But, on the other hand, he had an abundance of nerves and nerves, and their irritability suffice for him who desires to paint human passions, above all, love, with its joys and its sorrows, of which one does not speak to a certain extent when one experiences them.
Success had come to Julien too early not to have afforded him occasion for several adventures.

In each of the centres traversed in the course of his sentimental vagabondage he tried to find a woman in whom was embodied all the scattered charms of the district.

He had formed innumerable intimacies.

Some had been frankly affectionate.

The majority were Platonic.