Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 2 (of 2)

Théodore and Rosette and I have great discussions on this subject: Rosette has but little relish for my system, she is for _true_ truth; Théodore would give the poet more latitu...

I have not Cleopatra's power, and if I had it, I certainly should not have the strength to use it. And so, being neither able nor desirous to cut off my lovers' heads upon getti...

If I had remained at home, in the costume of my own sex, listlessly turning my spinning-wheel or making tapestry in a window recess behind the glass, this thing that I have soug...

Only a woman could love her with proper delicacy and tender affection.--One side of my character, which might not have been developed in a _liaison_ of another sort, but which s...

As soon as I saw you, something was torn away within me, a veil fell, a door opened, I felt that I was flooded inwardly with waves of light; I realized that my life was before m...

Conversing thus we entered a hall, the walls of which were hung with high warp Flemish tapestry.--Tall trees with pointed leaves were covered with flocks of fanciful birds; the...

"So it seems, my very dear and most virtuous sister, that, having considered in your wisdom that Seigneur Théodore's bed was more downy than your own, you came here to sleep in...

Rosette, however, did not completely recover her cheerfulness;--the idea that I might go and that I was inclined to do so, an idea that had not before presented itself clearly t...

Cynthia, you are fair; make haste. Who knows if you will be alive to-morrow?--Your hair is blacker than the lustrous flesh of an Ethiopian maiden. Make haste; in a few years sle...

I, although I was only six months older than you, was six years less romantic; the thing that interested me most was to know what men said among themselves and what they did whe...

I am naturally expansive and I have a very caressing manner.--Sometimes, forgetting all that such demonstrations might seem to mean, when I went to walk with Rosette I would put...

I jest, but there certainly is no reason for it, for I have never suffered so much, and these last two months have seemed to me like two years, two centuries rather. There has b...

It really makes me sick at heart.--What can be more idiotic and more stupid? The great tyrants with voices like bulls, who pace across the stage from wing to wing, waving their...

I have no doubt that, at that moment, she believed as I did that the pretended Rosalind was nothing less than a young and lovely woman, and the fragile card-house of her hope su...

IN THE RUSTIC CABIN Fronts. D'ALBERT WATCHES THÉODORE AT THE HOTEL DU LION-ROUGE BEFORE THE REHEARSAL AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION AT THE WINDOW OF THE CHATEAU THE DUEL ARRIVAL IN...

"You see, D'Albert, I resemble the huntress, Diana, more than anything else on earth.--When I was very young, I assumed this masculine costume for reasons which it would be tedi...