In due time, the Montpellier doctor being unable to discover a disease, declared that the patient had none.

The scenery was dull and unattractive, and this would have counterbalanced the weightiest prudential reasons with him at any time.

Rousseau debated whether he should keep tryst with his gay fellow-traveller, or return to Chamberi.

Remorse and that intractable emptiness of pocket which is the iron key to many a deed of ingenuous-looking self-denial and Spartan virtue, directed him homewards.

Here he had a surprise, and perhaps learnt a lesson.