Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
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young ladies. I should find it very hard to say----'
"'A truce to jesting, sir! I mean the woman who has this moment gone
out from you.'
"'How can I know whether she is your wife or not? I never had the
pleasure of seeing you before.'
"'You are mistaken, M. Gobseck,' said the Count, with profound irony
in his voice. 'We have met before, one morning in my wife's bedroom.
You had come to demand payment for a bill--no bill of hers.'
"'It was no business of mine to inquire what value she had received
for it,' said Gobseck, with a malignant look at the Count. 'I had come
by the bill in the way of business. At the same time, monsieur,'
continued Gobseck, quietly pouring coffee into his bowl of milk,
without a trace of excitement or hurry in his voice, 'you will permit
me to observe that your right to enter my house and expostulate with
me is far from proven to my mind. I came of age in the sixty-first
year of the preceding century.'
"'Sir,' said the Count, 'you have just bought family diamonds, which
do not belong to my wife, for a mere trifle.'
"'Without feeling it incumbent upon me to tell you my private
affairs, I will tell you this much M. le Comte--if Mme. la Comtesse
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