In Speaking This She Turned Away With A Confusion Which Was
Visible In Her Air, And The Scarlet Colour With Which Her Neck Was Dyed.
By Heaven!
Cried he, in the utmost agitation, I know so little the
meaning of what I have just now heard, that it seems rather a dream than
a reality.
O the deceiver! returned she, a little slackening her pace,
will you pretend to have given no occasion for the reproach you have
received: - great must have been your professions to draw on you a
resentment such as I have been witness of; - but I shall take care to
give the lady, whoever she is, no farther room for jealousy on my
account; and as for mademoiselle Sanserre, I believe the stock of
reputation she has will not suffer much from the addition of one more
favourite to the number the world has already given her.
The oddness of this adventure, and the vexation he was in to find
Charlotta seemed incensed against him for a crime of which he knew
himself so perfectly innocent, destroyed at once all the considerations
his timidity had inspired, and aiming only to be cleared in her
opinion; - if there be faith in man, cried he, I know nothing of what I
am accused: no woman but your charming self ever had the power to give
me an uneasy moment; - it is you alone have taught me what it is to love,
and as I never felt, I never pretended to that passion for any other.
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