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'An astonishing thing!' he said to himself, 'I thought that by her letter to M. de La Mole she had destroyed my future happiness for all time, and, in less than a fortnight after the date of that letter, I no longer think of all that was occupying my mind ...Two or three thousand livres a year to live quietly in a mountain village like Vergy ...I was happy then ...I did not recognise my own happiness!'