Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 2 (of 2)

Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 2 (of 2)

Chapter XII Her supple, yielding body shaped itself to mine like wax and took its whole exterior outline as exactly as possible:water would not have found its way more scrupulously into every irregularity in the line.Thus glued to my side, she produced the effect of the double stroke that painters give to the shadow side of their picture in laying on their color. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN VOLUME II IN THE RUSTIC CABIN Fronts. D'ALBERT WATCHES THODORE AT THE HOTEL DU LION-ROUGE BEFORE THE REHEARSAL AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION AT THE WINDOW OF THE CHATEAU THE DUEL ARRIVAL IN THE TOWN OF C D'ALBERT'S SURPRISE THE REALIZATION That is the fact.I love a man, Silvio.I tried for a long while to deceive myself; I gave a different name to the sentiment I felt, I clothed it in the guise of pure, disinterested friendship; I believed that it was nothing more than the admiration I have for all beautiful persons and all beautiful things; I walked for several days through the deceitful, laughing paths that wander about every new-born passion; but I realize now in what a deep and terrible slough I have become involved. There is no way of concealing the truth from myself longer; I have examined myself carefully, I have coolly considered all the circumstances; I have gone to the bottom of the most trivial details; I have searched every corner of my heart with the assurance due to the habit of studying one's self; I blush to think it and to write it; but the fact, alas! is only too certain.I love this young man, not with the affection of a friend, but with love;yes, with love. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 48894
Author: Gautier, Théophile
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Le Sueur, François-Xavier , Toudouze, Édouard, 1848-1907
Translator: Burnham, I. G.