# Letters to an Unknown

Author: Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870; Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43553

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Letters+to+an+Unknown+M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

walk, for having allowed you to sit so long in the shade. As for the rest, I have no regrets, nor have you either, I hope. Contrary to my usual habit, I have no distinct recollections of that day, but am like a cat who licks his whiskers for a long time after drinking his milk. Admit that the peace of which you sometimes speak with admiration, that the _kêf_, which is superior even to the best that we know, is as nothing in comparison to the happiness “which is almost pain.” Nothing is more insignificant than the life of an oyster, especially of an oyster which is never eaten.

## Chapters

- [ill. I have reproached myself bitterly for having made you take that](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-to-an-unknown-43553/chapters/1/index.md)
- [book I have read in five or six years; but, for all that, it is all](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-to-an-unknown-43553/chapters/4/index.md)
- [ill. I have formed for my own case a medical theory which is as good as](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-to-an-unknown-43553/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ill. It would be, however, only the truth, for I have been not at all](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-to-an-unknown-43553/chapters/3/index.md)