Volume VI Part 47 (2/2)
”Well?”
”Well, it has been asked for”
”By whom?”
”You know very well”
”No I swear to you”
”Yes, you do That great fop, the Marquis de Cazolles”
”He is not a fop, in the first place”
”It may be so, but he is stupid, ruined by play, and worn out by dissipation It is really a nice ent”
She inquired, s”
”Yes, you have He is not all that you say”
”Nonsense He is a fool and an intriguer”
She turned round so into the water, and said: ”Coh a secret was being wrenched from the bottohtly astonished, saying: ”You?”
”Yes, I”
”Why so?”
”Because I airl”
She said, in a severe tone: ”You are mad, Pretty-boy”
He replied; ”I know very well that I aht I to have adirl? I auilty I have no possible hope, and the thought of that drives oing to be h to kill soive me this, Susan”
He was silent The whole of the fish, to who throere lish soldiers, and looking at the bent heads of those tere no longer troubling theirl ayly: ”It is a pity that you arecan be done
It is settled”
He turned suddenly towards her, and said right in her face: ”If I were free, would you marry me?”
She replied, in a tone of sincerity: ”Yes, Pretty-boy, I would marry you, for you please me far better than any of the others”