Note 20 — LETTER THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH MADAME DE VOLANGES TO MADAME DE ROSEMONDE
Ernest Christopher Dowson translation
Private reasons and considerations, which we shall ever make it a duty to respect, force us to halt here.
We cannot, at this moment, give our reader the continuation of Mademoiselle de Volanges’ adventures, nor acquaint him with the sinister events which culminated the misfortunes, or completed the punishment, of Madame de Merteuil.
Perhaps some day it will be in our power to complete this work; but we can give no undertaking in this matter: and, even were we able to do so, we should still deem it our duty first to consult the taste of the public, which has not our reasons for taking an interest in this narration.