I will order a carriage for them, and they will take charge of your violoncello.

Do you not think that you ought to let M.d'Antoine know where we are going ?" "No, it seems to me, on the contrary, that I need not account to him for any of my proceedings.

So much the worse for him if he should, even for one moment, doubt my word." The next morning, we left Parma, taking only what we wanted for an absence of a fortnight.

We arrived in Milan without accident, but both very sad, and we spent the following fifteen days in constant tete-a-tete, without speaking to anyone, except the landlord of the hotel and to a dressmaker.

I presented my beloved Henriette with a magnificent pelisse made of lynx fur--a present which she prized highly.
Out of delicacy, she had never enquired about my means, and I felt grateful to her for that reserve.