Volume V Part 7 (2/2)
”Parbleu! I ahness, and I shall soon have the honour of dining with you at the castle”
He did not wait to hear hed heartily at his folly, feeling quite sure that we should neither dine with him nor the prince, but in a quarter of an hour he returned in high glee, and invited us all to dinner on behalf of the prince
”I beg you will thank his highness, and at the same time ask him to excuse us The weather has improved, and I want to be off as soon as we have taken a hastyFrenchth retired with a ht I had got rid of him at last, but I did not knowhimself in a complacent manner to the ladies, as if I was of no iven the prince such a description of their charms that he had made up his mind to dine with them
”I have already ordered the table to be laid for twoof the party In a quarter of an hour, ladies, the prince will be here”
”Very good,” said I, ”but as the prince is coo to the felucca and fetch a capital pie of which the prince is very fond, I know Come, ladies”
”You can leave them here, sir I will undertake to keep them amused”
”I have no doubt you would, but they have soet from the felucca as well”
”Then you will allow me to cooing down the stairs, I asked the innkeeper what I owed hi, sir, I have just received orders to serve you in everything, and to take no nificent!” During this short dialogue, the ladies had gone on with the fop I hastened to rejoin the heartily to hear the officerlove to Marcoline, who did not understand a word he said He did not notice it in the least, for his tongue kept going like the wheel of a mill, and he did not pause for any answers
”We shall have so to do on the felucca?”
”We are leaving Say nothing”
”Leaving?”
”Iold”
We went on board the felucca, and the officer, as delighted with the pretty vessel, proceeded to exa to the o directly
”Directly?”
”Yes, this one for a walk, and two of my men are on shore, too”
”That's no ain at Antibes; it's only ten leagues, and they have plenty of ht”
He tripped the anchor, and the felucca began to swing away froreat astonish to Antibes and I shall be very glad to take you there for nothing”