Volume IV Part 66 (2/2)
”Why don't you invite the pastor and my cousin to dine with you? I could come too, for the pastor lad to hear that Has she a lover?”
”No”
”I can scarcely believe it She is young, pretty, agreeable, and very clever”
”You don't understand Genevan ways It is because she is so clever that no young ht be attracted by her personal charms hold themselves aloof on account of her intellectual capacities, as they would have to sit in silence before her”
”Are the young Genevans so ignorant, then?”
”As a rule they are Soeneral way they are full of prejudice nobody wishes to be considered a fool or a blockhead, but clever woirl is witty or well educated she endeavors to hide her lights, at least if she desires to be married”
”Ah! now I see why you did not open your lips during our discussion”
”No, I know I have nothing to hide This was not the motive whichI ad on a subject which any other girl would have affected to know nothing about”
”Yes, affected, though she randmother”
”That's a matter ofis ad for the party you so cleverly suggested:”
”You will have the pleasure of being withis certainly a very interesting and agreeable girl, but believe me it is your presence that will constitute my chief enjoyment”
”And how if I do not believe you?”
”You would wrong ive me pain, for I love you dearly”
”In spite of that you have deceived ivenladies For my part I pity them”
”Why?”
”Because neither of them can flatter herself that you love her, and her alone”
”And do you think that your delicacy of feeling h of course, I have no experience in the ht?”
”Yes, I do”
”I ahted to hear it; but you must confess that to associate reatest possible proof of your love”