"Well, he has promised to dine with me the day after to-morrow.""Ah! if you only /would/, madame," said the abbe.
"What is it that you wish me to do, monsieur l'abbe? Do you mean tooffer me bad advice? I have not reached the age of thirty-nine,without a stain upon my reputation, thank God! to compromise myselfnow, even for the empire of the Great Mogul. You and I are of an agewhen we both know the meaning of words. For an ecclesiastic, youcertainly have ideas that are very incongruous. Fie! it is worthy ofFaublas!"
"You have read Faublas?"
"No, monsieur l'abbe; I meant to say the /Liaisons dangereuses/.""Ah! that book is infinitely more moral," said the abbe, laughing."But you make me out as wicked as a young man of the present day; Ionly meant," human hair wigs long curly
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"And," she continued, "I do not want, and Adolphe himself would notwant, a hundred millions brought at such a price."
"Madame, I said nothing about a hundred millions; that temptationmight be too great for either of us to withstand. Only, I do thinkthat an honest woman may permit herself, in all honor, certainharmless little coquetries, which are, in fact, part of her socialduty and which,"
"Do you think so?"