. The bird . which they demand, and the species of maternity whichthey solicit. My imperceptible garden of twelve treesand three beds did not fail to remind me of the greatfertile vineyard where I was bom; and I found, too,some degree of , by the side of an ardent in-tellect, which toiled athirst in the dreary ways and wastesof human history, in cherishing for liim these livingwaters and the charm of a few 42 HOW THE AUTHOR WAS LED TO r resume. See me now torn from the city by this loving inquietude, bymy iears for an invalid whom it was essential to restore to thecondition
. The bird . which they demand, and the species of maternity whichthey solicit. My imperceptible garden of twelve treesand three beds did not fail to remind me of the greatfertile vineyard where I was bom; and I found, too,some degree of , by the side of an ardent in-tellect, which toiled athirst in the dreary ways and wastesof human history, in cherishing for liim these livingwaters and the charm of a few 42 HOW THE AUTHOR WAS LED TO r resume. See me now torn from the city by this loving inquietude, bymy iears for an invalid whom it was essential to restore to theconditions of her early life and the free air of the country. Iquitted Paris, my city, which I had never left before; that citywhich comprises the three worlds; that cradle of Art and Thought. I returned there daily for my duties and occupations; but Ihastened to get quit of it. Its noise, its distant hum, the ebb andflow of abortive revolutions, impelled me to wander afar. It waswith much pleasure that, in the spring of 1852, I broke through allthe ties of old habits; I closed my library with a bitter joy, I putunder lock and key my books, the companions of my life, whichhad assuredly thought to hold me bound for ever. I travelled solong as earth supported me, and only halted at Nantes, close to thesea, on a hill which overlooks the yellow streams of Brittany as theyflow onward to mingle, in the Loire, with the gray waters of
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