Intoxicated by carnal pleasures, Mina has lost her strength and is not as reserved as she used to be with Monsieur de Larsay. From then on, her rare qualities turned against her. She saw his melancholy and laughed at it. And the love he aroused in her soon went wild. How silly of me to worry! She thought, "I do it because I love him more.". What a fool I am to be troubled by such a thing! In...