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2jjS TRAVELS IN UPPER
time to terminate those steril encounters, and
made me sensible how well advised I had been in
not having crossed the canal.
These same women frequently visit each other.
Decency and reserve do not always defray the ex-
pense of their conversations. The absolute want
of education and of principle; the idleness and
abundance in which they softly pass their days ;
the constraint in which they are unremittingly
kept, by men extremely unacquainted with deli-
cacy either of sentiment or in conduct; the assu-
rance which they have that the inclinations of
these men are directed towards other objects ; the
vivacity of their affections ; the climate, which
communicates its fires to hearts so fruitlessly dis-
posed to tenderness; nature, whose powerful
voice, too frequently misunderstood by those
whom she calls to partake of her laws as well as
of her pleasures, rouses their sensations ; every-
thing contributes to direct their vivid imagina-
tion, their desires, their discourse, toward an ob-
ject which they are not at liberty to attain. They
jtmusc themselves in their little parties with com-
pletely changing clothes, and in mutually assum-
ing each other's dress. This species of metamor-
phosis only serves as a prelude and a pretext to
sports less: innocent, and of which Sappho passes
for having taught and practised the-details. In-
telligent
time to terminate those steril encounters, and
made me sensible how well advised I had been in
not having crossed the canal.
These same women frequently visit each other.
Decency and reserve do not always defray the ex-
pense of their conversations. The absolute want
of education and of principle; the idleness and
abundance in which they softly pass their days ;
the constraint in which they are unremittingly
kept, by men extremely unacquainted with deli-
cacy either of sentiment or in conduct; the assu-
rance which they have that the inclinations of
these men are directed towards other objects ; the
vivacity of their affections ; the climate, which
communicates its fires to hearts so fruitlessly dis-
posed to tenderness; nature, whose powerful
voice, too frequently misunderstood by those
whom she calls to partake of her laws as well as
of her pleasures, rouses their sensations ; every-
thing contributes to direct their vivid imagina-
tion, their desires, their discourse, toward an ob-
ject which they are not at liberty to attain. They
jtmusc themselves in their little parties with com-
pletely changing clothes, and in mutually assum-
ing each other's dress. This species of metamor-
phosis only serves as a prelude and a pretext to
sports less: innocent, and of which Sappho passes
for having taught and practised the-details. In-
telligent