Volume V Part 37 (2/2)
”I can do it very cheaply; for you usually eat alone, and have enough for four”
”Very good; then I hope you will treat her very well for the suives you”
”I can only afford five sols a day”
”That will do nicely”
I gave orders that the bill should be taken down directly, and that the young lady's room should be made comfortable When thelady told o out on Sundays to hear mass at the Bavarian aave her three guineas to support her
”You can go out when you like,” said I, ”and without rendering an account to anybody of your ed me not to introduce anyone to her, and to tell the porter to deny her to anyone who ht come to the door to make enquiries I promised that her wishes should be respected, and she went away saying that she was going for her trunk
I immediately ordered my household to treat her with the utmost respect
The old housekeeper tolda receipt, and had gone, as she had come, in a sedan-chair Then the worthy old woainst what? If I fall in love with her, so ive you?”
”Mistress Pauline She was quite pale when she cahted to hear it I did not want a woman merely to satisfy h; I wished for some one whom I could love I expected beauty, both of the body and the soul; and my love increased with the difficulties and obstacles I saw before ive it a ht, for there is not a wo attentions, especially when her lover is ready to ot back fro the maid told me that the lady had chosen a modest closet at the back, which was only suitable for a servant She had had a ed the cook's wife only to send her up soup and one dish, to which the woman had replied that she must take as served, and what she did not eat would do for the servant
”When she finished she shut herself up to write, and wished oing to take in the ?”
”I asked her, and she said she would only take a little bread”
”Then you had better tell her that it is the custom of the house for the cook to serve everybody with coffee, chocolate, or tea, according to taste, in the , and that I shall be pained if she refuses to fare like the rest of us But don't tell her I said so Here's a crown for you, and you shall have one every week if you ait upon and care for her properly”
Before going to bed I wrote her a polite note, begging her to leave the closet She did so, but she went into another back roo toto proffer my request in such a way as toCornelis was announced
I received hily, and thanked him for the first visit he had paid me in the course of six weeks
”Mamma hasn't allowed me to come I have tried to do so a score of times without her leave Read this letter, and you will find so which will surprise you”
I opened the letter and read as follows:
”Yesterday a bailiff waited for my door to be opened and slipped in and arrested -house, and if I can't get bail by to-day he will take s Bench Prison The bail I require is to the amount of two hundred pounds, to pay a bill which has fallen due Dear friend, coet wind of my imprisonment and I shall be ruined You surely will not allow that to happen, if not for my sake at least for the sake of my innocent children You cannot bail et a householder to do so If you have the time come and call onthe bill, otherwise I could not have given ed”
I felt angry with the impudent woman who had hitherto paid me so little attention, and I wrote that I could only pity her, and that I had no tio and see her, and that I should be asha Cornelis had gone away in a melancholy mood, I told Clairood day She sent word that I was at liberty to do so, and on going upstairs to her roo at a table on which were several books
Soive me the idea that she was very poor
”I aoodness toof that, oodness”
”What can I do to shew ratitude?”
”Could you trouble yourself to take your re, and rant me that favour, do not hesitate to refuse, and I assure you you shall fare just as well as if you had acceded to my request”