Volume II Part 10 (1/2)

Cantarini wishes to speak to you only as a private citizen, as he sends you word to call at his palace and not at the court-house He is an elderly man, strict but just, to who, otherwise you would adin's advice, which was of great use to me I called at the appointed ti to wait I entered the room, and his excellency, seated at a table, exa tothe bell, and ordered his servant to introduce the two ladies aiting in the next roouessed at once as the matter, and felt no surprise when I saw the wohter His excellency asked nor, as one of theood conduct that she is worthy of that honour”

”Her conduct is good, she lives with her mother at Lusia; you have deceived her Why do you postpone your e with her? Why do you not visit her? You never answer her letters, and you let her be in want”

”I cannot h to support her That will come in three or four years, thanks to a situation which M de Bragadin, my only protector, promises to obtain for me Until then sheI will only marry her when I am convinced of her honesty, and particularly when I aiven up all intercourse with the abbe, her cousin in the fourth degree I do not visit her because o to her house”

”She wishes you to give her a legal pronor, I ae, and having no means whatever I cannot support her Shewith her mother”

”When she lived with her cousin,” said her o back to him”

”If she returns to his house I shall not take the trouble of taking her out of his hands a second tiht to defer e with her until I was convinced of her honesty”

The judge told er necessary It was the end of the affair, and I never heard any reatly a of the Carnival of 1750 I won a prize of three thousand ducats at the lottery Fortune made me that present when I did not require it, for I had held the bank during the autumn, and had won It was at a casino where no nobleman dared to present himself, because one of the partners was an officer in the service of the Duke de Montalegre, the Spanish Ambassador The citizens of Venice felt ill at ease with the patricians, and that is always the case under an aristocratic government, because equality exists in reality only between the overnment

As I intended to take a trip to Paris, I placed one thousand sequins in M de Bragadin's hands, and with that project in view I had the courage to pass the carnival without risking my money at the faro-table I had taken a share of one-fourth in the bank of an honest patrician, and early in Lent he handed e sum

Towards mid-Lent ed at the St Moses Theatre as ballet- the Fair of the assuether She lish Jew, called Mendez, who spent a great deal of ood news of Therese, whom he had known in Naples, and in whose hands he had left some of his spoils

The inforlad to have been prevented by Henriette fro Therese in Naples, as I had intended, for I should certainly have fallen in love with her again, and God knohat the consequences ht have been

It was at that time that Bavois was appointed captain in the service of the Republic; he rose rapidly in his profession, as I shall mention hereafter

De la Haye undertook the education of a young nobleman called Felix Calvi, and a short tiain in Vienna three years later

I was io, then to Turin, where the whole of Italy was congregating for the hter of Philip V, and lastly to Paris, where, Madanificent preparations were made in the expectation of the birth of a prince

Baletti was likewise on the point of undertaking the same journey He was recalled by his parents, ere dramatic artists: his ed at the Italian Theatre in Paris as dancer and first gentlereeable, or in a better position to procure eous acquaintances in Paris

I bade farewell toto return within two years

I left my brother Francois in the studio of Simonetti, the painter of battle pieces, known as the Parave him a promise to think of hireat talent was always certain of a high fortune My readers will see how I kept my word

I likewise left in Venicetravelled through Italy with Guarienti He was on the point of going to Rome, where he res He left Rome for Dresden in 1764, where he died in the year 1795

Baletti started before io, on the 1st of June, 1750 I ell fitted out, well supplied with money, and sure not to want for any, if I led a proper life We shall soon see, dear reader, what judgment you will pass on my conduct, or rather I shall not see it, for I know that when you are able to judge, I shall no longer care for your sentence

CHAPTER V