Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.
- Alexander Walker
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NINON DE L’ENCLOS,' : ,., RAS “Here [speaking of Ninon’s apartment], she was found at her toilet by the noblest of her lovers, curling her beautiful hair with the contract. of marriage and bond for four thousand louis he had given her the night before.* Here she restored to de Gourville the deposit of half his fortune, which he had left with her when driven into exile —the other half, confided to the Grand Péniten- cier, the mirror of priestly austerity and devotion, who affected to have forgotten the transaction, and threatened his credulous friend with the conse- quences of his persisting in the demand. “Thus deceived by the churchman, he did not even think of applying to Ninon, whom he imagined to be so much more likely to have spent his money. She sent for him, however, and said—‘ I have to re- proach myself deeply on your account: a great misfortune has happend to me in your absence, for which I have to solicit your pardon.”” Gour- ville thought, at once, that this misfortune related to his deposit; but she continued—* I have lost sion on her; and it is from this. time, we may say, that Mademoiselle de 1’ Enclos, estimable, solid and attached, succeeded to the dissipated and inconstant Ninon: and from this time till death, she was only known by the former name.”’, * “Cela doit vous faire voir,” lui dit elle, ‘ quel cas je fais) des promesses de jeunes étourdis, comme vous; et combien vous vous compromettriez avec une femme capable de profiter de vos folies.” .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0369.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
