A Gentleman from Gascony: A Romance of the Huguenots — page 34: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III. GABRIELLE. “ MonsIEuR.” With a start Raoul turned to find at his elbow the rosy, smiling face of the little mistress of the inn. The impressionable young woman had from the first view been greatly taken with the handsome face of the Gascon, and she implicitly believed every word of his rhodomontade. With a sudden impulse she decided to befriend him. Perhaps this resolve was not wholly disinterested. There may have been lurking in her mind the idea that so noble a seigneur, with his vast fortune, magnificent castle, and hundred vassals, would not prove ungrateful in a pecuniary way for any kindness shown him in his time of need. Pretty Rose had a long head upon her graceful shoul- ders. “Monsieur,” she began, “I may be bold to address you, but——” “Go on, my dear,” said Raoul encourazingly; 2 as she. hesitated. “ Have no fear.” Ever ready as he was to fight or to make love, Cupid and Mars being his twin divinities, he was nothing loath to indulge in a mild flirtation with the attractive landlady. “I scarcely know how to propose it to monsieur,” continued Rose, emboldened by the chevalier’s gracious Comicboo KS) (<(@)