Volume IV Part 55 (2/2)
”Because I cannot look on hin, too Ah! happiness is to be sought for in siained by co with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you”
”I cannot do it; I love the king and I a that he does toofor others”
”But I alad to shew his love for you by benefiting the persons in whom you take an interest”
”I knoould, and that thought nance to asking favours I have a hundred louis a month for pin-money, and I distribute it in alms and presents, but with due economy, so that I am not penniless at the end of theloves me is that I do not importune him”
”And do you love hiood-hearted, kindly, handsome, and polite to excess; in short, he possesses all the qualities to captivate a wo me if I aarden, and if I desire anything altered I thank hi”
”Does he ever speak of the scion you are going to present to hiht to be careful of nize ht in justice to do so, as the queen is dead”
”To be sure he will”
”I should be very happy if I had a son I wish I felt sure that I would have one But I say nothing about this to anyone If I dared speak to the king about the horoscope, I am certain he would want to know you; but I aues”
”So a will coreater, and which I am pleased to have procured for you”
We did not part without tears She was the first to go, after kissingme her best friend I stayed a short tis, and I told her that I should haveher horoscope
”She would no doubt have been happier You did not foresee, perhaps, her timidity and her lack of ambition”
”I can assure you that I did not reckon upon her courage or ambition
I laid aside my own happiness to think only of hers But what is done cannot be recalled, and I shall be consoled if I see her perfectly happy at last I hope, indeed, she will be so, above all if she is delivered of a son”
I dined with Mada-school that we ht be more free to pursue our cabalistic operations; and afterwards I went to the opera, where my brother had made an appointment with me He took me to sup at Madame Vanloo's, and she received me in the friendliestMadame Blondel and her husband,”
said she
The reader will recollect that Madame Blondel was Manon Baletti, who?” I enquired
”No, I pro her surprise”
”I a to enjoy ain, but not to-day, so I must bid you farewell; for as I am a man of honour I hope never to be under the saain”
With this I left the roo where to go I took a coach and went to sup with lad to seewo that he had no business tothat he could not shew himself a man