Volume III Part 72 (1/2)
I gave the letter to ave it back to me quite coolly
”What do you think of his advice, dearest?”
”I think I had better follow it: he says there is no hurry, and delay is all ant Let us love each other and think only of that This letter is written with great wisdo indifferent to each other, though I know such a thing is possible”
”Never indifferent; you make a mistake there”
”Well, friends, then; and that is notlovers”
”But friendshi+p, dearest, is never indifferent Love, it is true, may be in its co of the world”
”Then the aht come and torment us when love had been replaced by calmer friendshi+p”
”If you think so, let us marry each other to-morrow, and punish thereby the vices of our human nature”
”Yes, illlest hymen should quicken the departure of love, let us enjoy our happiness while we can”
”You speak adood fortune”
”I wish for no greater than what you procureour discussions, and ere in each other's arement which suited us very well
”Lausanne,” said she, ”is a little tohere you would ht's stay you will have nothing to do but to o to suppers I am known to all the nobility, and the Duke of Rosebury, earied , is still there My appearance with you willfor you as for , but in her heart she would be ill-pleased to see me as the housekeeper of a man like you, for common sense would inforht she was right, and that it would be well to respect the rules of society We decided that she should go to Lausanne by herself and stay with her mother, that in two or three days I should follow her, and should live byfull liberty to see her at her mother's
”When you leave Lausanne,” said she, ”I will rejoin you at Geneva, and then ill travel together where you please and as long as our love lasts”
In two days she started early in theherself on her discretion I was sad at her leaving rief I wished to make M Haller's acquaintance before I left Switzerland, and the ave me a letter of introduction to him very handsomely expressed M de Haller was the bailiff of Roche
When I called to take leave of Madaed to remain by her bedside for a quarter of an hour She spoke of her disease, and gave the conversation such a turn that she was able with perfect propriety to let es of the disease had not iht convinced ht, and I ithin an inch of doing her the sah to look only at her body, and it would have been difficult to behold anything more beautiful
I knoell that prudes and hypocrites, if they ever read these Me her person so readily she avenged herself on the oodness of heart and politeness told her what a trial it was to look at her face, and she wished to indenance by shewing hiiven her I am sure, ladies, that the st you, if you were unfortunate enough to be so monstrously deformed in the face, would introduce soliness, and display those beauties which custom hides from view And doubtless Madame de la Saone would have been more chary of her person if she had been able to enchant with her face like you
The day I left I dined with M---- I----, and was severely taken to task by pretty Sara for having sent her little wife away before ain at London three years later Le Duc was still in the doctor's hands, and very weak; but I ood deal of property, and I could not trust it to anybody else
I left Berne feeling naturally very sad I had been happy there, and to this day the thought of it is a pleasant one
I had to consult Dr Herrenschwand about Madame d'Urfe, so I stopped at Morat, where he lived, and which is only four leagues froht try the fish of the lake, which I found delicious I had intended to go on directly after dinner, but I was delayed by a curiosity of which I shall inforiven the doctor a fee of two Louis for his advice, in writing, on a case of tapeworm, he made me ith him by the Avanches road, and ent as far as the famous mortuary of Morat
”This mortuary,” said the doctor, ”was constructed with part of the bones of the Burgundians, who perished here at the well-known battle lost by Charles the Bold”