Volume VI Part 55 (2/2)

”She's a siy! What loveliness!”

”Her sister is still handsomer”

”I have never seen her”

A servant came in and said M Goudar would like to have a little private conversation with the advocate

The advocate came back in a quarter of an hour, and inforiven him the two hundred ounces, and that he had returned hilad of it I have certainly made an eternal enean playing, and Agatha made me play with Callihted me

I told her all I knew about her sister, and promised I would write to Turin to enquire whether she were still there I told her that I loved her, and that if she would allow me, I would come and see her Her reply was extreood day She was taking a music lesson from her master Her talents were really of a moderate order, but love made me pronounce her perforone, I reirl overwhelies for her dress, her wretched furniture, and for her inability to give me a proper breakfast

”All that make you more desirable in my eyes, and I am only sorry that I cannot offer you a fortune”

As I praised her beauty, she allowed ress by giving me a kiss as if to satisfy me

I made an effort to restrain my ardour, and told her to tell me truly whether she had a lover

”Not one”

”And have you never had one?”

”Never”

”Not even a fancy for anyone?”

”No, never”

”What, with your beauty and sensibility, is there noyou with desire?”

”No one has ever tried to do so No one has spoken to me as you have, and that is the plain truth”

”I believe you, and I see that I must make haste to leave Naples, if I would not be the most unhappy of men”

”What do youyou, and thus I should be most unhappy”

”Love me then, and stay Try and make me love you Only you must moderate your ecstacies, for I cannot love a man who cannot exercise self-restraint”

”As just now, for instance?”

”Yes If you calm yourself I shall think you do so for ratitude”