Volume VI Part 45 (1/2)

”He can go as he likes; that can't makeand pretty”

”I have been told so, but I haven't seen her myself”

”What sort of a man is her companion?”

”He's a fine man, but he can speak very little Italian”

”Has he sold the lady's horse?”

”No, it was hired He has only one trunk, which will go behind the carriage”

”This is all very strange I shall not give any decision before speaking to this man”

”I will tell hi young fellow, carrying hih, and clad in a fancy uniform, came in He toldthat he was sure I would not refuse to accoe

”Your wife, sir?”

I saas a Frenchman, and I addressed him in French

”God be praised! You can speak lishwoman and my wife I aood I don't want to start later than I had arranged Will she be ready at five o'clock?”

”Certainly”

The next e, I found her already there

I paid her soht compliment, and sat down beside her, and we drove off

CHAPTER XII

Miss Betty--The Comte de L'Etoile--Sir BM-- Reassured

This was the fourth adventure I had had of this kind There is nothing particularly out of the coe; this ti decidedly romantic about it

I was forty-five, and my purse contained two hundred sequins I still loved the fair sex, though my ardour had decreased, my experience had ripened, and my caution increased I waslover, and I limited myself to pretensions of theperson beside h silish fashi+on, she was fair and s breast could be seen outlined beneath the fine muslin of her dress She had all the appearances of inal innocence, which inspired one with attachment and respect at the saan