Page 83 (2/2)

as you ask me now, and in future I should have had no other lover but

you I fancied for a ive myself that happiness for

sixthe uess! In ereater sacrifice for you than you iht

have said to you, 'I want twenty thousand francs'; you were in love with

; you did not understand the

scruple, for such it was Those of us who are likeand a develops

unknown to other wouerite

Gautier theyou for

the ht to profit,

without saying anything If you had only hted hat I promised you, and you would not question me as to

what I did the day before yesterday We are soed to buy the

satisfaction of our souls at the expense of our bodies, and we suffer

still more, when, afterward, that satisfaction is denied us"