Volume I Part 77 (1/2)
I hurried overfor my hair to be dressed I proceeded to the bishop's palace, and reat deal of noise I almost compelled the servants to take me to his room A lackey as at the door informed me that his lordshi+p was still in bed
”Never mind, I cannot wait”
I pushed him aside and entered the roo the uproar,at a vexatious police daring to hts of individuals and nations
The bishop without answering me referred me to his chancellor, to whom I repeated all I had said to the bishop, but ords calculated to irritate rather than to soften, and certainly not likely to obtain the release of the captain I even went so far as to threaten, and I said that if I were in the place of the officer I would dehed atme whether I had taken leave of my senses, the chancellor told o to somebody else,” I said, ”reverend sir, besides the captain of the 'sbirri'”
Delighted at having ht to the house of General Spada, but being told that he could not be seen before eight o'clock, I returned to the inn
The state of excitement in which I was, the ardour hich I had ht have led anyone to suppose thatan odious persecution perpetrated upon a stranger by an unrestrained, immoral, and vexatious police; but why should I deceive the kind reader, to whom I have pronation was real, butof a more personal nature I fancied that the woed to see her face, which sha She had heard ood opinion that I had of myself did not leave the shadow of a doubt in my mind that she would preferstill open, I went in and related to the captain all I had done, assuring him that in the course of the day he would be at liberty to continue his journey at the bishop's expense, for the general would not fail to obtain coave back the eight ducats I had paid for him, and said that he would not leave the city till the next day
”Fro companion?”
”Froe”
”Then you speak French?”
”Not one word”
”That is a! Then you converse in pantomime?”
”Exactly”
”I pity you, for it is a difficult language”
”Yes, to express the various shades of thought, but in the material part of our intercourse we understand each other quite well”
”May I invite myself to breakfast with you?”
”Ask my friend whether he has any objection”
”Amiable companion of the captain,” I said in French, ”will you kindly accept uest at the breakfast-table?”
At these words I saw co out of the bed-clothes a lovely head, with dishevelled hair, and a blooh it was croith a ed to that sex without which hted with the graceful creature, I told her that I had been happy enough to feel interested in her even before I had seen her, and that now that I had the pleasure of seeing her, I could but reneith greater zeal all race and the anie of her native country, and retorted ument in the most witty ranted; I went out to order breakfast, and to give the theet up until the door of their rooain
The waiter came, and I went in with hi a blue frock-coat, with her hair badly arranged like a ed to see her up
She ate her breakfast without once interrupting the officer speaking towith very little attention, for I was in a sort of ecstatic trance
Ieneral, and related the affair to hi upon it in such a manner as to pique his martial pride I told hiarian captain was determined to send an express to the cardinal ieneral liked to see priests attend to the business of Heaven, but he could not bear them to meddle in temporal affairs