During his next interview
with his dulcinea, far from discovering the least sign of jealousy
or discontent, he affected the appearance of extraordinary fondness,
and, after having spent the afternoon with the show of uncommon
satisfaction, told her he was engaged in a party for Fountainebleau,
and would set out from Paris that same evening; so that he should
not have the pleasure of seeing her again for some days.
The lady, who was very well versed in the arts of her occupation,
pretended to receive this piece of news with great affliction, and
conjured him, with such marks of real tenderness, to return as soon
as possible to her longing arms, that he went away almost convinced
of her sincerity. Determined, however, to prosecute his scheme,
he actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his
acquaintance, who had hired a remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and
having accompanied them as far as the village of Passe, he returned
in the dusk of the evening on foot.
He waited impatiently till midnight, and then, arming himself with
a brace of pocket-pistols, and attended by trusty Tom with a cudgel
in his hand, repaired to the lodgings of his suspected inamorata.
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