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Updated: June 14, 2025
Observers ought now to understand how it was that La Pechina, from whom passion issued by every pore, awakened in perverted natures the feelings deadened by abuse; just as water fills the mouth at sight of those twisted, blotched, and speckled fruits which gourmands know by experience, and beneath whose skin nature has put the rarest flavors and perfumes.
All true love becomes to a woman an active contemplation, which is more or less lucid, more or less profound, according to her nature. "Come, my dear, show your home to Monsieur Emile," said the countess, whose mind was so pre-occupied that she forgot La Pechina, who was the ostensible object of her visit. The interior of the restored pavilion was in keeping with its exterior.
The countess, as white as her handkerchief, was so overcome that she heard neither Blondet nor the abbe nor La Pechina. "It is enough to drive one from this terrestrial paradise," she said at last. "But the first thing of all is to save that child from their claws." "You are right," said Blondet in a low voice. "That child is a poem, a living poem."
His little granddaughter, Pechina, is at service with Madame Michaud, whereas my little Mouche is as free as air. So that poor good man gets rewarded for his virtues in exactly the same way that I get punished for my vices. He don't know what a glass of good wine is, he's as sober as an apostle, he buries the dead, and I I play for the living to dance.
Your brother Nicolas, as Aglae said, is after La Pechina. That must not be; I protect her, that girl. She is to be my heiress for thirty thousand francs, and I intend to marry her well. I know that Nicolas, helped by your sister Catherine, came near killing the little thing this morning.
Only this morning I stood two hours under the bridge of the Avonne to see what he was about. A woman may have helped him." "It is dreadful!" said the countess. "They call it amusing themselves," added the priest, in a sad and grieved tone. "Oh! La Pechina would never let them keep her," said the bailiff; "she is quite able to swim across the river. I shall look along the banks.
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