Armand's pocket and spending on the actresses and dancing girls to whom he was introduced through Armand himself.
But Bonnard yearned to subjugate Armand — to place his money at his own disposal, to possess him and exploit him so that the young man could neither escape him nor refuse him a request. So when Rose came seeking her father's help, entreating him to find work for her and for her beloved, he was struck by her bewitching beauty, her enchanting sorrow, and her fully ripened womanliness; and there rose in his soul a satanic idea in which he fancied lay his own salvation and his daughter's deliverance.
He was certain that Rose's beauty was bound to captivate Armand's heart the moment he saw her. So he made up his mind to exploit his daughter and marry her to his wife's brother, his companion in dissipation and debauchery. He welcomed her, treated her with honor, gave her the highest place in his house, and lavished money upon her; the girl was dazzled, grew attached to him, and imagined that her future would be realized at his hands.
She presented her fiancé Albert to him, and he at once assisted him with money as well, showed
appreciation of his character, and held out to him the hope of obtaining work that would enable him to venture upon marriage.
Rose took to frequenting her father's house, spending days there, courting Madame Bonnard and her brother so as to win everyone's affection, to draw them into taking an interest in her, and to crown this victory by marrying her beloved.
And what Monsieur Bonnard had expected came to pass.
Armand was taken by the charm of this pure, innocent, ill-starred girl.
He found in her what he had never found in his loose, wanton mistresses.
He fell madly in love with her, and his soul yearned to try this kind of woman; so he was gentle with her, exercised all his art in tempting her, offered her all manner of gifts, and wished to make of her a mistress. And Rose, in the excess of her love for Albert and her absorption in thoughts of her future and the fate of her marriage, paid no close attention to Armand's ways; evil never crossed her mind, and she believed nothing except that she was living among the members of
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