Volume I Part 46 (2/2)
”Does he behave well at table?”
”Well, he doesn't stand on cereed, he helps himself with his spoon out of the dishes; he does not kno to check an eructation or a yawn, and if he feels tired he leaves the table It is evident that he has been very badly brought up”
”And yet he is very pleasant, I suppose Is he clean and neat?”
”No, but then he is not yet well provided with linen”
”I a He leaves the table intoxicated twice a day, but he ought to be pitied, for he cannot drink wine and keep his head clear
Then he swears like a trooper, and we all laugh, but he never takes offence”
”Is he witty?”
”He has a wonderful memory, for he tells us new stories every day”
”Does he speak of his family?”
”Very often of his mother, whom he loved tenderly She was a Du Plessis”
”If his mother is still alive she must be a hundred and fifty years old”
”What nonsense!”
”Not at all; she was married in the days of Marie de Medicis”
”But the certificate of baptism names the prince's mother, and his seal--”
”Does he knohat ars he has on that seal?”
”Do you doubt it?”
”Very strongly, or rather I a about it”
We left the table, and the prince was announced He ca to him, ”Prince, here is M Casanova; he pretends that you do not know your own ar these words, he caave me a smack on the face which al my hat and my cane, and went downstairs, while M D---- R---- was loudly ordering the servants to throw the madman out of the
I left the palace and went to the esplanade in order to wait for him
The moment I saw him, I ran to meet him, and I beat hiht to have killed hiht to a stand between talls, where, to avoid being beaten to death, his only resource was to draw his sword, but the cowardly scoundrel did not even think of his weapon, and I left hiround, covered with blood The crowd formed a line for me to pass, and I went to the coffee-house, where I drank a glass of lear to precipitate the bitter saliva which rage had brought up from my stomach In a fewofficers of the garrison, who joined in the general opinion that I ought to have killed him, and they at last annoyed me, for it was not my fault if I had not done so, and I would certainly have taken his life if he had drawn his sword
I had been in the coffee-house for half an hour when the general's adjutant came to tell me that his excellency ordered alley on which the prisoners had their legs in irons like galley slaves The dose was rather too strong to be sed, and I did not feel disposed to subood, adjutant,” I replied, ”it shall be done” He went away, and I left the coffee-house a moment after hi towards the esplanade, I proceeded quickly towards the sea I walked along the beach for a quarter of an hour, and finding a boat e her, I rowed as hard as I could towards a large caicco, sailing against the ith six oars As soon as I had come up to her, I went on board and asked the carabouchiri to sail before the wind and to take oing towards Vido Rock I abandoned the row-boat, and, after paying the ot into the wherry, ain with the skipper who unfurled three sails, and in less than two hours ere fifteendied away, I ht they told er, they orn out with fatigue They advised me to sleep until day-break, but I refused to do so, and for a trifle I got the where I was, in order not to raise their suspicions It was enough for me to know that I was at a distance of twenty ine , and I saw a church with a house adjoining, a long barn opened on both sides, a plain of about one hundred yards confined by hills, and nothingmyself down, I slept until day-break in spite of the cold It was the 1st of Deceh the climate is very mild in Corfu I felt benumbed when I awoke, as I had no cloak over my thin uniform