Volume V Part 36 (2/2)

”I never would have anything to do with hiate in all England; and it's a pity,” she added, ”because he is a kindhearted nobleman”

This explanation was followed by a score of kisses, and I saw that they were agreed

We had a choice dinner in the French style, and Lord Peood a dinner for the last year

”I a alone every day”

Madalishman, and e rose from table we felt inclined to pass from the worshi+p of Coive the English kisses

I busied ht the day before, and left theether to their heart's content; but to prevent their asking ive the about such another uests had left me, I dressed and went to Vauxhaull, where I iven some money at Aix-la-Chapelle He said he would like to speak to ave him my name and address I also met a well-known character, the Chevalier Goudar, who talked to an introduced ht be very useful to me in London He was a man of forty, and styled himself son of the late Theodore, the pretender to the throne of Corsica, who had diedbeen imprisoned for debt for seven years I should have done better if I had never gone to Vauxhall that evening

The entrance-fee at Vauxhall was half the suh, but in spite of that the aood fare, music, walks in solitary alleys, thousands of lah and low

In the irl to share ood table, and make it dear to me I had been in London for six weeks; ana in no other place had I been alone for so long

My house see a mistress with all decency, and as I had the virtue of constancy a mistress was all I wanted to make me happy But hoas I to find a woman who should be the equal of those woirls, whom the town pronounced to be pretty, and who did not strike ht the matter over continually, and at last an odd idea struck me

I called the old housekeeper, and told her by the servant, who acted as my interpreter, that I wanted to let the second or third floor for the sake of coh I was at perfect liberty to do what I liked with the house, I would give her half-a-guinea a week extra

Forthwith I ordered her to affix the following bill to the :

Second or third floor to be let, furnished, to a young lady speaking English and French, who receives no visitors, either by day or night

The old Englishwoh so violently when the docuht she would have choked

”What are you laughing at,matter”

”I suppose you think I shall have no applications?”

”Not at all, the doorstep will be crowded froht, but I shall leave it all to fanny Only tell e about the rent inlady I don't think I shall have so lish, and also to be respectable She must not receive any visits, not even from her father and mother, if she has them”

”But there will be athe notice”