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The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau

BOOK VII
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She took possession of me as of a man that belonged to her, gave me her gloves to keep, her fan, her cinda, and her coif, and ordered me to go here or there, to do this or that, and I instantly obeyed her.

She told me to go and send away her gondola, because she chose to make use of mine, and I immediately sent it away; she bid me to move from my place, and pray Carrio to sit down in it, because she had something to say to him; and I did as she desired.
They chatted a good while together, but spoke low, and I did not interrupt them.

She called me, and I approached her.

"Hark thee, Zanetto," said she to me, "I will not be loved in the French manner; this indeed will not be well.

In the first moment of lassitude, get thee gone: but stay not by the way, I caution thee." After dinner we went to see the glass manufactory at Murano.


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