“Because in the end, however sad it must be confessed, almost academic as it is, it must be said: virtue no longer appears in the modern movement.

“Poor virtue! the vulgar ridicule it, physiologists deny it, people find it annoying cheerful and practical people consider useless. Our dramatists, who from time immemorial rewarded in the last act, definitely have removed the crumbs of classic and rewarding outcome. Our poets throw imprecations against her are not original but rudeness. As for our novels, you know how far absent virtue, when in them is not abused. To view must be respected open the Library Rosa to see respected, it is necessary to come to the Academy … Once a year! Poor virtue!

“Listen! Do you want to know where literary? Sometimes gleaned outside the academic grounds, well I can tell you this story:

“I know a young lady who is up to date, I think, very up to date, and is very greedy of intellectual productions, even if it is mundane, and even virtuous, loves literature is not. And not only loves but defends the spread, the proclamation eminently good and useful, and this with an enthusiasm, a passion, even worse, with a taste that has been completed for inspiring some fears for her and even to doubt it … If I have reason judge him!