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When Wagner met Berlioz he heaved a sigh of relief he had at last found a man more unhappy than himself. On the threshold of death he turned in despair to the one ray of light left him Stella montis, the inspiration of his childish love; Estelle, now old, a grandmother, withered by age and grief. He made a pilgrimage to Meylan, near Grenoble, to see her.
Poetry and romantic tales were his delight and he found much to feed his imagination in his father's large library. His mother's father lived at Meylan, a little village not far from Grenoble, and there, in this picturesque valley, the family used to spend a part of each summer. Above Meylan, in a crevice of the mountain, stood a white house amid its vineyards and gardens. It was the home of Mme.
The nonsmokers got ninety-one per cent in their entrance examinations and sixty-nine per cent in their first two years in college, while only four per cent were failures. In this respect Dr. Meylan thinks there is a distinct relation between smoking and scholarship.
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