Volume V Part 66 (2/2)
She did not deign to reply, and I was by no er for one another, and it is quite natural that it should be so
When I tell o I set out for Haenius ?
After one I went to the Italian Opera at Covent Garden, and met Goudar, who asked me if I would come to the Sartori's concert
He told lish woman there who spoke Italian As I had just lost Sara I did notnew acquaintances, but still I was curious to see the young lad to say that instead of being alish wo Livonian, who called himself Baron of Stenau, seemed extremely interested in her After supper she offered us tickets for the next concert, and I took one for uineas, but the Livonian baron took fifty tickets, and gave her a bank note for fifty guineas I saw by this that he wanted to take the place by stor it I supposed hi to enquire into his means He made advances to me and we became friends, and the reader will see in due time what a fatal acquaintance he was
One day as I alking with Goudar in Hyde Park he left me to speak to two ladies who see absent, and said, when he rejoined me,--
”A Hanoverian lady, aand the o with her whole fa compensation from the Governe of the Duke of cumberland's army The mother herself is sick and and never leaves her bed; she sends her two eldest daughters to petition the Govern ladies you have just seen They have not hter is twenty-two, and the youngest fourteen; they are all pretty and can speak English, French, and Gerlad to see visitors I had been to visit theo there alone a second time If you like, however, I can introduce you”
”You irritate , but if the one that pleases ”
”They will not even allow one to take them by the hand”
”They are Charpillons, I suppose”
”It looks like it But you won't see any e roo irls replied politely, but with an air of great sadness
Goudar spoke to the ,--
”We have come at a sad time That man is a bailiff who has come to take the uineas'
rent she owes hi When the mother has been sent to prison the landlord will no doubt turn the girls out of doors”
”They can live with their ot the money they can have their meals in prison, but no one is allowed to live in a prison except the prisoners”
I asked one of theone out, to look for money, for the landlord won't accept any surety, and we have nothing to sell”
”All this is very sad; what does your h she is ill and cannot leave her bed, they are going to take her to prison By way of consolation the landlord says he will have her carried”
”It is very hard But your looks please me, mademoiselle, and if you will be kind I may be able to extricate you from the difficulty”
”I do not knohat you o and ask her”
”Sir, you do not know us; we are honest girls, and ladies of position besides”
With these words the young woain The two others, ere quite as pretty, stood straight up and said not a word Goudar whispered tofor theure there; and I was cruel enough to go aithout saying a word