Montreux . time M. de Warensobtained a divorce on the ground of maliciousdesertion, and was free to remarry if he did not wish, his previous experiences nothaving been sufficiently encouraging ; but he wrotea short poem on the subject, addressed to a ladyof Lausanne, whither he had removed, who hadendeavoured to arrange a match for him. It isstill preserved in manuscript by his family, andruns as follows: Non, je ne serai pus constant dans mes amours,Et je me fais voeu de badiner toujours. Plutot que de languir dans un cruel empire, Vaut-il pas mieux de jour en jour changer?En libert
Montreux . time M. de Warensobtained a divorce on the ground of maliciousdesertion, and was free to remarry if he did not wish, his previous experiences nothaving been sufficiently encouraging ; but he wrotea short poem on the subject, addressed to a ladyof Lausanne, whither he had removed, who hadendeavoured to arrange a match for him. It isstill preserved in manuscript by his family, andruns as follows: Non, je ne serai pus constant dans mes amours,Et je me fais voeu de badiner toujours. Plutot que de languir dans un cruel empire, Vaut-il pas mieux de jour en jour changer?En liberte a present je respire Et je raourrai plutot que de me rengager*— 86 MONTREUX which doggerel French may be rendered into thefollowing doggerel English: No longer constant in my loves Ill be;Henceforth flirtation is the thing for than pine beneath one cruel swayTwere well to change allegiance every present I am breathing freedoms breath;Ere I become a slave Fll welcome death. ST. SAPHORIN. CHAPTER XII BYRON How Jean Jacques, having run away from Genevato avoid being thrashed for stealing apples, founda home with Madame de Warens and allowedhimself to be converted to Roman Catholicism,on what strange terms he lived with her, withwhat ingratitude he ultimately treated her—thesematters hardly fall within the scope of the presentvolume. Indeed, it is a little difficult to sayexactly what does fall within the scope of a bookabout Montreux. The place, as has already beenstated, is—save for Chillon—of quite modern the most there is a small nucleus of earUer date,round which the modern agglomeration of hotels,pensions, villas, and shops has gathered. Itsrecords are merely the records of the building ofmountain railways and of the va-et-vient of tourists,sometimes illustrious, but more often even as youand I. Until the practice was forbidden, theyused to scrawl their names on Bonivards pillar; 87 88 MONTREUX now they have to be satisfied with reading th
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