Aet. 41, to a woman of letters and host of a notable salon. Les Lettres Portugaises (1669) of Marianna Alcoforado (164O-1723) had recently appeared as The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (London: David Nutt, June 1893), translated with a scholarly introduction by Edgar Prestage. George Moore paraphrased two quotations:
- “How then can it be that with such love I have not been able to make you entirely happy? It is solely for love of you that I regret the infinite pleasures you have lost.” (page 71)
- ‘’You are more to be pitied than I am, and all my sufferings are better than the cold pleasures which your French mistresses give you. I do not envy your indifference, and you make me pity you.” (page 84)
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