Excerpt: ...dear Monsieur Marcel. How I like your name, Marcel, Marcel, it is so soft to the mouth. -To resist temptation like Jesus on the mountain.... -There was but one Jesus. -Like St. Antony in the desert.... -That is rubbish; in the desert no one could tempt him. -Leave the room, Veronica; since you have talked to me, I understand the fault of your former masters; leave the room. -Are you afraid of me then? Angels of heaven, a woman like me. Is it possible? Ah, I should have been very proud of it. -Proud to make me ...
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Excerpt: ...dear Monsieur Marcel. How I like your name, Marcel, Marcel, it is so soft to the mouth. -To resist temptation like Jesus on the mountain.... -There was but one Jesus. -Like St. Antony in the desert.... -That is rubbish; in the desert no one could tempt him. -Leave the room, Veronica; since you have talked to me, I understand the fault of your former masters; leave the room. -Are you afraid of me then? Angels of heaven, a woman like me. Is it possible? Ah, I should have been very proud of it. -Proud to make me sin? -Sin! Sin! Monsieur le Cure: why do we call that a sin? She came nearer to him. He wished to rise from his chair, but his hand went astray, he never knew how, on his servant's waist. Oh vow of chastity, sentiments of modesty, manly dignity and priestly virtue, where were you, where were you? LIV. MATER SAEVA CUPIDINUM. "Well, you have found it, this ephemeral happiness." BABILLOT (La Mascarade humaine). Sadness succeeds to joy, deception to illusion, the awakening to the dream, the head-ache to the debauch. When the crime is perpetrated, remorse, the avenging lash of virtue, comes and scourges the conscience. "Come, up, vile thing! thou hast slept over long." And it exposes to the wretch the emptiness of pleasures, purchased at the price of honour. The dawn found the Cure of Althausen groaning secretly to himself on his couch. He had made himself guilty of an abominable wickedness, he had just committed an inexcusable crime, he had succumbed cowardly, ignominiously; he had betrayed his faith, abjured his priestly oaths, forgotten his duties, prostituted his dignity on the withered breast of an old corrupted maid-servant. Suzanne, the adorable young girl, who in the first place had insensibly and involuntarily drawn him on the road of perjury, for whom he would have sacrificed honour, reputation, the universe and his God, he had abjured her also in the arms of this drab. And that was the wound which consumed his heart the...
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