Volume I Part 51 (2/2)
”What must I do to obtain that result?”
”Only be towards reeable to you for the last four rieved”
”I aed?”
”Good heavens! In everything, except in beauty But I have taken my decision”
”And what is it?”
”To suffer in silence, without allowing any circus hich you have inspired me; to wish ardently to convince you of ive you fresh proofs of ine what you can have to suffer in silence on my account I take an interest in you, and I always listen with pleasure to your adventures As a proof of it, I am extremely curious to hear the history of your three loves”
I invented on the spot three purely ireat display of tender senti to amorous enjoyment, particularly when she seemed to expect me to do so
Sometimes delicacy, so pleasure, and I took care to observe, at such moments of disappointment, that a true lover does not require that all important iteination was travelling farther than reeable to her I believed I knew her nature well enough to be certain that I was taking the best road to induce her to follohere I wished to lead her She expressed a sentiment which movedof my third love, of the woman who, out of pity, had undertaken to cure me, and she remarked,
”If she truly loved you, she may have wished not to cure you, but to cure herself”
On the day following this partial reconciliation, M F----, her husband, begged o with him to Butintro for an excursion of three days, his own adjutant being seriously ill
Butintro is seven miles from Corfu, almost opposite to that city; it is the nearest point to the island froe of Epirus, or Albania, as it is now called, and belonging to the Venetians Acting on the political axioht,” the Republic sends every year four galleys to Butintro with a gang of galley slaves to fell trees, cut thealleys, while theto Turkey and becoalleys was co an adjutant for the occasion, chose me
I ith hie provision of wood I found M D---- R---- alone on the terrace of his palace It was Good Friday He seehtful, and, after a silence of a few et:
”M F-----, whose adjutant died yesterday, has just been entreating ive you to him until he can find another officer I have told hiht to dispose of your person, and that he, ought to apply to you, assuring hio with hih I require two adjutants Has he not nor, he has only tenderedelse”
”He is sure to speak to you about it What do you intend to say?”
”Simply that I will never leave the service of your excellency without your express coive you such an order”
As M D---- R---- was saying the last word, M and Mada that the conversation would most likely turn upon the subject which had just been broached, I hurried out of the room In less than a quarter of an hour I was sent for, and M F---- said to me, confidentially,
”Well, M Casanova, would you not be willing to live with me as my adjutant?”
”Does his excellency dismiss me from his service?”
”Not at all,” observed M D---- R----, ”but I leave you the choice”
”My lord, I could not be guilty of ingratitude”
And I reround, not even striving to conceal my mortification, which was, after all, very natural in such a position I dreaded looking at Madauess all s An instant after, her foolish husband coldly re service with him than with M D---- R----, and that, of course, it was aleazze than a si, when Madaraceful and easy ed the subject I left the roo in my mind all that had just taken place