Part 4 (2/2)
”I would enjoy it”
”Hoould you commence, pray?”
”Oh, easily--see noould say,'My dear Bel! I am at your service!
If _you_ love _me_, _I'll_ love _you_!' And then with a loould kiss her hand, and her lips too, if she would perhs
”Do you think that would succeed, however?” he says
”I don't know, and I don't care--I'd try”
Jacques sighs again, and looks wistfully at Belle-bouche, who smiles
”I'm afraid such a cavalier address--at the pistol's hwaymen you spoke of but noould only insure failure”
”You arelove'”
”If I were a man, you would see ”
”Well, fancy yourself a man”
”And ill be ed also-- Madam Philippa”
”Forsooth! But I could win your heart easily”
”How, pray,” says Jacques, sighing, ”granting first that 'tis in s”
”To wit?”
”I would talk to you of flowers and shepherdesses, and crooks and garlands----”
”Oh!”
”And I would adopt, if I had not naturally, that frank, languid, graceful, fatal air which--which--shall I finish?”
”Yes, indeed”
”Which Bel has! What a beautiful blush!+”
And Philippa claps her hands
Jacques tries very hard not to color, thus forfeiting all his pretensions to the character of a self-possessed ant coxcomb; but this is equally forlorn with his attelance and satirical lip of the fair Philippa