Volume V Part 52 (1/2)
”Will you be alone?”
”I expect so”
”I a on the scene”
”Here is hted if you will come and see me”
She took the address, and I was surprised to see her smile as she read it
”Then you are the Italian,” she said, ”who put up that notice that amused all the town?”
”I am”
”They say the joke cost you dear”
”Quite the reverse; it resulted in the greatest happiness”
”But now that the beloved object has left you, I suppose you are unhappy?”
”I am; but there are sorrows so sweet that they are almost joys”
”nobody knoho she was, but I suppose you do?”
”Yes”
”Do you make a mystery of it?”
”Surely, and I would rather die than reveal it”
”Ask my aunt if I may take some rooms in your house; but I am afraid e cheaply?”
”I don't want to lodge cheaply, but I should like to punish the audacious author of that notice”
”Hoould you punishyou fall in love withyou It would have amused me immensely”
”Then you think that you can inspire me with love, and at the sa over the victim of your charms
Such a project is monstrous, and unhappily for us poor ed to you for your frankness, and I shall be on uard”
”Then you must take care never to see me, or else all your efforts will be in vain”
As the Charpillon had laughed ue, I took it all as a jest, but I could not help adation of h I knew it not, the day I made that woman's acquaintance was a luckless one for me, as my readers will see
It was towards the end of the month of Septean to die If the lines of ascent and declination are equal, now, on the first day of November, 1797, I have about four more years of life to reckon on, which will pass by swiftly, according to the axiom 'Motus in fine velocior'
The Charpillon, ell known in London, and I believe is still alive, was one of those beauties in whom it is difficult to find any positive fault Her hair was chestnut coloured, and astonishi+ngly long and thick, her blue eyes were at once languorous and brilliant, her skin, faintly tinged with a rosy hue, was of a dazzling whiteness; she was tall for her age, and seemed likely to become as tall as Pauline