... How powerful the force of circumstance if, forgetting all my designs in a premature triumph, I had risked losing the delights of a prolonged struggle and the fascination of painful defeat? If, seduced by my youthful ardour, I had thought to lay the conqueror of Madame de Tourvel open to taking as the fruit of his labours nothing but the tame distinction of having had one more woman! Oh yes, let her give herself to me, but let her struggle with herself; may she, without having the strength to conquer, have the strength to resist; may she savour at leisure the feeling of her weakness and be obliged to admit her defeat. We shall allow the humble poacher to kill the stag he has surprised in its hiding-place; the true hunter will prolong the chase.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:57:47 +0000
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