Where should I seek her in Paris?
or how bear the expense of such a journey?
Sooner or later there was no place where I could be so certain to hear of her as that I was now at; this consideration determined me to remain there, though my conduct was very indifferent.
I did not go to the bishop, who had already befriended me, and might continue to do so; my patroness was not present, and I feared his reprimands on the subject of our flight; neither did I go to the seminary, M.Graswas no longer there; in short, I went to none of my acquaintances.

I should gladly have visited the intendant's lady, but did not dare; I did worse, I sought out M.Venture, whom (notwithstanding my enthusiasm) I had never thought of since my departure.

I found him quite gay, in high spirits, and the universal favorite of the ladies of Annecy.
This success completed my infatuation; I saw nothing but M.Venture; he almost made me forget even Madam de Warrens.

That I might profit more at ease by his instructions and example, I proposed to share his lodgings, to which he readily consented.

It was at a shoemaker's; a pleasant, jovial fellow, who, in his county dialect, called his wife nothing but trollop; an appellation which she certainly merited.