How moving and delicious this novelty was to me! It brightened all the tenderness of my disposition.

I counted the landscape among the kindnesses of my dear benefactress; it seemed as if she had brought it there expressly for me.

I placed myself there in all peacefulness with her; she was present to me everywhere among the flowers and the verdure; her charms and those of spring were all mingled together in my eyes.

My heart, which had hitherto been stifled, found itself more free in this ample space, and my sighs had more liberal vent among these orchard gardens."[47] Madame de Warens was the semi-divine figure who made the scene live, and gave it perfect and harmonious accent.

He had neither transports nor desires by her side, but existed in a state of ravishing calm, enjoying without knowing what.