"What, Monsieur! the money I gave you... the service I had just rendered you... to be paid for what I did in your behalf by the blackest treacher...
"Feeble Phoebus stuff, Therese," Saint-Florent smiled; "the character of man's enjoyment is determined by the kind of organs he has...
Together with this man I was deploring the double misfortune of which he was the victim when he proposed we continue our way."Thanks to your atte...
"Yes, Therese," Monsieur de Corville put in, "yes, we insist upon these details, you veil them with a decency that removes all their ed...
He seizes my arms, binds them to my side, then he slips a black silken noose about my neck; he holds both ends of the cord and, by tightening, he can ...
"Oh, Monsieur," I said to him, "to what limits you do carry your villainy!""To the ultimate periods," Roland answered; &...
...with Kie we'd really be able to perform wonders. Both he and his wife, they say, immolated victims daily and would have them live twenty-four h...
"Well, Therese," he cries, "recommend your soul to God, the instant my delirium supervenes will be that when I plunge you into the eter...
Then the baroness drew me aside."Therese," says she, "am I in error? are you not the person I saved from the Conciergerie ten years ago...
"Very well," I replied, "very well, Madame, but let's spend a moment reasoning in terms of your own principles: what right have you...