Volume IV Part 5 (1/2)
”My aunt Ro up to her eyes at the roar of laughter which none of us could restrain
”Well,” said Madame Morin, ”there is Madame Varnier, of the Rue de Richelieu; she is an aunt of yours She has a good establishlard, ”how the ways of destiny are made plain You talk of a hundred louis; twelve will be sufficient to take you to Madaet there, leave the rest to your fate, which will surely favour you”
”If you do go to Paris,” said I, ”say nothing to Madame Roman or Mada to anyone about it; but, after all, it is only a happy dream I shall never see Paris, still less Louis XV”
I arose, and going to my cash-box I took out a roll of a hundred and fifty louis, which I gave to her, saying it was a packet of sweet it she found it to contain fifty pieces-of-eight, which she took for lard
”And the goldsive you a hundred and fifty louis for the you will keep theive me a bill payable at Paris when you become rich”
I knew she would refuse to accept hted if she had kept theher tears, and that without disturbing for a moment the sarden Valenglard and Madaan on the topic of the horoscope anew, and I left the Mdlle
Roman with me
”I wish you would tellof the others, ”if this horoscope is not all a joke”
”No,” I answered, ”it is quite serious, but it all depends on an if If you do not go to Paris the prophecy will never be fulfilled”
”You must think so, certainly, or you would never have offeredthe about it”
”No, I cannot, though I aiveto your happiness, and in the hope that you will allow me to love you”
”If you really love met why should I oppose your love? You need not buyof France, if you did but knohat my desires are limited”
”Tell h for us not to lack the necessaries of life”
”But how if you did not love hi him?”
”I see that you do not knohat love is”
”You are right I do not know the love that maddens, and I thank God for it”
”Well, I think you are wise; may God preserve you fro sees me he will fall in love with me, and to tell you the truth that strikes h it is quite possible that he ht even pronounce me pretty, yet I do not think he will become so madly in love as you say”
”You don't? Let us sit down You have only got to fancy that the king will take the sa to you that I have done; that is all”
”But what do you find in e? I certainly may have struck you; but that only proves that I was born to exercise this sway over you, and not at all that I ao and look for the king, if you love ive you the position you deserve”
”I should have thought you had plenty of money”