He wept with rage as he pictured to himself how many impure looks had been gratified at the sight of that badly fastened shift, and that this beautiful girl, this virgin lily, this cup of modesty and delight, to which he would have dared to place his lips only trembling, had just been transformed into a sort of public bowl, whereat the vilest populace ofParis, thieves, beggars, lackeys, had come to quaff in common an audacious, impure, and depraved pleasure.
Il pleura de rage en se figurant combien de regards immondes avaient trouvé leur compte à cette chemise mal nouée ; et que cette belle fille, ce lys vierge, cette coupe de pudeur et de délices dont il n’eût osé approcher ses lèvres qu’en tremblant, venait d’être transformée en une sorte de gamelle publique, où la plus vile populace de Paris, les voleurs, les mendiants, les laquais étaient venus boire en commun un plaisir effronté, impur et dépravé.