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already swooning with pleasure… Oh, she is coming… she is really coming…
FANNY
Oh, Alcide, Alcide, I am dying… I…
And the sweetness of the forbidden fruit consumed us with its intoxication, bore us both into celestial regions.
After a few moments of repose, having regained my coolness, my presence of mind, I began to speak as follows:
ALCIDE
I am the child of young and healthy parents. I had a happy childhood, without tears or sickness, so at the age of thirteen. I was already quite manly. The spur of sexual desire began at this early age to made itself felt.
Destined for the Church, brought up in all the rigor of chastity, I fought against the first symptoms of carnal desire with all my childish strength. My flesh began to awaken, tormented me, powerful and imperious, and I thrust it pitilessly back from me.
