He found installed in the house a personage whom he describes as tall, fair, noisy, coxcombical, flat-faced, flat-souled.
Another triple alliance seemed a thing odious in the eyes of a man whom his travelling diversions had made a Pharisee for the hour.

He protested, but Madame de Warens was a woman of principle, and declined to let Rousseau, who had profited by the doctrine of indifference, now set up in his own favour the contrary doctrine of a narrow and churlish partiality.

So a short, delicious, and never-forgotten episode came to an end: this pair who had known so much happiness together were happy together no more, and the air became peopled for Rousseau with wan spectres of dead joys and fast gathering cares.
The dates of the various events described in the fifth and sixth books of the Confessions are inextricable, and the order is evidently inverted more than once.

The inversion of order is less serious than the contradictions between the dates of the Confessions and the more authentic and unmistakable dates of his letters.

For instance, he describes a visit to Geneva as having been made shortly before Lautrec's temporary pacification of the civic troubles of that town; and that event took place in the spring of 1738.