Volume V Part 10 (2/2)
”You must start for Lyons to-morrow, but you will first write me out an I O U for twelve louis”
”Why?”
”Because I say so If you do so I will give you twelve louis and tear up the document before your face”
”I have no choice in the ht”
When he had written the I O U, I went to take a place in the diligence for hi I ith the advocate to withdraw the arrest and to take back the twelve louis, which I gave to ence, with a letter to M Bono, whoive hience I then tore up his note of hand, and wished hiot rid of this foolish fellohoain in Paris in a month's time
The day I had my brother arrested and before I went to dine with Madame d'Urfe I had an intervieith Possano in the hope of discovering the reason of his ill humour
”The reason is,” said he, ”that I a to lay hands on twenty or thirty thousand crowns in gold and diamonds, which the marchioness meant me to have”
”Thatabout it I etting anything If you think you can succeed go to theto prevent you”
”Then you think I a; you are very much mistaken I want a thousand louis, and I will have it, too”
”Then get soive it you,” said I; and I turned my back on him
I went up to the marchioness and told her that dinner was ready, and that we should dine alone, as I had been obliged to send the abbe away
”He was an idiot; but how about Querilinthos?”
”After dinner Paralis will tell us all about hi to be cleared up”
”So have I The ed Where is he?”
”He is in bed, ill of a disease which I dare not so much as name to you”
”That is a very extraordinary circu before It enius”
”I have never heard of such a thing, either; but now let us dine We shall have to work hard to-day at the consecration of the tin”
”All the better We must offer an expiatory sacrifice to Oroenerate me, and the operation would be performed in that condition”
”Let us eat now,” I repeated; ”I fear lest the hour of Jupiter be over-past”
”Fear nothing, I will see that all goes well”
After the consecration of the tin had been performed, I transferred that of Oromasis to another day, while I consulted the oracle assiduously, the ures into letters The oracle declared that seven salamanders had transported the true Querilinthos to the Milky Way, and that the enius, St Gernome, who had intended to make him the executioner of Semiramis, as to die of the dreadful malady before her term had expired The oracle also said that Semiramis should leave to Payaliseus Galtinardus (enius, St Gereneration, since the ould be sent me by the true Querilinthos froht of my worshi+p of the moon Finally the oracle declared that I was to embrace Semiramis two days before the end of the cere us in the rooenerate the worthy Sean to think how I could carry outmyself to shame The marchioness was handsome but old, and I feared lest I should be unable to perfore stealing on me The Undine, whom I was to obtain of the ive ht of her beauty and by the contact of her hands The reader will see how I made her come down from heaven