A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 51: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. 43 the long corridors at fixed intervals to see that there is no talking going on. It must be acknowledged that all this was a cruel change to Rose, who, at any rate during the previous twelve months, had been accustomed to a life of elegance, refine- ment, and cruelty. ! CHAPTER IV. THE HAREM, A fortnight after the events described in the previous chapter the war broke out which cost Napoleon III. his throne, and all the German residents in Paris were forced to take their departure at an exceedingly short notice. Among their number was Count Frederick von Waldberg, who, since the disappearance of Rose, had plunged into the wildest course of dissipation and debauchery, as if with the intention of drowning all memory of the past. The discovery of his wife’s infamy had exercised a most disastrous effect.on the young man’s mind. It had rendered him thoroughly hardened and cynical, and had definitely banished forever any remnant of moral feeling or conscience, which he had until then retained. When he reflected on all the brilliant prospects and future which he had surrendered for Rose’s sake, he grew sick at heart, and determined to put to good account the bitter experience which he had acquired. Never again would he allow himself to be softened and in- fluenced by any affaire de ceur, but, on the contrary, women should become subservient to his interests. He would deal with them in the same relentless and cruel manner that Rose had dealt with him, ‘The old life was dead and gone, and he made up his mind to start out on a new career un- burdened by any such baggage as scruples or honor, Eomicbooks (Glo) =)