Volume III Part 91 (2/2)
I did not li them chocolate; my breakfast consisted of all the luxuries the place afforded When I had got rid of my troublesome company, I told Le Duc to shut my door, and to tell everybody that I was ill in bed and could not see any visitors I also warned him that I should be away for two days, and that heements, I slipped away unperceived and went to my mistress, resolved not to leave her till half an hour before the arrival of the lay-sisters
When she sawto leave her till she went away, she ju any dinner that we o to bed after supper,” said she, ”and will not get up till the s the fatal news that the lay-sisters have started”
I thought the idea an excellent one, and I called the woements, and she promised to see that ere not disturbed
We did not find the ti, for two passionate lovers find plenty to talk about since their talk is of theain, there was so so mysterious and soleed the whole time
After a supper which would have pleased a Lucullus, we spent twelve hours in giving each other proofs, of our passionate love, sleeping after our aht The next day we rose to refresh ourselves, and after a good dinner, ain; but at four the country-woman came to tell us that the lay-sisters would arrive about six We had nothing now to look for in the future, the die was cast, and we began our farewell caresses I sealed the last with htly saw it also She was frightened, but I cal fifty louis I begged her to keep the to coh the grating of her terrible prison She spent the last quarter of an hour in tears, and rief
I cut off a piece of her fleece and a lock of her beautiful hair, pro her always to bear the the country-woain the next day, and I went to bed as soon as I got ho I was on the way to Chaue's distance fro As soon as the lay-sisters were near enough they asked an alave them a Louis, but my saint did not look at ood countrywoone at day-break, bidding her to re I kissed the Worthy woave her nephew all the loose silver I had about e put on to the carriage, and would have started that moment if I had had any horses But I had two hours to wait, and I went and bade the marquis farewell He was out, but hisher of o, stay with er”
”I feel the honour you are conferring on one forthwith”
”Ilass the better to lace herself, shewing n, but I determined to baulk her She then put one foot upon a couch to retie her garter, and when she put up the other foot I saw beautiesthan Eve's apple It was nearly all up with ame of quinze, and his mistress asked me to be her partner I could not escape; she sat next to me, and I had lost forty Louis by dinner-ti down
At dessert Le Duc caot up, but under the pretence of paying me the twenty louis the marquis's mistress made me come with her to her room
When ere there she addressedme that if I went she would be dishonoured, as everybody knew that she had engaged to make me stay
”Do I look worthy of conte me sit down upon the sofa
Then with a repetition of her tactics in theExcited by her charms I praised her beauties, I kissed, I touched; she let herself fall on rant hand found palpable proof of her powers of attraction
”I pro how to refuse, I said I would keep her to her word, and would havehe would giveI went downstairs as if to coe, and drove off, proood fee to the postillion if he would put his horses at a gallop