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I Fall in Love With Veronique — Her Sister — Plot Against Plot — My Victory — Mutual1 Disappointment
I have never liked eating by myself, and thus I have never turned hermit3, though I once thought of turning monk4; but a monk without renouncing5 all the pleasures of life lives well in a kind of holy idleness. This dislike to loneliness made me give orders that the table should be laid for two, and indeed, after supping with the marquis and myself, Veronique had some right to expect as much, to say nothing of those rights which her wit and beauty gave her.
I only saw Costa, and asked him what had become of Le Duc. He said he was ill. “Then go behind the lady’s chair,” said I. He obeyed, but smiled as he did so. Pride is a universal failing, and though a servant’s pride is the silliest of all it is often pushed to the greatest extremes.
I thought Veronique prettier than before. Her behaviour, now free and now reserved, as the occasion demanded, shewed me that she was no new hand, and that she could have played the part of a princess in the best society. Nevertheless (so strange a thing is the heart of man), I was sorry to find I liked her, and my only consolation6 was that her mother would come and take her away before the day was over. I had adored Rosalie, and my heart still bled at the thought of our parting.
The girl’s mother came while we were still at table. She was astounded7 at the honour I shewed her daughter, and she overwhelmed me with thanks.
“You owe me no gratitude,” said I to her; “your daughter is clever, good, and beautiful.”
“Thank the gentleman for his compliment,” said the mother, “for you are really stupid, wanton, and ugly;” and then she added, “But how could you have the face to sit at table with the gentleman in a dirty chemise?”
“I should blush, mother, if I thought you were right; but I put a clean one on only two hours ago.”
“Madam,” said I to the mother, “the chemise cannot look white beside your daughter’s whiter skin.”
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innocence
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neophyte
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dissimulation
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stipulated
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diplomacy
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follies
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