Volume II Part 21 (1/2)
”But she declares that she is pregnant fros”
”That may be, but it is not certain”
”She says it is certain, and she swears that she has never known any other man”
”If it is so, she is unfortunate; for in such a question a man cannot trust any woive her in order to seduce her?”
”Nothing; for very far froreed perfectly in one moment; a pretty woman does not find it very hard to seduce in?”
”I never felt any curiosity about it either before or after; therefore, sir, I do not know”
”Her ainst you”
”I can give no reparation to the mother; and as for the laill obey it when it has been explained to ainst it”
”You are already convinced Do you iirl with child in a house of which he is an inress the laws of society?”
”I admit that to be the case when the hter to the roo that she is disposed to accept peacefully all the accidents which hter to your room only to wait on you”
”And she has waited on me as I have waited on her if she sends her to reeable to Mimi, I will certainly serve her as well as I can; but I will have nothing to do with her against her will or out of my room, the rent of which I have always paid punctually”
”You may say what you like, but you must pay the fine”
”I will say what I believe to be just, and I will pay nothing; for there can be no fine where there is no law transgressed If I am sentenced to pay I shall appeal even to the last jurisdiction and until I obtain justice, for believe me, sir, I know that I am not such an aard and cowardly fellow as to refuse my caresses to a pretty woman who pleases me, and comes to provoke them in my own rooreeatory after I had read it carefully, and went away
The next day the lieutenant of police sent for me, and after he had heard hter, he acquitted me and condemned Madame Quinson in costs But I could not after all resist the tears of Mimi, and her entreaties for me to defray the expenses of her confinement She was delivered of a boy, as sent to the Hotel Dieu to be brought up at the nation's expense Soon afterwards Mimi ran away froe at St Laurent's Fair Being unknown, she had no difficulty in finding a lover who took her for a e
”I did not know,” I said to her, ”that you were a musician”
”I am a musician about as much as all irls at the opera are not ood voice and sohtfully”
I advised her to invite Patu to supper, and he was charmed with her
Some time afterwards, however, she came to a bad end, and disappeared
The Italian comedians obtained at that tiedies I made the acquaintance at that theatre of the celebrated Chantilly, who had been the mistress of the Marechal de Saxe, and was called Favart because the poet of that na in the parody of 'Thetis et Pelee', by M de Fontelle, the part of Tonton, arace and talent won the love of a reatest merit, the Abbe de Voisenon, hom I was as intimate as with Crebillon All the plays performed at the Italian Comedy, under the name of Madame Favart, ritten by the abbe, who became member of the Academie after my departure from Paris I cultivated an acquaintance the value of which I could appreciate, and he honoured estions that the Abbe de Voisenon conceived the idea of co for the first time at the Tuileries, when the theatres were closed in consequence of soious festival
That amiable abbe, who had written several comedies in secret, had very poor health and a very sracefulness, fa, never offended anyone It was impossible for hirazed the skin and never wounded deeply One day, as he was returning from Versailles, I asked hi,” he answered, ”because he must come to the parliament to-morrow to hold a bed of justice”