tailieunhanh - The King's Sweetheart, The Maid Of Thilouse, And The Reproach

forfeited their seat in paradise only to possess one day, this little dragon of virtue. The good king, was a judge of such game, strolled into the town, past the forges, and entered the goldsmith’s shop, for the purpose of buying jewels for the lady of his heart, but at the same time to bargain for the most precious jewel in the shop. The king not taking a fancy to the jewels, or they not being to his taste, | The King s Sweetheart The Maid of Thilouse and The Reproach Honoré de Balzac DODO I WI PRESS The King s Sweetheart THE KING S SWEETHEART There lived at this time at the forges of the Pont-aux-Change a goldsmith whose daughter was talked about in Paris on account of her great beauty and renowned above all things for her exceeding gracefulness. There were those who sought her favours by the usual tricks of love and but others offered large sums of money to the father to give them his daughter in lawful wedlock the which pleased him not a little. One of his neighbours a parliamentary advocate who by selling his cunning devices to the public had acquired as many lands as a dog has fleas took it into his head to offer the said father a domain in consideration of his consent to this marriage which he ardently desired to undertake. To this arrangement our goldsmith was nothing loth. He bargained away his daughter without taking into consideration the fact that her patched-up old suitor had the features of an ape and had scarcely a tooth in his jaws. The smell which emanated from his mouth did not however disturb his own nostrils although he was filthy and high flavoured as are all those who pass their lives amid the smoke of chimneys yellow parchment and other black proceedings. Immediately this sweet girl saw him she exclaimed Great Heaven I would rather not have him. That concerns me not said the father who had taken a violent fancy to the proffered domain. I give him to you for a husband. You must get on as well as you can together. That is his business now and his duty is to make himself agreeable to you. Is it so said she. Well then before I obey your orders I ll let him know what he may expect.