Nothing Could Exceed The Joy Horatio Felt At This Unexpected
Eclaircisement Of His Innocence, Which Was Also Doubled By The Pleasure
Which, In Spight Of All Her Endeavours To Restrain It, He Saw Sparkle In
The Eyes Of His Beloved Charlotta.
Neither of them, however, had any
opportunity of expressing their sentiments at this time, de Coigney
continuing with them till dinner, when they all separated to go to their
respective tables.
The next day afforded what in this he had sought in vain: - he found her
alone in her own apartment; and having broke the ice, was now grown bold
enough to declare his passion, with all the embellishments necessary to
render it successful: mademoiselle Charlotta knew very well what became
the decorum of her sex, and was too nice an observer of it not to behave
with all the reserve imaginable on this occasion. All the freedom she
had been accustomed to treat him with, while ignorant of his or her own
inclination, was now banished from her words and actions, and she
gravely told him, that if he were in earnest, it was utterly improper
for her to receive any professions of that kind without the approbation
of monsieur de Palfoy her father; and as there was but very little
probability of his granting it, on many considerations, she would wish
him to quell in its infancy an affection which might otherwise be
attended with misfortunes to them both.
It is certain, indeed, that in this she spoke no more than what her
reason suggested:
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