Part 7 (2/2)
”Why?”
”Your watch-paper--you remember; the one which you cut for ht I placed , you know; and in the night,” continued Sir Asinus, ”it coht?”
”Yes, Madam Belle-bouche Well, the roof leaked, and presto! when I rose I foundin water--your watch-paper all soaked and torn--that is to say, ht for you shared the saarters! My ill luck was coe?”
”Oh no,” said Sir Asinus; ”you know I am temporarily absent from the _Alma Mater_”
”Indeed!”
”Yes I have taken up my residence in town--in Gloucester street, where I aine a reat University of William and Mary for the reason I was”
”What was it?”
”Because I uttered some heresies I said the Established Church was a farce, and that women, contrary to the philosophy of antiquity, really had souls The great Doctor could pardonan old wo to revive the discussion of the heresy in relation to your sex What was the consequence? I had to flee--the enemy went about to destroy me; behold me now the denizen of a second floor in old Mother Bobbery's house, Gloucester street, city of Willia you call it, I think,” says Belle-bouche, s her brow to catch the faint May breeze whichis the very word--derived fro _ to _live in bachelor freedom_ It applies to me exactly, you see I live in bachelor freedom on Gloucester street, and I only want a wife to make my happiness complete”
Belle-bouche smiles
”You are then dissatisfied?” she says
”Yes,” sighs Sir Asinus; ”yes, in spite of my pipes and books and pictures, and all appliances and means to boot for happiness, I aon of a wife, with blue eyes and golden curls, and a sweet languishi+ng air, to chat with in the long days and gloonises her portrait, and smiles
Sir Asinus continues:
”Not only would I be happier, buttruth,arrested”
”Would a wife prevent that?”
”Certainly What base proctor would dare lay hands upon a married man?
But this all disappears like a vision--it is a drealoria Teucrorule blessedness,' that being the literal translation of the Hebrew”
And Sir Asinus s Jacques approach, looks at him triu; and this, added to his melancholy and jealousy, causes hi your pleasant conversation,” he says