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How old are you?

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I'll be fifteen in a few days.

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And by what name are you known?

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Juliette.

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And never has any man?

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Oh no, Madame!
I swear it!

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Ah yes!

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Well, you know,
often in those convents,

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there's a confessor,
or a nun or a companion -

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I must have proof.

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You have only to look,
and you will find it, Madame.

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All you have to do is stay here.

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Pay attention
to what I tell you,

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with compliance and submissiveness

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to my practices.

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You will be clean and thrifty

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and utterly frank with me;

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you will be cautious
with your companions,

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and with men, deceitful -

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And within ten years,
I promise you.

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You will retire.

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And the art you will have
acquired, thanks to me.

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Will endow you with the power

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to procure everything else.

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The masterpiece of philosophy

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would be to use the same means

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Providence uses on man,

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and, from this construction,
to deduce rules of conduct.

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If, full of respect
for social conventions,

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in spite of all our care.

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We happen to meet
only with briars

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while the wicked tread upon roses.

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Won't people with little virtue
think it is preferable

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to abandon oneself to the tide,

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rather than to resist it?

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It is important to anticipate
these sophistries -

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essential to show that examples

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of afflicted virtue

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presented to a corrupted soul,

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can bring it back to righteousness

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just as if it were presented
with the path m virtue,

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ornate with the most flattering rewards.

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Such are the sentiments
directing our labors,

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hence, we ask your indulgence

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for the erroneous doctrines
placed in the mouths

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of our characters.

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And for the sometimes
difficult situations

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which, out of love for truth,

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we have been obliged to
address before your eyes.

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What can this poor
unhappy child have done

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to be bound and guarded like this?

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She is accused of three crimes:

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the charges are murder,
theft and arson.

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According to the law,
she's being taken to Paris

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for confirmation of her sentence.

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My dear, for some reason,
that girl moves me.

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I would have her
tell me her unhappy tale.

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This creature, though she may be innocent,

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is treated like a criminal,

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while everybody unjustly prospers.

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I who am soiled
with crimes and horrors!

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Tell me how it's possible that you,

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with a face as sweet
and beautiful as yours.

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Have found yourself
in so dreadful a situation?

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Were I to recount
the story of my life, Madame,

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I would offer an awesome
example of oppressed virtue

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and innocence,

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accuse the hand of Heaven -

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You'll permit me to conceal
my name and origins.

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Thérése is what I call myself.

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As a young infant, I lost my family.

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I thought that with the small
legacy I had been granted,

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I might find an adequate post
to keep me alive,

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and, refusing those
that were not suitable,

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I managed to get back to my native Paris,

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and soon spent the little bit
which I possessed.

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Of all the severities to which

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I've been forced to expose myself,

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since my woeful career began,

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amongst all the loathsome proposals

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that were made me,

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I will only cite to you
what befall me

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at the home of Monsieur Dubourg.

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One of the capital's richest tradesmen -

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What can I do for you?

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Alas Monsieur, l am but a poor orphan girl

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already well acquainted with ill fortune.

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I implore your commiseration.

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Hmm!

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Take pity on me. I beseech you!

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Have you always
watched your conduct?

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I think that I should not now be so poor

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nor so embarrassed, Monsieur,

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had I wished to go astray.

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Please, no claims you have no right to!

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Why expect the wealthy to relieve you

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if you're in no way useful to them?

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Is there then no more
honesty nor benevolence

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in the hearts of men?

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You bewail your fate.

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Yet, you and you alone
are able to remedy it.

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Great heavens!
At what price?

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Mmm - nothing of much weight,

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one which is of value only as
a token of your own pride.

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Remove your clothes
this instant!

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Oh! Oh, Monsieur!

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Let yourself be swayed.
I beseech you!

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Be so generous as to come to my aid

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without asking of me
what would be so costly

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that I would rather offer up
my very life than submit!

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Cause me to perish,

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but never will I
violate the principles

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I've received in my childhood!

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Oh, Monsieur, please don't
coerce me or constrain me!

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May pleasure even be imagined

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attended by disgust and shame?

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Dare you expect happiness
where you see naught

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but loathing?

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No sooner will you have
consummated your crime

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than my despair will
overwhelm you with remorse-

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I went away terribly humiliated.

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And I heaped all malediction
on this satyr

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capable of making such
cruel sport of my misery.

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Alas, my imprecations.

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Instead of calling down
God's wrath on that villain,

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only gave him further blessings.

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I was then received as a servant

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in the house of an old usurer,
Monsieur Du Harpin.

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After having delivered
a long speech

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upon the indifference of robbery,

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upon, indeed,
its usefulness in the world,

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since it re-establishes
a sort of equilibrium

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which totally confounds
the inequalities of property,

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he enjoined me
to go and steal a gold box

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in the lodgings
of the man above him.

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You will bring me that gold box,

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and for a service as simple as that,

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I will give you,
for the next two years,

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one ecru a year more as wages.

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Oh, Monsieur, how is it possible

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that a master dare corrupt
an innocent domestic?

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Who'd stop me if I were to turn on you

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the very weapons
that you place in my hands?

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And, what if someday.
my actions convert you

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into a victim of
your very own principles?

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Ha-ha, my little rascal!

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Splendid reply you there!

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You are lucky to have
spurned my advances.

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It was a trial by fire.

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Because you were dead if
you had snapped at that bait!

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Hal

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But malefactors do not like
to meet resistance

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in those they seek to seduce

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One night, Monsieur Du Harpin

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appeared by my bed.

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He ordered a search -

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and the miserable ring this bad man

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accused me of stealing --

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- Here it is!
- Was found...

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...in my mattress.
- Aha!

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- The little thief!
- Take her out of my sight!

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Little good did my defense do.

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I was condemned
and taken to the prison

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of the Conciergerie,

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where I was on the brink of
having to pay with my life

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for refusing to participate in a crime.

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There, near me, was La Dubois.

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As celebrated for her beauty

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as for the variety
and number of her villainies.

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This woman became interested in me,

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being moved by a desire
to make a disciple of me.

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Yes, nature has made us
all equal, Thérése.

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It's amusing to hear
these rich ones,

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these magistrates and priests

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who are forever preaching virtue!

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It's not very difficult
to forswear theft

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when one has three times
more than one needs to live.

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One is hard put never to think of murder

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when one is surrounded
only by slaves.

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You would have us shun crime

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when its hand alone opens up
unto us the doors of life?

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We who are viewed only with
disdain for we are weak.

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We whose lips are wetted
with venom, whose

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stockinged-legs are torn by thorns.

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And yet we must defend
ourselves from the crime --

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when his hand alone can
open up the doors of life.

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There are pious principles I adhere to.

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And, God willing,
they will never desert me.

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The only reason Providence is making

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my career on earth so difficult,

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is that I may be compensated
in a better world.

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Those are absurd doctrines!

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Believe me, Therese;
you can forget God's justice

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and future rewards.

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All those platitudes

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lead only to death from starvation.

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Don't lie down to sleep tonight.

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Stay by my side near the door.

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During the night,
the Conciergerie will burn;

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I have seen to it.

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Many people will no doubt die.

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But what of it?

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When what is at stake
is our welfare,

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the lives of all others
count for nothing.

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The hand of God.

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Which had just punished my innocence,

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served the crime of my protectress.

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Twenty-one persons
were consumed in the fire,

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but we made a successful escape.

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We reached the cottage
of the chief of her band,

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who went by the name of Coéur-de-Fer.

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Here's our decision, Thérése.

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You must submit to us immediately,

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and satisfy the desires
of all three of us.

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Oh! Oh, Madame.
I beseech you.

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Once again be my protectress!

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Oh, you poor girl!

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You poor, unhappy creature!

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What?

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You tremble at the obligation

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of doing service.
One at a time.

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To three big, tall,
handsome boys like these?

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Are you aware there are
ten thousand women in Paris

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who would give half of their gold,

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or half of their jewels,
to be in your place?

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I shall follow you, Madame.

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I'll go anyplace with you, I promise!

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Spare me the awful fury of these men,

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and never will I leave your side!

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Children, this girl is one of the company.

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l am taking her into it,
and I ask you to do her no ill.

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She has got to submit!

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Does she think she must
give proof of her virginity

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to be admitted among thieves?

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Though used, she'll as readily be turned

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to prophet as any virgin!

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One moment, friends!

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It's possible to content everybody!

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Behold how much this
lime girl prizes her virtue.

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Since such is the case,
let us leave it to her!

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But, we've got to have
our senses appeased.

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Let Thérése strip at once,

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and stand naked
as the day she was born,

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and adopt for our delight,
each one in turn,

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all the positions which
it shall please us to require.

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Meanwhile, our little Dubois
can appease our hungers,

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and cause our incense
to burn on the altar.

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The entrance to which
is refused us by this creature!

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Strip!

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Oh, what are you asking,
Monsieur?

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The instant you set eyes
upon such a vision as that,

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Heaven help my virtue!

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- Ouch!
- Shut up, you bitch!

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Come, I'm in no mood
to suspend my desires!

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I must say, in her place.

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I'd much rather offer an open door

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than have the gate battered like this.

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But that she forbade.

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00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,335
We're verging upon the capitulation.

260
00:13:57,403 --> 00:14:00,770
Vigorously!
Vigorously, Dubois!

261
00:14:37,776 --> 00:14:39,403
That is what I suffered.

262
00:14:39,478 --> 00:14:41,378
But at least my honor was respected,

263
00:14:41,447 --> 00:14:43,312
even though my modesty was not.

264
00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,873
I felt in need of Dubois' support.

265
00:14:45,951 --> 00:14:47,680
And wanted to pass the night
by her side,

266
00:14:47,753 --> 00:14:49,948
but she had planned to
employ it otherwise

267
00:14:50,022 --> 00:14:53,219
than in shielding my virtue
from the attacks I dreaded.

268
00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:56,921
Ah, Therese, aren't you being
exceedingly foolish

269
00:14:56,996 --> 00:14:59,157
in acting so pretentiously with us.

270
00:14:59,231 --> 00:15:01,426
In wanting to safeguard your purity?

271
00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:03,229
No matter, dear girl-

272
00:15:03,302 --> 00:15:05,361
I shall not touch that phantom

273
00:15:05,437 --> 00:15:08,201
whose possession causes all you delight.

274
00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:10,902
I'll have you know
there is more than one favor

275
00:15:10,976 --> 00:15:12,000
a girl can grant.

276
00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:13,635
Offerings to Venus can be tendered

277
00:15:13,712 --> 00:15:15,577
in more than one single temple.

278
00:15:15,648 --> 00:15:18,014
I will be content
with the most mediocre.

279
00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:19,482
You know, my dear,
near the Cyprian altar,

280
00:15:19,551 --> 00:15:22,145
there's an obscure grotto
into which love retires,

281
00:15:22,221 --> 00:15:24,519
the more energetically, to seduce us.

282
00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:26,888
Such will be the altar
where I'll burn my incense.

283
00:15:26,959 --> 00:15:28,517
Not the slightest disadvantage there,

284
00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:30,425
if pregnancies frighten you.

285
00:15:30,496 --> 00:15:32,555
It's not, in this manner;
they will come about.

286
00:15:32,631 --> 00:15:34,826
Never will your pretty figure
be deformed.

287
00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,492
Oh Monsieur, I have no experience

288
00:15:36,568 --> 00:15:37,899
of the thing in question.

289
00:15:37,970 --> 00:15:41,030
But I hear this monstrous
aberration you suggest-

290
00:15:41,106 --> 00:15:44,803
outrages a woman, and yet,
more unpleasant a manner!

291
00:15:44,877 --> 00:15:48,005
Blinded by the wicked man's seductions,

292
00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,809
content by yielding a little

293
00:15:49,882 --> 00:15:52,510
to save what seemed to me
to be the more essential,

294
00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:55,052
reflecting not upon
what I was about to risk,

295
00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,985
since the dishonest fellow

296
00:15:57,056 --> 00:15:58,421
possessing gigantic proportions

297
00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:00,822
hadn't even the possibility
of taking a woman

298
00:16:00,893 --> 00:16:02,485
in the most permissible place.

299
00:16:02,561 --> 00:16:05,052
And had no other object
but to maim me.

300
00:16:05,130 --> 00:16:07,724
My eyes, as I see, had been
blinded to all that;

301
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,358
I was about to abandon myself,

302
00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:13,132
and become criminal to a virtue.

303
00:16:38,630 --> 00:16:40,154
Who are you, Monsieur,

304
00:16:40,232 --> 00:16:42,325
and what singular lack of prudence

305
00:16:42,401 --> 00:16:44,835
has prompted you to ride alone

306
00:16:44,903 --> 00:16:46,564
in the middle of the night,
in these desolate regions?

307
00:16:46,638 --> 00:16:49,072
My name is St. Florin.

308
00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:51,541
I now return from Flandres.

309
00:16:51,610 --> 00:16:53,578
It's to avoid the heat
I'm traveling at night.

310
00:16:53,645 --> 00:16:56,705
I guess I was overtaken by sleep.

311
00:16:56,782 --> 00:16:59,717
There you are,
it's everything I possess.

312
00:16:59,785 --> 00:17:02,982
Spare me, and you can have it.

313
00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:11,795
Look friend, you will understand

314
00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:15,027
that after such a robbery,
we can't possibly let you live.

315
00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:16,465
Oh, Monsieur!

316
00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:18,594
Monsieur, I beseech you.

317
00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:20,194
Don't present upon my reception

318
00:17:20,272 --> 00:17:21,500
herein your group

319
00:17:21,573 --> 00:17:22,597
the horrible spectacle

320
00:17:22,674 --> 00:17:24,403
of this poor gentleman's death.

321
00:17:24,476 --> 00:17:26,603
And this favor, since it is the first,

322
00:17:26,678 --> 00:17:29,010
you must not refuse it to me!

323
00:17:29,081 --> 00:17:30,981
You know upon what conditions

324
00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:32,517
I shall be able to grant the kindness

325
00:17:32,584 --> 00:17:34,449
you've just begged of me, Thérése.

326
00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,612
You know very well,

327
00:17:35,687 --> 00:17:37,518
you're aware of
what I'm asking of you.

328
00:17:37,589 --> 00:17:38,954
I will do everything!

329
00:17:39,024 --> 00:17:42,289
Yes, everything!
Let him go!

330
00:17:42,361 --> 00:17:45,694
He lives, but he must join us;

331
00:17:45,764 --> 00:17:50,360
this last clause is indispensable.

332
00:17:57,910 --> 00:18:00,435
Thérése, I'd have you
keep your sweet promise.

333
00:18:00,512 --> 00:18:03,538
But I'm very weary tonight,
so rest -

334
00:18:03,615 --> 00:18:05,776
Simply rest beside me;

335
00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:09,480
and I will awaken you
as the day breaks anew.

336
00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:11,523
And I swear that knave's death,

337
00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:13,888
if you but hesitate, Thérése.

338
00:18:13,959 --> 00:18:16,018
Will avenge your deceit toward me.

339
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:18,063
Sleep well, Monsieur, sleep well,

340
00:18:18,130 --> 00:18:20,121
and rest assured that I,

341
00:18:20,199 --> 00:18:22,190
who have only boundless gratitude.

342
00:18:22,267 --> 00:18:26,601
Have no other desire than to acquit it.

343
00:19:46,718 --> 00:19:48,913
It is to you, Thérése,
that I owe fortune and life.

344
00:19:48,987 --> 00:19:50,181
What better can I do

345
00:19:50,255 --> 00:19:52,189
than to lay them both at your feet?

346
00:19:52,257 --> 00:19:54,316
Such generosity is beyond my ken, Monsieur.

347
00:19:54,393 --> 00:19:56,088
I only ask you to take pity on me.

348
00:19:56,161 --> 00:19:58,629
Deign to respect my honor,
'tis my only treasure.

349
00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:00,927
I only beg. as my sole recompense.

350
00:20:00,999 --> 00:20:02,296
To accompany you to Lyon,

351
00:20:02,367 --> 00:20:04,665
and be placed
in an honorable household.

