Volume III Part 9 (1/2)
”Yes, aunt, I shall be very glad to see the gentleain”
If she had not answered thus, thehis future bride speak
”Well,” said the aunt, ”what do you think of your husband?”
”Allow h, e are at table, to draw me into the conversation, for it is very possible thatof ht impression in to talk nonsense, and ood opinion he seeht to deceive anybody If he is disabused of his fictitious ideas by the appearance of the truth, so much the better for him; and sowithout the slightest knowledge of each other's habits and ways of thought”
”What do you think of hi, and his manners are kind and polite; but let us wait till to- more to say to me; I am so stupid”
”I know very well that you think yourself very clever, and that's where your fault lies; it's your self-conceit which h M Casanova takes you for a wit”
”Perhaps heabout”
”My poor dear, he is only laughing at you”
”I have good reasons for thinking otherwise, aunt”
”There you go; you will never get any sense”
”Pardon me, madaht in saying that I do not laugh at her I dare to say that to-morrow she will shi+ne in the conversation”
”You think so? I aaainst you and ao to the play, and we played on till supper-ti with his attempts to tell us in his broken French the plot of the play he had seen
I had been into see my sweetheart in some pretty kind of undress, when all of a sudden I saw her come in with all her clothes on I was surprised at this circumstance, and it seemed to me of evil omen
”You are astonished to see me thus,” said she, ”but I want to speak to you for a moment, and then I will take off my clothes Tell e or no?”
”How do you like hiood; farewell! Froins Get you to bed, and I will go and do the sain to-morrow”
”Not so, were my refusal to cost the lives of both of us You knohat it must cost me to speak thus, but it is my irrevocable determination
If I am to become another's wife, I must take care to be worthy of hio You knoell I love you”
”At least, let us have one final e”
”No, I ao but to weep in your chamber; stay here I will marry you”