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She kept Isoult in a fever by her tricks; by this particular trick she

risked a different fire--jealousy For of the four persons who made up

the household, she alone went behind that door Vincent, the young

page, brought food and wine to the threshold; Maulfry came out and

took them in But there she was perfectly safe Isoult could never be

jealous of Prosper; she would despair, but would resent nothing he

s exorbitantly--self-love and a

sensitive surface Isoult loved Love and Prosper--the two in one

glorious ie; and as for her surface, that, like the rest of her,

body and soul, was his when Love allowed Nor was she even curious, at

first Many thrashings, acquaintance with her world which was close if

not long, and a deeply-driven scorn of herself threw her blindly upon

the discretion of the only man she had ever found to be at once

splendid and humane What he chose was the law and what he declared

the prophets But she rounds

where destiny and suchlike er

at her And in fact she did

Meantie of her body and will Isoult was obedient

in everything but one Maulfry, who always saw the girl undress and go

to bed, objected to her prayers

"Pray!" she would call out, "for what and to what do you pray? Pray to

your husband when you have one, and he will give you according to your

deserts, which he alone can appraise Trust him for that But to crave

boons you know little of, fro at all,