Her uncles had come for her, and she returned with them to Rome. One of them afterward accompanied her and her grandmother to Paris, and Lamartine met them there the coming winter.
He had now resolved to try his fortune once more. It was declared by Charles Fourier, that when God implanted a desire in a human soul it was his promise of its fruition. Lamartine was now to realize its verity.
[1] In the Meditations, Lamartine names an Elvire who has been conjectured to have been the same person.
"If you examine a man that has been well-disciplined and purified by philosophy, you will find nothing that is unsound, false, or foul in him."
"The noble delight in the noble; the base do not; the bee goes to the lotus from the wood; not so the frog, though living in the same lake."
—Gems from the East.
POINT LOMA AND ITS LEGEND.
BY FRANK M. PIERCE.