Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Nine: Part 6

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

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Book Nine: Part 6

What was the subject of these singular conversations? Why such a profound mystery? Was the conversation of that old woman agreeable enough to take her into favour, and of sufficient importance to make of it so great a secret? During the three or four years these colloquies had, from time to time, been continued, they had appeared to me ridiculous; but when I thought of them again, they began to astonish me. This astonishment would have been carried to inquietude had I then known what the old creature was preparing for me.

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