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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Two: Part 3

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Two: Part 3

She was a brown girl, extremely smart, but whose natural goodness, painted in her pretty face, rendered her vivacity touching. Her name was Madame Basile. Her husband, older than she was, and tolerably jealous, left her during his absence under the care of a clerk, too disagreeable to be dangerous, but who nevertheless had pretensions of his own, which he rarely showed but by ill-humour. He showed me a great deal, though I was fond of hearing him play the flute, which he did pretty well. This second Aegisthus always grumbled whenever he saw me go ...

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