In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . erene at her husbands table on asociety she is careful to conciliate ; who has woventhe most sacred ties and most unholy pleasuresinto so deft a braid, that none can say where onecommences or the other ends; who uses the sanc-tity of her maternity to cover the lawlessness ofher license ; and who, incapable alike of the self-abandonment of love or of the self-sacrifice ofduty, has not even such poor, cheap honour as,in the creatures of the streets, may make guiltloyal to its dupe and partner. This is the Femme Galante of the passingcentury, who
In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . erene at her husbands table on asociety she is careful to conciliate ; who has woventhe most sacred ties and most unholy pleasuresinto so deft a braid, that none can say where onecommences or the other ends; who uses the sanc-tity of her maternity to cover the lawlessness ofher license ; and who, incapable alike of the self-abandonment of love or of the self-sacrifice ofduty, has not even such poor, cheap honour as,in the creatures of the streets, may make guiltloyal to its dupe and partner. This is the Femme Galante of the passingcentury, who, with her hand on her husbandsarm, babbles of her virtue in complacent boast;and ignoring such a vulgar word as Sin, talkswith a smile of Friendship. Beside her Frou-frouwere innocence itself, Marion de lOrme were a 2 M IN A WINTER CITY. honesty, Manon Lescaut were purity, Cleopatrawere chaste, and Faustine were faithful. She is the female Tartuffe of seduction, thePrecieuse Eidicule of passion, the parody ofLove, the standing gihe of
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