CHAPTER IX

A. 1. That is a greater pleasure than you were willing to hâve me believe. 2. Don't labour under any delusion. 3. Let us go to the town and make some purchases. 4. Did you see those very pretty things in the shop opposite that of the pastry cook ? 5. She is afraid that he has often deceived her. 6. As soon as the first weeks of mourning are over, they will go into society. 7. She misses him very much. 8. Although she is very nice with me, she frightens me. 9. Her majestic carriage was that of a goddess. 10. She sat down on the foot of the bed. 1 1. She had corne to talk of marriage. 12. Does she want to be married? I should thinkshedid! 13. No one frightens her. 14. She sent her pillow flying into the middle of the room. 15. So much the worse for you. 16. What did they want to get at by that? 17. Don't divulge that secret. 18. She knew what she was talking about. 19. He is a match suitable in ail respects. 20. That's the way he thanked her when she had done what he wished.

B. Being pretty and having a large dower, she learned that she would be snatched up in a twinkling of an eye, if she would permit it. Every moment she had some new pleasure which she would hâve liked to share with the priest. One day, telling Blanche that she was very good in argument, she promised to attack her uncle on the subject of marriage. While they were at dinner, her uncle scented some danger and observed her under his great eyebrows. Blanche made her a sign to be quiet but she snapped her fingers and leaped into the arena. She told him that she thought reflection could make up for lack of expérience, and she trampled his ideas under foot without turning a hair.