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Updated: June 15, 2025
M. d Anquetil, remaining with Jahel and me in the grotto, proposed a game of l'ombre, which is played by three, and which he said, being a Spanish game, was the very one for persons as adventurous as ourselves.
I shall never again dare to stand before M. d'Asterac, who believes me to have passed the night in the silent voluptuousness of magic, which perhaps would have been better for me. Alas! I'll never more see Mosaide's niece, Mademoiselle Jahel, who at night-time woke me in my room in such a charming way. No doubt she will forget me.
The horses were already harnessed when Jahel appeared under the porch, shivering all over, under her black cloak. I could not bear the sight of her, and turned my moistened eyes away.
Jahel went and hid herself in her own room, and I remained alone exposed to the fury of that God-killer, in the state you found me, and out of which you helped me, you dear boy! As a fact, I may say that the business had been concluded, the elopement assented to, our flight assured. The wheels and Ezekiel's beasts are of no value against a heavy silver olio pot.
If Mademoiselle Jahel will be good enough to give me one of the pins which keep her garments together I'll soon make a hook of it, to enable me to fish in yonder river, and I flatter myself I shall return before nightfall laden with two or three carp, that we will grill over a brushwood fire." "I am quite aware," said Jahel, "that we are reduced to somewhat of a savage state.
On the night before my departure, while M. d'Anquetil drank and played cards with the barber-surgeon, Jahel and I went to the market place to get a breath of air. It was embalmed by the scent of herbs and full of the song of crickets. "What a night!" I said to Jahel. "The year cannot produce another like it, and perhaps all my life long I shall never see one so sweet."
Did he mention the olio pot? Go, Monsieur Abbe, and tell him. 'What shall I tell him? 'That I am an honest girl. 'And what else? 'That he is very audacious! 'Is that all, Jahel? Think on our safety! 'Tell him that I shall not depart before he has given me his legally worded written promise for everything. 'He'll do it, consider it as done.
"Nobody, but I did not know that his name was Maurice." "It's not long that I knew it myself, but never mind." "You are right, Jahel, it's of no importance." She was in her chemise, and the moonlight fell like drops of milk on her naked shoulders.
I felt some scruples at deceiving him, but I was compelled to do it and, besides, he deceived himself to such a degree that it was hardly possible to add anything to his illusions. So I ascended peacefully to my room, went to bed, and blew the candle out at the end of the most glorious day of my life. Jahel comes to my Room What the Abbe saw on the Stairs His Encounter with Mosaide.
The postboy lowered the steps of the coupe, but M. d'Anquetil asked Jahel if it would not be more pleasant to travel all four together in the large compartment, and I recognised that that was the first effect of his intimacy with Jahel, and that the full satisfaction of his desires had left it less agreeable to be alone with her.
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