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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: all this happiness, your prayers to God. Do good, be kind and
merciful; let your moderation, if it may be, avert disaster. Religion
has meant much more to me since I left the convent and since my
marriage; but your Paris news contains no mention of it. In your
glorification of Felipe it seems to me you reverse the saying, and
invoke God less than His saint.
But, after all, this panic is only excess of affection. You go to
church together, I do not doubt, and do good in secret. The close of
this letter will seem to you very primitive, I expect, but think of
the too eager friendship which prompts these fears--a friendship of
the type of La Fontaine's, which takes alarms at dreams, at half-
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