The Home in the Valley

In one of father La Fontaine's books may be found a description of a lovely valley the residence of a beautiful and modest maiden and of the heroine of this Arcadia he writes: There stands our heroine as lovely as the valley her home and as virtuous and good as her mother who has devoted a lifetime to the education of her daughter. But with the history of this maiden he weaves the workings of an evil genius which in the end is triumphant; for even the pure are contaminated after they arrive at that period when they consider that vice has its virtues.