Volume V Part 38 (2/2)
”It shall be so if you please, but only for your sake, for that wo at the door to punish her for her impertinence to me when I ca way all dinnerti a word, so surprised was she to hear a child of her age talk in a way that would have excited attention in a woh perfectly respectful she condemned herobliged to give her a blind obedience
”I would wager that you don't love her much”
”I respect, but I cannot love her, for I a her”
”Why do you weep, then, at her fate?”
”I pity her, and her fa ”
”What were these expressions?”
”'Go,' said she, 'kneel before him, for you and you alone can soften his heart'”
”Then you knelt before me because your mother told you to do so”
”Yes, for if I had followed my own inclination I should have rushed to your ar ; but I have good hopes of success, reue My mother told me that I was only three then, but I knoas five She it ho told me not to look at you when I spoke to you, but fortunately you made her remove her prohibition Everybody says that you are ue she toldit into hter of M de Monpernis”
”But, Sophie dear, youryou a bastard when you are the legitihter of the dancer Pompeati, who killed hihter?”
”Clearly, for you cannot have two fathers, can you?”
”But how is it that I ae?”
”It's a mere chance”
”You deprive me of a drea, but covered her with kisses, which Sophie returned effusively She askedin the affirmative she called Pauline her ”dear h merrily
When the dessert was served I drew four fifty-pound notes out oftheht hand them over to her mother if she liked, but that the present was for her and not for her ive her the ht in the fine house where she gave me such a poor reception”
”It ive her”
”Yes, Sophie; but out of love for you”
”Write to her to the effect that it is to ive the money, not to her; I dare not tell her so myself”