I had long since observed that her affection for me had cooled. I felt that she no longer was towards me what… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

I had long since observed that her affection for me had cooled. I felt that she no longer was towards me what she had been in our best days; and I felt it the more, as I was always the same towards her. I was conscious again of an unpleasantness, the effects of which I had formerly felt when with mamma; and the effect was the same with Thérèse.

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