Volume III Part 11 (1/2)
We started for the governor's apartments The officer was the first to enter, and in two ave up h, exa me all the while to see if I was the person described; he then gave it o where I liked
”Not so fast, sir, I aer to Paris and wait his return; for by stopping hts of the subject”
”You violated theer”
”Not at all; I told you that I was not one”
”Yes, but you told your postillion that you were, and that co”
”The postillion is a liar, I told hi of the kind”
”Why didn't you shew your passport?”
”Why didn't you give me time to do so? In the course of the next few days we shall see who is right”
”Just as you please”
I went out with the officer who took e drew up The posting-place was also an inn, and I told the landlord to have a special ood rooood bed, and to serve me some rich soup iood fare I had s taken into own I sat down to write, to who in reat htwhether I stood to have to back out of it or no All the sa to wait in Aire till the return of the er, whom I was about to send to the-ht, I deter inthe soup which had been served to overnor cahted to see him
”I am sorry for what has happened, sir, and above all that you think you have good reason for coine that your postillion had called you a er on his own responsibility”
”That's all very well, sir, but your sense of duty need not have made you drive me from your room”
”I was in need of sleep”
”I a of politeness preventsyour example”
”May I ask if you have ever been in the service?”
”I have served by land and sea, and have left off when ”
”In that case you will be aware that the gates of a fortified town are only opened by night to the king's ers or to military superiors”
”Yes, I know; but since they were opened the thing was done, and you ht as well have been polite”
”Will you not put on your clothes, and walk a short distance with me!”
His invitation pleasedof a duel as a possible solution of the difficulty, but the present course took all trouble out of my hands I answered quietly and politely that the honour of walking with hih to make me put off all other calls, and I asked him to be seated while I made haste to dressthe splendid pistols in my pockets on to the bed, called up the barber, and in ten minutes was ready I put on h along two or three streets, passed through a gate, up a court, till we got to a door where uide stopped short He asked me to come in, and I found myself in a fine roo back, but behaved as if I had been in overnor; and turning to her without pausing, ”here is M de Casanova, who has cohted to hear it, sir, as otherwise I should have had no chance of forgiving you for waking ht”