Volume II Part 47 (2/2)
Weoysters after the voluptuous fashi+on of lovers We sucked theue Voluptuous reader, try it, and tell me whether it is not the nectar of the Gods!
At last, joking was over, and I reminded her that we had to think ofto change my dress I shall be back in onewhat to do, I looked in the drawers of her writing-table I did not touch the letters, but finding a box full of certain preservative sheaths against the fatal and dreaded plu lines instead of the stolen goods:
'Enfants de L'Amitie, ministres de la Peur, Je suis l'Amour, tremblez, respectez le voleur! Et toi, femme de Dieu, ne crains pas d'etre mere; Car si to le deviens, Dieu seal sera le pere S'iL est dit cependant que tu veux le barren, Parle; je suis tout pret, je me ferai chatrer'
My own of Indian old lilies, spewed to admiration the outline of her voluptuous form, and her fine lace-cap orthy of a queen I threwher not to delay er
”Control your ardour a few moments,” she said, ”here is the altar, and in a few minutes the victioing to her writing-table, ”how far the delicacy and the kind attention of my friend can extend”
She took the box and opened it, but instead of the pretty sheaths that she expected to see, she foundit aloud, she calledive her back what I had stolen, but I pretended not to understand She then read the lines again, considered for onea better pen, she left the roo to pay you in your own coin”
She ca six lines:
'Sans rien oter au plaisir amoureux, L'objet de ton larcin sert a coer, mon ame satisfaite Savoure en surete parfaite; Et si tu veux jauer avec securite, Rends-moi mon doux ami, ces dons de l'aave her back those objects so precious to a nun ants to sacrifice on the altar of Venus
The clock striking twelve, I shewed her the principal actor as longing to perfor too cold we had better sleep on it But the true reason was that, to satisfy the curious lover, it was necessary for us to be seen
Dear reader, a picture , no matter how beautiful in one point of view, that does not require to be sometimes veiled if you look at it from a different one In order to paint the diversified scene which took place between me and my lovely mistress until the dawn of day, I should have to use all the colours of Aretino's palette I was ardent and full of vigour, but I had to deal with a strong partner, and in the , after the last exploit, ere positively worn out; sonun felt some anxiety on my account It is true that she had seen ; and as she did not suspect the true cause of that phenoht I allayed her anxiety by a thousand follies which h heartily
I washed her splendid bosom with rosewater, so as to purify it from the blood by which it had been dyed for the first time She expressed a fear that she had sed a few drops, but I told her that it was of no consequence, even if were the case She resuto Venice, so as to let her knoas, she left the casino
I had no difficulty in obeying her, for I was truly in great need of rest I slept until evening As soon as I awoke, I wrote to her that in our delightful contest all over again I asked her to let me kno she was herself, and after I had dispatched my letter I returned to Venice
CHAPTER XIX
I Give My Portrait to M M--A Present From Her--I Go to the Opera With Her--She Plays At the Faro Table and Replenishes My Empty Purse--Philosophical Conversation With M M-- A Letter From C C--She Knows All--A Ball At the Convent; My Exploits In the Character of Pierrot--C C Coht With Her In A Very Silly Way
My dear M---- M---- had expressed a wish to have iven to C---- C----, only larger, to wear it as a locket The outside was to represent so was to remove the sainted picture and expose my likeness I called upon the artist who had painted the other s I had what I wanted He afterwards el Gabriel was transforin into a beautiful, light-coel The celebrated painter Mengs imitated that idea in the picture of the Annunciation which he painted in Madrid twelve years afterwards, but I do not knohether he had the saory was exactly of the same size as ed it in such a e to be there only for the sake of hiding a profane likeness
The end of January, 1754, before going to the casino, I called upon Laura to give her a letter for C---- C----, and she handed me one from her which airl, not only into the h metaphysics, and C---- C---- had consequently becoive an account of her affairs to her confessor, and yet not wishi+ng to tell hi
”He has re to him because I did not examine my conscience sufficiently, and I answered hi to say, but that if he liked I would co to tell hiht this reply worthy of a thorough sophist, and laughed heartily
On the sa letter from my adorable nun ”I write to you fro on my feet I am almost dead But I aht, for I eat well and sleep soundly
You havehas not had any evil consequences, and I give you fair notice that I shall have the proof of it on Twelfth Night, at least if you like; that is understood, and you will let rant o to the opera At all events, recollect that I positively forbid the whites of eggs for the future, for I would rather have a little less enjoy your health In future, when you go to the casino of Muran, please to enquire whether there is anybody there, and if you receive an affiro away My friend will do the sa one another, but you need not observe these precautions for long, if you wish, for reat desire to make your acquaintance He has told me that, if he had not seen it with his own eyes, he never would have believed that a man could run the race that you ran so splendidly the other night, but he says that, bylove in that manner, you bid defiance to death, for he is certain that the blood you lost comes from the brain But ill he say when he hears that you only laugh at the occurrence? I a to gs, and he wants ar, because there is none in Venice He said that he spent a delightful night, in spite of his fear of the evil consequences of our amorous sport, and he has found my own efforts superior to the usual weakness of hted to have done such wonders, and to haveofmyself, and I wonder whether it is possible for nature to create a woman who could remain insensible in your arms, or rather one ould not receive new life by your side It is more than love that I feel for you, it is idolatry; andto meet yours, sends forth thousands of kisses which are wasted in the air I a for your divine portrait, so as to quench by a sweet illusion the fire which devours my amorous lips I trust my likeness will prove equally dear to you, for it seems to me that nature has created us for one another, and I curse the fatal instant in which I raised an invincible barrier between us You will find enclosed the key of my bureau Open it, and take a parcel on which you will see written, 'For ' It is a se for the beautiful night-cap that you gave me