Volume IV Part 93 (1/2)
”It's no good saying no, your soul flashed forth in your denunciation I am sorry to have spoken”
”Oh! it's of no consequence I know ive answers like your sweetheart, who perhaps wanted to make you curious about herself”
”But how could she hope to do that by extolling your charms above those of the other ladies? And, how could she know that I preferred you?”
”If she did not know it, I have made a mistake; but for all that, she lied to you”
”She may have invented the tale, but I do not think she lied You are shted”
”I like to let you believe what pleases you”
”Then you will allow me to believe that you do not hate ly word! If I hated you, should I see you at all?
But let's talk of so else I want you to do me a favour Here are two sequins; I want you to put the ain, or still better, you can send it me, but don't tell anybody”
”You shall have the ticket without fail, but why should I not bring it?”
”Because, perhaps, you are tired of co to see me”
”Do I look like that? If so I am very unfortunate But what nuave theive them you?”
”You put your hand three times on the board, and took up forty sequins each tih at me, I daresay, but it seems to me that you must have come to Milan to make me happy”
”Now you make me happy indeed You say you are superstitious, but if these numbers don't win you mustn't draw the conclusion that I don't love you; that would be a dreadful fallacy”
”I aician”
”Do you believe I love you?”
”Yes”
”May I tell you so a hundred times?”
”Yes”
”And prove it in every way?”
”I must enquire into your methods before I consent to that, for it is possible that what you would call a very efficacious ht striketoas I can”
”And when you have no strength left?”