352
00:20:04,736 --> 00:20:07,261
No man's in a nicer position
than I, my dear,

353
00:20:07,339 --> 00:20:09,102
to render you this service.

354
00:20:09,174 --> 00:20:10,505
I have kin aplenty
in the city of Lyon.

355
00:20:10,576 --> 00:20:12,100
I will introduce you tomorrow.

356
00:20:12,177 --> 00:20:14,475
Trust me, please, Thérése,
and as we walk,

357
00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:15,774
you'll tell me of your troubles

358
00:20:15,847 --> 00:20:16,871
and what you've gone through.

359
00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:18,439
I am but a poor orphan girl,

360
00:20:18,517 --> 00:20:19,484
already well acquainted

361
00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:21,519
with every shade of ill fortune.

362
00:20:21,587 --> 00:20:24,886
I was scarcely twelve years old -

363
00:20:41,974 --> 00:20:43,464
Are these obscure trails

364
00:20:43,542 --> 00:20:46,170
really the ones we should be taking?

365
00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:51,945
When shall we be there?

366
00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:53,644
We're already there.
Whore!

367
00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:55,084
Huh - ha!

368
00:21:55,847 --> 00:21:59,374
I have no idea
what that man did or said.

369
00:21:59,451 --> 00:22:02,614
But the state I was in when
I returned to my senses,

370
00:22:02,688 --> 00:22:03,780
advised me only too well

371
00:22:03,855 --> 00:22:06,323
to what point I had been his victim.

372
00:22:06,391 --> 00:22:08,188
Dishonored!

373
00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:09,921
Such had been the reward

374
00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:14,796
of all I had just done
for the unlucky man.

375
00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:35,485
There is no one
who deep in his heart

376
00:22:35,554 --> 00:22:37,021
does not feel
the most vehement desire

377
00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:38,078
to be rid of those

378
00:22:38,156 --> 00:22:40,750
whose death may be
of some advantage to him.

379
00:22:40,826 --> 00:22:42,726
If these impressions
come to us from nature.

380
00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:45,126
Can it be presumed
that they irritate her?

381
00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:47,392
Since it is proven
that she cannot reproduce

382
00:22:47,466 --> 00:22:47,955
without destructions.

383
00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,523
Is it not to act in harmony
with her wishes

384
00:22:49,601 --> 00:22:52,468
to multiply these destructions?

385
00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:55,734
This location will suit us
admirably, dear friend.

386
00:22:55,807 --> 00:22:58,537
The cruel and fatal presence
of an aunt I abhor

387
00:22:58,610 --> 00:23:01,238
won't prevent me from
tasting a moment with you

388
00:23:01,313 --> 00:23:04,680
the pleasures which I cherish.

389
00:23:12,424 --> 00:23:14,016
Is it possible that Destiny
has placed me

390
00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:16,026
in none but situations so critical

391
00:23:16,094 --> 00:23:18,153
that it becomes
quite as difficult for virtue

392
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:19,219
to hear them recited.

393
00:23:19,297 --> 00:23:22,061
As for modesty to describe them?

394
00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:24,659
The act was scandalous and prolonged.

395
00:23:24,736 --> 00:23:26,203
The domestic, filled with ardor,

396
00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:27,898
was ready to immolate his master

397
00:23:27,973 --> 00:23:29,998
with a spear more awful
and more colossal

398
00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:31,667
than the one wherewith

399
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:33,301
Coéur-de-Fer had menaced me.

400
00:23:33,378 --> 00:23:35,869
Aroused by these criminal caresses,

401
00:23:35,947 --> 00:23:38,643
the infamous creature
writhed under the iron,

402
00:23:38,717 --> 00:23:41,686
and seemed to regret
it was not yet more terrible.

403
00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:43,243
A tender couple, lawfully wedded.

404
00:23:43,321 --> 00:23:45,448
Would not have caressed
more passionately.

405
00:23:45,524 --> 00:23:47,856
Their mouths were pressed together,

406
00:23:47,926 --> 00:23:49,621
their sighs intermingled,

407
00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:51,992
their tongues entwined.

408
00:23:52,063 --> 00:23:55,157
And I witnessed the both
of them, drunk with lust.

409
00:23:55,233 --> 00:23:57,360
Bring their perfidious horrors
to completion

410
00:23:57,436 --> 00:24:01,429
in the very vortex of delight.

411
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,354
Jasmin!
We have been discovered!

412
00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:18,946
Some girl has spied on us.

413
00:24:19,024 --> 00:24:23,484
Come on, quickly!
Let's flush the slut out!

414
00:24:27,866 --> 00:24:29,094
Oh, gentlemen!

415
00:24:29,167 --> 00:24:31,328
Deign to have pity
upon an unhappy creature

416
00:24:31,403 --> 00:24:33,132
whose fate deserves more compassion

417
00:24:33,205 --> 00:24:34,570
than you can imagine!

418
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:36,436
I am but a poor orphan girl

419
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:39,033
already well acquainted with ill fortune.

420
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:40,475
I was scarcely twelve years old

421
00:24:40,545 --> 00:24:42,877
when I was abandoned by my protectors.

422
00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:44,745
Delivered quite defenseless
to the world --

423
00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:46,841
Ha, ha, ha!
Come, undress her!

424
00:24:49,754 --> 00:24:54,282
We'll undress her and tie
each of her limbs to a tree.

425
00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:35,663
That's enough.

426
00:25:35,734 --> 00:25:39,192
For the moment, we shall
let her off with a fright.

427
00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:43,470
Be clever and come with us.

428
00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:45,373
It happens that a second chambermaid

429
00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:46,933
is needed at my aunt's;

430
00:25:47,012 --> 00:25:49,344
so I will present you to her.

431
00:25:49,414 --> 00:25:51,644
However, my girl, should you
abuse my confidence.

432
00:25:51,716 --> 00:25:54,344
If you refuse to submit
to the plans and demands

433
00:25:54,419 --> 00:25:55,443
that I have --

434
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,750
see those trees
to which you were bound?

435
00:25:57,822 --> 00:25:59,255
Upon the least provocation.

436
00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:02,555
You'll be brought back
to them at once.

437
00:26:02,994 --> 00:26:04,689
Your candor and charming naiveté

438
00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:06,458
do not permit me to believe

439
00:26:06,531 --> 00:26:08,795
that you could in any way, be false;

440
00:26:08,867 --> 00:26:10,698
and I knew your father:

441
00:26:10,769 --> 00:26:12,600
another reason that moves me

442
00:26:12,671 --> 00:26:14,764
to become interested in your fate.

443
00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:16,670
Unfortunately, that dishonest Du Harpin

444
00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,538
has just fled to England.

445
00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:20,669
Alas, Madame!

446
00:26:20,745 --> 00:26:24,681
Is there then no justice in this world?

447
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:26,216
There now, you mustn't fret.

448
00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:29,845
Soon, all unhappiness and
travail will be over for you.

449
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:32,151
But, whatever the foul treatment

450
00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:34,282
to which Count de Bressac
had exposed me

451
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,826
the first day I had met him,

452
00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,623
it was all the same
impossible to see him

453
00:26:37,696 --> 00:26:39,493
as frequently as I was seeing him,

454
00:26:39,564 --> 00:26:41,657
without feeling drawn toward him

455
00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:45,965
by an insuperable
and instinctive tenderness.

456
00:26:46,037 --> 00:26:49,006
Despite all my thoughts
upon his cruelty.

457
00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:50,803
His disinclination toward women,

458
00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:52,843
the depravity of his tastes,

459
00:26:52,911 --> 00:26:56,108
nothing in the world
was capable of extinguishing

460
00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:57,341
this nascent passion.

461
00:26:57,415 --> 00:26:59,883
And had the Count called
upon me to lay down my life,

462
00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:02,317
I'd have done it
a thousand times over.

463
00:27:02,387 --> 00:27:06,756
He was far from
suspecting my sentiments.

464
00:27:27,212 --> 00:27:29,976
You see how far I go
to please you, Monsieur:

465
00:27:30,048 --> 00:27:31,777
even to the point of
serving your errors

466
00:27:31,850 --> 00:27:34,114
and deceiving your aunt.

467
00:27:34,185 --> 00:27:36,676
But if decency cannot
prompt you to moderation,

468
00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:38,382
you should think about the affect

469
00:27:38,456 --> 00:27:39,821
it has on your health!

470
00:27:39,891 --> 00:27:41,119
Ah, Thérése!

471
00:27:41,192 --> 00:27:43,490
If only you knew the charms
of this fantasy.

472
00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:46,257
The depth of the emotion
caused by the sweet illusion

473
00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:48,629
that one is, like a woman, giving up!

474
00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:50,861
Incredible inconsistency of the mind!

475
00:27:50,935 --> 00:27:53,426
One abhors that sex,
yet one wishes to imitate it!

476
00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,473
And, how sweet it is
to succeed in this,

477
00:27:55,540 --> 00:27:58,839
how delicious it is
to be a whore to everyone

478
00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:00,207
who would have to do with you!

479
00:28:00,278 --> 00:28:02,246
If you are able to imagine
the physical delights

480
00:28:02,313 --> 00:28:05,646
of this divine whimsy,
there's no withstanding it!

481
00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:07,912
The sensations produce delirium;

482
00:28:07,986 --> 00:28:10,045
the titillations so voluptuous,

483
00:28:10,121 --> 00:28:13,386
so piquant that one goes
out of one's mind!

484
00:28:13,458 --> 00:28:15,016
You mustn't believe, Therese,

485
00:28:15,093 --> 00:28:17,493
that we are made the same
as other men.

486
00:28:17,562 --> 00:28:19,530
The structure is entirely different.

487
00:28:19,597 --> 00:28:22,031
And that membrane
that is so sensitive,

488
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,829
and lines your temple of Venus,

489
00:28:23,902 --> 00:28:25,836
is the same which ornaments the altar

490
00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:27,872
at which our Celadons sacrifice.

491
00:28:27,939 --> 00:28:30,271
In that place, we are women
as absolutely as you are

492
00:28:30,341 --> 00:28:31,933
in the sanctuary of procreation.

493
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:33,568
How odious of you, my nephew.

494
00:28:33,645 --> 00:28:36,910
To impose such paradoxes
on a poor young girl!

495
00:28:36,981 --> 00:28:39,541
Don't you fear lest the Being
to whom you owe all

496
00:28:39,617 --> 00:28:41,608
take revenge upon your libertine ways?

497
00:28:41,686 --> 00:28:42,880
Come, my aunt!

498
00:28:42,954 --> 00:28:45,013
It is indeed enough
to bear your presence.

499
00:28:45,090 --> 00:28:46,421
You'd only make things worse

500
00:28:46,491 --> 00:28:47,856
in attempting to thwart my appetites.

501
00:28:47,926 --> 00:28:49,416
I might convince you of their charm

502
00:28:49,494 --> 00:28:51,325
by practicing them before your eyes!

503
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,455
Oh! Oh!

504
00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:12,073
Listen to me, Thérése;

505
00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:15,415
I have things of the utmost
consequence to tell you.

506
00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:18,115
Swear to me that you'll never
tell a soul about them.

507
00:29:18,189 --> 00:29:19,383
Oh, Monsieur!

508
00:29:19,457 --> 00:29:20,685
How could you believe

509
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:23,626
that I could possibly
abuse your trust in me?

510
00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:25,390
Come here.

511
00:29:25,463 --> 00:29:28,455
I have decided to do away
with my aunt.

512
00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:31,366
And it is by your hand
that I shall carry it out.

513
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:33,427
By my hand!

514
00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:08,868
Madame, there's something
of the utmost importance

515
00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:10,237
I must reveal,

516
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:13,175
but though it's a matter
that touches you closely,

517
00:30:13,244 --> 00:30:14,438
I will not reveal it

518
00:30:14,512 --> 00:30:16,844
unless you give me
your solemn word of honor

519
00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:19,281
that you won't bear
the slightest resentment

520
00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:20,317
toward your nephew

521
00:30:20,385 --> 00:30:22,478
for what he has dared to plan.

522
00:30:22,554 --> 00:30:24,078
Alright!

523
00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:25,747
I swear it, my child.

524
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:29,225
But what extravagance
is he now indulging in?

525
00:30:29,294 --> 00:30:32,286
Dear lady, it's your death
which he is plotting --

526
00:30:32,363 --> 00:30:35,696
and it is my hand he has
charged with the mission.

527
00:30:37,969 --> 00:30:39,197
The monster!

528
00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:43,502
I've done everything
for that boy's well being!

529
00:30:43,575 --> 00:30:45,270
Thérése!

530
00:30:45,343 --> 00:30:48,506
Thérése, prove my nephew
is plotting, my dear!

531
00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:53,176
Prove it in such a way
as to remove all doubt!

532
00:30:55,954 --> 00:30:58,752
Oh, God!

533
00:30:58,823 --> 00:31:01,121
But what proof is this?

534
00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:03,645
My life's been saved;
I'm most grateful.

535
00:32:03,721 --> 00:32:08,351
Run along; don't attract attention.

536
00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:11,691
I will dispatch somebody
at once, a courier,

537
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:15,927
to the Duke of Sonzeval, my cousin.

538
00:32:29,647 --> 00:32:33,208
Therese, there is
a much better method

539
00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:37,311
than the one that I proposed
to proceed with our project.

540
00:32:37,388 --> 00:32:39,720
Await me at the far end of the park.

541
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:43,090
I'll explain it to you.

542
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:48,557
Do you recognize that bush
whence I dragged you.

543
00:32:48,633 --> 00:32:50,863
Only to spare a life
which you deserved to lose?

544
00:32:50,935 --> 00:32:52,960
Why did you agree to carry
out the tasks I demanded,

545
00:32:53,037 --> 00:32:55,232
if your intent was
to betray me to my aunt?

546
00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:57,103
Of necessity, placed between two crimes,

547
00:32:57,175 --> 00:32:58,802
why have you chosen
the more abominable?

548
00:32:58,876 --> 00:33:00,173
Alas! Did I not choose the lesser one?

549
00:33:00,244 --> 00:33:02,940
You should have refused.
yes, certainly, refused.

550
00:33:03,081 --> 00:33:04,810
But you consented.
only to betray me.

551
00:33:04,882 --> 00:33:06,076
You have risked your life

552
00:33:06,150 --> 00:33:07,310
without having saved my aunt's.

553
00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,945
Now, the die is cast,
but you must perish --

554
00:33:10,021 --> 00:33:11,283
and before you expire,

555
00:33:11,356 --> 00:33:12,914
you must learn that the path of virtue

556
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,856
is not always the safest.

557
00:33:14,926 --> 00:33:16,723
And that there are
circumstances in this world

558
00:33:16,794 --> 00:33:20,059
when complicity in crime
is preferable to informing!

559
00:33:20,131 --> 00:33:24,591
Oh, no! Oh! Oh!

560
00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:36,410
Please, don't!
Oh, no! Oh! Oh!

561
00:33:36,481 --> 00:33:39,279
Mercy, please!

562
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,813
Ah, nice buttocks!
Really superb flesh!

563
00:33:44,889 --> 00:33:46,720
An excellent luncheon for my dogs!

564
00:33:46,791 --> 00:33:48,986
Let us free the animals,
the time's come!

565
00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:54,157
No, please! No!

566
00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:13,315
That's enough!

567
00:34:13,384 --> 00:34:14,612
Tie up the dogs.

568
00:34:14,685 --> 00:34:18,451
And let us abandon
this creature to her fate.

569
00:34:25,496 --> 00:34:29,694
You see, Thérése, one often
has to pay dearly for virtue.

570
00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:31,928
So, would not a pension
of two thousand ecu

571
00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:33,698
have been preferable to the bites

572
00:34:33,771 --> 00:34:35,170
you are now covered with?

573
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,173
It's most generous of me
to save your life;

574
00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:39,869
take good care how you use this favor!

