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

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

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Book Four: Part 3

I was therefore flattered much, served little. That Colonel Godard, whose nephew I was to be with, turned out a miserly old rogue, and, seeing my distress, although rolling in riches, wanted me for nothing. He pretended that I should be with his nephew a kind of valet without wages rather than a real tutor. Continually engaged with him, and by that dispensed from duty, I must live on my cadet's pay, that is, a soldier's; it was with trouble he consented to give me a uniform; he had been glad to put me off with that of the regiment. Madame de ...

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