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going into the empty room, I found Mlle. Rosalie there crying. She
could cry then, this Mlle. Rosalie, who was so terrible when she
punished the children with her long switch at the infants' school
which we attended, and of which she was the mistress. But let us
leave Mlle. Rosalie. I should like to go still further back into
the past, to those first sensations which stand out faintly from
the confused mist in which my memory, becoming fainter and fainter,
finally loses itself?the dawn of the beginning, the light which
dimly illuminates nothingness. There I see vague white shapes move
about, and faces bend over me, of which all the features are
indistinct, except the eyes that shine like stars, there I see
smiles and eddying whirlpools. When I begin to discern more clearly
the forms of things, building was going on at our house. They were
adding a new wing to the old part of the structure. Immense walls
rose into the air, and on ladders which seemed to reach into
infinity men were perpetually going up and down. They had dug a
hole for a pump, and the water they drew out of it at first was
quite white. I thought it was milk?milk from the earth ! I wanted
to drink some of it. On account of my mother's delicate health, I
had been brought up by a nurse. Her name was Henriette. I called
her Mtmtre. She was a young widow, a brunette, very active in her
movements, and she loved me as she did her own children?an
attachment which I reciprocated to the end. Poor, and extremely
neat, she lived in a room in a cottage in the neighborhood, which
she divided by means of a curtain of cheap material, ornamented
with blue flowers on a white ground. A single window, opening on to
the street, lighted up an oaken wardrobe, kept scrupulously clean,
surmounted by an ttagtre on which were ...
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