575
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,480
Tormented by my still bleeding wounds,

576
00:34:44,549 --> 00:34:46,881
overwhelmed by the anxieties of my mind

577
00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:48,509
and the sorrows of my heart,

578
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,986
I dragged myself along as best I could

579
00:34:51,055 --> 00:34:53,785
to the house of the surgeon
of the village of Saint Marcel,

580
00:34:53,858 --> 00:34:56,190
a man named Rodin --

581
00:35:25,056 --> 00:35:27,684
Only superficial wounds --

582
00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:41,598
But you will have to stay here
for at least a month,

583
00:35:41,672 --> 00:35:44,004
until there's not a single trace

584
00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:46,771
of their cruel treatment left on you.

585
00:35:46,844 --> 00:35:47,868
I'm not to be thanked, please.

586
00:35:47,945 --> 00:35:49,435
Since surgery is an art

587
00:35:49,514 --> 00:35:51,914
that I love more than you can know.

588
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:53,610
You'll remain till you're well.

589
00:36:02,126 --> 00:36:04,993
After a month had passed,
I was completely cured.

590
00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:10,432
Monsieur Rodin bade me
remain in his service.

591
00:36:10,501 --> 00:36:12,230
But there was something about him

592
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:15,397
that did not appear to
conform to ordinary conduct.

593
00:36:15,473 --> 00:36:18,374
His servants were all very pretty --

594
00:36:18,442 --> 00:36:20,569
and he also ran a boarding school

595
00:36:20,645 --> 00:36:22,010
for boys and girls.

596
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:27,346
I expressed my astonishment
to his daughter, Rosalie.

597
00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:28,646
This is no laughing matter!

598
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,778
Tell me everything;
I beseech you, dear girl!

599
00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:34,313
To you, Therese, I will tell everything.

600
00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:36,326
You're obviously not able to betray the secret

601
00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,225
I'm about to confide to you.

602
00:36:38,296 --> 00:36:40,093
My father passes for the most

603
00:36:40,164 --> 00:36:41,927
experienced surgeon in all of France.

604
00:36:41,999 --> 00:36:44,297
If he has come to these rustic haunts,

605
00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:45,835
it's for his own pleasure.

606
00:36:45,903 --> 00:36:48,804
The official practitioner in Saint Marcel

607
00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:50,397
is one named Rombeau.

608
00:36:50,474 --> 00:36:53,204
This man, once a protégé of Father's,

609
00:36:53,277 --> 00:36:55,905
is now his collaborator.

610
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:58,915
You know why Father wanted
to run a boarding school?

611
00:36:58,983 --> 00:37:03,647
Libertinage,
only libertinage!

612
00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:06,884
A passion he carries to its extremes.

613
00:37:06,958 --> 00:37:09,518
My father looks upon his pupils,

614
00:37:09,594 --> 00:37:10,822
regardless of sex.

615
00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:14,922
As objects submitted to his perversity.

616
00:37:14,999 --> 00:37:20,801
And he takes advantage --
But there, listen.

617
00:37:20,871 --> 00:37:22,304
It's in fact today Friday,

618
00:37:22,373 --> 00:37:24,705
one of the three days of the week.

619
00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:29,041
When he punishes those
who have made mistakes.

620
00:37:29,113 --> 00:37:31,343
And it is in these
forms of punishment

621
00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:32,473
that he finds pleasure.

622
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:36,077
Oh god, how can one give
oneself up to such excess?

623
00:37:39,423 --> 00:37:40,890
How may one ever find any pleasure

624
00:37:40,958 --> 00:37:43,256
in the torments one inflicts?

625
00:37:43,327 --> 00:37:46,490
There's something else
you have not been told.

626
00:37:46,564 --> 00:37:48,395
Even me, my dear!

627
00:37:48,466 --> 00:37:50,331
He bent even me to his ways,

628
00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:52,198
even me; even me!

629
00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:58,004
I was but eleven years old,
and already his victim!

630
00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:02,739
But, see for yourself, my dear Thérése.

631
00:38:02,813 --> 00:38:05,805
You may observe from his closet,

632
00:38:05,883 --> 00:38:07,874
this one right here.

633
00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:10,113
Classes are over now --

634
00:38:10,187 --> 00:38:13,554
the hour when he is filled
with visual preliminaries,

635
00:38:13,624 --> 00:38:14,989
and quite ready to compensate

636
00:38:15,059 --> 00:38:15,855
for the constraint

637
00:38:15,926 --> 00:38:20,090
sometimes imposed upon him
by his prudence.

638
00:39:46,784 --> 00:39:49,309
Let me examine you a last time.

639
00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:50,786
I want to be sure that there
are no longer any traces

640
00:39:50,855 --> 00:39:54,256
from your wounds.

641
00:40:06,771 --> 00:40:12,300
Therese, you are back
to health, my dear.

642
00:40:12,376 --> 00:40:13,843
You can now show me
some of the thanks

643
00:40:13,911 --> 00:40:18,575
of which your heart is filled.

644
00:40:18,649 --> 00:40:21,117
Your manner is easy.

645
00:40:21,185 --> 00:40:23,016
If I must know.

646
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:27,524
Yes, that is my reward.

647
00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:30,253
I never demand this of women.

648
00:40:30,327 --> 00:40:32,522
But this is one of the most
beautiful I have ever seen

649
00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,188
in my life.

650
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:39,635
What curves, what elasticity.

651
00:40:39,703 --> 00:40:42,433
Perfection in flesh.

652
00:40:42,506 --> 00:40:45,566
Oh I absolutely want to come.

653
00:40:48,646 --> 00:40:50,910
Monsieur, I wish you to be
sure that there is nothing

654
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:52,710
in the world that would
oblige me to satisfy the desire

655
00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:55,411
you would seem to wish.

656
00:40:55,486 --> 00:40:59,183
My thanks to you are due, I agree.

657
00:40:59,256 --> 00:41:02,783
But I will commit no crime.

658
00:41:02,860 --> 00:41:05,124
Here is the little money I possess.

659
00:41:05,196 --> 00:41:08,791
Take it, and let me leave this house.

660
00:41:08,866 --> 00:41:12,097
It is quite unfortunate that
you take this stand with me.

661
00:41:12,169 --> 00:41:13,796
I have, it seems to me, a certain right

662
00:41:13,871 --> 00:41:15,930
to your indulgence.

663
00:41:16,006 --> 00:41:20,443
However, keep your money,
but do not leave me.

664
00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:22,240
Stay with me, Therese.

665
00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:25,305
I'll look after you with great joy.

666
00:41:25,382 --> 00:41:27,714
Amid the vice that sweeps me away.

667
00:41:27,785 --> 00:41:30,413
At least I will have the consolation

668
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:32,422
of a virtuous soul

669
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,391
near me and near my daughter.

670
00:41:35,459 --> 00:41:39,122
It's with Rosalie that I shall place you.

671
00:41:39,196 --> 00:41:42,290
And I will give you 300
livres as salary.

672
00:41:42,366 --> 00:41:45,563
As it is so, I will accept your offer, monsieur,

673
00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:46,568
for Rosalie's sake.

674
00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:53,303
In spite of all this, I instructed Rosalie,

675
00:41:53,377 --> 00:41:56,244
giving her a taste
for virtue and religion.

676
00:41:56,313 --> 00:41:58,838
But, all of a sudden.
she vanished from the house.

677
00:41:58,916 --> 00:42:01,976
All my efforts to discover
where she was, failed.

678
00:42:02,052 --> 00:42:03,417
I questioned repeatedly.

679
00:42:03,487 --> 00:42:05,182
And was told she had gone
to spend the summer months

680
00:42:05,256 --> 00:42:08,350
with a relative
who lived ten leagues away.

681
00:42:08,425 --> 00:42:11,087
Was it possible that Rosalie,

682
00:42:11,161 --> 00:42:12,788
whose affection for me was so great,

683
00:42:12,863 --> 00:42:14,694
could have consented to leave me

684
00:42:14,765 --> 00:42:16,562
without so much as a word?

685
00:42:16,634 --> 00:42:19,000
I resolved to employ every device

686
00:42:19,069 --> 00:42:21,003
to learn what had become of her.

687
00:42:21,071 --> 00:42:22,402
And to find this out.

688
00:42:22,473 --> 00:42:28,935
Every means appeared justifiable.

689
00:42:29,013 --> 00:42:30,913
Rosalie!

690
00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:36,913
Rosalie!

691
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:51,930
Rosalie!

692
00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:08,408
Anatomy will never reach its
ultimate state of perfection

693
00:43:08,485 --> 00:43:10,476
Hill" fill examination
has been performed

694
00:43:10,554 --> 00:43:13,114
on the canal of a 14 or 15 year old youth

695
00:43:13,190 --> 00:43:15,454
who has expired from a cruel death.

696
00:43:15,526 --> 00:43:17,687
The same holds true for the membrane

697
00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:18,955
which secures virginity -

698
00:43:19,029 --> 00:43:20,496
and for that purpose, a fine subject

699
00:43:20,564 --> 00:43:22,555
is that pretty daughter of yours.

700
00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:24,760
The manner in which
we have enjoyed her

701
00:43:24,835 --> 00:43:26,700
has done no damage
to that membrane,

702
00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:28,533
and we shall be able to do
what we will with it.

703
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:31,302
So happy that you have
made your mind up!

704
00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:32,865
Considering the ties attaching you

705
00:43:32,943 --> 00:43:33,807
to that creature,

706
00:43:33,877 --> 00:43:37,973
I entertained certain fears
that you might hesitate.

707
00:43:38,048 --> 00:43:39,140
Why?

708
00:43:39,216 --> 00:43:40,808
Because she is my daughter?

709
00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:42,249
Fine reason, indeed!

710
00:43:42,319 --> 00:43:44,014
I place the same value
upon a bit of seed

711
00:43:44,088 --> 00:43:45,282
that has hatched.

712
00:43:45,356 --> 00:43:46,584
As I do upon the seed
lam pleased to waste

713
00:43:46,657 --> 00:43:48,181
while enjoying myself.

714
00:43:48,258 --> 00:43:50,556
We've the power to take back
that which we give.

715
00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:52,619
Never was the right
to dispose of the children

716
00:43:52,696 --> 00:43:53,890
one has fathered

717
00:43:53,964 --> 00:43:55,431
been denied, in the history of populations!

718
00:43:55,499 --> 00:43:57,797
Oh, but I approve, my friend!

719
00:43:57,868 --> 00:44:00,132
Yet your indifference astonishes me!

720
00:44:00,204 --> 00:44:02,399
I believed you to be in love.

721
00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:05,704
Me!
You mean of a girl!

722
00:44:05,776 --> 00:44:07,334
Ah, Rombeau!

723
00:44:07,411 --> 00:44:11,814
I employ those creatures only
when there is nothing better!

724
00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:13,941
Chilpéric, the most voluptuous

725
00:44:14,018 --> 00:44:16,612
of the kings of France.

726
00:44:16,687 --> 00:44:18,052
Said that only in emergencies

727
00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:20,784
did he make use
of the services of women,

728
00:44:20,858 --> 00:44:22,655
but on the sole
and express condition

729
00:44:22,726 --> 00:44:23,715
that they be destroyed

730
00:44:23,794 --> 00:44:26,957
when we have done with them.

731
00:44:32,536 --> 00:44:35,403
Rosalie!

732
00:44:35,472 --> 00:44:36,598
Thérése!
Oh, Thérése!

733
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:37,902
Is it you?

734
00:44:37,975 --> 00:44:40,569
Yes, Rosalie, dear friend,

735
00:44:40,644 --> 00:44:41,736
it is I heaven sent to rescue you!

736
00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,178
Six years, this slut has been on hand

737
00:44:44,248 --> 00:44:45,510
to serve my pleasure.

738
00:44:45,582 --> 00:44:46,674
She shall redeem

739
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:48,980
my no longer wanting her flesh

740
00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:51,248
by no longer existing.

741
00:44:51,321 --> 00:44:53,118
There's not a moment to lose!

742
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:54,919
Come on! The monsters!
It's planned for tonight!

743
00:44:54,992 --> 00:44:56,983
They're on their way!

744
00:45:04,401 --> 00:45:05,425
You wretch!

745
00:45:05,502 --> 00:45:07,060
Where are you going?

746
00:45:07,137 --> 00:45:10,595
And this little rascal
was helping you to escape.

747
00:45:10,674 --> 00:45:12,266
Thérése!

748
00:45:12,342 --> 00:45:14,469
Behold the effect
of your great principles

749
00:45:14,545 --> 00:45:15,102
of virtue!

750
00:45:15,179 --> 00:45:16,942
You kidnap a daughter
from her father!

751
00:45:17,014 --> 00:45:18,948
Of course!

752
00:45:19,016 --> 00:45:21,143
It was my duty,
because her barbarous father

753
00:45:21,218 --> 00:45:23,049
was plotting against
his daughter's life!

754
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,850
Aha! That's espionage
and seduction tool

755
00:45:25,923 --> 00:45:28,448
The most dangerous
and vicious traits in a maid!

756
00:45:28,525 --> 00:45:30,288
Get up here!
Upstairs!

757
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,693
We have to judge this affair now!

758
00:45:44,975 --> 00:45:46,840
What shall we do with that slut?

759
00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:49,970
I suggest we uncover her heart.

760
00:45:50,047 --> 00:45:51,947
To measure its beating and
blood flow with our own eyes,

761
00:45:52,015 --> 00:45:54,415
and carry out on this organ

762
00:45:54,485 --> 00:45:56,851
all observations impractical
on a cadaver.

763
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,854
But, first of all, I would say

764
00:45:58,922 --> 00:46:00,253
we should take by storm

765
00:46:00,324 --> 00:46:02,884
that fortress your temperate proceedings
respected.

766
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,520
I have never seen so superb a virgin.

767
00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:06,585
Virgin!

768
00:46:06,663 --> 00:46:08,028
Why yes, almost -

769
00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:09,622
Once, in spite of herself,

770
00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,965
when she'd been stunned,
she was violated.

771
00:46:13,036 --> 00:46:15,527
Leave her to me for now.

772
00:46:26,817 --> 00:46:29,012
Since you're not a virgin,
what does it matter?

773
00:46:29,086 --> 00:46:30,485
For no guilt may be added!

774
00:46:30,554 --> 00:46:32,078
We're going to rape you
as you already have been,

775
00:46:32,156 --> 00:46:34,454
and so, not the least peccadillo

776
00:46:34,525 --> 00:46:36,459
shall sit on your conscience.

777
00:46:36,527 --> 00:46:37,755
No! No!

778
00:46:37,828 --> 00:46:39,728
We mustn't waste our powers
on that creature.

779
00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:42,288
We now have other labors
we've postponed.

780
00:46:42,366 --> 00:46:43,833
And they are to punish Rosalie,

781
00:46:43,901 --> 00:46:45,459
and a lot of vigor will be needed

782
00:46:45,536 --> 00:46:47,003
to make her pay her debt.

783
00:46:47,070 --> 00:46:50,801
Let's mete out
another sort of punishment

784
00:46:50,874 --> 00:46:52,432
for this wretch.

785
00:46:56,346 --> 00:46:59,144
No! No!
Oh, no!

786
00:46:59,216 --> 00:47:00,843
She shall be branded!

787
00:47:00,918 --> 00:47:03,182
Yes, branded for life as thieves are!

788
00:47:03,253 --> 00:47:04,652
This disgrace, combined with those

789
00:47:04,721 --> 00:47:06,348
which previously scarred her figure,

790
00:47:06,423 --> 00:47:09,324
will get her hanged if she
doesn't first starve to death.

791
00:47:09,393 --> 00:47:14,228
No! No!

792
00:47:26,577 --> 00:47:31,947
The whore had best not
attempt to show herself now!

793
00:48:15,692 --> 00:48:17,489
Is that a monastery over there?

794
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:19,290
Yes, there are four Benedictines there.

795
00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:20,352
Holy men bent on solitude.

796
00:48:20,430 --> 00:48:21,795
Indeed, throughout this land,

797
00:48:21,865 --> 00:48:24,493
they are renowned for
their continence and sobriety.

