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Ball of Fat 29
"Was the baptism interesting?"
The girl, still under the stress of emotion, told what she had seen and heard,
described the faces, the attitudes of those present, and even the appearance of
the church. She concluded with the words:
"It does one good to pray sometimes."
Until lunch time the ladies contented themselves with being pleasant to her, so
as to increase her confidence and make her amenable to their advice.
As soon as they took their seats at table the attack began. First they opened a
vague conversation on the subject of self-sacrifice. Ancient examples were
quoted: Judith and Holofernes; then, irrationally enough, Lucrece and Sextus;
Cleopatra and the hostile generals whom she reduced to abject slavery by a
surrender of her charms. Next was recounted an extraordinary story, born of the
imagination of these ignorant millionaires, which told how the matrons of Rome
seduced Hannibal, his lieutenants, and all his mercenaries at Capua. They held
up to admiration all those women who from time to time have arrested the
victorious progress of conquerors, made of their bodies a field of battle, a
means of ruling, a weapon; who have vanquished by their heroic caresses hideous
or detested beings, and sacrificed their chastity to vengeance and devotion.
All was said with due restraint and regard for propriety, the effect heightened
now and then by an outburst of forced enthusiasm calculated to excite emulation.
A listener would have thought at last that the one role of woman on earth was a
perpetual sacrifice of her person, a continual abandonment of herself to the
caprices of a hostile soldiery.
The two nuns seemed to hear nothing, and to be lost in thought. Ball of Fat
also was silent.
During the whole afternoon she was left to her reflections. But instead of
calling her "madame" as they had done hitherto, her companions addressed her
simply as "mademoiselle," without exactly knowing why, but as if desirous of
making her descend a step in the esteem she had won, and forcing her to realize
her degraded position.
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