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C'est à la mort de sa mère, qu ll adorait, que com mence pour Henri Beyle cet isolement qui devait durer toute sa vie. Son père, J...y1e, av...lement du pays, était à ce moment-là un homme de quarante-trois ans, ridé et laid archi - Dauphinois rusé, renfermé, silencieux, qui n'aimait guère son fils, ou qui du moins ne lui témoignait aucune affection, et que son fils détesta. Un an ou deux après avoir perdu sa femme, il s'éprit de sa belle - soeur, Séraphie Gagnon, ce diable femelle dont je n'ai jamais su l'âge qui, quoique assez jolie, était dévote acariâtre, hypocrite, et qui soumit son neveu au regime d'une autorité à la fois despotique et déraisonnable. Le petit Henri ne pliait qu'avec de terribles révoltes, qui le remplissaient de haine. Il n'avait personne auprès de qui chercher un appui contre cette tante, qui usurpait en ennemi la place vacante de la mère ses deux soeurs, Pauline et Zénaîde, étaient plus jeunes que lui, et la première seule devait dans la suite lui inspirer quelque amitié; son grand - père, le médecin Gagnon, l'ai mait et le comprenait assez bien mais c'était un homme fort pacifique, passablement égoïste, qui aurait craint de troubler sa tranquillité en se mêlant du ménage de son gendre, où sa fille jouait un rôle mal défini; son oncle, M. Romain Gagnon, était un don Juan de province, qui ne songeait qu'à allonger sans cesse la liste de ses conquêtes; restait sa grand'
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