Volume VI Part 66 (2/2)
”Certainly not; if you want anybody to wait on arita”
”She's asleep”
”Then wake her up”
The good woirl came in with little on but her chemise She had not had ti that I went off into a roar of laughter
”I was sleeping soundly,” she began, ”and my mother woke me up all of a sudden, and told me to come and wait on you, or else you would leave, and my father would think we had been in mischief”
”I will stay, if you will continue to wait on me”
”I should like to coh any more, as the abbe has complained of us”
”Oh! it is the abbe, is it?”
”Of course it is Our jests and laughter irritate his passions”
”The rascal! We will punish hih ten tian a thousand tricks, accohter, purposely calculated to drive the little priest desperate
When the fun was at its height, the door opened and the ht-cap on e moustaches, which I had stuck on with ink Herus in the fact, but when she caed to re-echo our shouts of mirth
”Come now,” said I, ”do you think our amusements criies keep your neighbour awake”
”Then he had better go and sleep so to put myself out for him I will even say that you must choose between him and me; if I consent to stay with you, you must send him away, and I will take his room”
”I can't send him away before the end of the s to my husband which will disturb the peace of the house”
”I pro at all Leave hiiving you the slightest trouble In future be afraid for your daughter when she is alone with a h, one does so serious”
After this the arita was in such high spirits over the pro her justice We passed an hour together without laughing, and she left ained
Early the next day I paid the abbe a visit, and after reproaching hithe house at once He did his best to get out of the dile that I was pitiless he said he could not leave without paying a few small sums he owed the landlord, and without the ithal to obtain another lodging
”Very good,” said I, ”I will present you with another twenty crowns; but you o to-day, and not say a word to anyone, unless you wish ot rid of hiarita was always at my disposal, and after a few days so was the fair Buonacorsi, as irls introducedman who had seduced them