I did dream, my dear count, of inviting you to Maisons.

I have a spare chamber there which I might offer to you.
_Hoc erat in votis_, I should indeed have been happy to have had you for a guest.

We should have chatted and made music to our hearts' content, close by a window opening on a garden.

'Hae latebrae dulces, etiam, si credis, amoenae.' But, alas! you are going to leave us; you do not care for the friendship accorded you here.

Has Vienna such superior attractions for you?
But I remember, you will doubtless be restored there to a pleasant home, a charming wife, children perhaps who----" Samuel looked at him with an astonished, confused air, as he had viewed Mme.