or rather, they are arranged with too much perspicuity, and that is worse. Read over your letter again; it displays so much regularity that you are discovered in every phrase. I am inclined to think your Presidente is so unfashionable as not to perceive it; but what is that to the purpose? the consequence will be still the same; that is the defect of romance; the author racks his brain, heats his imagination, and the reader is unmoved. Heloise is the only exception I know; and notwithstanding the great talents of the author, from this observation alone, I have ever been of opinion, that the work is grounded in truth; not so in speaking; the custom of conversation gives it an air of tenderness, to which the facility of tears still greatly adds; expressive desires blend themselves with the languishing look, and, at last, incoherent speeches more readily bring on that turbulence of passion, which is the true eloquence of love;
ez dira ordea berdin antolatzen, edo, gehiago dena, antolatzen dira, eta hori nahikoa izaten da. Berrirakur zeure gutuna: bada hor perpaus bakoitzean salatzen zaituen halako ordenamendu bat. Nahi dut sinetsi lehendakariaren emazte hori ez dagoela horretaz ohartzeko bezain trebatua: zer axola dio ordea? Ondorioak ez duke hala eta guztiz ere eraginik. Nobelek akats hori izaten dute; autorea lehia bizian ari izaten da bere burua berotzeko ahaleginetan, eta irakurlea hotz gelditzen da. Heloïse da salbuets daitekeen bakarra; eta autorearen dohaina gorabehera, oharpen horrek beti sinetsarazi dit liburu horrek muina benetakoa zuela.