Volume IV Part 52 (1/2)

”Alas! that may not be, for, trust me, you are already spied upon

Everybody here is sure that we knew each other at Aix Let us forget all, and thus spare ourselves the torments of vain desires”

”Give me your hand”

”No All is over I love you still, probably I shall always love you; but I long for you to go, and by doing so, you will give me a proof of your love”

”This is dreadful; you astonish me You appear to me in perfect health, you are prettier than ever, you are made for the worshi+p of the sweetest of the Gods, and I can't understand hoith a temperament like yours, you can live in continual abstinence”

”Alas! lacking the reality we console ourselves by pretending I will not conceal fro boarder It is an innocent passion, and keeps my mind calm Her caresses quench the flaainst your conscience?”

”I do not feel any distress on the subject”

”But you know it is a sin”

”Yes, so I confess it”

”And what does the confessor say?”

”Nothing He absolves me, and I am quite content:”

”And does the pretty boarder confess, too?”

”Certainly, but she does not tell the father of a matter which she thinks is no sin”

”I wonder the confessor has not taught her, for that kind of instruction is a great pleasure”

”Our confessor is a wise old le kiss?”

”Not one”

”May I coo the day after”

”You ht talk I will bring my little one with me to save appearances Come after dinner, but into the other parlour”

If I had not known M---- M---- at Aix, her religious ideas would have astonished me; but such was her character She loved God, and did not believe that the kind Father who made us with passions would be too severe because we had not the strength to subdue the vexed that the pretty nun would have no more to do with me, but sure of consolation fro on her lover's bed; his poor diet and the fever had left hireat weakness She told me that she would sup inratitude

As I had a good dinner at Magnan's I ate very little supper, but ht azed at her in a kind of wonder, and she enjoyed ed her to drink a bowl of punch withbut laughter, and which laughed to find itself deprived of reasoning power Nevertheless, I cannot accuse e of her condition, for in her voluptuous exciteerly into the pleasure to which I excited her till two o'clock in theBy the time we separated ere both of us exhausted