“ for legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother. ”
Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif (1880). copy citation
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
|---|---|
| Source | Boule de Suif |
| Topic | love despise |
| Date | 1880 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boule_de_Suif |
Context
“But conversation was soon resumed among the three ladies, whom the presence of this girl had suddenly drawn together in the bonds of friendship—one might almost say in those of intimacy. They decided that they ought to combine, as it were, in their dignity as wives in face of this shameless hussy; for legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
The three men, also, brought together by a certain conservative instinct awakened by the presence of Cornudet, spoke of money matters in a tone expressive of contempt for the poor. Count Hubert related the losses he had sustained at the hands of the Prussians, spoke of the cattle which had been stolen from him, the crops which had been ruined, with the easy manner of a nobleman who was also a tenfold millionaire, and whom such reverses would scarcely inconvenience for a single year.”
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