[The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookThe Two Brothers CHAPTER XV 5/30
I know women.
I have paid for one, who cost me far more than Flore can ever cost you.
But she taught me how to behave to the fair sex for the rest of my days.
Women are bad children; they are inferior animals to men; we must make them fear us; the worst condition in the world is to be governed by such brutes." It was about half-past two in the afternoon when the old man got home. Kouski opened the door in tears,--that is, by Max's orders, he gave signs of weeping. "Oh! Monsieur, Madame has gone away, and taken Vedie with her!" "Gone--a--way!" said the old man in a strangled voice. The blow was so violent that Rouget sat down on the stairs, unable to stand.
A moment after, he rose, looked about the hall, into the kitchen, went up to his own room, searched all the chambers, and returned to the salon, where he threw himself into a chair, and burst into tears. "Where is she ?" he sobbed.
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