Volume IV Part 76 (1/2)
”If you love e
”I will get you the best , and will be able to ask for a first-class appointment, with a salary of five hundred sequins a year”
”Ma on the stage will ioodin public would do ood”
”There is reason in what you say, but you do not need the sixty sequins
You will dishonoursuch a poor offer, and you will do yourself harood salary after taking such a small one”
”But sixty sequins is not so bad for a carnival engagement”
”But you don't want sixty sequins; you can have the at all If you loveto rest for a year”
”I will do what you please, but it seems to me the best plan would be to ask an exorbitant suood idea Tell him you must be first dancer, and that your salary must be five hundred sequins”
”I will do so, and am only too happy to be able to prove that I love you”
Agatha had plenty of inborn common sense, which only needed developiven her her future was assured
She was eventually happy, and she deserved her happiness
The next day she told er did not appear at all astonished at her demands
”He reflected a few minutes,” said she, ”and told ain It would be a if he took me at my word, would it not?”
”Yes, but we should then have to enquire whether he is a e of bankruptcy”
”And if he turns out to be a ed to accept”
”That is easily said and easily done, but have I sufficient talent?
Where shall I find an actor to dance with e to find you one As to talent, you have enough and to spare; but you will see that it will co”
All the tied, and I was right The reenature She was quite alar the ive for the fulfile M Martin, a banker of my acquaintance, ould be his surety I could ree Agatha I went to M Raiberti and told him the story He shared my astonisher whoood; but the next day the problem was solved, for in spite of the secrecy that had been observed we found out that it was Lord Percy as behind theto keep Agatha, in spite of his five hundred sequins, but I was obliged to return to France after Easter to wait on Mada been concluded, I thought it would be a good opportunity for seeing England I therefore deter care to bind her new lover to provide for her, and I proceeded to make a friend of the nobleood graces, for she did not love him, and physically he was not attractive
In less than a e had becoht either at his house or atha and her mother were always of the party I concluded that his attentions would soon touch Agatha's heart, and that finding herself so beloved she would end by loving This was enough to make me determine not to put any obstacles in their way, and I resolved to leave Turin earlier than I had intended In consequence I spoke as follows to Lord Percy, while ere breakfasting together: