Volume IV Part 47 (2/2)
”You can take your lady-love out for a drive”
”That would be you; but perhaps you would be afraid!”
”Not at all, if you drove in the country or the suburbs”
”Very good, Leah, then I will look at them”
The father cae and the horses, and I told Leah so
”Well,” said Moses, ”you can have them now for four hundred sequins, but after Easter the price will be five hundred sequins at least”
Leah got into the carriage, and I sat beside her, and ent for an hour's drive into the country I told Moses I would give him an answer by the next day, and he went about his business, while Leah and I went upstairs again
”It's quite worth four hundred sequins,” said I, ”and to-morroill buy it with pleasure; but on the saht the horse, and sorant me all the favours that a tender lover can desire”
”You speak plainly, and I will answer you in the sairl, sir, and not for sale”
”All women, dear Leah, whether they are honest or not, are for sale
When a man has plenty of ti attentions; but when he's in a hurry he buys her with presents, and even with money”
”Then he's a clumsy fellow; he would do better to let sentiain the victory”
”I wish I could give reat hurry”
As I finished this sentence her father ca him that if I could not come the next day I would come the day after, and that we could talk about the phaeton then
It was plain that Leah thought I was lavish of my money, and would make a capital dupe She would relish the phaeton, as she had relished the horse, but I knew that I was not quite such a fool as that It had not cost me much trouble to resolve to chance the loss of a hundred sequins, but beyond that I wanted some value for my money
I temporarily suspended st thereediness to ell for ry that his daughter had notas the phaeton was bought the rest would be perfectly indifferent to him I felt almost certain that they would co Saturday I saw the fair Jewess on the proh forto be anxious to do so, and her look seemed to say, ”Come”
”We see no more of you now,” said she, ”but come and breakfast with me to-morrow, or I will send you back the horse”
I proood tiine, I kept my word
The breakfast party was alh her aunt was present she was only there for decency's sake After breakfast we resolved to have a ride, and she changed her clothes before me, but also before her aunt She first put on her leather breeches, then let her skirts fall, took off her corset, and donned a jacket With seenificent breast; but the sly puss kne e my frill?” said she
This was a warm occupation for me, and I aht I detected a fixed design under all this seeuard
Her father ca on horseback
”If you will buy the phaeton and horses,” said he, ”I will abate twenty sequins”
”All that depends on your daughter,” said I