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COSMETICS<br />
Everything, my life and all the world., and men, all that is not she, is naught. All<br />
that is not she, I give you, passer-by.<br />
Does she know how many tasks I accomplish to be lovely in her eyes, tasks with<br />
my coiffure and my paints, my dresses and my perfumes?<br />
Just so long would I tread the mill, or pull the oar or even till the soil, if these<br />
would be the price <strong>of</strong> holding her.<br />
But never let her know these things, oh, guardian Goddesses! The very day she<br />
knows that I adore her, she'll seek another woman.<br />
MNASIDIKA'S SILENCE<br />
All day she laughed and even mocked at me a little. She refused to obey me, in<br />
the presence <strong>of</strong> some strangers.<br />
When we had come home again I affected not to speak to her, and when she<br />
threw her arms about my neck, saying: "Are you angry?" I said to her:<br />
"Ah! you are no longer as you used to be, you are no longer like the first day. I do<br />
not recognize you any more, Mnasidika." She did not answer me.<br />
But she put on all her jewels, the jewels that she had not worn for long, and even<br />
the blue-embroidered yellow robe she had not worn since the day <strong>of</strong> our first<br />
meeting.<br />
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