Excerpt from Conchita: Opera in Four Acts (From "La Femme Et Le Pantin," by Pierre Louÿs) As they give Mateo a more sensitive and less forgiving soul, so they make Conchita a passionate and whimsical girl, rather than one who callously plays with love. What in the novel is moral insensibility, becomes in this version, pride in purity under the appearance of vice. Conchita wants to be adored faithfully, alone, and for ever: that is why she spurns Mateo's money, and neither fears nor is ashamed to throw herself into the dangers of 'a sordid cafe chantant, provided she can live on her earnings and show her lover her strength and purity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.