Volume I Part 50 (1/2)
”In spite ofand beautiful Greek slave, who very nearly contrived to h all the sanitary laws”
”How so?”
”You are alone, otten your orders”
”Is it a very improper story?”
”No: yet I would not relate it to you in public”
”Well,” she said, laughing, ”I repeal my order, as M D---- R---- said I would Tellthat she was pensive, I exaggerated theable to complete my conquest
”What do you irl was more to be pitied than you You have never seen her since?”
”I beg your pardon, ain, but I dare not tell you when or how”
”Now you o on; it is all nonsense for you to stop Tell uilty of some black deed”
”Very far froh incos exactly by their nao into details”
Emboldened by the renewal of her order, I told her, without looking her in the face, ofwith the Greek slave in the presence of Bellino, and of the act which was cut short by the appearance of her master When I had finished my story, Madame F---- remained silent, and I turned the conversation into a different channel, for though I feltwith her, I knew likewise that I had to proceed with great prudence She was too young to have lowered herself before, and she would certainly look upon a connection with nity
Fortune which had always smiled upon me in the most hopeless cases, did not intend to ill-treat me on this occasion, and procured me, on that very sa ladylove having pricked her finger rather severely, screa e, dear reader, whether I was long in seizing that beautiful hand, and if you are, or if you have ever been in love, you will easily guess the htful work What is a kiss? Is it not an ardent desire to inhale a portion of the being we love? Was not the blood I was sucking fro wound a portion of the woman I worshi+pped? When I had completed my work, she thanked me affectionately, and told me to spit out the blood I had sucked
”It is here,” I said, placing my hand on iven me”
”You have drunk my blood with happiness! Are you then a cannibal?”
”I believe not, e in le drop of your blood to be lost”
One evening, there was an unusually large attendance at M D---- R-----'s asse of the carnival which was near at hand
Everybody was regretting the lack of actors, and the i the pleasures of the theatre I iood company at my expense, if the boxes were at once subscribed for, and the ranted to , and I had to go to Otranto to engage a troop My proposal was accepted with great joy, and the proveditore-generale placed a felucca at my disposal The boxes were all taken in three days, and a Jew took the pit, two nights a week excepted, which I reserved forthat year, I had every chance of success
It is said generally that the profession of theatrical er is difficult, but, if that is the case, I have not found it so by experience, and am bound to affir a good breeze inhad to row a stroke The distance froues
I had no idea of landing, owing to the quarantine which is always enforced for any shi+p or boat co to Italy from the east I only went to the parlour of the lazaretto, where, placed behind a grating, you can speak to any person who calls, and whoplaced opposite, at a distance of six feet