Chapter

  1 1 |           was in the house of a kept woman. Now, if there is one thing
  2 1 |            toilet, in which the dead woman's extravagance seemed to
  3 1 |         necessary to the toilet of a woman of the kind which was not
  4 1 |       shocked at the sight of a kept woman's dressing-room, I amused
  5 1 |           age of vice, especially in woman? She preserves no dignity,
  6 1 |            meet with. I knew an aged woman who had once been "gay,"
  7 1 |             never dared to despise a woman at first sight. ~ ~
  8 2 |              Marguerite was a pretty woman; but though the life of
  9 2 |           the lovers of a well-known woman are friends. A few recollections
 10 2 |           scandal on the part of the woman with whom, it seemed to
 11 3 |           present had known the dead woman, and seemed quite oblivious
 12 3 |             had speculated upon this woman's prostitution, who had
 13 3 |         principle, which is: For the woman whose education has not
 14 3 |            Do not let us despise the woman who is neither mother, sister,
 15 4 |           that the death of a pretty woman must always make on a young
 16 4 |            realized at once that the woman to whom you had given the
 17 4 |                 You were right. That woman was an angel. See, read
 18 4 |              would think that a kept woman could have written that?"
 19 4 |         lament like this over a dead woman such as she; no one will
 20 4 |           ever know what I made that woman suffer, how cruel I have
 21 5 |           already forgotten the dead woman, and along with her his
 22 5 |            on the 22nd of February a woman named Marguerite Gautier
 23 5 |           February, at 12 o'clock, a woman of that name had been buried. ~
 24 6 |            can not realize that this woman, so young and so beautiful
 25 7 |           the entr'actes, and a tall woman passed us in the corridor,
 26 7 |           was stationed there, and a woman dressed in white got down
 27 7 |           for this royally beautiful woman in white. ~A few days later
 28 7 |           Why?" ~"To go and see that woman." ~"Are you in love with
 29 7 |       evening follows a very elegant woman, with whom he had fallen
 30 7 |             would do to possess this woman, she stops at the corner
 31 7 |            longed to suffer for this woman, I was afraid that she would
 32 7 |              me, You shall have this woman to-night and be killed tomorrow,
 33 7 |              I asked. ~"With another woman." ~"There are no men?" ~"
 34 7 |             do you know what kind of woman it is that I am going to
 35 7 |         duchess. It is simply a kept woman, very much kept, my dear
 36 7 |            minutes I loved her as no woman was ever loved. ~Marguerite
 37 7 |               I shall never see this woman again, and if I liked her
 38 8 |             box; on looking, I saw a woman with whom I was quite familiar.
 39 8 |             She had once been a kept woman, and had tried to go on
 40 8 |              The piano was silent. A woman who looked more like a companion
 41 8 |    consciousness of his nullity, the woman tired of her dismal visitor.
 42 9 |              kind of candour in this woman. You could see she was still
 43 9 |             time in the eyes of this woman a glimmer of desire, giving
 44 9 |              years to make love to a woman like me. With us, it is
 45 10|          always be particular with a woman; it is what I feel, at least." ~"
 46 10|             have a sorry mistress; a woman who is nervous, ill, sad,
 47 10|          gaiety sadder than grief, a woman who spits blood and spends
 48 10|              you were to live with a woman like me. Let us be friends,
 49 10|            like mine. Take a married woman. You see, I speak to you
 50 11|          obstinately to see in her a woman like other women, and, with
 51 11|           though she was only a kept woman, I had so anticipated for
 52 11|             enough to possess such a woman, now I was filled with vanity
 53 11|        coming back." ~She was like a woman who is preoccupied with
 54 12|         street, he brushes against a woman, looks at her, turns, goes
 55 12|            way. He does not know the woman, and she has pleasures,
 56 12|        brings them face to face. The woman becomes the man's mistress
 57 12|             with the senses. Often a woman takes a lover in obedience
 58 12|            And I had the key of this woman's room, and in three or
 59 13|        suffice for the expenses of a woman like Marguerite. A fortune
 60 13|             a year he can not give a woman more than forty or fifty
 61 13|             they are the lovers of a woman like Marguerite, that she
 62 13|             in Paris. Do you think a woman is grateful to them for
 63 13|               and do not give a kept woman the right to call herself
 64 13|          order, and the affairs of a woman like me are always in great
 65 13|             for I already loved this woman too much not to be overwhelmed
 66 13|       meaning of the hold which this woman had taken upon my life? ~
 67 14|            There is no man to whom a woman has not been unfaithful,
 68 14|               I had had to do with a woman like all other women of
 69 14|              hand. I must leave this woman without giving her the satisfaction
 70 14|          forcible enough to punish a woman who laughed at a love like
 71 14|              Every time that I saw a woman at a distance, I fancied
 72 14|           Alone?" ~"No; with another woman." ~"That all?" ~"The Comte
 73 14|              I had not even paid the woman, that I might have some
 74 14|           quits of her, as of a kept woman, but I should have felt
 75 14|           and finish either with the woman or with one's scruples,
 76 14|         anything more to do with the woman; she cares nothing about
 77 14|          wounds the self-esteem of a woman when, two days after one
 78 15|           Well, you might have had a woman here," said Prudence, "and
 79 16|     disinterested the love of a kept woman may be, that it will cost
 80 16|              so fine a frame for the woman whom one loves as the blue
 81 16|             However much one loves a woman, whatever confidence one
 82 16|             to her surroundings, the woman whom one loves loses something
 83 16|             me a young and beautiful woman, whom I loved, and who loved
 84 17|          paying for the follies of a woman who could not even have
 85 17|    Marguerite was no longer the same woman that I had known. She avoided
 86 17|         never have believed that the woman dressed in white, wearing
 87 17|          always declared that when a woman loves, she can not do as
 88 18|              is to be in love with a woman, you know how it cuts short
 89 18|             with the insistence of a woman who can say, I was right
 90 19|         perhaps going to see another woman." ~"Child!" ~"Now I am relieved.
