Part 23 (1/2)
”But listen to me-----”
”You are mistaken in your person”
”But surely you will not be so unreasonable as not to hear what I have to say?”
”I a of importance with one I do not know”
”You have quarrelled with your lover and are in an ill-huuessed the cause”
”Ah! it is the fate of us all to get into scrapes! But you will soon make it up; and now let me entreat your attention to what I have to offer”
I became impatient, and called entleman, and ht I know more about you than you think I do”
”Indeed!”
”Yes, e”
At this last sentence, hed, while my heart trembled
”I wish to caution you,” continued he, ”how you embark in plans of this sort”
”Monsieur, I repeat, you have taken er listen to one who is either a er bowed and left me; but I could perceive that he was not displeased with ed to see Her Highness to relate to her this curious adventure
In a few hours I did so The Princess was perfectly satisfied with ular, she said, that the stranger should suspect I was there in attendance for some person of rank; and she repeated, three or four tilad that you did not commit yourself by any decided answer What sort of a entleman; above the middle stature; and, from what I could see of his countenance, rather handsome than otherwise”
”Was he a Frenchlish, with an Irish accent”
”Then I knoho it is,” exclaimed she ”It is Dillon: I know it from some doubts which arose between Her Majesty, Dillon, andyou upon a confidential mission Oh, cohness, overwhellad I am, that the Queen will be convinced I was not deceived in what I told Her Majesty respecting you Take no notice of what I a you; but he was sent from the Queen, to tempt you into so into the snare, that she ht rely on your fidelity”
”What! doubt my fidelity?” said I
”Oh, my dear, you must excuse Her Majesty We live in critical times
You will be the more rewarded, and much more esteemed, for this proof of your firmness Do you think you should know hiain?”
”Certainly, I should, if he were in the sauise
”That, I fear, will be rather difficult to accoe and wait at the door of his sister, the Marquise of Desmond; where I will send for him to come to me at four o'clock to- hi”