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[Hochfelder <out...@mu...>]

Sensations soon wore off in great cities, but frequently returned in
country parishes, which bore more similarity to the spot where I first
experienced them; meantime this dislike was singularly contrasted by the
remembrance of those caresses which priests in the neighborhood of
Geneva are fond of bestowing on the children of that city. If the bells
of the viaticum alarmed me, the chiming for mass or vespers called me to
a breakfast, a collation, to the pleasure of regaling on fresh butter,
fruits, or milk; the good cheer of M. de Pontverre had produced a
considerable effect on me; my former abhorrence began to diminish, and
looking on popery through the medium of amusement and good living, I
easily reconciled myself to the idea of enduring, though I never
entertained but a very transient and distant idea of making a solemn
profession of it. At this moment such a transaction appeared in all its
horrors; I shuddered at the engagement I had entered into, and its
inevitable consequences. The future neophytes with which I was
surrounded were not calculated to sustain my courage by their example,
and I could not he