798
00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:26,058
I would be happy to go there.

799
00:48:26,136 --> 00:48:28,070
Will you come and pray with me?

800
00:48:28,138 --> 00:48:30,402
I'm expected back at the house, but go,

801
00:48:30,474 --> 00:48:33,068
the superior is the most saintly of men.

802
00:48:33,143 --> 00:48:34,701
His name is Don Severino.

803
00:48:34,778 --> 00:48:36,370
He is related to the Pope.

804
00:48:36,446 --> 00:48:38,937
You'll find satisfaction there, Mademoiselle,

805
00:48:39,016 --> 00:48:43,953
go and improve yourself
in that sacred solitude.

806
00:49:06,109 --> 00:49:07,303
What do you want?

807
00:49:07,377 --> 00:49:10,141
Is this a suitable hour
to come to a church?

808
00:49:10,213 --> 00:49:12,875
You've every appearance
of an adventuress!

809
00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:15,544
Holy Father, I thought
all hours were fitting

810
00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:17,450
to present oneself at God's door.

811
00:49:17,521 --> 00:49:20,183
I only ask to confess my sins, if I may.

812
00:49:20,257 --> 00:49:21,451
But the hour is past!

813
00:49:21,525 --> 00:49:23,390
And where would you sleep after confession?

814
00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:25,052
We do not keep a hospice.

815
00:49:25,128 --> 00:49:29,030
You should have come tomorrow morning!

816
00:49:41,411 --> 00:49:42,571
Well, my daughter,

817
00:49:42,646 --> 00:49:44,273
you've come at a quite unreasonable hour;

818
00:49:44,348 --> 00:49:46,543
we're not used to receiving this late.

819
00:49:46,616 --> 00:49:49,483
All the same.
I'll hear your confession.

820
00:49:49,553 --> 00:49:51,783
Afterward, we'll see
if we can find some way

821
00:49:51,855 --> 00:49:56,258
of keeping you with us overnight.

822
00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:58,794
l am listening, my child.

823
00:49:58,862 --> 00:50:00,591
I am but a poor orphan girl,

824
00:50:00,664 --> 00:50:04,065
already well acquainted
with ill fortune -

825
00:50:51,348 --> 00:50:53,976
What you've been relating
is most extraordinary.

826
00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:55,916
You were born in Paris,

827
00:50:55,986 --> 00:50:57,681
and in infancy, you lost your parents.

828
00:50:57,754 --> 00:50:59,619
Every word is true, Father.

829
00:50:59,689 --> 00:51:02,055
And you have neither kin nor friends,

830
00:51:02,125 --> 00:51:03,717
nor anybody to protect you?

831
00:51:03,794 --> 00:51:06,456
Nobody you can write to
for help, or solace.

832
00:51:06,530 --> 00:51:09,090
Alas no, nobody in the world.

833
00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:10,861
No one, save the shepherdess.

834
00:51:10,934 --> 00:51:12,993
Knows that you are visiting us?

835
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:15,061
But you are meeting with her afterward?

836
00:51:15,138 --> 00:51:16,469
No, I'm not!

837
00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:19,737
No other man's known you
since your one misadventure?

838
00:51:19,810 --> 00:51:23,007
And are you sure that the
last cheat who abused you

839
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,104
really went at it both ways.

840
00:51:24,181 --> 00:51:25,478
On the side which nature condemns,

841
00:51:25,549 --> 00:51:29,144
and the one she permits?

842
00:51:29,219 --> 00:51:31,414
But did anyone see you
winding your way

843
00:51:31,488 --> 00:51:32,284
to our domain?

844
00:51:32,355 --> 00:51:34,289
I'm sure no one did.

845
00:51:34,357 --> 00:51:36,791
The shepherdess
was the only person I saw,

846
00:51:36,860 --> 00:51:41,160
and no one else saw me, I'm sure.

847
00:51:48,872 --> 00:51:52,569
Come with me, my daughter.

848
00:51:52,642 --> 00:51:54,610
I promise that you'll enjoy
the sweet satisfaction

849
00:51:54,678 --> 00:51:56,145
of taking communion tomorrow,

850
00:51:56,213 --> 00:52:01,446
but let us begin by providing
for your primary needs.

851
00:52:03,553 --> 00:52:05,453
What is this, Father?
We're going inside?

852
00:52:05,522 --> 00:52:07,251
Where else, charming pilgrim?

853
00:52:07,324 --> 00:52:12,318
Do you fear a night spent
with four saintly hermits?

854
00:52:19,536 --> 00:52:23,233
I'm sure we shall find means
of entertainment, dear angel.

855
00:52:23,306 --> 00:52:24,603
And should we not provide you

856
00:52:24,674 --> 00:52:25,299
with many pleasures;

857
00:52:25,375 --> 00:52:26,774
at least you may serve our pleasures

858
00:52:26,843 --> 00:52:29,277
to their most extreme extent.

859
00:52:44,694 --> 00:52:46,525
Keep going, slut.

860
00:52:46,596 --> 00:52:50,999
Try neither complaint
nor resistance with me.

861
00:52:51,067 --> 00:52:52,500
All will be useless.

862
00:52:52,569 --> 00:52:55,538
Oh god, must I be once again
the victim of my good sense.

863
00:52:55,605 --> 00:52:58,972
And the desire to fasten
onto all that is most

864
00:52:59,042 --> 00:53:02,409
respectable in religion
be punished like a crime?

865
00:53:26,970 --> 00:53:33,341
Brothers, allow me to present
a veritable phenomenon!

866
00:53:33,410 --> 00:53:34,468
A saintly creature.

867
00:53:34,544 --> 00:53:36,068
Who simultaneously bears
on her body.

868
00:53:36,146 --> 00:53:38,307
The brand of girls of evil repute,

869
00:53:38,381 --> 00:53:39,973
and, in her conscience,

870
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:41,642
the utter candor of a virgin,

871
00:53:41,718 --> 00:53:44,118
almost Vestal.

872
00:53:44,187 --> 00:53:46,246
I add that her best part is- ah, Clément,

873
00:53:46,323 --> 00:53:48,348
wait till you feast your senses

874
00:53:48,425 --> 00:53:49,756
on this splendid flesh.

875
00:53:49,826 --> 00:53:51,293
Such elasticity!

876
00:53:51,361 --> 00:53:53,727
And colored like the rose!

877
00:53:56,066 --> 00:53:57,658
How poetic, damn!

878
00:53:57,734 --> 00:53:59,429
The encounter is amusing!

879
00:53:59,502 --> 00:54:03,302
I have to verify the facts!

880
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:10,243
It can be easily imagined
that resistance to our designs

881
00:54:10,313 --> 00:54:13,476
is entirely useless
in this impenetrable retreat.

882
00:54:13,550 --> 00:54:15,984
Look, around you;
you see fair companions

883
00:54:16,052 --> 00:54:17,781
who like yourself, upon entering here

884
00:54:17,854 --> 00:54:18,684
thought to resist.

885
00:54:18,755 --> 00:54:20,848
And who, as prudence
will also bid you to do.

886
00:54:20,924 --> 00:54:23,415
Ended by submitting.

887
00:54:23,493 --> 00:54:26,826
Indeed, I shall be very explicit, Therese.

888
00:54:26,896 --> 00:54:29,694
There are a few ways we have.

889
00:54:29,766 --> 00:54:32,200
Of coping with unmanageable girls.

890
00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:35,727
Furthermore, what can you
expect to find here?

891
00:54:35,805 --> 00:54:37,295
Justice?

892
00:54:37,374 --> 00:54:40,241
Just what does that mean?

893
00:54:40,310 --> 00:54:41,641
Humanity?

894
00:54:41,711 --> 00:54:44,976
Our sole pleasure
is to violate its every law.

895
00:54:45,048 --> 00:54:47,141
Religion?

896
00:54:47,217 --> 00:54:48,775
It is as nothing to us.

897
00:54:48,852 --> 00:54:49,978
As we become better acquainted

898
00:54:50,053 --> 00:54:50,678
with its secrets,

899
00:54:50,754 --> 00:54:53,314
our contempt for it increases.

900
00:54:53,390 --> 00:54:56,325
You will discover only rank egotism,

901
00:54:56,393 --> 00:55:00,159
and cruelty, and debauchery,
and impiety beyond belief.

902
00:55:00,230 --> 00:55:02,460
So, unquestioning submission
is your lot;

903
00:55:02,532 --> 00:55:03,829
you may have none other.

904
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:06,596
Hurry up, strumpet!
Undress!

905
00:55:06,670 --> 00:55:10,470
Let your flesh undergo our lecheries.

906
00:55:10,540 --> 00:55:11,598
Let us soil it at once;

907
00:55:11,675 --> 00:55:13,609
else evil deeds of the utmost cruelty

908
00:55:13,677 --> 00:55:15,668
will soon prove what hazards are incurred

909
00:55:15,745 --> 00:55:17,337
by the hapless female

910
00:55:17,414 --> 00:55:18,972
who would attempt disobedience.

911
00:55:19,049 --> 00:55:22,018
Oh! Have mercy on me!
I beseech you!

912
00:55:22,085 --> 00:55:24,417
Do not take my most
cherished possession!

913
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:29,857
Take my life,
but leave me my honor!

914
00:55:29,926 --> 00:55:32,258
You must understand, my child,

915
00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:35,389
you must understand
that what we want of you

916
00:55:35,465 --> 00:55:39,834
is to see you stripped instantly!

917
00:55:44,674 --> 00:55:46,938
Just look at that!

918
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:49,774
Look brothers, how lovely!

919
00:55:49,846 --> 00:55:52,076
Let's get undressed.
let's get undressed!

920
00:55:52,148 --> 00:55:54,139
Not a shred of clothing left on.

921
00:55:54,217 --> 00:55:55,582
What is this?

922
00:55:55,652 --> 00:55:58,280
That slut, Clemence, must be
nude in a minute and must

923
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:02,086
learn that, here amongst us,
pity cannot refrain nature.

924
00:56:25,148 --> 00:56:28,709
Now, there's a splendid creature!

925
00:56:31,721 --> 00:56:33,951
Come, you know our formula
for welcoming newcomers!

926
00:56:34,023 --> 00:56:35,650
Let her submit to every single act,

927
00:56:35,725 --> 00:56:39,252
omitting none!

928
00:56:39,329 --> 00:56:41,320
And meanwhile, let the other four women

929
00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:42,695
stand all around us,

930
00:56:42,766 --> 00:56:45,929
for gratification of our wants

931
00:56:46,002 --> 00:56:47,867
after exciting us.

932
00:57:21,905 --> 00:57:24,874
Never was a prize more difficult to win.

933
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:26,670
Well!

934
00:57:26,743 --> 00:57:28,074
I thought that my ship
for the first time

935
00:57:28,144 --> 00:57:31,204
would be wrecked
ere I could put into port.

936
00:57:31,281 --> 00:57:34,910
Ah, how torrid are the narrows!

937
00:57:34,984 --> 00:57:40,047
Like the lovely cupbearer
of the Gods!

938
00:57:44,661 --> 00:57:46,686
She who brings you suffering
shall be punished.

939
00:57:46,763 --> 00:57:48,355
I'm wise to the ways

940
00:57:48,431 --> 00:57:49,989
of teaching the obstinate goose

941
00:57:50,066 --> 00:57:54,002
not to resist the taking
of your pleasure.

942
00:58:01,478 --> 00:58:05,312
Ah, my good friends.
is it possible to resist

943
00:58:05,381 --> 00:58:06,609
thrashing a schoolgirl

944
00:58:06,683 --> 00:58:12,553
who exposes to us
an arse so beauteous!

945
00:58:56,799 --> 00:58:58,733
Look at that virtue so pure

946
00:58:58,801 --> 00:59:00,860
damaged by just
one assault.

947
00:59:00,937 --> 00:59:05,101
It must hardly show, I imagine.

948
00:59:05,174 --> 00:59:07,540
I must lead her back to the sex

949
00:59:07,610 --> 00:59:08,770
that you're just soiled.

950
00:59:08,845 --> 00:59:14,215
There's more than one breach
in the ramparts!

951
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:06,834
And now, you'll give her some food

952
01:00:06,903 --> 01:00:10,532
that she may find
her strength renewed.

953
01:00:15,178 --> 01:00:21,708
Oh! Oh!

954
01:00:21,784 --> 01:00:25,117
Kill me, I beseech you!

955
01:00:25,188 --> 01:00:28,851
Life fills me with horror!

956
01:00:34,297 --> 01:00:36,356
I never saw
a more beautiful spectacle.

957
01:00:36,432 --> 01:00:37,797
Behold, my good friends.

958
01:00:37,867 --> 01:00:39,528
The state of excitement it puts me into!

959
01:00:39,602 --> 01:00:42,867
It is extraordinary how much
I can be stirred

960
01:00:42,939 --> 01:00:45,203
by feminine agony.

961
01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:47,572
Let us go back to work.

962
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:50,977
And teach her to scream properly!

963
01:00:51,047 --> 01:00:52,947
In this second assault.

964
01:00:53,016 --> 01:00:56,747
Let us handle the bitch
even more brutally!

965
01:01:07,930 --> 01:01:09,557
One moment.

966
01:01:09,632 --> 01:01:11,759
While your zeal is being
spent on the posterior

967
01:01:11,834 --> 01:01:15,201
of this beautiful girl,
I can, it seems to me,

968
01:01:15,271 --> 01:01:17,796
"praise" another of her divinities.

969
01:01:17,874 --> 01:01:20,741
We will put her between us.

970
01:01:50,473 --> 01:01:52,532
The Father Superior
had me led to a chamber

971
01:01:52,608 --> 01:01:53,939
with three other girls,

972
01:01:54,010 --> 01:01:57,639
whose fate I was henceforth to share.

973
01:01:57,714 --> 01:01:59,181
I could not dispel the thought

974
01:01:59,248 --> 01:02:01,944
of the execrations I had suffered.

975
01:02:02,018 --> 01:02:04,145
Alas, if at certain times,

976
01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:07,314
those pleasures had occurred
to my wandering imagination,

977
01:02:07,390 --> 01:02:08,755
I had thought them chaste

978
01:02:08,825 --> 01:02:10,793
as is the God who inspires them.

979
01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:14,091
I'd fancied them the product
of love and delicacy.

980
01:02:14,163 --> 01:02:16,222
I'd been very far
from believing that man,

981
01:02:16,299 --> 01:02:18,233
after the example of savage beats,

982
01:02:18,301 --> 01:02:22,431
could only relish them
by causing his companion

983
01:02:22,505 --> 01:02:23,494
to shudder.

984
01:02:43,159 --> 01:02:45,150
The superintendent of the chamber, Ursule.

985
01:02:45,228 --> 01:02:47,253
Had a taste for women.

986
01:02:47,330 --> 01:02:50,663
After all the horrors
to which I'd been subjected.

987
01:02:50,733 --> 01:02:53,497
I thought of nothing
but to capture a little rest.

988
01:02:53,569 --> 01:02:56,800
But I had to bend myself to her too.

989
01:02:59,008 --> 01:03:01,476
Her impure mouth sought to
attach itself to mine,

990
01:03:01,544 --> 01:03:04,206
as her fingers labored
to determine sensations

991
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:07,147
she was far from obtaining.

992
01:03:14,490 --> 01:03:18,722
For not being awake on time
in the morning, 30 lashes.

993
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:20,387
For presenting a part of the body

994
01:03:20,463 --> 01:03:23,899
other than the one desired, 50 lashes.

995
01:03:23,966 --> 01:03:26,264
For not warning that
one had her period.

996
01:03:26,335 --> 01:03:28,565
60 lashes.

997
01:03:28,638 --> 01:03:31,732
The day that the doctor
confirms you're pregnant,

998
01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:34,140
100 lashes.

999
01:03:34,210 --> 01:03:37,111
Negligence, impossibility, or refusal

1000
01:03:37,180 --> 01:03:41,139
to carry our
sensual demands, 200 lashes.

