tiresome
length a narrative which I must finish briefly; for there is a certain
delicacya certain grace of soulwhich an old man could not help
offending by an complacent expatiation upon the sentiments of even the
purest love. Let us take a short turn on this boulevardlined with convents;
and my recital will be easily finished within the distance separating us
from that little spire you see over there....
Monsieur de Lessayon finding that I had graduated at the Ecole des
Chartesjudged me worthy to assist him in preparing his historical atlas.
The plan was to illustrateby a series of mapswhat the old philosopher
termed the Vicissitudes of Empires from the time of Noah down to that of
Charlemagne. Monsieur de Lessay had stored up in his head all the errors
of the eighteenth century in regard to antiquity. I belongedso far as my
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historical studies were concernedto the new school; and I was just at that
age when one does not know how to dissemble. The manner in which the
old man understoodorrathermisunderstoodthe epoch of the
Barbarians-- his obstinate determination to find in remote antiquity only
ambitious princeshypocritical and avaricious pre
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