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We went out arm in arm, and in a few minutes we were out of sight of everyone. "Do you know," said I to Hedvig, "that you have made a conquest of M. Tronchin?" "Have I? The worthy banker asked me some very silly questions." "You must not expect everyone to be able to contend with you." "I can't help telling you that your question pleased me best of all.
The moment I saw her I perceived in her eyes and whole countenance an appearance of uneasiness, which struck me the more, as this was not customary, nobody knowing better than she did how to govern her features and her movements. "My friend," said she to me, "I am immediately going to set off for Geneva; my breast is in a bad state, and my health so deranged that I must go and consult Tronchin."
"Bring a Bible, and let me see." "Hedvig, my dear Hedvig, you are right after all. Here it is. The prohibition was given before woman was made." Everybody applauded, but Hedvig remained quite calm; it was only the two scholars and Madame Tronchin who still seemed disturbed. Another lady then asked her if it was allowable to believe the history of the apple to be symbolical. She replied,
The next morning, Henriette gave me a letter for the banker Tronchin, who, when he had read it, told me that he would call himself at the hotel, and bring me one thousand louis d'or. I came back and we sat down to dinner. We had not finished our meal when the banker was announced.
Tronchin asked her if the doctrine of the immortality of the soul could be gathered from the Old Testament alone. "The Old Testament," she replied, "does not teach this doctrine; but, nevertheless, human reason teaches it, as the soul is a substance, and the destruction of any substance is an unthinkable proposition."
Yet, knowing his self-love to be extremely irritable, I did not send the letter immediately to himself, but to Doctor Tronchin, his physician and friend, with full power either to give it him or destroy it. Voltaire informed me in a few lines that being ill, having likewise the care of a sick person, he postponed his answer until some future day, and said not a word on the subject.
I have never seen any theologian who could treat the most difficult points with so much facility, eloquence, and real dignity, and at dinner she completed her conquest of myself. M. Tronchin, who had never heard her speak before, thanked me a hundred times for having procured him this pleasure, and being obliged to leave us by the call of business he asked us to meet again in two days' time.
The Genevese magistrates thought it worth while to defend their acts; the Lettres ecrites de la Campagne, published to that end, were the work of the attorney-general Robert Tronchin. Rousseau replied to them in the Lettres de la Montagne, with a glowing eloquence having a spice of irony.
Madame Tronchin said gravely that Eve had received the prohibition from God himself, but the girl only answered by a humble "I beg your pardon, madam." At this she turned to the pastor with a frightened manner, and said, "What do you say to this?" "Madam, my niece is not infallible." "Excuse me, dear uncle, I am as infallible as Holy Writ when I speak according to it."
This production, a lasting monument of the rare talents of its author, came from the Attorney-General Tronchin, a man of wit and an enlightened understanding, well versed in the laws and government of the republic. 'Siluit terra'. The remonstrators, recovered from their first overthrow, undertook to give an answer, and in time produced one which brought them off tolerably well.
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