We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. There’s sure to be a place somewhere. CHAPTER VI Sidney Carton, thought Ruth, in pursuit of a sing-song girl! The idea was so incongruous that a cold little smile parted her lips. One day she awoke and he was cavorting about underneath the covers. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be thinking about biology. "What's that?—Jack's voice!" "It is," replied her son. ” After a pause, she added, “Do you mind fetching back my recalcitrant cavalier. ‘It is in truth you?’ ‘Of course it is I. Only first you must find the lantern and light it again and leave it here, near the door, for me to find. ” 209 Clotilde was no fool. ” He contradicted himself by plunging into an exposition of motifs.
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