Madame de Warens, seeing that her efforts were unavailing, did not persist in them, to avoid compromising… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

Madame de Warens, seeing that her efforts were unavailing, did not persist in them, to avoid compromising herself, but she said to me, with a look of compassion, ‘Poor little one, you must go where God calls you; but when you are grown up, you will think of me.’ I believe she herself had no idea how cruelly this prediction was to be fulfilled.

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