Moi! vous me soupconnez de cette perfidie?
Moi! je pourrais souffrir un visage odieux,
Qui rappelle toujours l’Hopital a mes yeux?
‘No!’ replied I, continuing the parody—
J’aurais peine a penser que l’Hopital, madame,
Fut un trait dont l’amour l’eut grave dans votre ame.
‘But it assuredly is a temptation—a furnished house, a lady’s maid, a cook, a carriage, and three servants—gallantry can offer but few more seductive temptations.’
“She protested that her heart was entirely mine, and that it was for the future only open to the impressions I chose to make upon it. ‘I look upon his promises,’ said she, ‘as an instrument for revenge, rather than as a mark of love.’ I asked her if she thought of accepting the hotel and the carriage. She replied that his money was all she wanted.”
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