Quote of the Day (2nd of May)

Jeanne had left the convent the day before, free for all time, ready to seize all the joys of life, of which she had dreamed so long. (…) Then she noticed that she had omitted to put her calendar in her travelling bag. She took from the wall the little card which bore in golden figures the date of the current year, 1819. Then she marked with a pencil the first four columns, drawing a line through the name of each saint up to the 2d of May, the day that she left the convent.

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