Volume III Part 68 (1/2)
”You are right--a burst of Venus! When I think that I only touched two dangling flabby breasts, I feel as if I did not deserve to live!”
”And you felt theusted, could I even reflect, when I felt certain that I held you in h skin, a stinking breath, and a fortification carried with far toocould moderate my amorous fury”
”What do I hear? Accursed and unclean woive me all these defects?”
”I repeat, the idea that I possessed you deprivedfaculties; all seemed to me divine”
”You should have treated me like a co me such as you describe”
”Ah! now you are unjust!”
”That er deprives me of reason But now that she thinks that she had to do with a servant, and after the degrading visit she has had she ought to die of rage and sha it, for he is shorter than you by four inches And how can she iine that a servant would do it as well as you? It's not likely I am sure she is in love with him noenty-five louis! He would have been content with ten What a good thing that the poor fellow's illness happened so conveniently But I suppose you had to tell hiave him to understand that she had made an appointment with me in that room, and that I had really spent two hours with her, not speaking for fear of being heard Then, thinking over the orders I gave hiable to disavow e”
”That's admirable, and the impudence of the Spaniard passes all belief
But her i of all But supposing her illness had been a hten you, what a risk the rascal would have run!”
”I was afraid of that, as I had no symptoms of disease whatever”
”But now you really have it, and all through el,nitre, and in a week I shall be quite well again I hope that then”
”Ah! my dear friend”
”What?”
”Don't let us think of that any usted, and not unnaturally; but your love cannot be very strong, Ah! how unhappy I am”
”I am more unhappy than you I love you, and you would be thankless indeed if you ceased to love ive one another proofs of our love It one away, and in a fortnight we shall be going also to Bale, where we remain till the end of November”
The die is cast, and I see that I must submit to your decision, or rather to my destiny, for none but fatal events have befallen ht is that I have made your honour safe”
”You have won ood friends”
”If you are going I feel that I o before you That will tend to convince the wretched author ofblame-worthy in el, and you convince ?”
”To Italy; but I shall take Berne and Geneva on lad to hear it, in spite of the pleasure it would give ive a handle for the gossips, and I ht suffer by it But if possible, in the few days you are to reood spirits, for sadness does not become you”
We rejoined the ambassador and M---- who had not had time to think about us, as my dear Dubois had kept them amused by her lively conversation I reproached her for the way in which she husbanded her wit as far as I was concerned, and M de Chavigni, seizing the opportunity, told us it was because ere in love, and lovers are known to be chary of their words My housekeeper was not long in finding a repartee, and she again began to entertain the two gentlemen, so that I was enabled to continue my ith Madame, who said,--
”Your housekeeper, my dear friend, is a ive you a o”