日期：2015-03-03 Ha! said Rombeau, full of enthusiasm for these appalling maxims, I applaud you, my dear fellow, your wisdom enchants me, but your indifference is astonishing; I thought you were amorous - I? in love with a girl?... Ah, Rombeau! I supposed you knew m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 From these elementary truths I easily deduced the others and the deistic Rosalie was soon made a Christian. But by what means, I repeat, could I join a little practice to the morality? Rosalie, bound to obey her father, could at the very most do no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Therese, Rodin said to me several days later, I am going to install you near my daughter; in this way, you will avoid all frictions with the other two women, and I intend to give you three hundred pounds wages. Such a post was, in my situation, a ki... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Dear Heaven! I said to Rosalie when this appalling drama came to its end, how is one able to surrender oneself to such excesses? How can one find pleasure in the torments one inflicts ? Ah, replied Rosalie, you do not know everything. Listen, she sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Listen, said that charming girl, speaking with all the candor proper to her age, and all the naivete of her amiable character; listen to me, Therese, I am going to tell you everything, for I see you are a well brought up girl... incapable of betrayi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 As soon as I was fit to take a little air, my first concern was to find in the town some girl sufficiently adroit and intelligent to go to the Marquise's chateau and find out what had taken place there since my departure. This apparently very danger... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Therese, and nothing could have been more phlegmatic than his manner as he spoke, I have found a more reliable method than the one I proposed to attain our objectives, but numerous details are involved, and I dare not come so often to your room; at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 But my aunt is the creature I am going to destroy.... Oh, Therese, in a philosopher's view how frivolous are these consanguinary ties! Forgive me, but I do not even wish to discuss them, so futile are they. These contemptible chains, fruit of our la... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Oh! Monsieur, I responded, weeping, you would deprive an unfortunate of her fondest hope were you to wither in her heart this religion which is her whole comfort. Firmly attached to its teachings, absolutely convinced that all the blows leveled agai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 So obscure were these speeches I knew not how to answer: however, reply to him I did, on a chance, as it were, and perhaps with too great a facility. Must I confess it? Alas! yes; to conceal my shortcomings would be to wrong your confidence and poor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 My little dove, said the Count, severity in his tone, if you are looking for dupes, improve your style; neither my friend nor I ever sacrifice at your sex's impure temple; if it is money you are begging, look for people who are fond of good works, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 It was toward four o'clock in the afternoon when we entered the forest. Until then Saint-Florent had not once contradicted himself: always the same propriety, always the same eagerness to prove his sentiments for me; I should not have thought myself... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 May the hope or fear of a world to come, bred of those primordial lies, trouble you not, Therese, and above all give over endeavoring to forge restraints for us out of this stuff. Feeble portions of a vile crude matter, upon our death, that is to sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Oh Madame, I said to Dubois, asking her leave to reply to her execrable sophistries, do you not at all feel that your damnation is writ in what you have just uttered? At the very most, such principles could only befit the person powerful enough to h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 I, Sir, I become the mistress of a - Say the word, Therese, out with it: a scoundrel, eh? Oh, I admit it, but I have no other titles to offer you; that our sort does not marry you are doubtless well aware: marriage is one of the sacraments, Therese,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 While we were arguing thus, Dubois' four companions were drinking with the poacher, and as wine disposes the malefactor's heart to new crimes and causes him to forget his old, our bandits no sooner learned of my resolution than, unable to make me th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Monsieur Du Harpin let more than a month drift by, that is to say, he waited until the end of my second year with him, and waited without showing the least hint of resentment at the refusal I had given him, when one evening, having just retired to m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 The consequence was Dubourg became nothing if not more insolent; he laid upon me the blame for his weakness' mistakes, wanted to repair them with new outrages and yet more mortifying invectives; there was nothing he did not say to me, nothing he did... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Alas, Monsieur, I said, greatly confused, I am a poor orphan not yet fourteen years old and I have already become familiar with every nuance of misfortune; I implore your commiseration, have pity upon me, I beseech you, and then I told in detail of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-09 Juliette had just attained her twentieth year when a certain Comte de Lorsange, a gentleman out of Anjou, about forty years of age, became so captivated by her he resolved to bestow his name upon her; he awarded her an income of twelve thousand poun... 阅读全文>>