She left Besancon in 1841, intending, it was said, to get married; but the real reason of this expedition is still unknown, for she returned home in a state which forbids her ever appearing in society again.  By one of those chances of which the Abbe de Grancey had spoken, she happened to be on the Loire in a steamboat of which the boiler burst.  Mademoiselle de Watteville was so severely injured that she lost her right arm and her left leg; her face is marked with fearful scars, which have bereft her of her beauty; her health, cruelly upset, leaves her few days free from suffering.  In short, she now never leaves the Chartreuse of les Rouxey, where she leads a life wholly devoted to religious practices.

PARIS, May 1842.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Beauseant, Vicomtesse de
  Father Goriot
  The Deserted Woman

Genovese
  Massimilla Doni

Hannequin, Leopold
  Beatrix
  Cousin Betty
  Cousin Pons

Jeanrenaud
  The Commission in Lunacy

Nueil, Gaston de
  The Deserted Woman

Rhetore, Duc Alphonse de
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  Letters of Two Brides
  The Member for Arcis

Savaron de Savarus
  The Quest of the Absolute

Savarus, Albert Savaron de
  The Quest of the Absolute

Schinner, Hippolyte
  The Purse
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  Pierre Grassou
  A Start in Life
  The Government Clerks
  Modeste Mignon
  The Imaginary Mistress
  The Unconscious Humorists

Tinti, Clarina
  Massimilla Doni