Volume IV Part 94 (1/2)
”Everything shall be done as you suggest”
I guessed at once that the marquis wanted to have a taste of Zenobia; but this seery, I felt disposed to do all in my power to favour his plans Live and let live has always been h now I do but live a life of me told the pastrycook to consider the gentle as etting his ork He knew by experience that she was none the worse for these little absences
”I don't want you,” said I to the tailor, ”as it is only woossip here will be sufficient”
”At three o'clock she ain for three days”
After I had dined I called as usual on the fair ht Her lottery ticket had got her five hundred sequins
”And that makes you happy, does it?” said I
”It does, not because of the gain in h I am by no ht that I owe it all to you These two things speak volumes in your favour”
”What do they say?”
”That you deserve to be loved”
”And also that you love me?”
”No, but my heart tells me as much”
”You make me happy, but does not your heart also tell you that you should prove your love?”
”Dearest, can you doubt it?”
With these words she gave me her hand to kiss for the first time
”My first idea,” she added, ”was to put the whole forty sequins on the 'ae?”
”It wasn't that, I felt ashaht you would not tell ave you the forty sequins to risk on the lottery, you would think I despised your present This would have been wrong, and if you had encouraged me I should have risked all the ht of it You would have had ten thousand sequins, and I should be a happy man”
”We will say noto the masqued ball under the direction of the lad I feel at the thought of spending a whole night with you But one thought troubles o off so well as before”
”Don't be afraid, the enuity, and loves uises in which we shall not be recognized”
”I hope so He wants to pay for everything, including the supper”
”He cannot do better than i of the ball I went at an early hour to the pastry-cook's, where I found the ress that had been estive manner if he was satisfied with Zenobia
”Yes, with her work,” he answered; ”I did not ask her to do anything else for me”