Pale, motionless, overwhelmed by this frightful revelation, dazzled by the superhuman beauty of this woman who unveiled herself before him with an immodesty which appeared to him sublime, he ended by falling on his knees before her as the early Christians did before those pure and holy martyrs whom the persecution of the emperors gave up in the circus to the sanguinary sensuality of the populace.
Pálido, inmóvil, aplastado por esta revelación espantosa, deslumbrado por la belleza sobrehumana de aquella mujer que se desnudaba ante él con un impudor que le pareció sublime, terminó cayendo de rodillas ante ella como hacían los primeros cristianos ante aquellas puras y santas mártires que la persecución de los emperadores libraba en el circo a la sanguinaria lubricidad del populacho.