Volume I Part 13 (2/2)
She seened, and asks how I can thus set the storm at defiance
”The storm, dear one, is my best friend to-day”
She al my rapture, she enquires whether I have done I s that I cannot let her go till the stor, or I let the cloak drop,” I say to her
”Well, you dreadful man, are you satisfied, now that you have insured my misery for the remainder of my life?”
”No, not yet”
”What more do you want?”
”A shower of kisses”
”How unhappy I aive me, and confess that you have shared all ive you”
Then I give her her liberty, and treating her to some very pleasant caresses, I ask her to have the saoes to ith a smile on her pretty lips
”Tell me you love me,” I say to her
”No, I do not, for you are an atheist, and hell awaits you”
The weather was fine again, and the elements calm; I kissed her hands and told her that the postillion had certainly not seen anything, and that I was sure I had cured her of her dread of thunder, but that she was not likely to reveal the secret ofat least was certain, namely that no other woman had ever been cured by the same prescription
”Why,” I said, ”the same remedy has very likely been applied a million of times within the last thousand years To tell you the truth, I had soether, for I did not know any other way of obtaining the happiness of possessing you
But console yourself with the belief that, placed in the sahtened woman could have resisted”
”I believe you; but for the future I will travel only with , for your husband would not have been clever enough to cure your fright in the way I have done”
”True, again One learns sos in your coain”
We reached Pasean an hour before our friends We get out of the chaise, andfor a crown for the postillion I saw that he was grinning
”What are you laughing at?”
”Oh! you know”
”Here, take this ducat and keep a quiet tongue in your head”