Volume IV Part 85 (1/2)
When Irene had left the roohter, but I won't be long sighing for her, and you mustn't take me for a dupe”
”Speak to o to Cremona”
”I suppose Irene has a lover?”
”No”
”But she has had one, of course?”
”Never anything serious”
”I can't believe it”
”It's true, nevertheless Irene is intact”
Just then Irene caed to such an extent that I should never have known hi et the past ”It is only you,” he added, ”who can furnish o to Creer of imprisonment
nobody of any consequence co of value which I still possess I have just been trying to sell this pinchbeck watch, and though I asked only six sequins, which is half what it is worth, they would not giveis against hiave the father six sequins for it, and then handed it to Irene She said with a save her back her own, but she thanked me for the present I had made her father
”Here,” said she seriously to the old h I gave the count ten sequins in addition, eone, but that I would see theain in three or four days
Irene escorted me to the bottom of the stairs, and as she allowed me to assure ave her another ten sequins, and told her that the first tiive her a hundred sequins She said she would consult her father
Feeling sure that the poor devil would hand over Irene tono apartment in which I could enjoy her in freedom, I stopped to read a bill in a pastrycook'sIt announced a room to let I went in, and the pastrycook told ed to hied me to come upstairs and see the roo air of mystery about it I cliarrets of no use to me
”The first floor,” said the woman, ”consists of a suite of four nice rooo and see them Good! they will do What is the rent?”
”You must settle that withwith you, ave her a kiss which she took very kindly, but she so any farther despite her radiant beauty
I ain with the landlord, and paid a ave o as I pleased, and that he should provide ave hi whatever about me, but he seereed with Barbaro to visit the fair ht repast with the countess, as pleasant but did not quite please me, I met my fellow-countryman and we called on the two cousins
”I have co revealed to you the secret of the snuff-box”