Volume V Part 39 (2/2)
”You don't knohat you are talking about”
I caht o'clock, and as soon as fanny had told Pauline that I had returned she ca to captivate reeable tobefore very long
Supper was brought in and we stayed at table tillabout trifles, but so pleasantly that the time passed away very quickly
When she left ht, and said et her sorrows
Peive hiratulated me on the disappearance of the bill from my
”I should very much like to see your boarder,” said he
”I daresay, ratify your curiosity just now, for the lady likes to be alone, and only puts up with my company because she can't help it”
He did not insist, and to turn the conversation I told him that Madame Binetti was furious with him for his inconstancy, which was a testi me any answer he asked me if I dined at home that day
”No, my lord, not to-day”
”I understand Well, it's very natural; bring the affair to a happy conclusion”
”I will do my best”
Martinelli had found two or three parodies of my notice in the Advertiser, and came and read them to me I was much amused with them; they were mostly indecent, for the liberty of the press is much abused in London As for Martinelli he was too discreet and delicate a ed him to take me to mass at the Bavarian ambassador's chapel; and here I s of devotion, but by the hope of seeing Pauline I had , for, as I heard afterwards, she sat in a dark corner where no one could see her The chapel was full, and Martinelli pointed out several lords and ladies ere Catholics, and did not conceal their religion
When I got ho that as it was Sunday and she could go out freely, she hoped I would let her co whether she would object to dining with her, and she said she would be happy to do so, provided there were no lad to see her and her charhter at dinner
She came, and Sophie did not leave my side for a moment Madame Cornelis, as constrained in Pauline's presence, took ratitude and to communicate to me some chimerical schemes of hers which were soon to make her rich
Sophie was the life and soul of the party, but as I happened to tell herin my house, she said,
”Then she is not your wife?”
”No; such happiness is not for me It was a joke of mine, and the lady amused herself at the expense of your credulity”
”Well, I should like to sleep with her”
”Really? When?”
”Whenever mamma will let me”
”We must first ascertain,” said the eiving the child a kiss
”Then you shall have her with pleasure, overness to fetch her away to-morrow”
”At three o'clock,” said I, ”for sheher mother's silence for consent, went up to her and kissed her, but these attentions were but coldly received She unfortunately did not kno to inspire love