Volume IV Part 68 (1/2)
”I have never wished to do so”
”Why not? It is good to know everything”
”Well, Hedvig, your theologian meant to say that a God was not capable of this”
”What is that?”
”Give ht it would be so like that; without this provision of nature man would not be able to fecundate his ian maintain that this was an imperfection?”
”Because it is the result of desire, Hedvig, and it would not have taken place in me if I had not been char ideas of the beauties that I cannot see from the view of the beauties I can see Tell reeable sensation”
”It did, and just in the place where your hand is now Don't you feel a pleasant tickling there, Helen, after what the gentle to us?”
”Yes, I feel it, but I often do, without anything to excite me”
”And then,” said I, ”nature makes you appease itthus?”
”Not at all”
”Oh, yes!” said Hedvig ”Even e are asleep our hands seek that spot as if by instinct, and if it were not for that solace I think we should get terribly ill”
As this philosophical discourse, conducted by the young theologian in quite a professional manner, proceeded, we reached a beautiful basin of water, with a flight of h the air was cool our heads were hot, and I conceived the idea of telling theood to bathe their feet, and that if they would allow s
”I should like to so
”And I too,” said Helen
”Then sit down, ladies, on the first step”
They proceeded to sit down and I began to take off their shoes, praising the beauty of their legs, and pretending for the present not to want to go farther than the knee When they got into the water they were obliged to pick up their clothes, and I encouraged thehs too”
Helen, ould have been asha her legs
”That will do, charer in the water”