Page:Dramas 2.pdf/424

412

with a significant look, how affairs prospered with him here, his answer was a nod of complacency, which wanted no words of explanation.

I have given him as decided a refusal as my knowledge of civil language could provide me with.

My poor simple creature! what dictionary in the world will furnish language sufficiently explicit to make a vain puppy understand that a woman will not have him? I should have understood his foolish smile better; pardon me, dear child.

But it does not signify; he will understand it distinctly enough to-morrow without a dictionary's help, for I am convinced that our little boy is the son of poor Emma.

We shall know that soon, for the German will be here to answer the questions of your uncle in a quarter of an hour. Clermont was indefatigable in finding him out.

Was he?