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Charlemagne, Belisarious, and Constantine are noted exceptions to this rule. Certainly Claude Vignon presents a variety of mysteries to be solved. In the first place, he is very simple and very wily. Though he falls into excesses with the readiness of a courtesan, his powers of thought remain untouched.
Two years from now that creature may be worth sixty thousand francs; she will be all or nothing, a great danseuse or a marcheuse, a celebrated person or a vulgar courtesan. She has worked hard since she was eight years old.
For myself I can not see why the Parthenon may not have been a monument to a great and sublime passion, and the statue of Athena, its chief ornament, be the sacred symbol of a great woman greatly loved. So far as can be found, the term of "courtesan" applied by the mob to Aspasia came from the fact that she was not legally married to Pericles, and for no other reason.
In short, it is the application of art in the realm of morals. The priest, ashamed of having yielded to this weakness, hastily pushed Esther away, and she sat down quite abashed, for he said: "You are still the courtesan." And he calmly replaced the paper in his sash. Esther, like a child who has a single wish in its head, kept her eyes fixed on the spot where the document lay hidden.
She hated that reputation that had carried Vaudrey into office, the politics that had robbed her of a kind and loving husband, for he had loved her, she was sure of that, and which had made him the lover of a courtesan, the liar and coward that he was! "Do you see?" she said to Lissac suddenly. "I detest these walls!" She pointed to the gilded ceilings with an angry gesture.
For more than six-and-thirty centuries the brand of the courtesan has rested on the brow of Potiphar's wife. The religious world persists in regarding her as an abandoned woman who wickedly strove to lead an immaculate he-virgin astray. The crime of which she stands accused is so unspeakably awful that even after the lapse of ages we cannot refer to the miserable creature without a moan.
Even those who deliberately and of free choice adopt the profession of a prostitute, do so under the stress of temptations which few moralists seem to realise. Terrible as the fact is, there is no doubt it is a fact that there is no industrial career in which for a short time a beautiful girl can make as much money with as little trouble as the profession of a courtesan.
Flora was not the only courtesan who received the distinction mentioned in the text. The gilded statue of Phryne, the work of Praxiteles, was placed in the temple at Delphi, presented by the lady herself. He was younger than Marcus Crassus, of the same age as Cicero, and six years older than the Dictator Cæsar.
Of neurotic temperament, inherently weak, if not actually vicious in character, with the spirit of the courtesan strong within her from an early age, fond of luxury and personal adornment she could not legitimately afford, it was not surprising that she listened to the flatterers and went to the devil quicker than any woman before her in the whole history of gallantry.
He was fond of the choicest sensual enjoyments: Phaedrus, in an unfinished tale, describes him to us as even in his exterior, an effeminate voluptuary; and his amour with the courtesan Glycera is notorious.
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