Curchod to England--as we may presume he would have done if he had married her--he is contemptible.

Yet if he does take her he will make her miserable, and Rousseau would rather a hundred times he left her alone--precisely what he was doing; but then he was despicable for doing it.

The question is whether there is not a good deal of exaggeration in all this.

Only a year after the tragic condition in which Moultou describes Mdlle.

Curchod she married M.Necker, and became devoted to her husband.