Category: scoundrel
Quotes of Category: scoundrel
As I listened to him describing the scene of the procurer seducing the young girl, I found myself torn between two conflicting emotions, between a powerful desire to laugh and an overwhelming surge of indignation. I was in agony. Again and again a roar of laughter prevented my rage bursting forth; again and again the rage rising in my heart became a roar of laughter. I was dumbfounded by such shrewdness and such depravity; by such soundness of ideas alternating with such falseness; by so general a perversity of feeling, so total a corruption, and so exceptional a candour. He saw how agitated I was. 'What's the matter?' he asked.ME: Nothing.HIM: I think you're upset.ME: Indeed I am.HIM: So what do you think I should do?ME: Talk about something else. What a wretched fate, to have been born and to have fallen so low!HIM: I agree. But don't let my state affect you too much. In opening my heart to you, it was not my intention to upset you. I've managed to save a little, while I was with those people. Remember I wanted for nothing, nothing whatsoever, and they also made me a small allowance for incidentals. {Here he began to strike himself on the forehead with his fist, bite his lips, and roll his eyes like a lunatic, then he said:} What's done is done. I've put a bit aside. Time's passed, so I'm that much to the good philosophyscoundrel
