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112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1892



And yet he restrained himself in her presence, but only until she had passed; he then put a hand over his mouth as he watched her from behind, and in that way he stifled the cry of love and desire that issued from him in the form of a mournful, muffled sigh. Unlike the other times, he hardly dared to fix his imagination on the bliss of total possession, because as soon as he removed the last veil from his living idol, it would open up a luminous abyss of voluptuousness to his mind, and then his only refuge would be to flee in terror from looming madness.