Teks asli (Inggris)

By Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon With a special introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE: This delightful (piquant, the comtesse would say) pseudonymous work was in fact written not “by herself” but by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864). The persona created is that of a woman who always tells the truth as she sees it, but it is made clear to the reader that what the narrator