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is unanswerable, and since you cannot change 

 it, you must change your place of abode and 

 return to your own country. You have al- 

 ready seen in Paris all those persons whom 

 you thought it essential to see ; unless you 

 are strangely mistaken in their good-will, you 

 will be no less sure of it in Switzerland than 

 in Paris, and since you cannot take part in 

 their society, your relations with them will be 

 the same at the distance of a hundred leagues 

 as they are now. You must therefore leave 

 Paris for Geneva, Lausanne, or Neuchatel, or 

 any city where you can support yourself by 

 teaching. . . . This seems to me the most ad- 

 vantageous course for you. If before fixing 

 yourself permanently you like to take your 

 place at the parsonage again, you will always 

 find us ready to facilitate, as far as we can, 

 any arrangements for your convenience. Here 

 you can live in perfect tranquillity and with- 

 out expense. 



There are two other subjects which I want 

 to discuss with you, though perhaps I shall 

 not make myself so easily understood. You 

 have seen the handsome public building in 

 process of construction at Neuchatel. It will 

 be finished this year, and I am told that the 

 Museum will be placed there. I believe the 



