Volume I Part 54 (1/2)
”What should I do, if I had no hope? I hope, because I know you have a heart”
”Ah! yes Do you recollect the day, when, in your anger, you toldyou were insulting rossly!”
”Oh! yes, I recollect it”
”How heartily I laughed, when I had time to think! Yes, dearest, I have a heart, or I should not feel as happy as I feel now Let us keep our happiness, and be satisfied with it, as it is, without wishi+ng for anything more”
Obedient to her wishes, but every day more deeply enaer than prejudice, and would cause a fortunate crisis But, besides nature, fortune was my friend, and I owedone day in the garden, leaning on M D---- R-----'s are rose-bush, and the prickly thorns left a deep cut on her leg M D---- R---- bandaged the wound with his handkerchief, so as to stop the blood which was flowing abundantly, and she had to be carried hoerous when they are not well attended to, and very often the wounded are compelled to leave the city to be cured
Madame F---- was confined to her bed, and my lucky position in the house condemned me to remain constantly at her orders I saw her everythe first three days, visitors succeeded each other without inter, after everybody had gone, and her husband had retired to his own apartment, M D---- R---- remained another hour, and for the sake of propriety I had to take my leave at the same time that he did I had much more liberty before the accident, and I told her so half seriously, half jestingly
The next day, to make up for my disappointment, she contrived a eon ca which operation herdishabille, to the girl's room, and to wait there, so as to be the first to hear how irl ca the wound
”See, whether ive an opinion, ht to have seen it yesterday”
”True I feel great pain, and I am afraid of erysipelas”
”Do not be afraid, eon, ”keep your bed, and I answer for your co a poultice at the other end of the room, and the maid out, I enquired whether she felt any hardness in the calf of the leg, and whether the inflammation went up the limb; and naturally, my eyes and my hands kept pace with my questions I saw no inflammation, I felt no hardness, but and the lovely patient hurriedly let the curtain fall, s me to take a sweet kiss, the perfume of which I had not enjoyed for many days It was a sweet moment; a delicious ecstacy From her mouth my lips descended to her wound, and satisfied in that moment that my kisses were the best of medicines, I would have keptback had not cohtful occupation
When ere left alone, burning with intense desires, I entreated her to grant happiness at least to my eyes
”I feel huht that the felicity I have just enjoyed was only a theft”
”But supposing you were ain present at the dressing of the wound, and as soon as the surgeon had left, she asked e her pillohich I did at once As if to make that pleasant office easier, she raised the bedclothes to support herself, and she thus gave ht of beauties which intoxicated my eyes, and I protracted the easy operation without her co too slow
When I had done I was in a fearful state, and I threw myself in an arm-chair opposite her bed, half dead, in a sort of trance I was looking at that lovely being who, alreater favours, and yet never allowed
”What are you thinking of?” she said
”Of the supre”
”You are a cruel man”