Volume V Part 54 (2/2)
Five or six days afterwards, I met the little hussy at Vauxhall in company with Goudar I avoided her at first, but she canot to notice my manner, she asked me to come into an arbour with her and take a cup of tea
”No, thank you,” I replied, ”I prefer supper”
”Then I will take soive it me, won't you, just to shew that you bear no ether as if we had been inti conversation coradually drew an to exercise its influence overa hope that I should fare better than Lord Peently, and with an appearance of sincerity that deceived me, that she wanted to be mine, but by day and on the condition that I would coive me one little proof of your love”
”Most certainly not”
I got up to pay the bill, and then I left without a word, refusing to take her home I went hoht when I aas that I was glad she had not taken ly that it was to my interest to break off all connection between that creature and th of her influence over me, and that my only as to keep away from her, or to renounce all pretension to the possession of her charms
The latter plan seemed to me impossible, so I determined to adhere to the first; but the wretched woman had resolved to defeat all my plans
The manner in which she succeeded must have been the result of a council of the whole society
A few days after the Vauxhall supper Goudar called onhers any irl would have made you more and more in love with her, and in the end she would have seduced you to beggary”
”You reat fool If I had found her kind I should have been grateful, but without squandering all my ht have given her what I have already given her every day, without reducing ratulate you; it shews that you are well off But have you ain?”
”Certainly”
”Then you are not in love with her?”
”I have been in love, but I aer; and in a few days she will have passed cootten her when I met her with you at Vauxhall”
”You are not cured The way to be cured of an aht, when the two parties live in the sas will happen, and all the trouble has to be taken over again”
”Then do you know a better way?”
”Certainly; you should satiate yourself It is quite possible that the creature is not in love with you, but you are rich and she has nothing
You ht have had her for so much, and you could have left her when you found her to be unworthy of your constancy You must knohat kind of a woladly, but I found her out”
”You could have got the best of her, though, if you had gone to work in the proper way You should never have paid in advance I know everything”
”What do you uineas, and that you have not won so ht have had her comfortably in your own bed for as h you pride yourself on your craft”
”It was an act of charity towards her aunt”