1001
01:03:41,217 --> 01:03:45,244
An attempt to escape.
nine days in the dungeon

1002
01:03:45,321 --> 01:03:48,222
completely nude.

1003
01:03:48,291 --> 01:03:50,816
No one has ever
succeeded in escaping?

1004
01:03:50,893 --> 01:03:52,724
No one ever gets out of here?

1005
01:03:52,795 --> 01:03:54,490
No one has ever been able.

1006
01:03:54,564 --> 01:03:57,829
As soon as a new girl arrives
in this impure cesspit,

1007
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:00,027
as soon as she is hidden
forever from the universe,

1008
01:04:00,102 --> 01:04:02,570
we capture another.

1009
01:04:02,638 --> 01:04:06,096
The cruelest words we may
have are ignored

1010
01:04:06,175 --> 01:04:08,643
in this terrible and worrying place.

1011
01:04:08,711 --> 01:04:12,112
What is sure is that of
those who have got out.

1012
01:04:12,181 --> 01:04:13,478
The promise that they have made

1013
01:04:13,549 --> 01:04:14,413
to make formal complaints

1014
01:04:14,483 --> 01:04:15,950
against those who hold us here.

1015
01:04:16,018 --> 01:04:18,578
None have kept their word.

1016
01:04:18,654 --> 01:04:20,952
What then becomes of
these unfortunate souls?

1017
01:04:21,023 --> 01:04:22,251
Would murder then be --

1018
01:04:22,325 --> 01:04:23,917
Be quiet!

1019
01:04:23,993 --> 01:04:27,622
We must flee, we must absolutely.

1020
01:04:29,332 --> 01:04:31,892
These abominable ideas
remind me of how

1021
01:04:31,968 --> 01:04:37,838
we had to quit that terrible place.

1022
01:04:37,907 --> 01:04:39,465
If you find it acceptable, madame,

1023
01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:40,531
I will confine myself

1024
01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:42,805
to explaining a short history
of my first months

1025
01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:45,814
passed here in this convent.

1026
01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:48,442
Tales of the monotony
of the days spent here

1027
01:04:48,517 --> 01:04:49,848
will spoil my successes.
and I will pass immediately

1028
01:04:49,919 --> 01:04:55,152
to the event that allowed me
to leave this impure cesspool.

1029
01:05:01,664 --> 01:05:03,564
This time, we've done it.

1030
01:05:03,633 --> 01:05:05,897
Hide yourself well, dear girl.

1031
01:05:05,968 --> 01:05:08,334
It is nine o'clock,
the urgency of the moment

1032
01:05:08,404 --> 01:05:09,268
is upon us.

1033
01:05:09,338 --> 01:05:11,829
Come.

1034
01:05:31,661 --> 01:05:35,062
As children of honor,
we defer to his superiority.

1035
01:05:35,131 --> 01:05:36,462
His merits have
been recognized.

1036
01:05:36,532 --> 01:05:39,262
He has just been named
General of the Order.

1037
01:05:39,335 --> 01:05:40,996
My greatest desire is that

1038
01:05:41,070 --> 01:05:43,061
this does not stop our pleasure.

1039
01:05:43,139 --> 01:05:44,766
Come, let us go.

1040
01:06:07,363 --> 01:06:09,831
It has been six months that
you have been here, Therese.

1041
01:06:09,899 --> 01:06:11,833
How have you found these adventures?

1042
01:06:15,237 --> 01:06:16,727
She will get used to it.

1043
01:06:16,806 --> 01:06:18,535
There is no house in France

1044
01:06:18,607 --> 01:06:21,371
where girls are better educated than here.

1045
01:06:21,444 --> 01:06:22,570
Come.

1046
01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,408
Sit on the edge of the bed.

1047
01:06:28,684 --> 01:06:30,151
Ursula, lift her petticoats.

1048
01:06:30,219 --> 01:06:33,313
Unlace her bodice and show her chest.

1049
01:07:54,537 --> 01:07:57,199
That's nothing.

1050
01:07:57,273 --> 01:08:01,676
We treat others worse here.

1051
01:08:01,744 --> 01:08:07,410
A salad of thorns, peppered.
or dipped in vinegar,

1052
01:08:07,483 --> 01:08:10,543
pushed in with the point of the knife.

1053
01:08:10,619 --> 01:08:13,281
That's what suits these sluts.

1054
01:09:23,826 --> 01:09:25,157
We must tame her.

1055
01:09:25,227 --> 01:09:28,754
Let her serve as an altar in her turn.

1056
01:10:35,664 --> 01:10:38,394
How can you indulge in such infamies?

1057
01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:41,402
Take heed lest Heaven strike
you down for your sins!

1058
01:10:41,470 --> 01:10:42,835
Without a doubt.

1059
01:10:42,905 --> 01:10:43,837
The most stupid thing in the world,

1060
01:10:43,906 --> 01:10:44,270
my dear Thérése.

1061
01:10:44,340 --> 01:10:45,671
Is to dispute the tastes

1062
01:10:45,741 --> 01:10:47,333
that men may be endowed with.

1063
01:10:47,409 --> 01:10:49,468
Liking what everyone else likes

1064
01:10:49,545 --> 01:10:51,274
simply proves that the organs are similar.

1065
01:10:51,347 --> 01:10:54,748
It does not favor the beloved object.

1066
01:10:54,817 --> 01:10:55,909
If then there exists in our world,

1067
01:10:55,985 --> 01:10:58,112
persons whose tastes run counter

1068
01:10:58,187 --> 01:11:00,280
to the prejudices of men,

1069
01:11:00,356 --> 01:11:04,019
not only must we not be surprised.

1070
01:11:04,093 --> 01:11:07,256
But they must receive
our aid, satisfaction,

1071
01:11:07,329 --> 01:11:10,059
one should annihilate
all obstacles in their path,

1072
01:11:10,132 --> 01:11:12,498
because they are
no more responsible

1073
01:11:12,568 --> 01:11:14,502
for having their bizarre taste

1074
01:11:14,570 --> 01:11:18,233
than you are responsible
for being either bright,

1075
01:11:18,307 --> 01:11:21,333
or born a hopeless imbecile.

1076
01:11:21,410 --> 01:11:22,536
Indeed, it is in the mother's womb

1077
01:11:22,611 --> 01:11:23,737
that are fashioned the organs

1078
01:11:23,812 --> 01:11:25,643
which will render us susceptible

1079
01:11:25,714 --> 01:11:27,181
to a particular fantasy;

1080
01:11:27,249 --> 01:11:29,308
after birth, the very first sights.

1081
01:11:29,385 --> 01:11:32,115
The very first sounds and touches,

1082
01:11:32,187 --> 01:11:33,745
determine this or that pattern,

1083
01:11:33,822 --> 01:11:35,084
once and for all.

1084
01:11:35,157 --> 01:11:39,025
And once they're formed.
nothing in the world

1085
01:11:39,094 --> 01:11:41,756
can possibly destroy them.

1086
01:11:41,830 --> 01:11:44,094
But such opinions are abominable!

1087
01:11:45,334 --> 01:11:49,794
They excuse and encourage
cruelty, and corruption.

1088
01:11:49,872 --> 01:11:51,066
What is most curious is

1089
01:11:51,140 --> 01:11:53,199
that when it is only a question of trifles,

1090
01:11:53,275 --> 01:11:55,402
the differences in taste
in no way surprises.

1091
01:11:55,477 --> 01:11:58,844
But when lechery is the issue,
what a great to-do about it!

1092
01:11:58,914 --> 01:12:00,973
You women, forever jealously guarding

1093
01:12:01,050 --> 01:12:01,846
your rights.

1094
01:12:01,917 --> 01:12:04,750
Tremble at the thought
that there is something

1095
01:12:04,820 --> 01:12:05,809
you could lose.

1096
01:12:05,888 --> 01:12:08,152
You may, of course, invoke
your own moral principles

1097
01:12:08,223 --> 01:12:08,655
against us.

1098
01:12:08,724 --> 01:12:11,921
But a woman is only
an instrument to gratify man.

1099
01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:13,484
She is an unreliable witness

1100
01:12:13,562 --> 01:12:15,860
in question pertinent to her body.

1101
01:12:15,931 --> 01:12:20,368
She knows nothing of pleasure.

1102
01:12:20,436 --> 01:12:21,869
There is no other sensation on earth

1103
01:12:21,937 --> 01:12:24,405
that can compare with pain,
in acuteness.

1104
01:12:24,473 --> 01:12:26,168
Its delights are sure.

1105
01:12:26,241 --> 01:12:29,039
It can never be
as disappointing as pleasure,

1106
01:12:29,111 --> 01:12:30,738
perpetually pursued by women

1107
01:12:30,813 --> 01:12:35,716
but so seldom truly experienced.

1108
01:12:35,784 --> 01:12:37,945
Is it not obvious that woman
shares nothing with us

1109
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:39,612
without also taking?

1110
01:12:39,688 --> 01:12:41,155
That she robs us?

1111
01:12:41,223 --> 01:12:42,690
And what necessity is there,
if you please.

1112
01:12:42,758 --> 01:12:44,953
That a woman have pleasure
when we do?

1113
01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:47,723
The man of whom you're
speaking, is monstrous!

1114
01:12:47,796 --> 01:12:50,196
He of whom I speak
is in tune with nature!

1115
01:12:50,265 --> 01:12:52,563
Like the beasts of the jungle!

1116
01:12:52,634 --> 01:12:56,832
It's a very different thing
to love and to come.

1117
01:12:56,905 --> 01:13:00,466
The proof: to come everyday
and to come more and more

1118
01:13:00,542 --> 01:13:02,339
often can be without love.

1119
01:13:02,411 --> 01:13:04,971
Good God!
You make me tremble.

1120
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:09,279
May the man who cannot
reform his tastes and who

1121
01:13:09,351 --> 01:13:11,911
would be like any other man,

1122
01:13:11,987 --> 01:13:14,547
does he not single himself out?

1123
01:13:14,623 --> 01:13:17,751
A man given these tastes is sick.

1124
01:13:17,826 --> 01:13:19,691
What happens to your desire?

1125
01:13:19,762 --> 01:13:21,161
Your morals?

1126
01:13:21,230 --> 01:13:22,663
Your religion?

1127
01:13:22,731 --> 01:13:23,629
Your heaven?

1128
01:13:23,699 --> 01:13:25,894
Your justice? Your hell?

1129
01:13:25,968 --> 01:13:27,959
When he will be shown to be sick

1130
01:13:28,036 --> 01:13:32,735
in every fibre of his body.
in his very blood.

1131
01:13:32,808 --> 01:13:34,036
Do not make of this kind of man

1132
01:13:34,109 --> 01:13:35,542
the object of your labor.

1133
01:13:35,611 --> 01:13:37,135
You have said too well.

1134
01:13:37,212 --> 01:13:42,582
I would never accept this
destructive sensuality.

1135
01:13:42,651 --> 01:13:45,313
Because you fear to become its object!

1136
01:13:45,387 --> 01:13:47,855
Now that's egoism.

1137
01:13:47,923 --> 01:13:52,485
If you are stronger by some
atrociously cruel principle,

1138
01:13:52,561 --> 01:13:55,394
and if you only like to
please yourself through

1139
01:13:55,464 --> 01:13:58,092
pain, you will only produce
an effect on the object or

1140
01:13:58,167 --> 01:14:00,465
person who serves you, a
degree of violence that may

1141
01:14:00,536 --> 01:14:02,333
shorten her days.

1142
01:14:02,404 --> 01:14:03,598
So be it!

1143
01:14:03,672 --> 01:14:06,470
I will have served
her Nature's design.

1144
01:14:06,542 --> 01:14:10,945
That is to say, with an
oblong I will have made 3 or

1145
01:14:11,013 --> 01:14:13,504
4,000 circles or squares.

1146
01:14:13,582 --> 01:14:15,516
Where is the crime in that?

1147
01:14:15,584 --> 01:14:18,075
The love for others is a
chimera that we owe to

1148
01:14:18,153 --> 01:14:21,919
Christianity and not to Nature.

1149
01:14:21,990 --> 01:14:24,356
The Nazarean is an unhappy
fool, who in a moment of

1150
01:14:24,426 --> 01:14:29,921
weakness, cried for
tolerance towards humanity.

1151
01:14:29,998 --> 01:14:31,863
He wanted to create that
ridiculous rapport between

1152
01:14:31,934 --> 01:14:34,266
one person and another.

1153
01:14:34,336 --> 01:14:39,296
He hung onto his life by
making us succeed in this.

1154
01:14:44,746 --> 01:14:46,839
Nevertheless, you do not
eternally retain your

1155
01:14:46,915 --> 01:14:49,281
unfortunate victims.

1156
01:14:49,351 --> 01:14:52,980
You release them from here, no doubt.

1157
01:14:53,055 --> 01:14:54,682
Of course, Therese.

1158
01:14:54,756 --> 01:14:56,280
You have only entered this
house for a certain time

1159
01:14:56,358 --> 01:14:57,450
before leaving it once again.

1160
01:14:57,526 --> 01:15:00,620
Do you not fear that the
girls who have left, those

1161
01:15:00,696 --> 01:15:02,493
younger and less discreet.
would reveal what has

1162
01:15:02,564 --> 01:15:04,054
happened here?

1163
01:15:04,132 --> 01:15:05,656
Impossible.

1164
01:15:05,734 --> 01:15:07,099
Impossible?

1165
01:15:07,169 --> 01:15:08,727
Absolutely.

1166
01:15:08,804 --> 01:15:10,328
Could you explain?

1167
01:15:10,405 --> 01:15:11,599
NO!

1168
01:15:11,673 --> 01:15:13,971
That is our secret.

1169
01:15:14,042 --> 01:15:17,739
But what I may assure you of
is this: discreet or not,

1170
01:15:17,813 --> 01:15:21,840
it will be perfectly impossible
for you to say a single word

1171
01:15:21,917 --> 01:15:23,544
about what has happened here

1172
01:15:23,619 --> 01:15:25,587
when you have been
completely reformed.

1173
01:15:28,824 --> 01:15:31,793
That evening, all of our chamber had left

1174
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:33,157
for the monks' supper.

1175
01:15:33,228 --> 01:15:35,822
I chose that moment for my escape.

1176
01:15:35,898 --> 01:15:39,299
The monks, being occupied.
would pay no attention to me.

1177
01:15:39,368 --> 01:15:41,529
For two months,
with a dull knife I had found,

1178
01:15:41,603 --> 01:15:43,833
I had been sawing through the bars

1179
01:15:43,906 --> 01:15:44,804
of my window.

1180
01:16:57,512 --> 01:16:58,570
Dear heaven.

1181
01:16:58,647 --> 01:17:01,138
It is surely this cemetery
where the executioners throw

1182
01:17:01,216 --> 01:17:02,808
their victim.

1183
01:17:02,884 --> 01:17:04,647
But it must be through
virtue that I avenge this

1184
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:05,550
affair.

1185
01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:08,522
Wait for me, courage!

1186
01:17:08,590 --> 01:17:10,114
Let us not be beaten.

1187
01:17:10,192 --> 01:17:11,591
Let us continue.

1188
01:17:11,660 --> 01:17:13,821
It is essential that the
universe be rid of villains

1189
01:17:13,895 --> 01:17:16,159
as dangerous as these.

1190
01:17:48,096 --> 01:17:50,792
Before daybreak,
I was near that same brook,

1191
01:17:50,866 --> 01:17:51,992
the very place

1192
01:17:52,067 --> 01:17:54,035
whence six long months before.

1193
01:17:54,102 --> 01:17:55,899
I had to my sorrow,

1194
01:17:57,472 --> 01:17:59,337
My first thought
was to fall on my knees.

1195
01:17:59,408 --> 01:18:01,933
And to beg God once again
to forgive the sins

1196
01:18:02,010 --> 01:18:03,602
I had unwillingly committed

1197
01:18:03,679 --> 01:18:06,113
in that odious asylum of crime,

1198
01:18:06,181 --> 01:18:11,084
and to thank Him for
having allowed me to escape.

