13/23 On two occasions, I wanted to run away, to go straight before me, towards the sun; but my courage failed. They had turned me into a docile brute with their tame benevolence and sickly tenderness. I remained there quite gentle, quite silent, dreaming of striking and biting." After a silence, she continued: "I do not know why I consented to marry Camille. I did not protest, from a feeling of a sort of disdainful indifference. |