Volume II Part 7 (1/2)
”Not at all, Mr Davy,” I cried, eager to do the honors of Cecilia ”A great o out to see their friends and have their friends come to see them; but I had no one until now, you see”
”Yes, but, Charles,” replied my sister, ”we understand that no visitors are perht it a wise regulation too They made an exception in our case because we came so far, and also because we ca away?”
”Only to the inn, where we have a bed for you engaged, that we o with us now, for we have obtained permission”
”Whatever shall I do?”
”What now, Charles?”
”Well, Mr Davy, you h, but we are to decorate our concert-hall, and they are waiting for me, I daresay All those flowers, too, that you o and tell the to speak to _you_ I heard a knock”
I turned, and let in Franz He could not help glancing at the pink lining, while he breathlessly whispered, ”Do not one to fetch her brother; and while they are at supper, we shall dress the hall under her directions, and she says you are to go with your friends”
”That is my sister, Dele that Millicent had changed her naathered up ed me to come directly, and I hurried to my room and took him with me How vain I felt to show him my press, my screen, my portmanteau full of books, and my private bed, my violin, asleep in its case; and last, not least, his china cup and saucer, in the little brown box! While I was coht in his char countenance, not a cloud upon it
”Oh, dear Mr Davy, how exquisite it is that you should bebut Mr Davy, though”
”You shall call me whatever you please I shall always like it”
”And, sir, please to tell rooht your part of the wedding ceremony in her only box,--and, let hly favored; for the muslin dresses and laces will suffer in consequence!”
”I don't believe that, sir,” said I, laughing
”And why not, sir?”
”Because, sir, my sisters would none of them travel about with muslin dresses if they had only one box”
”They would travel about, as Mrs Davy does, in black silk,” answered Davy, pursuing me as I ran; but I escaped hi for us with all possible patience
There are a few tilorious eternal days, that stand alone, but, thank God!for us but pure and passive enjoyment, in which we exist How exquisitely happy was I on this evening, for exaht, the present of such tender sweetness! How divine is Love in all its modifications! How inseparable is it froe and passed the shops, in the freshening sunbea from the bare blue heaven, I fetched a present for my brother and sister in the shape of two concert-tickets, which, contrary to Tedescan custoers I put theave you no wedding-gift”
”Yes, Charles, you gave me this,” and she looked up at Davy; ”I should never have known him but for you”
”Which means,me to you;” and Davy took off his hat with mock reverence
”Oh! that won't do, Mr Davy; for you said you had seen a beautiful Jewess at ourbefore you kneho lived in our house; and of course you would have got in there somehow, at last”
”_Never!_” said Davy, in a manner that convinced lad that I ran away onehappens accidentally to such as I”