CHAPTER 20As for Clement, he has been drawn for you already. To thesuperficies I have delineated, join ferocity, a disposition tosarcasm, the most dangerous roguishness, intemperance in everypoint, a mordant, satirical mind, a corrupt heart, the cruel tastesRodin displayed with his young charges, no feelings, no delicacy,no religion, the temperament of one who for five years had not beenin a state to procure himself other joys than those for whichsavagery gave him an appetite Ä and you have there the mostcomplete characterization of this horrid man. Antonin, the thirdprotagonist in these detestable orgies, was forty; small, slight offrame but very vigorous, as formidably organized as Severino andalmost as wicked as Clement; an enthusiast of that colleague'spleasures, but giving himself ove
