Dangerous Liaisons
Author Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Dangerous Liaisons – CECILIA VOLANGES to SOPHIA CARNAY, at the Convent of the Ursulines of ——You see, my dear friend, I keep my word, and that dress does not totally take up all my time; I shall ever have some left for you. In this single day I have seen more finery of attire, than in the four years we have spent together; and I believe the haughty Tanville2 will be more mortified at my first visit, when I shall certainly desire to see her, than she used to be every time she came to see us in fiochi.
Mamma advises with me in everything; she behaves to me no longer as a boarder in a convent. I have a chambermaid to myself; a chamber and a closet of my own, and a very pretty escritoire, of which I keep the key, and where I can lock up everything.
