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I gave orders thereafter for the disposal of ht up to the chamber that the landlord had in haste made ready for me In that chamber I sat until very late; a prey to the utht have taken soht for poor Ganymede and his condition, but my own affairs crowded over-heavily upon ht

At oneto Lavedan, only to dismiss the idea the next What could it avail me now? Would Roxalanne believe the tale I had to tell? Would she not think, naturally enough, that I was butthe best of the situation, and that my avowal of the truth of a story which it was not in my power to deny was not spontaneous, but forced fro more to be done A score of amours had claimed my attention in the past and received it; yet there was not one of those affairs whose htest concern or mortification It seemed like an irony, like a Dies ire, that it should have been left to this first true passion of ht rief, huddling to me the corpse of the love she had borne me as a mother may the corpse of her first-born

On the morrow I resolved to leave Toulouse--to quit this province wherein so row old in misanthropical seclusion I had done with Courts, I had done with love and oal had it been in gifts that I had not sought of it It had spread s, but they had been little to my palate, and I had nauseated quickly And nohen here in this remote corner of France it had shown me the one prize I coveted, it had been swift to place it beyonddiscontent and misery in my hitherto pampered heart

I saw Castelroux that day, but I said no word to hiht erous condition at the Auberge Royale, andhi to see you," said Castelroux