Note 216 — BOOK VII[145]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Chateaubriand wrote the next day to Madame Récamier:
"Thursday 19 September 1833.
"All is changed. They absolutely want me to go to the end of the journey, where they dare not arrive without me. All my resistance was unavailing; I had to resign myself. So I am leaving. This will prolong my absence another month. I am going to send Hyacinthe to Paris; he will bring you a long letter and details. Nothing in my life ever cost me a greater pang than this last sacrifice, unless it be that attached to my resignation of Rome.—B.