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SICILY AND MALTA. 69
force one, " qui n'etoit pas tout a fait
** si jolie que le naturel, mais qui vaudroit
" toujours mieux que de parroitre sombre."
I agreed with her perfectly; and aslured
her it became her very much, " parceque
*f les dames graffes sont toujours de bonne
'* humeur."—I found, however, that me
would willingly have excused me the latter
part of the compliment, which more than
lost all that I had gained by the former.
¥ II est vrai" (said she a good deal piqued)
" j'ai un peu de l'em bon point, mais pas
*' tant grasle pourtant." I pretended to
Cxcuse myself, from not underflanding all
the fine sib of the language; and assured
her, that We tim bon point was the very
phrase I meant to make use of. She
accepted the apology, and we are again
reconciled ; for, to give the devil his due,
they are good-humoured. She made me a
curtsey, and repeated, " Oui, Monsieur,
H pour parlcr comme il faut, il faut dire
r 3 t; dc
force one, " qui n'etoit pas tout a fait
** si jolie que le naturel, mais qui vaudroit
" toujours mieux que de parroitre sombre."
I agreed with her perfectly; and aslured
her it became her very much, " parceque
*f les dames graffes sont toujours de bonne
'* humeur."—I found, however, that me
would willingly have excused me the latter
part of the compliment, which more than
lost all that I had gained by the former.
¥ II est vrai" (said she a good deal piqued)
" j'ai un peu de l'em bon point, mais pas
*' tant grasle pourtant." I pretended to
Cxcuse myself, from not underflanding all
the fine sib of the language; and assured
her, that We tim bon point was the very
phrase I meant to make use of. She
accepted the apology, and we are again
reconciled ; for, to give the devil his due,
they are good-humoured. She made me a
curtsey, and repeated, " Oui, Monsieur,
H pour parlcr comme il faut, il faut dire
r 3 t; dc