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Updated: June 26, 2025
"She must think what she pleases. In the meanwhile I feel sure that if she loved me as I loved her, we should be of one mind." "We have duties which seem to press lightly on you." "Then be faithful to your duties, and permit a man of honour to respect them by visiting you no more." Armelline then appeared. I thought her changed. "Why do you look so grave and pale?" "Because you have grieved me."
"You are right, fair Scholastics," I said, "I do love Armelline, but she does not love me, and refuses to make me happy on one pretence or another." With these words I left the room, and after shutting the door behind me proceeded to make up a fire in the second apartment. In a quarter of an hour Armelline knocked at the door, and begged me to open it.
Though Armelline's resistance and the presence of her new friend discouraged me, I procured everything requisite to transform them into two handsome lads. As Armelline got into the carriage she gave me the bad news that Scholastica knew nothing about our relations, and that we must be careful what we did before her. I had no time to reply, for Scholastica got in, and we drove off to the inn.
They did not interrupt this examination which I carried up to the knee, and I told Emilie that all the reward I would ask for my services was that I might see her thighs, to compare them with Armelline's. "She will be bigger than I," said Armelline, "though I am the taller." "Well, there would be no harm in letting me see." "I think there would." "Well, I will feel with my hands."
Three o'clock struck, and I took them back to the convent, well enough pleased with the progress I had made, though I had only increased my passion. I was surer than ever that Armelline was born to exercise an irresistible sway over every man who owed fealty to beauty. I was amongst her liegemen, and am so still, but the incense is all gone and the censer of no value.
I put myself in a state of decency, and then told them to take off their bandages. They did so and sat beside me, thinking, perhaps, that they would be able to, disavow everything on the score of the bandage. It seemed to me that Emilie had had a lover, though I took good care not to tell her so; but Armelline was a pure virgin.
"No, dear Armelline, it is neither customary nor polite; and anyone who wishes to mix in good society would never do such a thing." I lapsed into silence, as though I wanted to listen to the music; but as a matter of fact my heart was a prey to cruel jealousy. I thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that the Florentine had treated me rudely.
It was too late to see the superioress, so I drove home after rewarding the coachman and the lackey. Margarita was ready to scratch my eyes out if I could not prove my fidelity, but I satisfied her by quenching on her the fires Armelline and the punch had kindled. I told her I had been kept by a gaming party, and she asked no more questions.
She accosted me, and congratulated herself on her vicinity to me. She was accompanied by her French abbe, her husband, and a fine-looking young man, whom I had never seen before. She asked who my companions were, and I told her they were in the Venetian ambassador's household. She praised their beauty and began to talk to Armelline, who answered well enough till the curtain went up.
I made the trial one morning when she appeared at the grating by herself, telling me that her governess was busy. I said that I adored her and was the most hapless of men, for being a married man I had no hope of ever being able to clasp her to my arms and cover her with kisses. "Can I continue to live, dear Armelline, with no other consolation than that of kissing your fair hands?"
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