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- But what were the temptations (as I write not to apologize for
the weaknesses of my heart in this tour, - but to give an account of
them) - shall be described with the same simplicity with which I
felt them.
THE REMISE DOOR. CALAIS.
When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the
desobligeant, because I saw the monk in close conference with a
lady just arrived at the inn - I told him the truth, - but I did not
tell him the whole truth; for I was as full as much restrained by
the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to. Suspicion
crossed my brain and said, he was telling her what had passed:
something jarred upon it within me, - I wished him at his convent.
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the
judgment a world of pains. - I was certain she was of a better order
of beings; - however, I thought no more of her, but went on and
wrote my preface.
The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street; a
guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand, showed, I
thought, her good education and her good sense; and as I led her
on, I felt a pleasurable ductility about her, which spread a
calmness over all my spirits -
- Good God!
