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[Beal Tollman]

Of divination to have hit it on the right. I had money sufficient to
make my journey agreeable: Mademoiselle du Chatelet persuaded me to hire
a horse, but this I could not consent to, and I was certainly right, for
by so doing I should have lost the pleasure of the last pedestrian
expedition I ever made; for I cannot give that name to those excursions
I have frequently taken about my own neighborhood, while I lived at
Motiers. It is very singular that my imagination never rises so high as
when my situation is least agreeable or cheerful. When everything smiles
around me, I am least amused; my heart cannot confine itself to
realities, cannot embellish, but must create. Real objects strike me as
they really are, my imagination can only decorate ideal ones. If I would
paint the spring, it must be in winter; if describe a beautiful
landscape, it must be while surrounded with walls; and I have said a
hundred times, that were I confined in the Bastile, I could draw the
most enchanting picture of liberty. On my departure from Lyons, I saw
nothing but an agreeable future, the content I now with reason enjoyed
was as great as my discontent had been at leaving Paris,
notwithstanding, I had not during this journey any of those delightful
reveries I then 
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