The other followed without any
difficulty. This done, I would have paid my compliments to the ladies,
and walked off like a great booby as I was, but after whispering
escape thus; you have got wet in our service, and we ought in
conscience to take care and dry you. If you please you must go with
us, you are now our prisoner." My heart began to beat- I looked at
Mademoiselle Galley- "Yes, yes," added she, laughing at my fearful
look, "our prisoner of war; come, get up behind her, we shall give a
good account of you." "But, mademoiselle," continued I, "I have not
the honor to be acquainted with your mother; what will she say on my
Toune, we are alone, we shall return at night, and you shall come
back with us."
The stroke of electricity has not a more instantaneous effect than
trembled with joy, and when it became necessary to clasp her in
order to hold myself on, my heart beat so violently that she perceived
it, and told me hers beat also from a fear of falling. In my present
posture, I might naturally have considered this an invitation to
satisfy myself of the truth of her assertion, yet I did not dare,
and during the whole way my arms served as a girdle (a very close one.
I must confess), without being a moment displaced. Some women that may
read this would be for giving me a box on the ear, and, truly, I
deserved it.
The gayety of the journey, and the chat of these girls, so enlivened
me, that during the whole time we passed together we never ceased
talking a moment.
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