Scenes From A Courtesanss Life Pt1 Translated By James Waring PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...business with a light heart. Nothing could be more fatal to Esther than the steps taken by Nucingen. The hapless girl, in defending her fidelity, was defending her life. This very natural instinct was what Carlos called prudery. Now Asie, not without taking such precautions as usual in such cases, went off to report to Carlos the conference she had held with the Baron, and all the profit she had made by it. The man's rage, like himself, was terrible; he came forthwith to Esther, in a carriage with the blinds drawn, driving into the courtyard. Still almost white with fury, the double-dyed forger went straight into the poor girl's room; she looked at him--she was standing up--and she dropped on to a chair as though her legs had snapped. "What is the matter, monsieur?" said she, quaking in every limb. "Leave us, Europe," said he to the maid. Esther looked at the woman as a child might look at its mother, from whom some assassin had snatched it to murder it. "Do you know where you will send Lucien?" Carlos went on when he was alone with Esther. "Where?" asked she in a low voice, venturing to glance at her executioner. "Where I come from, my beauty." Esther, as she looked at the man, saw red. "To the hulks," he added in an undertone. Esther shut her eyes and stretched herself out, her arms dropped, and she turned white. The man rang, and Prudence appeared. ' "Bring her round," he said coldly; "I have not done." He walked up and down the drawing-room while waiting. Prudence-Europe was obliged to come and beg monsieur to lift Esther on to the bed; he carried her with an ease that betrayed athletic strength. They had to procure all the...