Volume VI Part 51 (1/2)
We got over our supper hastily, and then Betty begged e her linen and go to bed
”If you like,” said I, ”I will have a bed ht I not to love your society? What would have become of me without you?”
I went out for a few minutes, and when I returned and caave me such a warm embrace that I knew ranted I was happy, and I had reason to believe that Betty was happy also
In the , we had just fallen asleep, when the vettuyino knocked at the door
I dressed myself hastily to see him
”Listen,” I said, ”it is absolutely necessary for me to recover my pocket-book, and I hope to find it at Acquapendente”
”Very good, sir, very good,” said the rogue, a true Italian, ”pay me as if I had taken you to Rome, and a sequin a day for the future, and if you like, I will take you to England on those terms”
The vetturino was evidently what is called wide awake I gave hireement At seven o'clock we stopped at Montefiascone to write to Sir B---- M----, she in English, and I in French
Betty had now an air of satisfaction and assurance which I found charhly aure which the actor would cut when he arrived at Rome by hie of her trunk, and that we should have no difficulty in getting it back
”He ht pursue us”
”He dare not do so”
”I expect not, but if he does I will give him a elcome If he does not take hian ain warnedfroave me?”
”Oh, yes! That is a little secret between ourselves”
In less than three hours the letters were composed and written Betty was satisfied with my letter; and her ohich she translated for my benefit, was a perfect masterpiece of sensibility, which see fro in a place of safety before the arrival of her lover
The only thing that troubled e left behind by l'Etoile, for whether it were true or false, I felt bound to deal with it in some way, but I could not see hoas to be done
We set out again after dinner in spite of the heat, and arrived at Acquapendente in the evening and spent the night in the delights ofI saw a carriage in front of the inn, just starting for Roht be discovered, and I told her to get up, and see if it were there
We went down, and Betty recognized the trunk she had confided to her seducer