Volume IV Part 12 (2/2)
”Be calm; don't weep any more Tell me how I can serve you”
”Rather than return to that horrible house I was in yesterday I would throw myself into the sea”
”Do you know of any respectable house where I can keep her?” said I to the man
He told me he did know a respectable individual who let furnished apartments
”Take e, and he had rooms to let on all the floors
”I only want a little nook,” said the girl; and the old arret, saying--
”This closet is six francs a month, a month's rent to be paid in advance, and I may tell you that my door is always shut at ten o'clock, and that nobody can coht with you”
The room held a bed with coarse sheets, two chairs, a little table, and a chest of drawers
”Howwoman for?” said I
He asked twenty sous, and two sous for theher irl, and she paid theher I would coain
As I went down the stairs I asked the old man to shew me a room for myself He skewed me a very nice one at a Louis a ave o and come when I liked
”If you wish to board here,” said he, ”I think I could give satisfaction”
Having done this good work, I had my dinner by myself, and then went to a coffee-house where I found the aaold he had won into his pocket, accosted me with the politeness natural to a Frenchiven hed, and asked irl We found her under the hairdresser's hands, and she received reets an old acquaintance I did not think much of her, but I pretended to be iood-natured knight
When the hairdresser left her, it was tiet ready for the theatre, and she dressed herself, without caring as present The knight helped her to change her cheh indeed she begged me to excuse her
As I owed her a co better than to tell her that though she had not offended me she had made me feel very uncomfortable
”I don't believe you,” said she
”It's true all the sa I had deceived her, she said half crossly,
”You are a bad fellow”
The woate in France
They not only pride the the first to propose This girl skewed ot up a lottery at twelve francs a ticket She had ten tickets left; I took thehted was she to touch ht that her unfaithfulness to him rested only with me
”I am charmed to hear it,” said the Maltese He asked me to sup with her, and I accepted the invitation, but the sole pleasure I had was looking at the knight at work He was far inferior to Dolci!
I wished theht, and went to the house where I had placed the poor girl The o to the garret She took the light, I followed her up, and Rosalie, as the poor girl was named, heard my voice and opened the door I told the maid to wait for me in my room, and I went in and sat down on the bed