Volume V Part 25 (2/2)
In the evening we reached St Pierre; but during the four hours that had elapsed since we left Moulin we had made way, and Adele had become quite familiar with me
Thanks to Clairmont, who had arrived two hours before, an excellent supper awaited us We supped in a large rooreat white beds stood ready to receive us
I told Moreau that he and his daughter should sleep in one bed, and I in the other; but he replied that I and Adele could each have a bed to ourselves, as he wanted to start for Nevers directly after supper, so as to be able to catch-his debtor at daybreak, and to rejoin us e got there the following day
”If you had told one on to Nevers and slept there”
”You are too kind Iwill do hter in your care
She will not be so near you as in the carriage”
”Oh, ill be very discreet, you o to bed in her clothes, if she were afraid of me
”I shan't be offended,” I added
”It would be very wrong of ive you such a proof of my want of confidence”
She rose, went out a moment, and when she came back she locked the door, and as soon as she was ready to slip off her last article of clothing ca at the tih in a very agreeablesaucily,
”You are frightened of , but you surprised me Come back, I want to see you fall asleep in my arms”
”Come and see me sleep”
”Will you sleep all the time?”
”Of course I shall”
”We will see about that”
I flung the pen down, and in a , ardent, sub h she helped me to the best of her ability, the first assault was a labour of Hercules The others were pleasanter, for it is only the first step that is painful, and when the field had been stained with the blood of three successive battles, we abandoned ourselves to repose At five o'clock in the et us soood day, but I promised that she should have it on the way
When she was dressed she looked at the altar where she had offered her first sacrifice to love, and viewed the signs of her defeat with a sigh
She was pensive for soaiety returned, and in ourparting
We found Moreau at Nevers; he was in a great state because he could not get his money before noon He dared not ask ood dinner and start when theprepared we shut ourselves up in a room to avoid the crowd of women who pestered us to buy a thousand trifles, and at two o'clock we started, Moreau having got his h Clair where I was, and this night proved superior to the first
The next day we made a breakfast of the meal which had been prepared for our supper, and we slept at Fontainebleau, where I enjoyed Adele for the last ti I promised to coland, but I could not keep et from Fontainebleau to Paris, but how quickly the tie near the Pont St Michel, opposite to a clockave one to Adele, and then dropped her and her father at the corner of the Rue aux Ours I got down at the ”Hotel de Mont to stop with Mada I went to dine with her
CHAPTER VI