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That temple of our love which was in our loved mountains only will then be wherever I shall have wandered and breathed with you . '' The old man encouraged these excursions to the fine forests around Paris . He hoped , and the doctors led him to expect , that the air laden with life , the influence of the sun , which strengthens all things , with moderate exercise in the open fields , might invigorate the too sensitive delicacy of Julie 's nerves and give elasticity to her heart . Every sunny day , during the five weeks of early spring , I came at noon to fetch her . We entered a close carriage in order to avoid the inquisitive looks and light observations of any of her acquaintances whom we might chance to meet , or the remarks that even strangers might have made on seeing so young and lovely a woman alone with a man of my age ; for we were not sufficiently alike to pass for brother and sister . We left the carriage on the skirts of the woods , at the foot of the hills , or at the gates of the parks in the environs of Paris , and sought out at Fleury , at Meudon , at Sèvres , at Satory , and at Vincennes the longest and most solitary paths , carpeted with turf and flowers , untrodden by horses ' hoofs , except perhaps on the day of a royal hunt . We never met any one , save a few children or poor women busy with their knives digging up endive .