Volume V Part 40 (1/2)
After Madaone, I asked Pauline if she would like to take a ith Sophie and myself in the suburbs, where nobody would know her
”In prudence,” said she, ”I cannot go out unless I am alone”
”Then shall we stay here?”
”We could not do better”
Pauline and Sophie sang Italian, French, and English duets, and the concert of their voices seeht I escorted the Sophie that I would co, but that I should expect to find her in bed I wanted to see if her body was as beautiful as her face I would gladly have asked Pauline to grant s had advanced far enough for that In theI found Pauline up and dressed
When Sophie saw hed and hid her head under the sheets, but as soon as she felt me near her she soon let me see her pretty little face, which I covered with kisses
When she had got up we breakfasted together, and the time went by as pleasantly as possible till Madae, ent aith a sad heart Thus I was left alone with an to inspire me with such ardent desires that I dreaded an explosion every moment And yet I had not so one Iher hand I kissed it rapturously, saying,
”Are you married, Pauline?”
”Yes”
”Do you knohat it is to be a ine what happiness it must be”
”Are you separated froainst our will We were separated before we had cohabited together”
”Is he at London?”
”No, he is far away, but please don't say anything more about it”
”Only tell ain”
”Yes, and I proland--that is, unless you dismiss me--and I shall leave this happy island to be happy with the husband of my choice”
”But I, dear Pauline, will be left unhappy, for I love you with all ive you any proof of enerous and spare ive enerous as to attack th to resist”
”I will obey, but I shall still languish I cannot be unhappy unless I forfeit your favour”
”I have duties to perfor contemptible in my own eyes and yours too”
”I should deem myself theme happy”
”Well, I like you too well to think you capable of such conduct, but let us be moderate, for we may have to part to-morrow Youwould be all the more bitter If you are of another opinion, that only shews that your ideas of love and mine are different”