Volume II Part 51 (1/2)
”Silence, dearest! Love would not be of divine origin did he not possess the faculty of divination He knows all, and here is the proof Do you not wish to knohether ht which has cost htly”
”Well, then, he ith ry, for you then completed your conquest of him He admired your character, your love, your senti his astonishment at the rectitude of my instinct, or his approval of the passion I felt for you It was he who consoledme that you would certainly cos, the loyalty of ood faith”
”But you must often have fallen asleep, for unless excited by soht hours in darkness and in silence”
”We were moved by the deepest interest: besides, ere in darkness only e kept these holes open The plank was on during our supper, and ere listening in religious silence to your slightest whisper
The interest which kept reater than mine
He told me that he never had had before a better opportunity of studying the human heart, and that you ht
He truly pitied you We were delighted with C---- C----, for it is indeed wonderful that a young girl of fifteen should reason as she did to justify iven her by nature and truth; she el If you ever marry her, you will have the most heavenly wife I shall of course feel miserable if I lose her, but your happiness will make amends for all Do you know, dearest, that I cannot understand how you could fall in love withknown her, any more than I can conceive how she does not hate me ever since she has discovered that I have robbed her of your heart My dear C---- C---- has truly so divine in her disposition Do you knohy she confided to you her barren loves with me? Because, as she toldthat she was in some measure unfaithful to you”
”Does she think herself bound to be entirely faithful to e she has now of my own unfaithfulness?”
”She is particularly delicate and conscientious, and though she believes herself truly your wife, she does not think that she has any right to control your actions, but she believes herself bound to give you an account of all she does”
”noble girl!”
The prudent wife of the door-keeper having brought the supper, we sat down to the well-supplied table M---- M---- remarked that I had become much thinner
”The pains of the body do not fatten a s of the mind emaciate him But we have suffered sufficiently, and wewhich can be painful to us”
”You are quite right, ive up toare as many moments stolen from his life, but he doubles his existence when he has the talent ofhis pleasures, no matter of what nature they ers, Pierrot's disguise, and the ball at Briati, where she had been told that another Pierrot had made his appearance
M---- M---- wondered at the extraordinary effect of a disguise, for, said she to me:
”The Pierrot in the parlour of the convent seemed to me taller and thinner than you If chance had not ondola, if you had not had the strange idea of assuuise of Pierrot, I should not have knoho you were, for my friends in the convent would not have been interested in you I was delighted when I heard that you were not a patrician, as I feared, because, had you been one, I er”
I knew very hat she had to fear, but pretending conorance:
”I cannot conceive,” I said, ”what danger youa patrician”
”My darling, I cannot speak to you openly, unless you giveto ask you”
”How could I hesitate,to please you, providedin common? Speak, idol of my heart, tell uarantee of ive you pleasure:”
”Very well I want you to give a supper in your casino toto make your acquaintance”
”And I foresee that after supper you will leave o with him”
”You must feel that propriety compels me to do so”
”Your friend already knows, I suppose, who I aht to tell him, because if I had not told hi with you, and especially at your house”