Volume IV Part 54 (1/2)
”Are you sure of her discretion?”
”Perfectly, but I hope you won't do anything inI will leave the rooht be so for myself; it is out of the question”
”You could--”
”No, I will have nothing to do with a pastime which would rekindle fires that are hardly yet quenched I have spoken; I suffer, but let us say noadept ca, with her eyes full of fire She was dressed in a short pelisse, open in front, and an eo beyond her knees She looked like a sylph
We had scarcely sat dohen she reminded me of the place where my tale had stopped I continuedthem how Donna Lucrezia shewed me Leonilda naked, M---- M---- went out, and the sly little puss asked hter was a ainst which she placed her pretty body, and shewed her how assured irl liked it so ave ht share her pleasure, and whilst this enjoyable occupation was in progress M---- M---- appeared My sweetheart said hastily,--
”Never ood creature and will not be vexed” Accordingly M---- M---- pretended not to see anything, and the precocious little girl wiped her hand in a kind of voluptuous ecstacy, which shewed hoell she was pleased
I proceeded with irl as 'tied', describing all the trouble I had vainly taken with her, the little boarder got so curious that she placed herself in the ht be able to shew her what I did
Seeing this M---- M---- e, and leave the rest to uess what she meant, and I have no doubt that she would have succeeded in her purpose if the fire which consumed me had not distilled itself away just at the happynovice felt herself sprinkled, but after ascertaining that nothing ers, however, consoled her for the disappoint her look happy once , proain in a year, but as I walked ho how often these asylums, supposed to be devoted to chastity and prayer, contain in theerms of corruption How many a timorous and trustful mother is persuaded that the child of her affection will escape the dangers of the world by taking refuge in the cloister But behind these bolts and bars desires grow to a frenzied extreme; they crave in vain to be satisfied
When I returned to the inn I took leave of the wounded ed him to make use of my purse; he told me, with an affectionate embrace, that he had sufficient money, and if not, he had only to write to his father I proe Desarainst the them I had a power over him which would compel hiood-bye, I took his future bride into ether and enjoy ourselves till ht; but she could not have been very pleased with my farewell salute, for I was only able to provefriend had nearly exhausted me
I started at day-break, and the next day I reached the ”Hotel du Parc,” at Lyons I sent for Desarhter's charht her lover worthy of her, and that I expected hie I went further, and told hi that very instant I could no longer be his friend, and at this he gave in He executed the requisite document in the presence of titnesses, and I sent it to Chaer
This false marquisabout his younger daughter to remind me of the elder, and his wife inspired ed to wrap up six Louis in a piece of paper, and gave it to her without the knowledge of her husband A grateful look shewed o to Paris, so I gave Desar, and await htCosta, but the inspiration caenius
I took the Bourbonnais way, and on the third day I arrived at Paris, and lodged at the Hotel du St Esprit, in the street of the sa to bed I sent Costa with a note to Mada to co young fellow, and as he spoke French badly and was rather a fool I felt sure that Mada She wrote to say that she was i me
”How did the lady receive you, Costa?”
”She looked into aof; then she went round the roo incense; then she came up to me with a majestic air and looked me in the face; and at last she smiled very pleasantly, and told me to wait for a reply in the ante-chamber”
EPISODE 19 -- BACK AGAIN TO PARIS
CHAPTER XIII
My Stay at Paris and My Departure for Strasburg, Where I Find the Renaud--My Misfortunes at Munich and My Sad Visit to Augsburg
At ten o'clock in theonce more in that Paris which is so imperfect, but which is the only true town in the world, I called on my dear Madame d'Urfe, who receivedCount d'Aranda was quite well, and if I liked she would ask hihted to see him, and then I informed her that the operation by which she was to become a man could not be performed till Querilinto, one of the three chiefs of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, was liberated froeons of the Inquisition, at Lisbon