Volume II Part 34 (1/2)
”Oh, dear! a her tenderly, I went down to tell theup our dinner until we called for it DuringC---- C---- had thrown herself dressed on the bed, but I told her that the God of love disapproved of unnecessary veils, and in less than a minute I made of her a new Eve, beautiful in her nakedness as if she had just come out of the hands of the Suprely white, and seemed still more so beside her splendid black hair which I had spread over her alabaster shoulders Her slender figure, her proe eyes, fro about her was strikingly beautiful, and presented to ry looks the perfection of the mother of love, adorned by all the charms which modesty throws over the attractions of a lovely woman
Beside myself, I almost feared lest my felicity should not prove real, or lest it should not be made perfect by complete enjoyment, when mischievous love contrived, in so serious a moment, to supply me with a reason for mirth
”Is there by any chance a law to prevent the husband fro hiel, no; and even if there were such a barbarous laould not subarave herself up to all the impulse of natural instinct and curiosity, for every part ofto her At last, as if she had had enough of the pleasure her eyes were enjoying, she pressed ainst her bosom, and exclaimed,
”Oh! dearest, what a difference between you and ; what do youbut a childish fancy; I ary with you, my love, in the happiest moment of o to sleep without holding my pillow in my arms; I caressed it, I called it htful enjoyo to sleep, and in thefind my pillow still between my are of a true heroine, for her intense love caused her to delight even in bodily pain After three hours spent in delicious enjoyot up and called for our supper The repast was si, for how could we find words to express our feelings?
We thought that our felicity was extreme, and we enjoyed it with the certainty that we could renew it at will
The hostess ca, and she asked if ere not going to the opera, which everybody said was so beautiful
”Have you never been to the opera?”
”Never, because it is too dear for people in our position My daughter has such a wish to go, that, God forgive ive herself, I truly believe, to the man ould take her there once”
”That would be paying very dear for it,” said
”Dearest, we could make her happy at less cost, for that hurts veryof it, my love Here is the key of the box, you can make them a present of it”
”Here is the key of a box at the St Moses Theatre,” she said to the hostess; ”it costs two sequins; go instead of us, and tell your daughter to keep her rose-bud for soood wohter enjoy herself well”
The good hostess, thoroughly areat hurry to her daughter, while ere delighted at having laid ourselves under the pleasant necessity of again going to bed She ca blonde, who insisted upon kissing the hands of her benefactors
”She is going thisfor her; but I will not let her go alone with hi with theood woondola wait for us; it will take us to Venice”
”What! Do you mean to remain here until we return?”