It's a struggle, it's hatred.
Violence is necessary to it.

Love by mutual consent is merely a tedious obligation." And he cried, greatly excited.
"Delage is prodigious!" "Don't get yourself into a fix," said Pradel.
"This same little Lydie entices my actors into her dressing-room, and then all of a sudden she screams out that she is being outraged in order to get hush-money out of them.

It's her lover who has taught her the trick, and takes the coin.

You were saying, Madame Doulce----" "After a long and interesting conversation," resumed Madame Doulce, "Monsieur l'Abbe Mirabelle suggested a favourable solution.

He gave me to understand that, in order to remove all difficulties, it would be sufficient for a physician to certify that Chevalier was not in full possession of his faculties, and that he was not responsible for his acts." "But," observed Pradel, "Chevalier wasn't insane.