"And he has eaten two partridges!" "Fasting from love, Madame." Madame St.Lo held up her hands.

"And it's not two minutes since he took a kiss!" He winced, was silent a moment, and then seeing that he got nothing by the tone he had adopted he cried for quarter.
"A little mercy, Madame, as you are beautiful," he said, wooing her with his eyes.

"Do not plague me beyond what a man can bear.

Dismiss, I pray you, this good creature--whose charms do but set off yours as the star leads the eye to the moon--and make me the happiest man in the world by so much of your company as you will vouchsafe to give me." "That may be but a very little," she answered, letting her eyes fall coyly, and affecting to handle the tucker of her low ruff.

But he saw that her lip twitched; and he could have sworn that she mocked him to Suzanne, for the girl giggled.
Still by an effort he controlled his feelings.