The Grip of Desire

Hector France

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Title: The Grip of Desire
Author: Hector France
Release Date: February 6, 2004 [eBook #10963]
Language: English
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http://gallica.bnf.fr.THE GRIP OF DESIRE
THE STORY OF A PARISH-PRIEST
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF HECTOR
FRANCE
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Love is a familiar; love is a devil; there is no evil
angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and
he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon
so seduced, and he had a very good wit.
Love's Labour Lost.
With an engraved portrait of the AuthorOther Works in English
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HECTOR FRANCE
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will be sumptuously illustrated by leading French
Artists. (In Preparation.)
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TO THE READER
The truth, the bitter truth.
DANTON.
Oh, sons and brothers, oh, poets
When the thing exists, speak the word.
V. HUGO.
I do not assert that all the personages in this story
are models of virtue. To some of them has been
given a part which severe morality reproves. But I
am a realist and not an idealist, and for that I beg
the reader a thousand pardons. I have tried to
paint what I saw and not that of which I dreamed.
If my figures are not chaste, the fault is not mine,
but of those who passed before me and whose
features I sketched as my pen ran on.
You are warned therefore, Madam, that when you
open this book, you will not find a "Treatise on
Morality". Here are only the simple and pastoral
loves of a poor and obscure village priest. An idyllin the shade of the parsonage limes and under the
motionless eye of the weather-cock on the belfry.
If then you come across any word which offends
your chaste ears, any picture which distresses your
modest eye, blame only your own curiosity.
HECTOR FRANCE.LIST OF CHAPTERS.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them
that are Defiled and Unbelieving is nothing pure:
but even their mind and conscience is Defiled.
They profess that they know God; but in Works
they Deny Him, being Abominable and
Disobedient, and unto every good work
Reprobate.
ST. PAUL.
LIST OF CHAPTERS.
I. The Curé
II. The Confessional
III. The Parsonage
IV. Expectation
V. The Meeting
VI. The Look
VII. The Salute
VIII. The Fever
IX. During Vespers
X. In Parenthesis
XI. The Flesh
XII. The Temptation XIII. The Resolution
XIV. The Captain
XV. Memories
XVI. The Epaulet
XVII. The Voltairian
XVIII. The Visit
XIX. Hard Words
XX. Kicks
XXI. The Past
XXII. The Servant
XXIII. The Letter
XXIV. The First Meeting
XXV. Love
XXVI. Of Young Girls in General
XXVII. Of Suzanne in Particular
XXVIII. The Shadow.
XXIX. Other Meetings
XXX. Seraphic Love
XXXI. The Virgin
XXXII. The Death's-Head
XXXIII. Frenzy
XXXIV. The Prohibition
XXXV. The Shelter
XXXVI. The Hot Wine
XXXVII. Tête-à-Tête
XXXVIII. The Kiss
XXXIX. The Devil in Petticoats
XL. Little Confessions
XLI. Moral Reflections
XLII. Memory Looking Back
XLIII. Espionage XLIV. The Garret Window
XLV. Treacherous Manoeuvre
XLVI. The Letter
XLVII. Good News
XLVIII. Reconcilliation
XLIX. Confidences
L. Mammosa Virgo
LI. Chamber Morality
LII. The Posset
LIII. The Leg
LIV. Mater Saeva Cupidunum
LV. In the Foot-Path
LVI. Double Remorse
LVII. The Explosion
LVIII. Provocation
LIX. Acts and Words
LX. Talks
LXI. Le Père Hyacinthe
LXII. The Happy Curé
LXIII. The Miracles
LXIV. The Two Augurs
LXV. Table-Talk
LXVI. Good Counsel
LXVII. In A Glass
LXVIII. The Rose Chamber
LXIX. The Gust of Wind
LXX. The Ambuscade
LXXI. The Breach
LXXII. The Assault
LXXIII. Audaces Fortuna Juvat
LXXIV. Before Mass LXXV. During Mass
LXXVI. Awakening
LXXVII. Consolations
LXXVIII. False Alarms
LXXIX. In the Diligence
LXXX. An Old Acquaintance
LXXXI. A Little Confession
LXXXII. The Church-Woman
LXXXIII. Conventicle
LXXXIV. At the Palace
LXXXV. Little Pastimes
LXXXVI. Serious Talk
LXXXVII. The Seminary
LXXXVIII. The Fair One
LXXXIX. Love Again
XC. Le Cygne de la Croix
XCI. The Calves
XCII. The Scapular
XCIII. From the Dark to the Fair
XCIV. The Change
XCV. The Curé of St. Marie
XCVI. Finis Coronet Opus
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