The innocents abroad; . en returned toher uncle, the oldgun, or son of a gun,as the case may be,and he taught her towrite and speak Lat-in, which was thelanguage of literature and polite society at that period. Just at this time, Pierre Abelard, who had already madehimself widely famous as a rhetorician, came to found a schoolof rhetoric in Paris. The originality of his principles, hiseloquence, and his great physical strength and beauty createda profound sensation. He saw Heloise, and was captivated byher blooming youth, her beauty and her charming wrote to her; she answered. H
The innocents abroad; . en returned toher uncle, the oldgun, or son of a gun,as the case may be,and he taught her towrite and speak Lat-in, which was thelanguage of literature and polite society at that period. Just at this time, Pierre Abelard, who had already madehimself widely famous as a rhetorician, came to found a schoolof rhetoric in Paris. The originality of his principles, hiseloquence, and his great physical strength and beauty createda profound sensation. He saw Heloise, and was captivated byher blooming youth, her beauty and her charming wrote to her; she answered. He wrote again, she answeredagain. He was now in love. He longed to know her—tospeak to her face to face. His school was near Fulberts house. He asked Fulbert toallow him to call. The good old swivel saw here a rare op-portunity : his niece, whom he so much loved, would absorbknowledge from this man, and it would not cost him a was Fulbert—penurious. Fulberts first name is not mentioned by any author, which. A PAIR OF CANONS, 13TH CENTURY. VILLAINY. 143 is unfortunate. However, George W. Fulbert will answer forhim as well as any other. We will let him go at that. Heasked Abelard to teach her. Abelard was glad enough of the opportunity. He cameoften and staid long. A letter of his shows in its very firstsentence that he came under that friendly roof like a cold-hearted villain as he was, with the deliberate intention ofdebauching a confiding, innocent girl. This is the letter: I can not cease to be astonished at the simplicity of Fulbert; I was as muchsurprised as if he had placed a lamb in the power of a hungry wolf. Heloise andI, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude thatlove seeks our studies procured for us. Books were open before us, but we spokeoftener of love than philosophy, and kisses came more readily from our Hps thanwords. And so, exulting over an honorable confidence which to hisdegraded instinct was a ludicrous simp
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