Volume I Part 49 (1/2)
”Would you have the courage,” she said, ”to repeat all you have just told enerale?”
”Most certainly, madam, provided he asked me himself”
”Well, then, prepare to redeeeneral to love you and to becoainst every injustice and to promote your advancement
Leave it all to me”
Her reception fairly overwhel her house I went to Major Maroli to find out the state of lad to hear that after er considered me a partner in the faro bank I took four hundred sequins froain a partner, should circu I made a careful toilet, and called for the Adjutant Minolto in order to pay with hieneral's favourite With the exception of Madareatest beauty of Corfu My visit surprised her, because, as she had been the cause of all that had happened, she was very far froainst her I undeceived her, speaking to her very candidly, and she treatedat her house
But I neither accepted nor refused her a that Madauest at her house with such a knowledge! Besides, Mada, and, to please her, it was necessary either to lose or make her win, but to accept such conditions one must be in love with the lady or wish to htest idea of either The Adjutant Minolto never played, but he had captivated the lady's good graces by his services in the character of Mercury
When I returned to the palace I found Madaed with his correspondence She asked me to sit near her, and to tell her all my adventures in Constantinople I did so, and I had no occasion to repent it Mywith Yusuf's wife pleased her extreht made her blush with excitement I veiled as much as I could the too brilliant colours of e me to be iving to my recital a touch of voluptuousness which I borrowed from her looks more than froht have disguised a little ive her a liking for ive birth to aratify the for, and I dared to hope it would bein the distance
It happened that, on that day, M D---- R---- had invited a large coross all conversation, and to give the fullest particulars of all that had taken place from the moment I received the order to place myself under arrest up to the time of my release from the 'bastarda' M Foscari was seated next to me, and the last part of reeable to hiave of my adventures pleased everybody, and it was decided that the proveditore-generalemy tale from my own lips I mentioned that hay was very plentiful in Casopo, and as that article was very scarce in Corfu, M D---- R---- told reeable to the general by infor him of that circumstance without delay I followed his advice the very next day, and was very well received, for his excellency io to the island and bring large quantities of hay to Corfu
A few days later the Adjutant Minolto caeneral wished to see me: this time I proress of My Amour--My Journey to Otranto--I Enter the Service of Madame F--A Fortunate Excoriation
The roo uests by saying aloud, ”Here coe of princes”
”My lord, I have beco the society of men like you”
”The ladies are curious to know all you have done from the time of your escape from Corfu up to your return”
”Then you sentence nor, to make a public confession?”
”Exactly; but, as it is to be a confession, be careful not to onificant circumstance, and suppose that I am not in the room”
”On the contrary, I wish to receive absolution only fro one”
”If such is the case, your confessor gives you perave all the particulars of my adventures, with the exception of my dalliance with the nymphs of the island
”Your story is a very instructive one,” observed the general
”Yes,man is never so near his utter ruin than when, excited by soreat passion, he finds hiold in his purse”
I was preparing to take my leave, when the majordomo came to inform me that his excellency desired me to remain to supper I had therefore the honour of a seat at his table, but not the pleasure of eating, for I was obliged to answer the questions addressed to me frole ari, and I entreated his pardon for having ridiculed Deldi,” he said, ”but it is very difficult to put a stop to it; it is an old custom”