日期：2015-07-20 The honest Monsieur de Corville had not heard this tale without profound emotion; as for Madame de Lorsange in whom, as we have said, the monstrous errors of her youth had not by any means extinguished sensibility, as for Madame de Lorsange, she was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-07-20 What with our skill at making the evidence of our cruelties disappear, the ladies who would like to lodge complaints against us must have the devil's own time getting themselves believed, eh, Therese? says Cardoville. What proofs do you fancy could... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-07-20 To work, Therese, revive us, says Cardoville; you see the lamps are extinguished, they've got to be lit again. While Julien enjoyed Cardoville and La Rose Saint-Florent, the two libertines inclined over me and one after the other inserted their lang... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-07-20 Arrayed as best I am able, I follow the warden who puts me into the keeping of two strange tall fellows whose savage aspect doubles my fright; not a word do they utter; the carriage rolls off and we halt before an immense mansion I soon recognize as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-07-20 Begone, Father, I replied, horror-struck, begone, you are a monster to dare so cruelly take advantage of my circumstances in order to force upon me the alternatives of death or infamy; I shall know how to die, if die I must, but 'twill be to die sin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-07-20 We have not the honor of your acquaintance, Madame, replied the officer in charge of the squadron; but we are certain you have in your carriage the wretch who yesterday set fire to the principal hotel in Villefranche; then, eyeing me closely: she an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Upon returning to our inn I explained as best I could the history of this unfortunate acquaintance; but whether my companion was not at all satisfied by what I told her, or whether she may perhaps have been exceedingly annoyed by my virtuous perform... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 The opaque ambiguity of these phrases, what Dubois had said to me upon entering, the species of gentleman with whom I had to do, this other girl whose forthcoming appearance had been announced, all this instantly troubled my imagination to a degree... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 And then I rush back to Dubreuil's room; I am not allowed to approach his bedside. But why? I demand and am given the reason: the poor man is expiring and is no longer occupied with anyone save his God. However, he exonerates me, he gives assurance... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Very well, I replied, very well, Madame, but let's spend a moment reasoning in terms of your own principles: what right have you to require that my conscience be as impregnable as yours when since childhood it has not been accustomed to vanquishing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Then the baroness drew me aside. Therese, says she, am I in error? are you not the person I saved from the Conciergerie ten years ago? have you entirely forgotten your Dubois ? Little flattered by this discovery, I however replied to it with politen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Well, Therese, he cries, recommend your soul to God, the instant my delirium supervenes will be that when I plunge you into the eternal abyss awaiting you; ah... ah... Therese, ah... and I feel my head covered with proof of his ecstasy; but, happily... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 ...with Kie we'd really be able to perform wonders. Both he and his wife, they say, immolated victims daily and would have them live twenty-four hours in death's cruelest agonies, and in such a state of suffering that they were constantly on the ver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Oh, Monsieur, I said to him, to what limits you do carry your villainy! To the ultimate periods, Roland answered; there is not a single extravagance in the world in which I have not indulged, not a crime I have not committed, and not one that my doc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 He seizes my arms, binds them to my side, then he slips a black silken noose about my neck; he holds both ends of the cord and, by tightening, he can strangle and dispatch me to the other world ei quickly or slowly, depending upon his pleasure. This... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Yes, Therese, Monsieur de Corville put in, yes, we insist upon these details, you veil them with a decency that removes all their edge of horror; there remains only what is useful to whoever seeks to perfect his understanding of enigmatic man. You m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Together with this man I was deploring the double misfortune of which he was the victim when he proposed we continue our way. Thanks to your attentions I feel a little better, said Roland; night is approaching, let's get on to a house which should b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Feeble Phoebus stuff, Therese, Saint-Florent smiled; the character of man's enjoyment is determined by the kind of organs he has received from Nature; a weak individual's, and hence every woman's, incline in the direction of procuring moral ecstasie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 What, Monsieur! the money I gave you... the service I had just rendered you... to be paid for what I did in your behalf by the blackest treachery... that may, you think, be understood, justified ? Why yes, Therese! yes indeed! the proof an explanati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Therese! What are you doing here ? he demands. Oh, Monsieur, punish me, I reply, I am guilty and have nothing to answer you. Unhappily, in my fright I had forgotten to destroy the Countess' letter: he suspects its existence, asks for it, I wish to d... 阅读全文>>