Volume VI Part 48 (2/2)
We reached Acquapendente in three quarters of an hour, and we found the h spirits He ehted to find him safe and sound He told us triumphantly that he had beaten the rascally postillions, and had warded their stones off
”Where's the slashed postillion?” I asked
”He is drinking to ed ave hiiven the”
Before supper the Cohs and side; the rascal was a fine well-h I was consoled at the thought of the earnest I had received from her
Next day, the iood supper at Viterbo, and that of course I would lend hi, he skewed e on Rome for three thousand crowns
I did not trouble to read it, and gave hiain
Betty now treated ht ask her almost any questions
When ere at Montefiascone she said,--
”You see my lover is only without e aery”
”You are really too cruel”
”Not at all; I only wish I were o I should have taken it for a good one, but now it's another thing, and if the bill is a good one, why did he not negotiate it at Sienna, Florence, or Leghorn?”
”It may be that he had not the tione
Ah! if you knew all!”
”I only want to knohat you like to tell ue suspicion but hard fact”
”Then you persist in the idea that he does not love me”
”Nay, he loves you, but in such a fashi+on as to deserve hatred in return”
”How do you mean?”
”Would you not hate a man who loved you only to traffic in your charms?”
”I should be sorry for you to think that of him”
”If you like, I will convince you of what I say this evening”
”You will oblige me; but I must have some positive proof It would be a sore pain to me, but also a true service”