Volume IV Part 78 (2/2)
”Your naive me your hand to kiss?”
”I can't,” she replied, with a sed, are you?”
”Yes, to a tailor, and we are going to be married before the end of the carnival:”
”Is he rich or handsome?”
”Neither the one nor the other”
”Then why are you going to marry him?”
”Because I want to have a house of my own:”
”I like you, and will stand your friend Go and fetch your tailor I will give hiot up and told Clairmont to putwhen she ca contrast, for he was a little shrivelled-up h
”Well,to irl?”
”Yes, sir, the banns have been published already”
”You are a lucky fellow indeed to have soto marry her?”
”In ten or twelve days”
”Why not to-reat hurry”
”I think I should be, indeed,” said I, laughing, ”if I were in your place I want you to make me a domino for the ball to-morrow”
”Certainly, sir; but your excellency ive me credit for it, and I couldn't afford to lay out so much money in advance”
”When you are married you will have money and credit too In the meanwhile here are ten sequins for you”
He went away in high glee at such a windfall
I gave Zenobia so a jealous husband
”He is neither jealous nor a me because I earn more than he does”
”With your charht have h; I have got tired of maidenhood Besides, he is sharp if he is not handsome, and perhaps a keen head is better than a handsome face”