The Real Traviata by Weis René;

Author:Weis, René;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

A workman’s wages would never have got me the luxury for which I had an irresistible craving. But in spite of all the appearances against me, I swear to you that I am neither covetous nor utterly degraded. I wanted to know the refined pleasures of a cultivated taste, the joy of living in educated and elegant society. I always chose my lovers for myself. And I have loved—oh, yes, I have loved deeply, but no-one has ever returned my love, and that is the real horror of my life.20

Once she told one of her protectors that she had fallen in love with him and wished that they could set up home together. He pulled back, incredulous at the thought that she might be serious about her feelings. Marie Duplessis remarked ruefully, ‘I realized that my former misdeeds condemned me irrevocably and that a woman who has once fallen can never rise again, no matter how sincere her repentance.’ She told Judith how the old count Stackelberg had approached her one day and how she had agreed to become his substitute daughter, even pledging a chastity that she knew full well she could not observe in the long run:

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