And
if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the
world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you
prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to
me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a
better one in its place, until my word conquers yours."
Chapter 19
Although deprived for the present of all intercourse with Chastel and
Yoletta, now in constant attendance on her mother, I ought to have been
happy, for all things seemed conspiring to make my life precious to me.
Nevertheless, I was far from happy; and, having heard so much said about
reason in my late conversations with the father and mother of the house,
I began to pay an unusual amount of attention to this faculty in me, in
order to discover by its aid the secret of the sadness which continued
at all times during this period to oppress my heart. I only discovered,
what others have discovered before me, that the practice of
introspection has a corrosive effect on the mind, which only serves to
aggravate the malady it is intended to cure.
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