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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill In 1845 I left the Seminary of St. Sulpice. Thanks to the wise and liberal spirit animating the managers of that establishment, I was far advanced in philological study, and my religious convictions were correspondingly shaken. Here again Henriette was my true helper. She had outstripped me in the path of doubt, and her faith in Catholicism had completely disappeared; but she had always refrained from exercising the slightest influence over me in that respect. When I made known to her the doubts which tormented me, making me feel it a duty to relinquish a career which indispensably demands the most unquestioning faith, she was overjoyed, and offered her aid to support me on the thorny road. I was about entering on life, at the age of twenty- three, old in thought, but as inexperienced, as ignorant of the world as a young man well could be. I literally did not know a soul; I lacked the assurance of an ordinary boy of fifteen. I had not even taken my degree of bachelier Ar lettres. We agreed that I should seek for some employment in a schoolin Paris of the nature known as au pair, which would, that is to say, give me board and lodging, leaving me considerable leisure for my studies. My sister advanced me a sum of twelve hundred francs (forty- four pounds), to enable me to wait, and supplement whatever insufficiency of income such a position might at first present. That sum was the corner-stone of my whole life. I never exhausted it, but it secured me the calm of mind so indispensable if I was to think in peace, and saved me from being overwhelmed by taskwork which would have broken me down. At this crucial moment in my life, Henriette's beautiful letters were my support and consolation. While I was struggling with difficulties increased by my total inexperience of the worl...
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