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Chapter 2

We were brought up together.

There is not quite a year difference in our ages.

I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.

Our harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted

in our characters drew us nearer together.

Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition.

But with all my ardor, I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply

smitten with the thirst for knowledge.

She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets, and in the majestic

and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home.

The sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence

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