1199
01:19:00,035 --> 01:19:01,195
Your age, little one?

1200
01:19:01,269 --> 01:19:03,635
Twenty-three, Monsieur.

1201
01:19:03,705 --> 01:19:06,003
Where were you before coming here?

1202
01:19:06,074 --> 01:19:07,939
Oh, I am only a poor orphan girl,

1203
01:19:08,009 --> 01:19:11,035
already well acquainted
with ill fortune -

1204
01:19:11,113 --> 01:19:15,311
I've no kinsmen to help me.

1205
01:19:34,269 --> 01:19:36,829
That is how the monks
were treating you?

1206
01:19:36,905 --> 01:19:39,703
Have you not passed over
any stray details?

1207
01:19:39,775 --> 01:19:42,039
No, Monsieur, I've told you all.

1208
01:19:42,110 --> 01:19:43,236
Splendid!

1209
01:19:43,311 --> 01:19:45,040
You're going to be asked
to repeat to me

1210
01:19:45,113 --> 01:19:49,072
all these deeds of valor,
now and then.

1211
01:19:52,954 --> 01:19:54,148
Have you been bled already, child?

1212
01:19:54,222 --> 01:19:58,886
Yes, Monsieur, I've been bled twice.

1213
01:20:02,864 --> 01:20:05,298
I must insist on a perfect figure;

1214
01:20:05,367 --> 01:20:08,393
no flaws are allowed if you
occupy the important position

1215
01:20:08,470 --> 01:20:10,062
we'll have you occupy.

1216
01:20:10,138 --> 01:20:13,107
So come, take off your clothes!

1217
01:20:13,175 --> 01:20:15,405
You're warned against
attempting to act

1218
01:20:15,477 --> 01:20:16,535
prudish with me!

1219
01:20:16,611 --> 01:20:18,738
I have means that are sure to bring

1220
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:20,145
every woman to her senses.

1221
01:20:20,215 --> 01:20:21,580
What you have related

1222
01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:23,845
truly wouldn't point
to any great virtue in you.

1223
01:20:23,919 --> 01:20:26,752
Thus, any resistance
is actually quite out of place.

1224
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:30,053
And utterly ludicrous.

1225
01:20:55,817 --> 01:20:57,580
What a beautiful thing
a girl is, my friends!

1226
01:20:57,652 --> 01:21:00,177
But such a pity
they have a cavity there!

1227
01:21:00,255 --> 01:21:03,224
And, while my front was
the subject of their sarcasms,

1228
01:21:03,291 --> 01:21:06,658
the Count, an intimate
partisan of the behind,

1229
01:21:06,728 --> 01:21:09,526
alas, like every libertine,

1230
01:21:09,598 --> 01:21:15,400
was examining mine
with the keenest interest.

1231
01:21:40,795 --> 01:21:42,626
It was in the course
of this inspection

1232
01:21:42,697 --> 01:21:44,892
that he solicited many details

1233
01:21:44,966 --> 01:21:46,331
concerning what had been done

1234
01:21:46,401 --> 01:21:47,732
to me at the monastery.

1235
01:21:47,802 --> 01:21:50,032
And I, without noticing
that my account of it

1236
01:21:50,105 --> 01:21:51,629
only doubled his ardor,

1237
01:21:51,706 --> 01:21:54,174
was candid enough
to give all the details,

1238
01:21:54,242 --> 01:21:57,700
in all naiveté.

1239
01:22:21,002 --> 01:22:22,799
That was how this libertine

1240
01:22:22,871 --> 01:22:24,270
exhausted the unfortunate youths

1241
01:22:24,339 --> 01:22:26,466
he kept in his house.

1242
01:22:26,541 --> 01:22:28,065
The hommage which the Count

1243
01:22:28,143 --> 01:22:30,008
had rendered me had been long,

1244
01:22:30,078 --> 01:22:32,740
but without a trace of infidelity

1245
01:22:32,814 --> 01:22:34,543
to his chosen temple.

1246
01:22:34,616 --> 01:22:37,881
We will show you our way.

1247
01:22:37,953 --> 01:22:41,218
Our way of getting things done.

1248
01:22:41,289 --> 01:22:44,656
Narcisse, my lancets!

1249
01:23:17,792 --> 01:23:22,491
Thérése, I won't put you
through the trials

1250
01:23:22,564 --> 01:23:24,327
that you've just been
subjected to, very often,

1251
01:23:24,399 --> 01:23:27,368
but it was essential
that you know a few things,

1252
01:23:27,435 --> 01:23:29,164
such as the manner
in which you will end

1253
01:23:29,237 --> 01:23:31,171
if you betray me one of these days.

1254
01:23:31,239 --> 01:23:33,935
If you were to let yourself
be suborned by the woman

1255
01:23:34,009 --> 01:23:36,978
in whose society you are to be placed.

1256
01:23:37,045 --> 01:23:40,105
She's my wife by law, Thérése.

1257
01:23:40,181 --> 01:23:42,308
Nor must you surmise
that 'tis vengeance

1258
01:23:42,384 --> 01:23:44,181
that has made me treat her thus.

1259
01:23:44,252 --> 01:23:48,348
It is indeed strange
what a passion can do.

1260
01:23:48,423 --> 01:23:49,856
I like to shed blood;

1261
01:23:49,924 --> 01:23:53,087
nothing can provide
a pleasure equal to it.

1262
01:23:53,161 --> 01:23:54,355
It's quite simple;

1263
01:23:54,429 --> 01:23:58,832
I've enjoyed this woman
only in this manner.

1264
01:24:00,935 --> 01:24:02,630
Sit down, Madame.

1265
01:24:02,704 --> 01:24:04,865
You have my permission to listen to us.

1266
01:24:04,939 --> 01:24:06,736
I merely wished to introduce the maid

1267
01:24:06,808 --> 01:24:08,605
I've at last found for you.

1268
01:24:08,676 --> 01:24:10,667
I hope that you have not
forgotten the fate

1269
01:24:10,745 --> 01:24:13,236
which through your fault,
befall all the others.

1270
01:24:13,314 --> 01:24:16,283
And that you will not attempt
to plunge this girl

1271
01:24:16,351 --> 01:24:17,511
into the same misfortune.

1272
01:24:17,585 --> 01:24:18,745
I won't attempt anything

1273
01:24:18,820 --> 01:24:20,811
that would put you in a position

1274
01:24:20,889 --> 01:24:21,981
such as that, Mademoiselle.

1275
01:24:22,057 --> 01:24:23,888
I only want your care.

1276
01:24:23,958 --> 01:24:28,554
It will be yours entirely, Madame.

1277
01:24:28,630 --> 01:24:31,827
Here we have the terrace,
but its elevation should,

1278
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:36,894
I'm sure, preclude any idea
of measuring its walls -

1279
01:24:42,744 --> 01:24:45,474
When were you bled
the last time, Madame?

1280
01:24:45,547 --> 01:24:47,981
Just three days ago,
and it will be tomorrow again.

1281
01:24:48,049 --> 01:24:49,539
Tomorrow, Mademoiselle,

1282
01:24:49,617 --> 01:24:53,314
you are going to witness
that pretty scene.

1283
01:24:53,388 --> 01:24:55,822
Does madame not feel weak?

1284
01:24:55,890 --> 01:24:59,485
Dear God, I am not twenty.

1285
01:24:59,561 --> 01:25:02,359
l am sure that we
are not weaker at ten.

1286
01:25:02,430 --> 01:25:05,661
I will weaken, I am only flattering myself.

1287
01:25:05,733 --> 01:25:09,100
It is perfectly impossible
that I live long like this.

1288
01:25:09,170 --> 01:25:11,434
I will go find my father.

1289
01:25:11,506 --> 01:25:15,169
I will look in the arms
of the Supreme Creator.

1290
01:25:15,243 --> 01:25:19,111
Ah, peace -- that men have
so cruelly refused me

1291
01:25:19,180 --> 01:25:21,011
in this world.

1292
01:25:51,646 --> 01:25:53,876
Are you ready?

1293
01:25:53,948 --> 01:25:56,439
l am, Monsieur, for I've remained

1294
01:25:56,518 --> 01:25:57,746
your favorite victim.

1295
01:25:57,819 --> 01:26:00,151
You need just give the order.

1296
01:26:00,221 --> 01:26:05,784
Strip her naked, Thérése.
and bring her to me.

1297
01:26:32,987 --> 01:26:37,253
And now, spread them.
Madame, at once!

1298
01:27:01,216 --> 01:27:04,447
It was then that I noticed,
not without astonishment,

1299
01:27:04,519 --> 01:27:06,817
that this gargantus,
the sight of whom alone

1300
01:27:06,888 --> 01:27:08,116
was enough to strike terror,

1301
01:27:08,189 --> 01:27:10,953
nevertheless, hardly appeared to be a man.

1302
01:27:11,025 --> 01:27:14,017
What one might find in a child of three

1303
01:27:14,095 --> 01:27:15,619
was all that one could discover

1304
01:27:15,697 --> 01:27:19,463
upon this otherwise so sizable

1305
01:27:19,534 --> 01:27:21,764
and full-fledged individual.

1306
01:28:09,317 --> 01:28:11,581
And now, Thérése, come;

1307
01:28:11,653 --> 01:28:14,520
change places with the Countess!

1308
01:28:14,589 --> 01:28:15,613
Oh, Monsieur!

1309
01:28:15,690 --> 01:28:19,126
I beg you not to
demand that of me!

1310
01:28:58,199 --> 01:29:00,167
This is pointless.

1311
01:29:00,234 --> 01:29:01,861
This is not what I need!

1312
01:29:01,936 --> 01:29:04,268
It's pointless, pointless!

1313
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:06,671
No matter how pitiable
my state may seem.

1314
01:29:06,741 --> 01:29:08,140
I can stand no more!

1315
01:29:08,209 --> 01:29:12,168
Come, Countess, your arms!

1316
01:29:36,938 --> 01:29:38,530
For my part, certain that the instant

1317
01:29:38,606 --> 01:29:40,767
in which the hoped-for crisis
would occur

1318
01:29:40,842 --> 01:29:44,039
would bring an end
to the Countess' torments,

1319
01:29:44,112 --> 01:29:47,206
I bent all my efforts toward

1320
01:29:47,281 --> 01:29:49,306
precipitating the denouement -

1321
01:29:51,386 --> 01:29:53,149
And I became a whore
out of kindness.

1322
01:29:53,221 --> 01:29:55,655
And a libertine out of virtue.

1323
01:29:55,723 --> 01:29:58,089
I pumped the last drop from him.

1324
01:29:58,159 --> 01:30:01,287
His need of me made him respect me.

1325
01:30:01,362 --> 01:30:03,557
At last, I brought him
to his senses

1326
01:30:03,631 --> 01:30:05,826
by ridding him of his fiery liquid.

1327
01:30:05,900 --> 01:30:07,265
Seven or eight tablespoons

1328
01:30:07,335 --> 01:30:09,030
would scarcely have contained it,

1329
01:30:09,103 --> 01:30:11,071
and the thickest gruel

1330
01:30:11,139 --> 01:30:15,166
would hardly give a notion
of its consistency.

1331
01:30:19,580 --> 01:30:20,911
I wonder, Monsieur,

1332
01:30:20,982 --> 01:30:22,074
how you can possibly treat a woman

1333
01:30:22,150 --> 01:30:22,582
in this manner,

1334
01:30:22,650 --> 01:30:25,448
even if we overlook
the close ties between you.

1335
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:27,681
Condescend to reflect
on the gracious weakness

1336
01:30:27,755 --> 01:30:28,653
of her sex!

1337
01:30:28,723 --> 01:30:30,384
Why should it be
a man's duty endlessly

1338
01:30:30,458 --> 01:30:31,823
to abet a woman's happiness

1339
01:30:31,893 --> 01:30:33,884
when weakness is all
she is famed for?

1340
01:30:33,961 --> 01:30:36,896
Had it not been
the intention of nature

1341
01:30:36,964 --> 01:30:39,262
that one of the sexes
should tyrannize the other,

1342
01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:42,393
would they not have been
created of equal strength?

1343
01:30:42,470 --> 01:30:45,405
Now, what do we see?

1344
01:30:45,473 --> 01:30:47,941
A creature, puny compared to man,

1345
01:30:48,009 --> 01:30:49,772
one who is always inferior to him,

1346
01:30:49,844 --> 01:30:52,244
and far less beautiful
than man in every way,

1347
01:30:52,313 --> 01:30:53,280
less ingenious.

1348
01:30:53,347 --> 01:30:55,975
Built gruesomely in odious taste,

1349
01:30:56,050 --> 01:30:58,177
an unhealthy being, who
three-quarters of her life,

1350
01:30:58,252 --> 01:31:01,016
is incapable of satisfying her mate

1351
01:31:01,088 --> 01:31:02,487
during the entire period

1352
01:31:02,557 --> 01:31:04,320
nature constrains her
to childbearing;

1353
01:31:04,392 --> 01:31:07,054
a creature so utterly
perverse, in a word,

1354
01:31:07,128 --> 01:31:08,595
that this question
was soberly discussed

1355
01:31:08,663 --> 01:31:09,857
at the Council of Macon;

1356
01:31:09,931 --> 01:31:12,297
can indeed this man-like thing

1357
01:31:12,366 --> 01:31:14,334
who really is as unlike man,

1358
01:31:14,402 --> 01:31:16,097
as distinct from man as is the ape,

1359
01:31:16,170 --> 01:31:19,367
have any pretension to
the appellation human being?

1360
01:31:19,440 --> 01:31:22,671
In Rome, I hear wise Cam's
words ring in my ears:

1361
01:31:22,743 --> 01:31:24,233
"Man, were he to be without woman,

1362
01:31:24,312 --> 01:31:26,212
would be conversing with the Gods!"

1363
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,714
I hear the poets of ancient Greece:

1364
01:31:28,783 --> 01:31:30,375
"Oh Zeus, pray why?

1365
01:31:30,451 --> 01:31:31,577
Oh Zeus, why woman?

1366
01:31:31,652 --> 01:31:33,085
Thy ways I cannot fathom!

1367
01:31:33,154 --> 01:31:35,145
Couldst not have given
being to humankind

1368
01:31:35,223 --> 01:31:37,817
by better devices and wiser, by schemes

1369
01:31:37,892 --> 01:31:41,055
which would have spared us
this female pestilence?"

1370
01:31:41,128 --> 01:31:43,255
And, because unhappily,
I live amidst a people

1371
01:31:43,331 --> 01:31:46,425
who are still so inelegant
as not to have dared abolish

1372
01:31:46,501 --> 01:31:48,401
the most ridiculous of prejudices.

1373
01:31:48,469 --> 01:31:51,097
You'd forbid the rights which
nature has accorded me

1374
01:31:51,172 --> 01:31:52,298
over the other sex?

1375
01:31:52,373 --> 01:31:53,670
No, Thérése.

1376
01:31:53,741 --> 01:31:56,175
I shall treat my wife by rules
that are laid down

1377
01:31:56,244 --> 01:31:57,734
in every code in the universe,

1378
01:31:57,812 --> 01:32:02,374
engraved in my heart.
and sealed in nature.

1379
01:32:02,450 --> 01:32:05,385
Oh Monsieur, your conversion
is truly impossible?

1380
01:32:05,453 --> 01:32:08,388
So, I would advise you

1381
01:32:08,456 --> 01:32:11,983
not to make the attempt, Thérése.

1382
01:32:34,615 --> 01:32:35,809
Are you sure, Thérése.

1383
01:32:35,883 --> 01:32:37,111
That you wish to run
this risk for my sake?

1384
01:32:37,184 --> 01:32:39,277
There can be no other way
at present, Madame.

1385
01:32:39,353 --> 01:32:40,752
I have made every attempt

1386
01:32:40,821 --> 01:32:42,220
to convert your fearsome husband.

1387
01:32:42,290 --> 01:32:44,417
Oh no, give me the letter.

