id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-002 chapter-002 .txt text/plain 16877 469 54 He was in the decline of life and had nothing to support the inconveniences of old age; my mothers property devolved to me and my brother, but, during our absence, the interest of it was enjoyed by my father: I do not mean to infer that this consideration had an immediate effect on his conduct, but it had an imperceptible one, and prevented him making use of that exertion to regain me which he would otherwise have employed; and this, I think, was the reason that having traced me as far as Annecy, he stopped short, without proceeding to Chambery, where he was almost certain I should be found; and likewise accounts why, on visiting him several times since my flight, he always received me with great kindness, but never made any efforts to retain me. ./cache/chapter-002.txt ./txt/chapter-002.txt