"Won't you be so good as to treat me as an old acquaintance and go on ?" "Oh," said she, flinging herself on the sofa and motioning to us to sit down, "Gaston knows what my music is like.

It is all very well when I am alone with the count, but I won't inflict such a punishment on you." "You show me that preference ?" said M.de N., with a smile which he tried to render delicately ironical.
"Don't reproach me for it.

It is the only one." It was fated that the poor man was not to say a single word.

He cast a really supplicating glance at Marguerite.
"Well, Prudence," she went on, "have you done what I asked you to do ?" "Yes.
"All right.

You will tell me about it later.