I came near suffocating, such were my efforts to hold my breath, and, continuing to look at her, I took my cigarette, and lighted it.
"'What does this mean?
One comes to talk with you, and you go to smoking.' "And she sat down beside me on the sofa, resting against my shoulder.

I recoiled, that I might not touch her.
"'I see that you are displeased with what I wish to play on Sunday,' said she.
"'I am not at all displeased,' said I.
"'Can I not see ?' "'Well, I congratulate you on your clairvoyance.

Only to you every baseness is agreeable, and I abhor it.' "'If you are going to swear like a trooper, I am going away.' "'Then go away.

Only know that, if the honor of the family is nothing to you, to me it is dear.

As for you, the devil take you!' "'What! What is the matter ?' "'Go away, in the name of God.' "But she did not go away.