{"product_id":"2940012318565","title":"SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION VOLUME I","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. A PROMISING PUPIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II. DAMON AND PYTHIAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III. SENTIMENT AND PASSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV. THE INEXPRESSIBLE SHE!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V. \"LOVE KNOWETH NO LAWS\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI. BLIGHTED HOPES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII. CHANGE OF FORTUNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII. FREDERICK ENTERTAINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X. AT THE RACES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Promising Pupil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the 15th of September, 1840, about six o'clock in the morning, the\u003cbr\u003e_Ville de Montereau_, just on the point of starting, was sending forth\u003cbr\u003egreat whirlwinds of smoke, in front of the Quai St. Bernard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople came rushing on board in breathless haste. The traffic was\u003cbr\u003eobstructed by casks, cables, and baskets of linen. The sailors answered\u003cbr\u003enobody. People jostled one another. Between the two paddle-boxes was\u003cbr\u003epiled up a heap of parcels; and the uproar was drowned in the loud\u003cbr\u003ehissing of the steam, which, making its way through the plates of\u003cbr\u003esheet-iron, enveloped everything in a white cloud, while the bell at the\u003cbr\u003eprow kept ringing continuously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt last, the vessel set out; and the two banks of the river, stocked\u003cbr\u003ewith warehouses, timber-yards, and manufactories, opened out like two\u003cbr\u003ehuge ribbons being unrolled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young man of eighteen, with long hair, holding an album under his arm,\u003cbr\u003eremained near the helm without moving. Through the haze he surveyed\u003cbr\u003esteeples, buildings of which he did not know the names; then, with a\u003cbr\u003eparting glance, he took in the Île St. Louis, the Cité, Nôtre Dame; and\u003cbr\u003epresently, as Paris disappeared from his view, he heaved a deep sigh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Moreau, having just taken his Bachelor's degree, was returning\u003cbr\u003ehome to Nogent-sur-Seine, where he would have to lead a languishing\u003cbr\u003eexistence for two months, before going back to begin his legal studies.\u003cbr\u003eHis mother had sent him, with enough to cover his expenses, to Havre to\u003cbr\u003esee an uncle, from whom she had expectations of his receiving an\u003cbr\u003einheritance. He had returned from that place only yesterday; and he\u003cbr\u003eindemnified himself for not having the opportunity of spending a little\u003cbr\u003etime in the capital by taking the longest possible route to reach his\u003cbr\u003eown part of the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hubbub had subsided. The passengers had all taken their places. Some\u003cbr\u003eof them stood warming themselves around the machinery, and the chimney\u003cbr\u003espat forth with a slow, rhythmic rattle its plume of black smoke. Little\u003cbr\u003edrops of dew trickled over the copper plates; the deck quivered with the\u003cbr\u003evibration from within; and the two paddle-wheels, rapidly turning round,\u003cbr\u003elashed the water. The edges of the river were covered with sand. The\u003cbr\u003evessel swept past rafts of wood which began to oscillate under the\u003cbr\u003erippling of the waves, or a boat without sails in which a man sat\u003cbr\u003efishing. Then the wandering haze cleared off; the sun appeared; the hill\u003cbr\u003ewhich ran along the course of the Seine to the right subsided by\u003cbr\u003edegrees, and another rose nearer on the opposite bank.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was crowned with trees, which surrounded low-built houses, covered\u003cbr\u003ewith roofs in the Italian style. They had sloping gardens divided by\u003cbr\u003efresh walls, iron railings, grass-plots, hot-houses, and vases of\u003cbr\u003egeraniums, laid out regularly on the terraces where one could lean\u003cbr\u003eforward on one's elbow. More than one spectator longed, on beholding\u003cbr\u003ethose attractive residences which looked so peaceful, to be the owner of\u003cbr\u003eone of them, and to dwell there till the end of his days with a good\u003cbr\u003ebilliard-table, a sailing-boat, and a woman or some other object to\u003cbr\u003edream about. The agreeable novelty of a journey by water made such\u003cbr\u003eoutbursts natural. Already the wags on board were beginning their jokes.\u003cbr\u003eMany began to sing. Gaiety prevailed, and glasses of brandy were poured\u003cbr\u003eout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederick was thinking about the apartment which he would occupy over\u003cbr\u003ethere, on the plan of a drama, on subjects for pictures, on future\u003cbr\u003epassions. He found that the happiness merited by the excellence of his\u003cbr\u003esoul was slow in arriving. He declaimed some melancholy verses. He\u003cbr\u003ewalked with rapid step along the deck. He went on till he reached the\u003cbr\u003eend at which the bell was; and, in the centre of a group of passengers\u003cbr\u003eand sailors, he saw a gentleman talking soft nothings to a\u003cbr\u003ecountry-woman, while fingering the gold cross which she wore over her\u003cbr\u003ebreast. He was a jovial blade of forty with frizzled hair. 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