 91 19|            liaison like ours, if the woman has any sense of dignity
 92 19|       depends the love one has for a woman like me. Who knows? Perhaps
 93 19|       persist in only seeing in me a woman to whom luxury is indispensable,
 94 20|           that you are living with a woman called Marguerite Gautier?" ~"
 95 20|                Do you know what this woman was?" ~"A kept woman." ~"
 96 20|            this woman was?" ~"A kept woman." ~"And it is for her that
 97 20|          very much in love with this woman?" ~"You see it, father,
 98 20|           honour is bound to pay the woman whom he keeps, by all means;
 99 20|            as I am the lover of this woman." ~"Come, Armand, open your
100 20|              husband and wife with a woman whom everybody has had?" ~"
101 20|              does it matter, if this woman loves me, if her whole life
102 20|           she has become a different woman?" ~"Do you think, then,
103 20|        absurdities. Come, leave this woman; your father entreats you." ~
104 20|             can not always love this woman, who also can not always
105 20|             if it had been any other woman, but I was convinced that
106 20|             is a different kind of a woman from what you think. This
107 20|           man better, no matter what woman inspires it. If you knew
108 20|              Because Marguerite, the woman you calumniate, and whom
109 20|            this. You will leave this woman. Just now I begged you;
110 21|          with those evasions which a woman resorts to when she will
111 23|            when I declared that this woman did not love you." But he
112 23|            loved, I still loved this woman so much that I could not
113 23|            on foot, accompanied by a woman whom I had never seen. ~
114 23| Champs-Elysees. She was with another woman, very pretty. Who is she?" ~"
115 23|             I was disgusted with the woman, seeing her take every word
116 23|        Marguerite, at all events the woman with whom she was most often
117 23|             said to everybody: "This woman is mine." ~I leaned against
118 23|              was the lover of such a woman might well be as proud as
119 23|              I made up my mind. That woman should be my mistress. I
120 24|           hold which I had upon this woman, and I took a cowardly advantage
121 24|           lover. You don't deceive a woman like me, my dear friend;
122 24|              you." ~Marguerite was a woman in the same position as
123 24|              I had said to the other woman. I loved Marguerite. I saw
124 24|            felt a disgust toward the woman with whom I was making it. ~
125 24|           ruined themselves for that woman. ~From that day I inflicted
126 24|              man in love with such a woman as Olympe. The report of
127 24|            cowardly persistence of a woman licensed by the authority
128 24|              tell her to respect the woman whom I loved, whether I
129 24|           that she should insult the woman whom I love, under the pretence
130 24|         under the pretence that this woman is my mistress, is a thing
131 24|             under the influence of a woman who has neither heart nor
132 24|             a reason for torturing a woman who can not defend herself." ~"
133 24|             I felt that I loved this woman as much, more perhaps, than
134 24|          revenge upon a sick and sad woman like me. See, take my hand.
135 24|            was burning, and the poor woman shivered under her fur cloak. ~
136 24|           Have I the face of a happy woman, Armand? Do not mock my
137 24|             the instincts of a light woman, as you seem to say, but
138 24|           mind this pale and weeping woman with the madcap who had
139 24|      reawaken at the contact of this woman. "No, I will forget everything,
140 24|              said to myself that the woman was laughing at me; I saw
141 25|          Armand Duval allowed a kept woman (forgive me, my child, for
142 25|               after all, only a kept woman, and that whatever excuse
143 25|             for Paris. ~I was only a woman, and when I saw you again
144 26|         which you drove away a dying woman, who could not resist your
145 26|             was the lover there of a woman in society, and he feared
146 26|              the love for you that a woman's heart can hold and give,
147 26|         writing these lines the poor woman to whom he was kind enough
148 26|         aware that there was a dying woman in the bed that fortunately
149 26|              not behaving well. This woman, who thought she could get
150 26|            it is the whim of a dying woman.? ~Then she embraced me
151 26|            and forehead of the dying woman, repeated a short prayer,
152 26|     Marguerite, I wish I were a holy woman that my kiss might recommend