Volume IV Part 27 (1/2)
”Co e box which contained her jewels and diamonds, and shares to the ae amount of plate, and her talents which assured her the first place in all the Italian theatres
”Do you knohether our dear Cesarino has been in love yet?” said I
”I don't think so, but I fancy my pretty maid is in love with him I shall keep my eyes open”
”Youfor a young lect everything else”
”Let me have him, I will teach him how to live”
”Ask all, but leave me iving way to excessive eood and pure he is, and hoell he loves ”
”What will people say in Venice when they see Casanova again, who escaped froer?”
”You are going to Venice, then, for the Ascensa?”
”Yes, and you are going to Rome?”
”And to Naples, to see my friend the Duke de Matalone”
”I know hihter of the Duke de Bovino, who woman to have made a man of him, for all Naples knew that he was i him a father”
”Well, it is possible”
We spent the ti with interest on various topics till Cesarino and the husband came back The dear child finished his conquest of me at supper; he had a merry random wit, and all the Neapolitan vivacity He sat down at the clavier, and after playing several pieces with the uts which h Therese only looked at hi, that in love alone lies happiness
I thought then, and I think now, that this day was one of the happiest I have ever spent
CHAPTER VII
The Corticelli--The Jew Manager Beaten--The False Charles Ivanoff and the Trick He Played Me--I Am Ordered to Leave Tuscany--I Arrive at Ro, the Abbe Ga he did was to shed tears of joy (as he said) at seeing me so well and prosperous after so uess that the abbe addressedterms, and perhaps he may know that one may be clever, experienced in the ways of the world, and even distrustful of flattery, but yet one's self-love, ever on the watch, listens to the flatterer, and thinks him pleasant This polite and pleasant abbe, who had becost the high dignitaries at the court of the 'Servus Servoruether an ill-disposed man, but both his disposition and his profession conspired to make him inquisitive; in fine, such as I have depicted him in the first volume of these Memoirs He wanted to hear my adventures, and did not wait for th the various incidents in his life for the seventeen years in which we had not seen one another He had left the service of the King of Spain for that of the King of Portugal, he was secretary of eed to leave Ro of Portugal to punish certain worthy Jesuit assassins, who had only broken his arm as it happened, but who had none the lessin Italy corresponding with Al for the dispute to be finished before he returned to Rome In point of fact this was the only substantial incident in the abbe's story, but he worked in so many episodes of no consequence that it lasted for an hour No doubt he wishedhim all my adventures without reserve; but the upshot of it was that we both shewed ourselves true diploso the curiosity ofto do in Ro the Pope to use his influence in my favour with the State Inquisitors at Venice”
It was not the truth, but one lie is as good as another, and if I had said I was only going for amusement's sake he would not have believeded me to enter into a correspondence with hireed to do so
”I can give you ayou to the Marquis de Botta-Adamo, Governor of Tuscany; he is supposed to be a friend of the regent's”