1388
01:32:44,492 --> 01:32:45,925
I shall deliver it to your mother.

1389
01:32:45,993 --> 01:32:48,621
As soon as my mother's eyes
are at last opened

1390
01:32:48,696 --> 01:32:50,425
to the Count's infamous conduct,

1391
01:32:50,498 --> 01:32:53,467
she'll come and break my
chains, I know she will.

1392
01:32:53,534 --> 01:32:54,933
Go, my child!

1393
01:32:55,002 --> 01:32:57,527
My life is in your hands!

1394
01:34:30,898 --> 01:34:34,493
What are you doing there, Therese?

1395
01:34:36,470 --> 01:34:37,266
Oh, monsieur, punish me.

1396
01:34:37,338 --> 01:34:39,135
I am guilty and cannot say why.

1397
01:34:39,206 --> 01:34:41,538
Did the countess give you
a letter for her mother?

1398
01:34:41,609 --> 01:34:42,166
No, monsieur.

1399
01:34:42,243 --> 01:34:43,574
Give it to me!

1400
01:34:43,644 --> 01:34:46,704
But I swear.

1401
01:34:49,083 --> 01:34:50,778
Follow me.

1402
01:35:06,634 --> 01:35:07,566
Imprudent girl!

1403
01:35:07,635 --> 01:35:09,296
I warned you that the crime
you have just committed

1404
01:35:09,370 --> 01:35:12,862
is punishable by death.

1405
01:35:19,413 --> 01:35:21,142
You should indeed wonder
what kind of death

1406
01:35:21,215 --> 01:35:23,376
you will suffer.

1407
01:35:23,451 --> 01:35:26,181
You will be bled three times a day.

1408
01:35:26,253 --> 01:35:29,950
I want to see how long you
might live in this way.

1409
01:35:30,024 --> 01:35:33,460
It is an experiment
I have always wanted to try.

1410
01:35:33,527 --> 01:35:36,758
I thank you for
offering me this chance.

1411
01:35:36,831 --> 01:35:39,493
Monsieur, monsieur, come quickly,

1412
01:35:39,567 --> 01:35:41,398
Madame wants to talk to you

1413
01:35:41,469 --> 01:35:43,096
before she renders up her spirit.

1414
01:35:56,684 --> 01:35:57,810
Determined to reach

1415
01:35:57,885 --> 01:35:59,443
the unfortunate Countess' mother,

1416
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:02,182
I directed my steps
toward the town of Vienna.

1417
01:36:02,256 --> 01:36:05,089
By dawn, I was far
from the castle of Gernande.

1418
01:36:05,159 --> 01:36:10,563
But other adventures were to
distract me from my purpose.

1419
01:36:24,345 --> 01:36:26,711
Oh! And who is the benevolent angel

1420
01:36:26,781 --> 01:36:28,112
come to my rescue?

1421
01:36:28,182 --> 01:36:30,241
Monsieur, I am but a poor orphan girl

1422
01:36:30,317 --> 01:36:33,150
already well acquainted
with ill fortune -

1423
01:36:33,220 --> 01:36:34,915
Still having the simplicity
to believe

1424
01:36:34,989 --> 01:36:36,923
that a soul
enchained by indebtedness

1425
01:36:36,991 --> 01:36:39,186
ought to be eternally
beholden to me,

1426
01:36:39,260 --> 01:36:41,922
I instructed him
of my numerous reverses.

1427
01:36:41,996 --> 01:36:43,554
He listened to me with interest.

1428
01:36:43,631 --> 01:36:45,155
And to betoken his gratitude,

1429
01:36:45,232 --> 01:36:48,224
he invited me to follow him
to his castle near Grenoble,

1430
01:36:48,302 --> 01:36:49,633
thereto wait upon his sister,

1431
01:36:49,703 --> 01:36:52,331
of whom he was passionately fond.

1432
01:36:52,406 --> 01:36:54,340
Absolutely resolved to profit

1433
01:36:54,408 --> 01:36:56,672
from the aid Heaven
seemed to have sent me,

1434
01:36:56,744 --> 01:36:59,872
and since Roland - such was
my new patron's name -

1435
01:36:59,947 --> 01:37:02,472
consented to take care of
the Countess' letter for me,

1436
01:37:02,550 --> 01:37:03,949
I followed him.

1437
01:37:04,018 --> 01:37:05,542
During the entire journey,

1438
01:37:05,619 --> 01:37:07,917
he showed me
the utmost consideration,

1439
01:37:07,988 --> 01:37:12,721
and plied me
will all manner of attention.

1440
01:37:12,793 --> 01:37:15,193
This is where I live.

1441
01:37:15,262 --> 01:37:18,197
Is it possible to live
in such great solitude?

1442
01:37:18,265 --> 01:37:20,756
It suits me best -

1443
01:37:20,835 --> 01:37:23,827
you may take the horses back.

1444
01:37:46,594 --> 01:37:47,458
What's the trouble, Thérése?

1445
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:49,018
We haven't left France!

1446
01:37:49,096 --> 01:37:51,360
The castle's on the border of Dauphiné,

1447
01:37:51,432 --> 01:37:53,366
in the county of Grenoble.

1448
01:37:53,434 --> 01:37:55,868
So be it, Monsieur,
but what motive had you

1449
01:37:55,936 --> 01:37:57,767
for choosing a place only fit to shelter

1450
01:37:57,838 --> 01:37:59,032
outlaws and brigands?

1451
01:37:59,106 --> 01:38:00,437
Don't you see, the inhabitants of my castle

1452
01:38:00,507 --> 01:38:01,974
are none too honest;

1453
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,237
it's possible you will not be
edified by their activities.

1454
01:38:04,311 --> 01:38:06,802
You've set me trembling.

1455
01:38:06,914 --> 01:38:09,644
Where're you taking me now?

1456
01:38:09,717 --> 01:38:12,015
Inside, to bathe servant of counterfeiters,

1457
01:38:12,086 --> 01:38:15,578
of whom I am the chief.

1458
01:38:25,766 --> 01:38:29,133
Do you see that wheel?

1459
01:38:29,203 --> 01:38:30,397
Such will be your task.

1460
01:38:30,471 --> 01:38:32,098
Those are your companions.

1461
01:38:32,172 --> 01:38:34,572
On the condition
that you labor ten hours daily

1462
01:38:34,642 --> 01:38:36,803
at turning the wheel,
and that you satisfy,

1463
01:38:36,877 --> 01:38:38,208
like the women before you,

1464
01:38:38,279 --> 01:38:41,806
the caprices which l'll
be pleased to submit you to,

1465
01:38:41,882 --> 01:38:43,941
you'll receive
six ounces of black bread.

1466
01:38:44,018 --> 01:38:45,610
And a plate of beans daily.

1467
01:38:45,686 --> 01:38:46,744
As for your freedom, forget it,

1468
01:38:46,820 --> 01:38:47,752
you'll never recover it.

1469
01:38:47,821 --> 01:38:49,220
Oh, great God!

1470
01:38:49,290 --> 01:38:50,154
Deign to remember, Monsieur,

1471
01:38:50,224 --> 01:38:51,282
that I've saved your life!

1472
01:38:51,358 --> 01:38:53,883
Doesn't what you're doing shock you?

1473
01:38:53,961 --> 01:38:55,189
Does not remorse already bring

1474
01:38:55,262 --> 01:38:56,229
thoughts of my salvation

1475
01:38:56,297 --> 01:38:57,787
to the depths of your heart?

1476
01:38:57,865 --> 01:39:01,028
What do you mean by these sentiments,

1477
01:39:01,101 --> 01:39:04,400
this gratitude with which
I'm presumably captivated?

1478
01:39:04,471 --> 01:39:07,099
Between the possibilities
of going on your way

1479
01:39:07,174 --> 01:39:08,072
and coming to me,

1480
01:39:08,142 --> 01:39:09,734
did you not choose in the latter

1481
01:39:09,810 --> 01:39:12,005
an impulse prompted by your heart?

1482
01:39:12,079 --> 01:39:15,515
You were simply yielding
to an enjoyable urge.

1483
01:39:15,582 --> 01:39:18,449
On what vapid pretext
can you claim a reward

1484
01:39:18,519 --> 01:39:20,749
for a pleasure you indulge in?

1485
01:39:20,821 --> 01:39:22,812
Let people do it for me
what they wish

1486
01:39:22,890 --> 01:39:24,187
if they find joy in it,

1487
01:39:24,258 --> 01:39:28,786
but why ask a reward
for having enjoyed it?

1488
01:40:08,068 --> 01:40:10,593
Just wait!
This is nothing!

1489
01:40:10,671 --> 01:40:12,195
You're not at the end
of your troubles yet.

1490
01:40:12,272 --> 01:40:18,142
For I want to acquaint you
with the most barbaric

1491
01:40:18,212 --> 01:40:19,941
refinements of misery!

1492
01:40:20,014 --> 01:40:22,608
As you can easily surmise.
the villain's caprices

1493
01:40:22,683 --> 01:40:25,709
were as ferocious as were
all his ways of proceeding.

1494
01:40:25,786 --> 01:40:29,483
But I am abusing the kind
patience you have shown me.

1495
01:40:29,556 --> 01:40:31,023
Should I broach new horrors?

1496
01:40:31,091 --> 01:40:33,457
Am I not just befouling
your refined imagination

1497
01:40:33,527 --> 01:40:35,586
with my infamous tales?

1498
01:40:35,662 --> 01:40:38,631
Dare I hazard additional ones?

1499
01:40:38,699 --> 01:40:40,394
You must, Thérése, you must.

1500
01:40:40,467 --> 01:40:42,458
We ask you to give these details.

1501
01:40:42,536 --> 01:40:44,629
You've related these acts
with such decency

1502
01:40:44,705 --> 01:40:45,967
that it blunts their horror,

1503
01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:47,371
leaving only what we need

1504
01:40:47,441 --> 01:40:49,636
to add to our comprehension of humanity.

1505
01:40:49,710 --> 01:40:52,440
And one must comprehend
how badly such tableaux

1506
01:40:52,513 --> 01:40:54,879
are lacking in the
development of our spirit.

1507
01:40:54,948 --> 01:40:56,643
There are branches
of human knowledge

1508
01:40:56,717 --> 01:40:59,242
of which our great ignorance
can only be due to

1509
01:40:59,319 --> 01:41:02,755
the stupid restraint of those
who write upon such matters.

1510
01:41:02,823 --> 01:41:05,724
Chained by an absurd terror,
they only make us yawn

1511
01:41:05,793 --> 01:41:08,489
with the puerilities
known to the dullest clod.

1512
01:41:08,562 --> 01:41:10,393
And don't dare
explore the human heart

1513
01:41:10,464 --> 01:41:11,488
in a courageous manner,

1514
01:41:11,565 --> 01:41:13,226
and offer its huge

1515
01:41:13,300 --> 01:41:14,961
idiosyncrasies to our judgments.

1516
01:41:15,035 --> 01:41:17,868
Very well, Monsieur, I'm going to obey.

1517
01:41:17,938 --> 01:41:20,429
I shall proceed
as I've been doing so far.

1518
01:41:20,507 --> 01:41:22,634
I shall try to
offer up my sketches

1519
01:41:22,709 --> 01:41:25,576
under the least repulsive colors.

1520
01:41:25,646 --> 01:41:28,877
Roland was a solid,
strapping, strong man;

1521
01:41:28,949 --> 01:41:32,009
his vigor was simply incredible.

1522
01:41:32,086 --> 01:41:35,681
His mien was somber
and his gaze ferocious.

1523
01:41:35,756 --> 01:41:37,724
A thick, bushy beard, very long nose.

1524
01:41:37,791 --> 01:41:39,782
And that part that differentiated him

1525
01:41:39,860 --> 01:41:41,521
from those of our sex

1526
01:41:41,595 --> 01:41:44,120
was of such length
and exorbitant circumference

1527
01:41:44,198 --> 01:41:47,190
that not only had I never
looked upon an object

1528
01:41:47,267 --> 01:41:49,701
that was comparable to it,
in its every measure.

1529
01:41:49,770 --> 01:41:52,068
But I can claim I'm absolutely certain

1530
01:41:52,139 --> 01:41:54,664
that Mother Nature
never had fashioned one

1531
01:41:54,741 --> 01:41:55,833
quite so prodigious.

1532
01:41:55,909 --> 01:41:58,776
Both of my hands
couldn't encompass it,

1533
01:41:58,846 --> 01:42:01,337
and it was equal in length
to half of my arm.

1534
01:42:03,717 --> 01:42:06,777
Have you ever beheld its peer?

1535
01:42:06,854 --> 01:42:11,154
No!

1536
01:42:11,225 --> 01:42:12,351
Such as you've seen it, slut,

1537
01:42:12,426 --> 01:42:14,360
you'll have to submit its introduction

1538
01:42:14,428 --> 01:42:16,555
into the part of you that's narrowest.

1539
01:42:16,630 --> 01:42:18,461
Even if it should
split you in half!

1540
01:42:18,532 --> 01:42:21,057
My sister, very much younger than you,

1541
01:42:21,135 --> 01:42:22,966
sustains it in the same sector.

1542
01:42:23,036 --> 01:42:27,166
I've never enjoyed a woman
in a different manner!

1543
01:42:27,241 --> 01:42:30,335
It will therefore
have to cleave you in twain.

1544
01:42:30,410 --> 01:42:34,278
Take that frippery off!

1545
01:42:37,117 --> 01:42:39,244
Oh, Monsieur!
Have mercy!

1546
01:42:39,319 --> 01:42:47,556
Deign not to forget
how I once saved your life!

1547
01:42:47,628 --> 01:42:50,119
And now, you must perish!

1548
01:42:50,197 --> 01:42:54,634
I've had enough
of your hypocritical sanctity.

1549
01:43:02,843 --> 01:43:07,678
Come, Thérése.
it's time to say your prayers.

1550
01:43:07,748 --> 01:43:09,477
The instant of violations

1551
01:43:09,550 --> 01:43:12,576
shall be the instant I cast you
into that sepulcher.

1552
01:43:12,653 --> 01:43:16,248
Ah, when I plunge you
into the eternal abyss

1553
01:43:16,323 --> 01:43:17,449
that awaits you!

1554
01:43:17,524 --> 01:43:20,459
Ah, Thérése --

1555
01:43:30,871 --> 01:43:32,634
Well, were you frightened?

1556
01:43:32,706 --> 01:43:34,697
Oh, Monsieur!

1557
01:43:34,775 --> 01:43:37,676
That is how you'll perish;
you can be sure, Thérése.

1558
01:43:37,744 --> 01:43:40,645
It was a pleasure
to accustom you to it!

1559
01:43:40,714 --> 01:43:42,614
Let us conclude our sport

1560
01:43:42,683 --> 01:43:47,017
with a little game of 'cut the cord.'

1561
01:43:50,824 --> 01:43:53,418
Use this sickle.

1562
01:43:53,493 --> 01:43:55,859
'Tis a torture that's sweeter
than one imagines.

1563
01:43:55,929 --> 01:43:58,659
One feels death only through

1564
01:43:58,732 --> 01:44:00,927
inexpressible sensations of pleasure.

1565
01:44:39,940 --> 01:44:43,671
Well, Thérése, if you will tell the truth.

1566
01:44:43,744 --> 01:44:45,905
I'll wager that you felt only pleasure.

1567
01:44:45,979 --> 01:44:51,815
Only horror, Monsieur,
only anguish and disgust!

1568
01:44:51,885 --> 01:44:54,911
Only despair!

1569
01:45:02,896 --> 01:45:04,158
Grant me the favor

1570
01:45:04,231 --> 01:45:05,789
of accompanying you to Venice.

1571
01:45:05,866 --> 01:45:07,800
Perhaps there, I won't find
so many hearts of stone

1572
01:45:07,868 --> 01:45:09,495
as in my native land.

1573
01:45:09,569 --> 01:45:11,901
I'll give you no help whatever.

