She blushed; seeing which, I bowed.

She returned me a slight inclination of the head, and moving off at a canter, she disappeared under the vault of the old church.

I thus remained master of the field, keenly relishing the triumph of fascination I had just obtained over that little person, whom there certainly was considerable merit in putting out of countenance.
The ride through the forest lasted some twenty minutes, and I soon beheld the brilliant fantasia debouching pell-mell from the portal.

I feigned again a profound abstraction; but this time again, one of the riders left the company and advanced toward me; he was a man of tall stature, who wore a blue frock-coat, buttoned up to his chin, in military style.

He was marching so straight upon my little establishment, that I could not help supposing he intended passing right over it for the amusement of the ladies.