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"Well, as far as faithfulness goes--"

"Ungrateful!"

"I will not reproach you with anything You are a divine woman, but nevertheless a woman, and like every wooddess of love replied eagerly, "is simply the element of passion and of natural love, which is woive herself where she loves, and , that pleases her"

"Can there be any greater cruelty for a lover than the unfaithfulness of the woman he loves?"

"Indeed!" she replied "We are faithful as long as we love, but you de of herself without enjoyeneral take love too soberly and seriously You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure"

"That is why our emotions are honorable and virtuous, and our relations per for the nudity of paganishest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection It works only evil in you As soon as you wish to be natural, you beco hostile; you have ods of Greece, and out of me a demon You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before e to kiss e to Rorow from his withered staff, while underup every hour, but their fragrance does not agree with you Stay aans remain under the debris, beneath the lava; do not disinter us Pompeii was not built for you, nor our villas, our baths, our teods We are chilled in your world"

The beautiful hed, and drew the dark sables still closer about her shoulders

"Much obliged for the classical lesson," I replied, "but you cannot deny, that man and woman are mortal eney one In love there is union into a single being for a short tiht, one sensation, one will, in order to be then further disunited And you know this better than I; whichever of the two fails to subjugate will soon feel the feet of the other on his neck--"