty to get your former pieces renewed and not to write a new one. Do not trouble yourself, therefore, any longer about me. Do not persist obstinately in a generosity perhaps prejudicial to your interests, which are dear to me, and to those of your family, which to me are sacred. As for me, I leave my fate in God's hands. I was the victim of an odious intrigue two years ago. It is neither your fault nor mine. I shall at least have the satisfaction of knowing that I have not cost you any sacrifice, and will never cost you any. Permit me to give you again this token of devotion, which is inviolable and profoundly disinterested. Juliette. M. Victor Hugo, 6, Place Royale. January 17, 1851. Sunday evening, 10.30. Oh ! think of me, my sweet beloved, so that I may feel it and so that thy joy amid thy Solkft1rte delightful family, thy kind friends and ad- af ...