Volume V Part 60 (2/2)

After the dance was over the male dancer treated the two females, one after the other, until he was forced to rest The French girl cans of life, but feeling my hopeless condition she pronounced ive the French girl four guineas, and to pay my share, as I had very little money about me

What should I have said if I had been told in themyself I should take part in so pleasant an entertainlishman made me resolve to put off one I tried to get rid of Edgar, but in vain; he toldbetter, that the oysters I had taken skewed , and that if I caood dinner the next day I eak and indifferent and let ar in obedience to the Stoic maxim I had learnt in the happy days of my youth: 'Sequere Deum'

We entered the fine rotunda with our hats off, and began to walk round and round, our arland, at least in those days

Adanced, and I was so attracted by a lady who danced extremely well that I waited for her to turn round What made me notice her more particularly was that her dress and hat were exactly like those I had given to the Charpillon a few days before, but as I believed the poor wretch to be dead or dying the likeness did not inspire me with any suspicion But the lady turned round, lifted her face, and I saw--the Charpillon herself!

Edgar told ht to see round in an epileptic fit; I trembled and shuddered so terribly

However, I felt so sure she was ill that I could not believe ht me to my senses

”She can't be the Charpillon,” I said to irl like her, and my enfeebled senses have led , did not glance in my direction, but I could afford to wait At last she lifted her arms to make the curtsy at the end of the minuet, I went up instinctively as if I were about to dance with her; she looked me in the face, and fled

I constrainedfit returned, and I made haste to sit down A cold sweat bedewed ar advised ed him to leave me alone for a few moments

I was afraid that I was on the point of death; I trembled all over, and my heart beat so rapidly that I could not have stood up had I wished

At last, instead of dying, I got new life What a wonderful change I experienced! Little by little litter of the h all the shades of feeling between despair and an ecstasy of joy My soul and an to think I should never see Edgar again

”This young el, ar to restore ain”

I should certainly have persisted in this idea if

Chance ht have thrown him in the way of one of those seductive creatures who h without having tione back to London feeling perfectly certain that I had only seen his earthly shape Should I have been disabused if I had seen him a few days after? Possibly; but I a after superstition, of which I do not boast; but I confess the fact, and leave the reader to judge h spirits, but anxious about me He was surprised to findin a pleasant strain on the surrounding objects and persons

”Why, you are laughing!” said he, ”your sadness has departed, then?”

”Yes, good genius, but I ary, and I want you to do ements”

”I am free till the day after to-morrow, and till then you can do what you like with ift coht and the whole of the next day with me”