Volume IV Part 52 (2/2)
I slept till eleven, and when I went to wish her good day I found her s and as fresh as a rose I asked her how she had passed the rest of the night
”Very pleasantly,” said she, ”like the beginning of the night”
”What time would you like to have dinner?”
”I won't dine; I prefer to keep my appetite for supper”
Here her lover joined in, saying in a weak voice,--
”It is i?” I asked
”In eating, drinking, and in other things,” he replied, with a shed, and kissed hiue convinced me that Mdlle Desar a handso man, his disposition was exactly suitable to hers I dined bydessert He told hters and their pretty cousin had ave loves which they had presented ed ave me to understand that I should be well pleased with e to return to a tohere with ed to draw horoscopes for all the young ladies or to
After I had read the letters from Grenoble I went to the convent and announced my presence, and then entered the parlour which M---- M---- had indicated She soon came doith the pretty boarder, who feebly sustained my part in her amorous ecstacies She had not yet completed her twelfth year, but she was extree Gentleness, liveliness, candour, and ere united in her features, and gave her expression an exquisite charm She wore a well-made corset which disclosed a white throat, to which the fancy easily added the two spheres which would soon appear there Her entrancing face, her raven locks, and her ivory throat indicated what inationher that she was very pretty, and would make her future husband a happy man I knew she would blush at that It e of seduction always begins A girl of her age who does not blush at the e is either an idiot or already an expert in profligacy In spite of this, however, the blush which irl's cheek at the approach of such ideas is a puzzling problem Whence does it arise? It may be from pure simplicity, it s Then coht between vice and virtue, and it is usually virtue which has to give in The desires--the servants of vice--usually attain their ends As I knew the young boarder fronorant of the source of those blushes which added a fresh attraction to her youthful char, I talked to M---- M---- for a few ained her cale are you, pretty one?” said I
”I a,” said M---- M----, ”you have not yet completed your twelfth year”
”The time will come,” said I, ”when you will di it”
”I shall never tell a lie, sir; I am sure of that”
”So you want to be a nun, do you?”
”I have not yet received my vocation; but even if I live in the world I need not be a liar”
”You are wrong; you will begin to lie as soon as you have a lover”
”Will my lover tell lies, too?”
”Certainly he will”
”If the matter were really so, then, I should have a bad opinion of love; but I do not believe it, for I love my sweetheart here, and I never conceal the truth fro to loving a woman”
”No, it isn't; it's just the sao to bed with a woman and you do with your husband”
”That's no matter, my love would be the same”
”What? You would not rather sleep with me than with M---- M----?”