Volume III Part 35 (1/2)

”But the midants a hundred louis badly”

”You mean that the worthy woman rates her perjury at that price Well, never mind, I will pay the money, and you may trust to my word; but I can't do so before she has taken oath to her ood, but you ive me twenty-five louis to reimburse ive me a formal receipt for theit over thea bait, and he wrote out the receipt and I gave hih Madame X C V

was his client, he would let me know confidentially how best to put a stop to the proceedings I thanked hiratitude as if I had really intended to make use of his services, and I left to write and tell M de Sartine what had taken place

Three days afterwards I was told that a man and woman wanted to see me

I went down and asked the woman what she wanted

”I want to speak to M Casanova”

”I am he”

”Then I have ive me”

Her companion smiled, and they went off

The sa her that her young friend had given birth to a fine boy, who had been sent away to a place where he would be well looked after She stated that the young lady could not leave the convent for the next six weeks, at the end of which time she could return to her mother with a certificate which would protect her from all annoyance

Soon after the midas put in solitary confinement, Castel-Bajac was sent to The Bicetre, and Vauversin's naainst hter reappeared, but I knew that I had nothing to fear The girl returned to her ust armed with a certificate from the abbess, who said she had been under her protection for fourwhich time she had never left the convent or seen any persons from outside This was perfectly true, but the abbess added that her only reason for her going back to her fa more to dread from the attentions of M de la Popeliniere, and in this the abbess lied

Mdlle X C V profited by the delight of her ain safe and sound, and made her wait on M de Sartine with the abbess's certificate, stop all proceedings against hter told her that if I liked I es for libel, and that if she did not wish to injure her reputation she would say nothing more about what had happened

The mother wrote me a letter of the istered in court, thus putting an end to the prosecution In ratulate her on the recovery of her daughter, but I never set foot in her house again, to avoid any disagreeable scenes with Farsetti

Mdlle X C V could not stay any longer in Paris, where her tale was known to everyone, and Farsetti took her to Brussels with her sister Madelaine Some time after, her mother followed her, and they then went on to Venice, and there in three years' tireat lady

Fifteen years afterwards I saw her again, and she was a , happy enough apparently, and enjoying a great reputation on account of her rank, wit, and social qualities, but our connection was never renewed

In four years the reader will hear more of Castel-Bajac Towards the end of the same year (1759), before I went to Holland, I spent several hundred francs to obtain the release of the ht me happy, but I was not The enornificent pleasures, warned me, in spite of myself, that there were rocks ahead My business would have kepttime, if custom had not been paralyzed by the war; but as it was, I, like everybody else, experienced the effect of bad times My warehouse contained four hundred pieces of stuffs with designs on them, but as I could not hope to dispose of the way off, I was threatened with ruin

With this fear I wrote to Esther to get her father to give me the remainder of my money, to send me a sharp clerk, and to join in my speculation M d'O---- said that if I would set up in Holland he would becoive ood an offer I was sorry for it afterwards

I spent a good deal of money at my private house, but the chief expense ofirls orked in my establish for variety, a score of girls, nearly all of theirls are, was a reef on which ood deal to do with it, and they profited bytheir favours dearly They all followed the example of the first favourite, and everyone claimed in turn an establishment, furniture, money, and jewels; and I knew too little of the value of er than a week, and often waned in three or four days, and the last comer always appeared the most worthy of my attentions

As soon as I had made a new choice I saw no more of my old loves, but I continued to provide for theood deal of averew fonder every day, although she never attained her airieved me sorely by her jealousy and her well-founded reproaches She would not understand--and I did not wonder at it--how I could put offher if I really loved her She accusedher Her mother died of consumption in our arms Silvia had won my true friendshi+p I looked upon her as a most worthy woman, whose kindness of heart and purity of life deserved the esteem of all

I stayed in the fa with them in their affliction