Volume I Part 35 (1/2)
”It is,” he replied, ”the defect of all castrati”
”No, it is the perfection of all handsoe to distinguish between the deformed breast of a castrato, and that of a beautiful wo beauty of seventeen summers”
Who does not know that love, infla people until it is satisfied, and that one favour granted kindles the wish for a greater one? I had begun well, I tried to go further and to s so ardently, but the false Bellino, as if he had only just been aware of the illicit pleasure I was enjoying, rose and ran away Anger increased ined Cecilia, Bellino's pupil, to sing a few Neapolitan airs
I then went out to call upon the banker, frona, for the aht supper with the two young sisters, I prepared to go to bed, having previously instructed Petronio to order a carriage for themy door when Cecilia, half undressed, caedin an opera to be performed after Easter
”Go and tell him, my dear little seraph, that I arant me in your presence what I desire; I want to know for a certainty whether he is athat Bellino had gone to bed, but that if I would postpone my departure for one day only he promised to satisfy me on the ive you six sequins”
”I cannot earn them, for I have never seen hiirl But he must be a man, otherwise he would not have been allowed to perform here”
”Well, I will remain until the day after to-ht”
”Do you love me very much?”
”Very much indeed, if you shew yourself very kind”
”I will be very kind, for I love you dearly likewise I will go and tell my mother”
”Of course you have a lover?”
”I never had one”
She leftthat her enerous one Cecilia locked the door, and throwing herself in , but I was not in love with her, and I was not able to say to her as to Lucrezia: ”You have made me so happy!” But she said it herself, and I did not feel h I pretended to believe her When I woke up in theher with three doubloons, which hted theeverlasting constancy--a pro, and which the ht never to make even to the most beautiful of women
After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, who, would not refuse to honouro without nese faood appetite for the evening
I then summoned Bellino to my roohed, remarked that the day was not passed yet, and said that he was certain of traveling with me
”I fairly warn you that you cannot accompany me unless I am fully satisfied”
”Well, I will satisfy you”
”Shall we go and take a walk together?”
”Willingly; I will dressfor hi how she had deserved ht with you, Bellino will go with you to-morrow, I am the most unfortunate of us all”
”Do you want money?”
”No, for I love you”
”But, Marinetta, you are too young”