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With these two disparate elements in mind (because I had known "Rachel, when of the Lord" in a brothel), I realized that many women to whom men devote everything, for whom they suffer and take their own lives, may be in themselves, or for others, what Rachel was for me. The idea that anyone could be painfully consumed with curiosity in regard to her life dumbfounded me.

I had been thinking earlier that if I had not enjoyed my first experiencing of La Berma it was because, as with my earlier experiences with Gilberte in the Champs-Elysees, I had approached it with too strong a desire.