Adultery seems to me the most commonplace thing possible.

I see nothing shocking in a young girl selling herself.'...

'I find that the earth is all as fair as heaven, and virtue for me is nothing but the perfection of form.' 'Many a time and long_,' he continues farther on, '_have I paused in some cathedral, under the shadow of the marble foliage, when the lights were quivering in through the stained windows, when the organ unbidden made a low murmuring of itself, and the wind was breathing amongst the pipes; and I have plunged my gaze far into the pale blue depths of the almond-shaped eyes of the Madonna.

I have followed with a tender reverence the curves of that wasted figure of hers, and the arch of her eyebrows, just visible and no more than that.

I have admired her smooth and lustrous brow, her temples with their transparent chastity, and her cheeks shaded with a sober virginal colour, more tender than the colour of a peach-flower.