Excerpt from The Confessions of Rousseau, Vol. 4 I did not receive your letter of the 17th of December, monsieur, until yesterday. It was sent me in a box, filled with different things, which has been all this time upon the road. I shall answer only the postscript: as for the letter, I do not clearly understand it, and, could we come to a mutual explanation, I should like to refer all that has passed to a misunderstanding. I come back to the post script. You may recollect, sir, that we agreed that the wages of the gardener of the Hermitage should pass through your hands, the better to make him feel that he depended Upon you, and to avoid the ridiculous and indecent scenes which happened in the time of ins pre decessor. As a proof of this, the first quarter of his wages was given to you; and a few days before my departure we agreed that I should reimburse what you had advanced. I know that of this you at first made some difficulty; but I had desired you to make these advances; It was natural I should acquit myself towards you, and this we concluded upon. Cahouet informs me that you refused to receive the money. There is certainly some mistake in the matter. I have given orders that it may again be offered to you, and I see no reason for your wishing to pay my gardener, notwithstanding our conventions, and even beyond the term of your inhabiting the Hermitage. I therefore expect, monsieur, that, recollecting everything I have the honour to state, you will not refuse to be re imbursed for the sums you have been pleased to advance for me.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.