Volume V Part 48 (2/2)
”How did you find out that she spent fourteen months in London?”
”Because several persons saw her in the house of a worthy here she spent the firstto say to any advances, but the bill in your orked wonders”
”Yes, and all the worse for me, for I feel as if I could never love another woman”
”Oh, that's childish indeed! You will love another woman in a week-nay, perhaps to-morrow, if you will come and dine with me at my country house A perfect French beauty has asked me to dine with her I have told so”
”Does the char?”
”No, but her husband does”
”What's his name?”
”He calls himself Count de Castelbajac”
”Ah! Castelbajac?”
”Yes”
”He is a Gascon?”
”Yes”
”Tall, thin, and dark, and hted to find you know hiree with me that his wife is very pretty?”
”I really can't say I knew Castelbajac, as he calls hio, and I never heard he was hted to join you, however Iif he seeood reasons for acting in thatI will tell you a story which does not represent hieous manner I did not know he played I shall take care to be onClub, and I advise you, uard in the society of Castelbajac”
”I will not forget the warning”
When Pembroke had left me I went to see Madahter was ill, and explained that she had been turned froh she felt certain I was in To this I replied that I was in love, and so happy within ers, and with that she had to be contented, but the state in which I found little Sophie frightened rownof grief Her mother was in despair, for she was passionately fond of the child, and I thought she would have torn my eyes out when I told her that if Sophie died she would only have herself to reproach Sophie, as very good-hearted, cried out, ”No, no! papa dear;” and quieted her mother by her caresses
Nevertheless, I took the mother aside, and told her that the disease was solely caused by Sophie's dread of her severity
”In spite of your affection,” said I, ”you treat her with insufferable tyranny Send her to a boarding-school for a couple of years, and let her associate with girls of good fao to school, and see if she does not get better”
”Yes,” said she, ”but a good boarding-school costs a hundred guineas a year, including masters”
”If I approve of the school you select I will pay a year in advance”