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"My story is a romance" -- "Mon histoire est un roman" -- wrote Laperouse in relating the events with which this chapter will deal. We have seen him as a boy; we have watched him in war; we shall presently follow him as a navigator. But it is just as necessary to read his charming love story, if we are to understand his character. We should have no true idea of him unless we knew how he bore himself amid perplexities that might have led him to quote, as peculiarly appropriate to his own case, the lines of Shakespeare: --
"Ay me! for ought that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth,"