Volume V Part 8 (1/2)
”This is a fine jest! You are joking, surely?”
”Your company will be very pleasant on the journey”
”Pardieu! put o to Antibes”
”Put the gentleman ashore,” said I to the master, ”he does not seem to like our company”
”It's not that, upon , but the prince would think that I was in the plot to play this trick upon hi”
”I never play a weak trick”
”But ill the prince say?”
”He may say what he likes, and I shall do as I like”
”Well, it's no fault of mine Farewell, ladies! farewell, sir!”
”Farewell, and youmy bill”
Marcoline who did not understand as passing gazed in astonishhed till her sides ached, for the way in which the poor officer had taken the ht us an excellent dinner, and we laughed incessantly during its progress, even at the astonishment of the abbe and Possano when they came to the quay and found the felucca had flown However, I was sure of ain at Antibes, and we reached that port at six o'clock in the evening
Theus feel sick, for the air was fresh, and our appetites felt the benefits of it, and in consequence we did great honour to the supper and the wine Marcoline whose stoone soon felt the effects of the Burgundy, her eyes were heavy, and she went to sleep
My niece would have imitated her, but I reminded her tenderly that ere at Antibes, and said I was sure she would keep her word She did not answerher eyes with much modesty
Intoxicated with her subot into bed beside her, exclai,--
”At last the hour of my happiness has come!
”And mine too, dearest”
”Yours? Have you not continually repulsed me?”
”Never! I always loved you, and your indifference has been a bitter grief to ht we left Milan you preferred being alone to sleeping within your eyes for one more a slave to sensual passion than to love? Besides youratitude be a noble feeling, it destroys all the sweet delights of love You ought to have told me that you loved me and subdued me by those attentions which conquer the hearts of us women Then you would have seen that I loved you too, and our affection would have been mutual On my side I should have known that the pleasure you had of ratitude I do not knohether you would have lovedafter, if I had consented, but I aht, and I applauded her senti her to understand that she was to put all notions of benefits received out of her mind I wanted to ratitude on her side than ined rather than described She toldthat she felt all had been for the best, as if she had given way at first she could never have h he seemed likely to , caressed us, and proe
”Then you are not jealous?” said I