Volume III Part 2 (1/2)
”How spoiled?”
”I daren't tell you as, perhaps, your aunt would not like it”
”I don't think I should tell her, but, perhaps, I should not have asked”
”Oh, yes! you should; and as you wish to knoill make no mystery of it Madaether, and in token of the satisfaction he gave her she has given him the ridiculous nickname of 'Count Sixtimes' That's all I aate”
Astonishment--and very reasonable astonishment--will be expressed that I dared to talk in this way to a girl fresh from a convent; but I should have been astonishedto Laaze onover her pretty face; but I thought that e of my surprise when, two minutes afterwards, I heard this question:
”But what has 'Sixti with Mada lady, the explanation is perfectly siht did what a husband often takes six weeks to do”
”And you think ? Don't believe it”
”But there's another thing I am sorry about”
”You shall tell ed the charuessed without our going into explanations When she came back she went behind her aunt's chair, her eyes fixed on Tiretta, and then caain, said:
”Nohat else is it that you are sorry about?” her eyes sparkling as she asked the question
”May I tell you, do you think?”
”You have said so much already, that I don't think you need have any scruples in telling ood: you must know, then, that this very day and in my presence he---- -her”
”If that displeased you, you must be jealous”
”Possibly, but the fact is that I was humbled by a circu at me with your 'dare not tell you'”
”God forbid, mademoiselle! I will confess, then, that I was humbled because Madame Lambertini made me see that my friend was taller than myself by two inches”
”Then she imposed on you, for you are taller than your friend”
”I a of that kind of tallness, but another; you knohat I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous”
”Monstrous! then what have you to be sorry about? Isn't it better not to be monstrous?”
”Certainly; but in the article we are discussing, some women, unlike you, prefer monstrosity”
”I think that's absurd of them, or rather mad; or perhaps, I have not sufficiently clear ideas on the subject to iine what size it would be to be calledshould huht it of me, to see me?”
”Certainly not, for when I caht you looked a well-proportioned man, but if you are not I am sorry for you”