[La-bas by J. K. Huysmans]@TWC D-Link bookLa-bas CHAPTER VIII 34/45
It ought to be easy to find out about a cardinal who renounced the purple to go live in a hut.Wait.I think Saint Peter Damian did, but I am not sure.
I have such a poor memory.
Help me think." "But I don't know who he is!" She came closer to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "Are you angry at me ?" "I should say I am! When I desire you frantically, when I've been dreaming for a whole week about this meeting, you come here and tell me that all is over between us, that you do not love me--" She became demure.
"But if I did not love you, would I have come to you? Understand, then, that reality kills a dream; that it is better for us not to expose ourselves to fearful regrets.
We are not children, you see.
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