Volume V Part 64 (2/2)
On the way, Mada her husband for the rudeness of which I had to co an assiduous court to hi that they were on the point of departing ”We wanted to go on the day after next,” she said, ”and to-morroe shall have to leave our present rooms to their new occupants A matter of business which e us to stay for another week, and to- new apartot new rooms?”
”No, but ”
”Furnished, I suppose, for as you intend to leave you will be selling, your furniture”
”Yes, and we shall have to pay the expenses of carriage to the buyer”
On hearing that M M---- F---- was sure of finding lodgings, I was precluded fro to accoht think that I only made the offer because I was sure it would not be accepted
When we got to the door of their house we alighted, and the ed me to come in She and her husband slept on the second floor, and the two girls on the third Everything was upside down, and as Mada to say to the landlady she asked hters It was cold, and the room we entered had no fire in it
The sister went into the roo and I stayed with Sara, and all of a sudden I clasped her tothat her desires were as ardent as s in all the delights of voluptuous ardours But this happiness was short lived; scarcely was the work achieved e heard a footstep on the stair It was the father
If M---- F---- had had any eyes he itation, the nature of which it was easy to divine We exchanged a few brief compliments; I shook his hand and disappeared I was in such a state of exciteland and to follow Sara to Switzerland In the night I for the tiland, and if necessary to force the I hastened to call on M---- F----, and found hiet a couple of rooms,” said he
”They are already found,” I replied ”My house is at your service, and you ive me the preference Let us come upstairs”
”Everybody is in bed”
”Never o upstairs
Mada in bed Her husband told her that I wanted to let thehed and said I desired they would accept my hospitality as that of a friend After soreed that the whole fa
I went ho the necessary orders when I was told that two young ladies wished to see reeably surprised to see Sara and her sister I asked them to come in, and Sara told s out of the house before her father paid a debt of forty guineas, although a city merchant had assured her it should be settled in a week The long and snort of it was that Sara's father had sent ed ave her a bank note for fifty pounds in exchange, telling her that she could give reat sihted with the confidence she had placed in uineas did not make me divine that he was in solasses, and was only too happy to be of service to hiht dinner in order to have a better appetite for supper, and spent the afternoon in writing letters In the evening M M---- F----'s reat trunks and innu me that the family would soon follow; but I awaited theet alarmed and went to the house, where I found the felloere in the roo a jovial and unconcerned air, I said,--
”I'll wager, now, that this is the work of soht,” answered the father, ”but I a the debt in five or six days, and that's why I put off my departure”
”Then you were arrested after you had sent on your trunks”
”Just after”
”And what have you done?”
”I have sent for bail”
”Why did you not send to rateful for your kindness, but you are a foreigner, and sureties have to be householders”