CHAPTER 29"In any event, Therese, your task is to look after her. Herblood is let once every ninety-six hours; she loses two bowls of iteach time and nowadays no longer faints, having got accustomed toit. Her prostration lasts twenty-four hours; she is bedridden oneday out of every four, but during the remaining three she gets ontolerably well. But you may easily understand this life displeasesher; at the outset there was nothing she would not try to deliverherself from it, nothing she did not undertake to acquaint hermother with her real situation: she seduced two of hermaid-servants whose maneuvers were detected early enough to defeattheir success: she was the cause of these two unhappy creatures'ruin, today she repents what she did and, recognizing theirremediable character of her desti
