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Rh Neither of us then foresaw, that in the future, it was to be strengthened, on a very different field, by community of principles and ideas. I saw very little of M. de Chateaubriand at Cadiz, as he was not long there ; but 1 was struck by as much of his character as he allowed to appear through the cold, almost stiff, manner that was habitual to him;... he was on his way back from the Holy Land, and longed to pour forth his enthusiasm, so I had a foretaste of the Itinéraire de Jérusalem.

At last, all was ready for our departure; and on the and May 1807, we went on board the Golden Age, to be carried away from the continent that contained our dear country. It was leaving it a second time, and we felt a rending of the heart, tempered by unconquerable hope. �