日期：2015-06-15 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? have you entirely forgotten your Dubois ? Little flattered by this discovery, I however replied to it with politen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Well, Therese, he cries, recommend your soul to God, the instant my delirium supervenes will be that when I plunge you into the eternal abyss awaiting you; ah... ah... Therese, ah... and I feel my head covered with proof of his ecstasy; but, happily... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 ...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 hours in death's cruelest agonies, and in such a state of suffering that they were constantly on the ver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Oh, Monsieur, I said to him, to what limits you do carry your villainy! To the ultimate periods, Roland answered; there is not a single extravagance in the world in which I have not indulged, not a crime I have not committed, and not one that my doc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 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 strangle and dispatch me to the other world ei quickly or slowly, depending upon his pleasure. This... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Yes, Therese, Monsieur de Corville put in, yes, we insist upon these details, you veil them with a decency that removes all their edge of horror; there remains only what is useful to whoever seeks to perfect his understanding of enigmatic man. You m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 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 attentions I feel a little better, said Roland; night is approaching, let's get on to a house which should b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Feeble Phoebus stuff, Therese, Saint-Florent smiled; the character of man's enjoyment is determined by the kind of organs he has received from Nature; a weak individual's, and hence every woman's, incline in the direction of procuring moral ecstasie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 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 treachery... that may, you think, be understood, justified ? Why yes, Therese! yes indeed! the proof an explanati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Therese! What are you doing here ? he demands. Oh, Monsieur, punish me, I reply, I am guilty and have nothing to answer you. Unhappily, in my fright I had forgotten to destroy the Countess' letter: he suspects its existence, asks for it, I wish to d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Now, what do I observe upon coolly proceeding to this investigation? A puny creature, always inferior to man, infinitely less attractive than he, less ingenious, less wise, constructed in a disgusting manner entirely opposite to what is capable of p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Superfluous efforts, he cries, this is not what I must have... to the business... the business... however pitiable my state... I can hold back no longer... come, Countess, your arms! He seizes her ferociously, places her as I was placed, arms suspen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 With what regards this aspect of things, Mademoiselle, you see that they treat me well. Yes, Madame, I replied, and I know it is the wish of Monsieur le Comte that you lack nothing. Oh yes! But as these attentions are motivated only by cruelty, my f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Therese, said the Count, bidding me be seated, I shall not very often repeat such exercises with you, your person is useful for other purposes; but it was of the highest importance I acquaint you with my tastes and the manner in which you will expir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Then the Count rose to his feet and came up to examine me. While he makes a detailed investigation I can describe him to you: the portrait's singularity merits an instant's attention. Monsieur de Gernande was at that time a man of fifty, almost six... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 And therewith I pierce the next hedge; this one was thicker than the first: the further I progressed, the stouter they became. The hole was made, however, but there was firm ground beyond... nothing more betrayed the same horrors I had just encounte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 I should indeed have liked to have been able to comfort her that first night, but, obliged to spend it with Severino, it may well have been I on the contrary who stood in the greater need of help, for I had the misfortune, no, not to please, the wor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Those old clothes have become useless; you will have some cut to fit your size, they will be more becoming to you; be content to take along only what you are wearing. I asked the monk whether I might be allowed to accompany Omphale to the door of th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 These frightful theories soon led me to think of Omphale's doubts upon the manner in which we left the terrible house we were in. And it was then I conceived the plans you will see me execute in the sequel. However, to complete my enlightenment I co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-04-02 Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that this enjoyment, taken in independence of the object we employ, is not merely of a nature very remote from what coul... 阅读全文>>