“I cannot suffer you to take your departure without accompanying you with my best wishes that your journey may be safe, pleasant, and prosperous, and that you may bring back those who are so dear to you as much improved in their health as I am sure they will be in their acquirements.
“Should you happen to meet with M. la Fayette, will you have the goodness to
tell him that there is an individual here who has never ceased to interest
himself in his welfare, and who has been happy to hear the favourable accounts
given of his health and present situation, as well by some of our English
travellers, as by some of his friends here, among whom I may mention M. Masclet, with whom I have often the
pleasure of conversing respecting him. Yes, my friend, if you should have the
good fortune to see M. la Fayette, you will see one of the
very few men who know how to withstand the allurements of rank and power on the
one hand, and the destructive rage of popular fury on the
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