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I have been very ill this week with a great cold and a fever, and though now in a way to be well, am like to be confined some days
longer: whatever you will send me that is new, or old, and long, will be received as a charity. Rousseau's
people do not interest me; there is but one character and one style in them all, I do not know their
faces asunder. I have no esteem for their persons or conduct, am not touched with their passions; and as to their story, I do not
believe a word of it – not because it is improbable, but because it is absurd. If I had any little propensity, it was to Julie;
but now she has gone and (so hand over head) married that monsieur de Wolmar, I take her for a vraie Suissesse,
and do not doubt but she had taken a cup too much, like her lover. All this does not imply that I
will not read it out, when you can spare the rest of it.