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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Five: Part 2

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

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Book Five: Part 2

Madame Lard took too much notice of me not to have some taken of her. Her attention touched me greatly: I spoke of it to Mamma, as of a thing without mystery, and had there been any, I had equally told her of it; for to keep any kind of secret from her was, to me, an impossibility; my heart was open to her as to God. She did not see the affair with quite the same simplicity as I did. She saw advances where I saw nothing but friendship; she judged that Madame Lard, making a point of honour of leaving me less stupid than she found me, would arrive, by ...

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