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"Shall I sign the contract?" I asked

"Not yet," said Wanda "I shall first add your conditions, and the actual signing won't occur until the proper tiht things over What special value would there be in owning a slave where everyone owns slaves What I want is to have a slave, I alone, here in our civilized sober, Philistine world, and a slave who submits helplessly to my power solely on account of hts, or coo to a country where we are not known and where you can appear before the world as my servant without embarrassment Perhaps to Italy, to Ro on Wanda's ottoman She wore her ermine jacket, her hair was loose and fell like a lion'san to seethe, ainst hers

"I want to be absolutely in your power, Wanda," I exclaimed suddenly, seized by that frenzy of passion when I can scarcely think clearly or decide freely "I want to put ood or evil without any condition, without any li this I had slipped fro up at her with drunken eyes

"How beautiful you now are," she exclaimed, "your eyes half-broken in ecstasy fill me with joy, carrybeaten to death, in the extreony You have the eye of a martyr"

So myself so absolutely, so unconditionally into a woman's hands Suppose she did abuse my passion, her power?

Well, then I would experience what has occupied ivenof seductive terror A foolish apprehension! It will be a wanton ga ood, a noble personality, incapable of a breach of faith But it lies in her hands --if she wants to she can What a temptation in this doubt, this fear!

Now I understand Manon l'Escault and the poor chevalier, who, even in the pillory, while she was another man's mistress, still adored her

Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it es nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us