24/33 Now she finds it more practical to live with her managers, and Jacques finds it more agreeable to travel." "Does he regret her ?" "How can one know the things that agitate a mind anxious and mobile, selfish and passionate, desirous to surrender itself, prompt in disengaging itself, liking itself most of all among the beautiful things that it finds in the world ?" Brusquely she changed the subject. My little workingman has been guillotined. He died with that indifference of virgins without desire, who never have felt on their lips the warm taste of life. The journals and the public approve the act of justice which has just been accomplished. |