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

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

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Book Nine: Part 1

My impatience to inhabit the Hermitage not permitting me to wait until the return of fine weather, the moment my lodging was prepared I hastened to take possession of it, to the great amusement of the Holbachian coterie, which publicly predicted I should not be able to support solitude for three months, and that I should unsuccessfully return to Paris, and live there as they did. For my part, having, for fifteen years, been out of my element, and finding myself upon the eve of returning to it, I paid no attention to their pleasantries. Since, ...

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