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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Four: Part 1

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

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Book Four: Part 1

I arrive and do not find her there. Judge of my surprise and my affliction! It was then the regret of having shamefully abandoned M. Le Maitre began to pinch. It was still sharper when I learnt the accident that had happened to him. His chest of music, which contained his whole fortune, this choice chest, saved with so much trouble, had been seized on coming into Lyons by the vigilance of the Count Dortan, to whom the Chapter had written to apprise him of this private theft. Le Maitre claimed, in vain, his property, his livelihood, the labour of his ...

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