Volume VI Part 69 (2/2)

”Are you satisfied with the other three?”

”Yes, they are sensible men, and do not ask too much of poor human nature”

”I will carry your just complaint to the cardinal; will you write out your petition?”

”Kindly give h draft, which she copied out and signed, and I laid it before his eminence A few days after the Dost the three reer ratitude on account of this change

Menicuccio went to see his sweetheart every holiday, while I, inat nine o'clock

I breakfasted with her and Emilie, and rerating I could lock the door behind me, but we could be seen from the interior of the convent, as the door was left open to adreat annoyance forby, and none of therate; thus my fair Armelline could not stretch out her hand to receive my amorous kisses

Towards the end of Deceed the superior to allow me to place a screen in front of the door, as I feared I should catch cold otherwise The worthy woranted my request without any difficulty, and ere at our ease for the future, though the desires hich Armelline inspired me had become dreadful torment

On the 1st day of January, 1771, I presented each of theood winter dress, and sent the superior a quantity of chocolate, sugar, and coffee, all of which were extrerating, as Armelline was not ready, and in the saoverness happened to be busy It was in these quarters of an hour that she succeeded in captivating reat friends, but their prejudices on the subject of sensual enjoyet them to listen to licentious talk, to allow certain sladly have taken, or to afford me those pleasures of the eyes that we accept in default of better things

One day they were petrified bythem whether they did not soive each other proofs of the tenderness of their mutual affection

How they blushed Emilie asked me with the most perfect innocence what there was in co two in a narrow bed

I took care not to explain htened them

No doubt they were of the same flesh and blood as I, but our educators had differed widely They had evidently never confided their little secrets to one another, possibly not even to their confessor, either through shaed in alone were no sin

I s, lined with plush to keep out the cold, and vainly endeavoured to ht say as often as I pleased that there was no real difference between a h at thes They only answered that girls were not allowed to take such a liberty, as they wore petticoats on purpose to conceal their legs

The manner in which Emilie spoke, alith Arenuine I penetrated her idea; she thought that in acceding toherself in my eyes, and that I should despise her ever after Nevertheless Emilie was a woman of twenty-seven, and by no means a devotee

As for Armelline, I could see that she took E less precise than her friend I thought she loved eneral rule, she would be more easily won by herself than in co when she appeared at the grating by herself, telling overness was busy I said that I adored her and was theaable to clasp her to my arms and cover her with kisses

”Can I continue to live, dear Ar your fair hands?”

At these words, pronounced with so aze on an to kiss ed her to put her ht kiss it She blushed and looked down, and did nothing I bewailed my fate bitterly, but in vain

She was deaf and dumb till Emilie came and asked us ere so dull

About this ti of 1771, I was visited by Mariuccia, who hairdresser My readersthe three months I had been in Rome I had enquired in vain as to what had becohted when she made her appearance

”I saw you at St Peter's,” said she, ”at theto approach you because of the people hom I was, I told a friend of mine to follow you and find out where you lived”

”How is it that I have tried to find you out in vain for the last three months?”