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Title: Germinie Lacerteux
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: de Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules
Subjects: Bibliothèque des chefs-d'oeuvre du roman contemporain: Realists (and) Romancists French fiction--19th century--Translations into English Limited Editions French fiction
Publisher: Philadelpha: Printed for subscribers only by G. Barrie
Contributing Library: Susquehanna University, Blough-Weis Library
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ss. Come, now for my letter, eh ? Germinie leaned over the sheet of paper. But she was burning up with fever; the quill cracked in her nervous fingers. There, she said, throwing it down 128 GERMINIE LACERTEUX after a few seconds, I dont know what's the matter with me today. I'll write it for you another time. As you like, little one—but I rely on you. Come tomorrow, then. I'll tell you some of madames nonsense. We'll have a good laugh at her ! And, when the door was closed, Adele began to roar with laughter: it had cost her only a little blague to unearth Germinies secret. (Eljaptct XM But at the fortifications her pleasure returned. She would go with Jupillon and sit upon the slope of the embankment. Beside her were families innumerable, workmen lying flat upon their faces, small annuitants gazing at the horizon through spy-glasses, philosophers of want, bent double, with their hands upon their knees, the greasy coats characteristic of old men, and blackhats worn as red as their red beards.
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XV So far as young Jupillon was concerned, love was simply the satisfaction of a certain evil curiosity, which sought, in the knowledge and possession of a woman, the privilege and the pleasure of despising her. Just emerging from boyhood, the young man had brought to his first liaison no other ardor, no other flame than the cold instincts of rascality awakened in boys by vile books, the confidences of their comrades, boardingschool conversation, the first breath of impurity which debauches desire. The sentiment with which the young man usually regards the woman who yields to him, th ecaresses, the loving words, the affectionate attentions with which he envelops her nothing of all that existed in Jupillons case. Woman was to him simply an obscene image; and a passion for a woman seemed to him desirable as being prohibited, illicit, vulgar, cynical and amusing —an excellent opportunity for trickery and sarcasm. Sarcasm the low, cowardly, despicable sarcasm of the dregs of the people was the be

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