Volume IV Part 53 (2/2)
”No”
”Stay, one ”
”Not a little bit?”
”Nothing at all”
”Are you angry with lad, and if you have filled her with desires she will love me all the better”
”How pleasant it would be, sweetheart, if we could all three of us be together alone and at liberty!”
”Yes; but it is impossible”
”Are you sure that no inquisitive eye is looking upon us?”
”Quite sure”
”The height of that fatal grill has deprived o to the other parlour it is o there, then”
”Not to-day; I should not be able to give any reason for the change”
”I will co”
The little boarder ca her I had a nu from my watch-chain, and I had not had the tiain
She noticed it, and by way of pretext she asked if sheas you like; you may look at them and touch them as well”
M---- M---- foresaould happen and left the roo that she would soon be back I had intended to deprive the young boarder of all interest inher a curiosity of another kind She did not conceal her pleasure in satisfying her inquisitiveness on an object which was quite new to her, and which she was able to examine minutely for the first tied her curiosity into surprise, and I did not interrupt her in her delighted gaze
I saw M---- M---- coain, and sat down My watch and chains were still on the ledge of the grating, and M---- M---- asked her young friend if the trinkets had pleased her
”Yes,” she replied, but in a dreamy and melancholy voice She had learnt so much in the course of less than two hours that she had plenty to think over I spent the rest of the day in telling M---- M---- the adventures I had encountered since I had left her; but as I had not time to finish my tale I promised to return the next day at the sa toher friend, said that she longed to know the end of my adventure with the Duke of Matelone's mistress
I supped with the fair Desar her sundry proofs ofher that I only stopped on for her sake, I went to bed
The next day after dinner I returned to the convent, and having sent upwasM---- M---- arrived alone, but she anticipatedme that her pretty friend would soon join her
”You have fired her i a thousand wanton tricks, and calling irl, and I a or else you would drive her mad You will see how she has dressed herself”