Volume IV Part 12 (1/2)
”Will you allow me to see for myself?”
”You may ask her if you like, but I don't think she will consent”
The girl ca myself in a proper position I told her to try one on She proceeded to do so with a sulky air and with a kind of repugnance which o on, so she had to try on a second, and the result was that I besprinkled her plentifully The nant, threw the whole packet inave the woirl I had treated so cavalierly cay I gave her a Louis and begged her pardon The poor girl was astonished, kissedto her mistress
”I will not, o intacta'”
”Certainly, sir!”
”Wonderful! but tell me why you wouldn't let me see for myself?”
”Because it revolted me”
”Nevertheless you will have to do so, for otherwise, in spite of your prettiness, people will not knohat to make of you Would you like to let me try?”
”Yes, but not in this horrible house”
”Where, then?”
”Go to uide knohere she lives”
When I got outside, I asked the man if he knew her He replied in the affirirl
”You will takehe took me to the end of the town, to a poor house, where I found a poor wo hard black bread
”What do you want?” said she
”Is you daughter here?”
”No, and what if she were? I aood woedan old pot which came handy, at her head Luckily it missed, but she would not have escaped hermyself between them
However, the old woman set up a disan to cry This hubbub made my man coing disgrace on hter!”
I was in a difficult position The ed her not to hbours about the house; but the enraged woman answered only by abuse I drew six francs fro thehter, whose hair she attempted to pull out by the roots, which project was defeated by the aid of ot outside, the mob which the uproar had attracted hooted me and followed me, and no doubt I should have been torn to pieces if I had not escaped into a church, which I left by another door a quarter of an hour later
My fright saved me, for I knew the ferocity of the Provencals, and I took care not to reply a word to the storm of abuse which poured on er than on that day
Before I got back to irl
”How could you lead erous position?” said I ”You e”
”I hoped she would behave respectfully to you”