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FORMATTED AND PRODUCED BY COGWOLF
VENUS INVENUS IN FURSFURS
Leopold von Sacher-Leopold von Sacher-MasochMasoch
TranslatedTranslated from thefrom the GermanGerman
MARGARET MARIA COUGHLAN MADE THIS
EXQUISITE ENIGMA
 
ByByFERNANDA SAVAGEFERNANDA SAVAGE
VENUS IN FURS"But the Almighty Lord hath struck him,and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman."The Vulgate, Judith, xvi. 7.
My company was charming.Opposite me by the massive Renaissance fireplacesat Venus; she was not a casual woman of the half-world, who under this pseudonym wages war
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against the enemy sex, like MademoiselleCleopatra, but the real, true goddess of love.She sat in an armchair and had kindled a cracklingfire, whose reflection ran in red flames over herpale face with its white eyes, and from time to timeover her feet when she sought to warm them.Her head was wonderful in spite of the dead stonyeyes; it was all I could see of her. She had wrappedher marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolledherself up trembling like a cat."I don't understand it," I exclaimed, "It isn't reallycold any longer. For two weeks past we have hadperfect spring weather. You must be nervous.""Much obliged for your spring," she replied with alow stony voice, and immediately afterwardssneezed divinely, twice in succession. "I really can'tstand it here much longer, and I am beginning tounderstand--""What, dear lady?""I am beginning to believe the unbelievable and tounderstand the ununderstandable. All of a sudden Iunderstand the Germanic virtue of woman, andGerman philosophy, and I am no longer surprisedthat you of the North do not know how to love,haven't even an idea of what love is.""But, madame," I replied flaring up, "I surelyhaven't given you any reason."
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