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Muerite and

Prudence accepted joyously

People have always associated the country with love, and they have done

well; nothing affords so fine a frame for the woman whom one loves as

the blue sky, the odours, the flowers, the breeze, the shining solitude

of fields, or woods However much one loves a woman, whatever confidence

one may have in her, whatever certainty her past may offer us as to her

future, one is always more or less jealous If you have been in love,

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whom you would live wholly It sees, the wo of her

perfus As for me, I

experienced that more than most Mine was not an ordinary love; I was

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Gautier; that is to say, that at Paris, at every step, I ht elbow

the man who had already been her lover or as about to, while in