children to sleep; as to Dorothèe and myself, we will submit to any thing if you will endeavour to accommodate them."
The host, pleased with the gentle manners of Madame de Rubine, which derived no inconsiderable advantage from being contrasted with the callous moroseness of the steward, assured her, that he and his wife would sit up themselves rather than they should suffer such an inconvenience; and if she would accept of their bed, which was indeed a very common one, in addition to that reserved for the use of their guests, it would give him pleasure to have it in his power to oblige them.
This proposal Paoli would willingly have accepted; but Julia’s delicacy objected to making this temporary disarrangement, observing that a night’s rest was too valuable to those who were condemned to arduous employment, to be sacrificed to the service of strangers.
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