1574
01:45:11,972 --> 01:45:13,132
Even if I were much richer,

1575
01:45:13,206 --> 01:45:14,503
there would not be one penny

1576
01:45:14,574 --> 01:45:16,303
in aid to the poor of this world.

1577
01:45:16,376 --> 01:45:17,866
The poor in the natural order.

1578
01:45:17,944 --> 01:45:19,502
I have principles on that score!

1579
01:45:19,579 --> 01:45:21,046
I'm not giving them up!

1580
01:45:21,114 --> 01:45:23,742
These principles are terribly harsh.

1581
01:45:23,817 --> 01:45:25,148
Pray tell, would you speak thus

1582
01:45:25,218 --> 01:45:27,311
had you not always been
as wealthy as you are?

1583
01:45:27,387 --> 01:45:28,752
It could be, Thérése.

1584
01:45:28,822 --> 01:45:30,915
They complain of beggars in France.

1585
01:45:30,991 --> 01:45:33,357
If one wished, there'd soon be no more.

1586
01:45:33,427 --> 01:45:35,156
String up even seven
or eight thousand beggars.

1587
01:45:35,228 --> 01:45:38,925
And that infamous kind
would soon disappear.

1588
01:45:38,999 --> 01:45:40,796
Would a man being devoured by vermin

1589
01:45:40,867 --> 01:45:44,394
allow them to feed upon him
out of commiseration?

1590
01:45:44,471 --> 01:45:48,771
But there's religion,
and benevolence, humanity.

1591
01:45:48,842 --> 01:45:51,675
All obstacles on the path of
those who pursue happiness!

1592
01:45:51,745 --> 01:45:55,044
It is only on the debris
of all those hateful prejudices

1593
01:45:55,115 --> 01:45:56,446
that haunt man,

1594
01:45:56,516 --> 01:45:58,313
only through ruining the poor 
and robbing the rich

1595
01:45:58,385 --> 01:46:00,046
that one may reach the temple

1596
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,247
on the mountain of the God I honor.

1597
01:46:02,322 --> 01:46:03,414
Imitate me!

1598
01:46:03,490 --> 01:46:05,014
The narrow road to this shrine

1599
01:46:05,092 --> 01:46:07,492
is open to everyone
as it was open to me.

1600
01:46:07,561 --> 01:46:09,188
Have those ideals you've preferred

1601
01:46:09,262 --> 01:46:11,924
brought you comfort for your sacrifices?

1602
01:46:11,998 --> 01:46:14,592
And now, poor wretch,
what can you do.

1603
01:46:14,668 --> 01:46:16,727
But shed tears over your sins?

1604
01:46:16,803 --> 01:46:17,895
Suffer!

1605
01:46:17,971 --> 01:46:19,404
And try to find,

1606
01:46:19,473 --> 01:46:21,703
in the depths of the ethereal
phantoms that you so prize,

1607
01:46:21,775 --> 01:46:22,799
all that you've been losing,

1608
01:46:22,876 --> 01:46:24,605
thanks to your reverent blindness.

1609
01:46:24,678 --> 01:46:27,146
Before setting out.
the scoundrel presented us

1610
01:46:27,214 --> 01:46:29,614
with a new scene
of cruelty and barbarity.

1611
01:46:29,683 --> 01:46:31,947
Everyone at the chéteau
supposed Roland's sister

1612
01:46:32,018 --> 01:46:35,146
would leave with him,
but just before he left -

1613
01:46:35,222 --> 01:46:40,990
I've got to try my pistols out
on one of those little hussies.

1614
01:47:01,648 --> 01:47:03,377
Then, on the pretext Suzanne and I

1615
01:47:03,450 --> 01:47:04,940
were not shouldering the wheel

1616
01:47:05,018 --> 01:47:05,882
with sufficient vigor;

1617
01:47:05,952 --> 01:47:09,388
he dragged us down to the cellars.

1618
01:47:23,036 --> 01:47:26,563
You see that prosperity
is the child of vice, Thérése,

1619
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:28,232
and misfortune that of virtue.

1620
01:47:28,308 --> 01:47:30,105
But regardless of favors
that I owe to good luck.

1621
01:47:30,177 --> 01:47:31,974
I may be abandoned by Fate one day.

1622
01:47:32,045 --> 01:47:33,205
If this happens to me.

1623
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:35,748
I will have but one end, Thérése; hanging.

1624
01:47:35,816 --> 01:47:38,182
l am convinced that death by hanging

1625
01:47:38,251 --> 01:47:39,912
is a very pleasant one.

1626
01:47:39,986 --> 01:47:42,978
But women I've subjected
to trials to prove it,

1627
01:47:43,056 --> 01:47:45,047
have given me
very evasive replies.

1628
01:47:45,125 --> 01:47:46,820
So I shall perform an experiment

1629
01:47:46,893 --> 01:47:48,019
upon my own person.

1630
01:47:48,094 --> 01:47:49,925
Let us proceed.

1631
01:47:49,996 --> 01:47:52,794
I'll excite myself a moment,
but when I have reached

1632
01:47:52,866 --> 01:47:55,300
what you might call
a certain consistency,

1633
01:47:55,368 --> 01:47:56,357
jerk the stool out

1634
01:47:56,436 --> 01:47:58,267
but keep your hands off my noose.

1635
01:47:58,338 --> 01:48:00,101
Let me hang
until you've assured yourself

1636
01:48:00,173 --> 01:48:02,073
that I'm truly emitting my seed,

1637
01:48:02,142 --> 01:48:04,167
or that I'm on the point of death.

1638
01:48:04,244 --> 01:48:06,212
In the second case, Thérése.

1639
01:48:06,279 --> 01:48:08,304
See that you cut the cord at once.

1640
01:48:08,381 --> 01:48:11,748
Otherwise, you'll let nature
take her course.

1641
01:48:11,818 --> 01:48:13,410
And when I'm finished, untie me.

1642
01:48:13,487 --> 01:48:16,149
You realize that I'll be putting my life

1643
01:48:16,223 --> 01:48:17,190
into your hands.

1644
01:48:17,257 --> 01:48:18,417
Oh, Monsieur!

1645
01:48:18,492 --> 01:48:21,552
How extravagant is such a proposal!

1646
01:48:21,628 --> 01:48:23,858
Liberty and fortune!

1647
01:48:23,930 --> 01:48:27,866
Those two great prizes
shall be your reward.

1648
01:48:45,051 --> 01:48:46,575
To my utter amazement,

1649
01:48:46,653 --> 01:48:48,678
nothing but symptoms of pleasure

1650
01:48:48,755 --> 01:48:49,949
ornamented his countenance.

1651
01:48:50,023 --> 01:48:52,218
And at very nearly the same instant,

1652
01:48:52,292 --> 01:48:55,557
rapid jets of his seed
sprang nigh to the vault,

1653
01:48:55,629 --> 01:49:00,794
without any assistance
whatsoever from me.

1654
01:49:17,083 --> 01:49:21,076
Ah, Thérése, one simply can't imagine

1655
01:49:21,154 --> 01:49:22,416
such sensations!

1656
01:49:22,489 --> 01:49:24,116
Now men may do
what they wish to me,

1657
01:49:24,190 --> 01:49:27,591
I defy the sword of justice!

1658
01:49:55,188 --> 01:49:57,349
No sooner had Roland departed

1659
01:49:57,424 --> 01:50:00,882
after assuring himself
of a safe journey to Venice.

1660
01:50:00,961 --> 01:50:03,691
That a troop of horsemen
of the Constabulary

1661
01:50:03,763 --> 01:50:05,958
arrived to storm the counterfeiters lair

1662
01:50:06,032 --> 01:50:07,966
before our men had a moment's opportunity

1663
01:50:08,034 --> 01:50:11,731
to look to their defenses.

1664
01:50:32,559 --> 01:50:36,359
The court did not tarry long
over the counterfeiter's case.

1665
01:50:36,429 --> 01:50:38,659
They were all sentenced to be hanged.

1666
01:50:38,732 --> 01:50:40,996
When the mark that
branded me was detected.

1667
01:50:41,067 --> 01:50:42,534
They scarcely gave themselves

1668
01:50:42,602 --> 01:50:44,433
the trouble of interrogating me.

1669
01:50:44,504 --> 01:50:47,496
How is it possible
that our glorious providence.

1670
01:50:47,574 --> 01:50:50,566
Worshipped by all who adore justice,

1671
01:50:50,644 --> 01:50:53,238
had me punished for my virtue

1672
01:50:53,313 --> 01:50:54,610
yet moved up to mighty places

1673
01:50:54,681 --> 01:50:58,139
those who'd spattered me
with their crimes?

1674
01:50:58,218 --> 01:51:01,016
But a thousand pardons, Madame.

1675
01:51:01,087 --> 01:51:03,487
A thousand pardons for
having sullied your spirit

1676
01:51:03,556 --> 01:51:06,116
with such a host of obscenities.

1677
01:51:06,192 --> 01:51:12,495
And for taking long and undue
advantage of your patience!

1678
01:51:12,565 --> 01:51:15,728
Adieu, Madame!
Adieu!

1679
01:51:15,802 --> 01:51:17,895
My guards bid me join them.

1680
01:51:17,971 --> 01:51:19,836
I'll see what fate
has kept in store for me.

1681
01:51:19,906 --> 01:51:22,875
Mademoiselle, you've
concealed who you are.

1682
01:51:22,942 --> 01:51:24,307
You've hidden the secret of your birth.

1683
01:51:24,377 --> 01:51:26,368
I entreat you to tell me that secret at once!

1684
01:51:26,446 --> 01:51:27,538
Oh, great God!

1685
01:51:27,614 --> 01:51:29,605
Could the suspicion
I have really --?

1686
01:51:29,683 --> 01:51:31,173
Oh, Thérése!

1687
01:51:31,251 --> 01:51:34,516
If you were Justine!
If you were my sister!

1688
01:51:34,587 --> 01:51:36,646
Justine, Madame?

1689
01:51:36,723 --> 01:51:37,712
Then you --?

1690
01:51:37,791 --> 01:51:39,315
Today, she would be your age.

1691
01:51:39,392 --> 01:51:40,359
Juliette!

1692
01:51:40,427 --> 01:51:41,689
Yes!

1693
01:51:41,761 --> 01:51:43,319
You really are my sister!

1694
01:51:43,396 --> 01:51:45,921
It is you I hear!

1695
01:51:45,999 --> 01:51:47,899
Oh, I may die now;

1696
01:51:47,967 --> 01:51:49,525
my mind at peace now

1697
01:51:49,602 --> 01:51:51,797
because I may embrace
you once again!

1698
01:51:51,871 --> 01:52:00,575
Justine! Justine! Justine!

1699
01:52:02,682 --> 01:52:05,947
Come, poor creature.
target of such misfortunes.

1700
01:52:06,019 --> 01:52:08,078
Come, Justine, now everything

1701
01:52:08,154 --> 01:52:10,179
shall improve for you.

1702
01:52:10,256 --> 01:52:12,053
It shall not be said that your virtues

1703
01:52:12,125 --> 01:52:14,116
will always stay unrecompensed.

1704
01:52:14,194 --> 01:52:16,094
It shan't be claimed
that the beautiful soul

1705
01:52:16,162 --> 01:52:16,821
that is yours

1706
01:52:16,896 --> 01:52:19,330
has encountered naught
but souls of rock.

1707
01:52:19,399 --> 01:52:21,799
Stay, dear girl, since I'm answerable now,

1708
01:52:21,868 --> 01:52:23,335
I will protect you.

1709
01:52:23,403 --> 01:52:26,133
I have spoken for you to both of your guards.

1710
01:52:26,206 --> 01:52:27,332
And I'll write a letter

1711
01:52:27,407 --> 01:52:28,738
that they will take to the Chancellor.

1712
01:52:28,808 --> 01:52:31,902
Beloved man, you've done
the most splendid thing

1713
01:52:31,978 --> 01:52:33,673
of which I've ever heard.

1714
01:52:33,747 --> 01:52:37,080
Come, Justine, come and kneel down

1715
01:52:37,150 --> 01:52:39,175
before this man who is so equitable!

1716
01:52:39,252 --> 01:52:41,379
This time, you'll not be abandoned.

1717
01:52:41,454 --> 01:52:43,115
Oh, Monsieur, if I've cherished

1718
01:52:43,189 --> 01:52:44,850
the beautiful ties we've had.

1719
01:52:44,924 --> 01:52:47,358
How much more these bonds
will now be cherished,

1720
01:52:47,427 --> 01:52:50,692
strengthened by the most tender esteem!

1721
01:52:50,764 --> 01:52:51,992
The storm is raging!

1722
01:52:52,065 --> 01:52:53,362
As though the heavens
have been stirred up

1723
01:52:53,433 --> 01:52:54,695
to fete your deliverance!

1724
01:52:54,768 --> 01:52:56,326
Dear Justine, I'm frightened.

1725
01:52:56,402 --> 01:53:00,133
Could you please close the window?

1726
01:53:23,596 --> 01:53:25,689
You may take the poor creature out.

1727
01:53:25,765 --> 01:53:27,323
No one in the world could help her.

1728
01:53:27,400 --> 01:53:30,028
No, let her stay so I may look at her.

1729
01:53:30,103 --> 01:53:33,004
I must gaze upon her,
to make me firmer

1730
01:53:33,072 --> 01:53:35,597
in the resolve which I have now adopted.

1731
01:53:35,675 --> 01:53:37,233
Listen to me, Corville,

1732
01:53:37,310 --> 01:53:40,541
and do not oppose
the project I have in mind.

1733
01:53:40,613 --> 01:53:42,410
Nothing on earth could keep me

1734
01:53:42,482 --> 01:53:43,972
from accomplishing it at present.

1735
01:53:44,050 --> 01:53:47,508
The absolutely unheard of
misfortunes she suffered -

1736
01:53:47,587 --> 01:53:50,283
though she had always
respected her duties -

1737
01:53:50,356 --> 01:53:53,348
really are so uncommon;

1738
01:53:53,426 --> 01:53:56,293
they've opened my own eyes
on how I've lived myself.

1739
01:53:56,362 --> 01:53:59,058
What punishment
should I dread.

1740
01:53:59,132 --> 01:54:02,101
When the worst libertinage, irreligion

1741
01:54:02,168 --> 01:54:07,606
and abandon of all principles
marked each hour I've lived?

1742
01:54:07,674 --> 01:54:10,837
Let's separate now, Corville.

1743
01:54:10,910 --> 01:54:13,310
No tie keeps you.

1744
01:54:13,379 --> 01:54:15,438
Do forget me.

1745
01:54:15,515 --> 01:54:20,350
And approve my decision
to do penance eternal,

1746
01:54:20,420 --> 01:54:23,878
abjuring before the Supreme Being

1747
01:54:23,957 --> 01:54:28,485
the infamies with which
I've soiled myself.

1748
01:54:28,561 --> 01:54:30,552
Oh, you who have wept
upon hearing

1749
01:54:30,630 --> 01:54:32,063
of the misery in Virtue,

1750
01:54:32,131 --> 01:54:35,464
you who have been moved
by the fate of poor Justine,

1751
01:54:35,535 --> 01:54:37,002
forgive us for what
have perhaps at times

1752
01:54:37,070 --> 01:54:37,900
been too-heavy strokes of the brush

1753
01:54:37,971 --> 01:54:40,599
we've been compelled to employ.

1754
01:54:40,673 --> 01:54:42,231
May you be convinced with her

1755
01:54:42,308 --> 01:54:44,139
that true happiness is to be found

1756
01:54:44,210 --> 01:54:45,507
in the womb of Virtue.

1757
01:54:45,578 --> 01:54:47,409
And that, if in keeping with designs,

1758
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:49,471
that it is not for us to fathom,

1759
01:54:49,549 --> 01:54:52,985
God permits that virtue
to be persecuted on earth.

1760
01:54:53,052 --> 01:54:56,044
It is so that it may be compensated

1761
01:54:56,122 --> 01:55:00,616
by heaven's most dazzling rewards.