l go alone, and dine alone." "I shan't come then." "Don't,"
said I in a huff, then went to Camille's bed-room and washed. "I am
going, will you come? In another minute I shall be gone without you".

"Will you promise not to be mechant" (the French term). "I have not been
wicked," said I. She was yielding; I knew she was wild to go out with
me. "Will you promise to leave off talking so." "Not for ever; how can
I when I have seen what I have." "I have no boots, only my thick shoes."
"Come in those." "Camille has left a pair they are too big, and there
is a hole in them." But it ended in her putting them on. Dressed, she
looked an odd mixture of a peasant and a servant, who had got on some
of her mistress' things. I was ashamed to walk out with her; she saw
something in the expression of my face which wounded her pride. "You
don't like walking out with me," she said, and sitting down big tears
came into her eyes, "but I am handsomer than Madame, my feet are smaller
although my leg is bigger; my shoes are shameful, she would not let me
have boots like hers, she said she would send me home; _she_ won't go
home again, if I tell them about her." Thus she jabbered on in a fume,
till she had exhausted herself, her pride wounded, excited much by
feasting, by the baudy book and my kiss on her cunt. She talked so fast
in her provincial French, that I could scarcely understand what she
said.

I did not care what I spent, so that I could spend up Louise. "I am
proud to walk with you, and I will buy you a pair of boots." She jumped
up with delight. "But you shall let me do one thing." "What?" "Let me
feel your leg, which you say is so big." "Volontiers," said she, "there
is no harm in feeling a leg; in my country our clothes only just come
below our knees," and so with joking, kissing, and a promise to let me
put the boots on, out we went in a cab.

I took her to a boot-maker's, and fitted her to perfection; she was
delighted, and in the cab did nothing but put up her feet to look at
them. She let me feel her legs, after she had pulled her petticoats
tight round the knee; I wanted to go higher, "No, no," she said; but I
pushed up, on to her thighs.

I bought her a bonnet, but it had to be altered and was to be sent home
in the evening; I got out of the cab and going into a shop without
her, bought (guessing the size) white silk stockings and showy garters,
without telling her. Then I bought her gloves, a collar, and one or two
oth