This situation, more pleasing but less sublime, soon allayed the ardent enthusiasm by which I had so long been transported; and I insensibly, almost to myself even, again became fearful, complaisant and timid; in a word, the same Jean Jacques I before had been.
Had this resolution gone no further than restoring me to myself, all would have been well; but unfortunately it rapidly carried me away to the other extreme.

From that moment my mind in agitation passed the line of repose, and its oscillations, continually renewed, have never permitted it to remain here.

I must enter into some detail of this second revolution; terrible and fatal era, of a fate unparalleled amongst mortals.
We were but three persons in our retirement; it was therefore natural our intimacy should be increased by leisure and solitude.

This was the case between Theresa and myself.

We passed in conversations in the shade the most charming and delightful hours, more so than any I had hitherto enjoyed.