Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 10

"May the hope or fear of a world to come, bred of those primordial ¹ lies, trouble you not, Therese, and above all give over endeavoring to forge restraints for us out of this stuff. Feeble portions of a vile ² crude matter, upon our death, that is to say, upon the conjointure of the elements whereof we are composed with the elements composing the universal mass, annihilated ³ forever, regardless of what our behavior has been, we will pass for an instant into Nature's crucible ⁴ thence to spring up again under other shapes, and that without there being any more prerogatives ⁵ for him who madly smoked up Virtue's effigy ⁶, than for the other who wallowed in the most disgraceful excesses, because there is nothing by which Nature is offended and because all men, equally her womb's issue, during their term having acted not at all save in accordance with her impulsions, will all of them meet with after their existence, both the same end and the same fate.", ,I was once again about to reply to these appalling ⁷ blasphemies ⁸ when we heard the clatter ⁹ of a horseman not far away., ,"To arms !" shouted Coeur-de-fer, more eager to put his systems into action than to consolidate ¹⁰ their bases., , ,"Friend," said Coeur-de-fer, clapping his pistol to Saint-Florent's nose, "you understand, don't you, that after having robbed you, we cannot leave you alive.", ,"Oh Monsieur," I cried, casting myself at the villain's feet, "I beseech ¹⁸ you not to present me the horrible spectacle, upon my reception into your band, of this poor man's death; allow him to live, do not refuse me this first request I ask of you.", ,The Neanderthal Man is one of our primordial ancestors.的尼安德特人是我们的原始祖先之一.,Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢？