Volume IV Part 28 (1/2)

Cesarino looked at it in astonishment, and the box passed from hand to hand Everybody said that it was ht pass for a likeness of Cesarino Therese got quite excited, and swearing that she would never let the box out of her hands again, she went up to her son and kissed hi on I watched the Abbe Ga internal co scene

The worthy abbe went away towards the evening, telling

I spent the rest of the day in onde, and Therese, who saw that I was pleased with the girl, advised me to declare myself, and promised that she would ask her to the house as often as I liked

But Therese did not know her

NextGama told me that he had informed Marshal Botta that I would come and see him, and he would present me at four o'clock Then the worthy abbe, always the slave of his curiosity, reproachedabout , but as you are interested in the subject I may tell you that my means are small, but that I have friends whose purses are always open to me”

”If you have true friends you are a rich man, but true friends are scarce”

I left the Abbe Ga Corticelli, and I went to pay her a visit; but what a reception!

She received me in a room in which were present her mother, her uncle, and three or four dirty, untidy little monkeys: these were her brothers'

”Haven't you a better room to receive your friends in?” said I

”I have no friends, so I don't want a room”

”Get it, h This is all very well for you to welcome your relations in, but not persons like e to your charhter has but few talents, and thinks nothing of her charms, which are small”

”You are extres; but everybody does not see your daughter with the sareatly”

”That is an honour for her, and we are duly sensible of it, but not so as to be over-proud My daughter will see you as often as you please, but here, and in no other place”

”But I a in the way here”

”An honestso confounds a libertine aswhat to answer I took my leave

I told Therese of hed at it; it was the best thing we could do

”I shall be glad to see you at the opera,” said she, ”and you can get into ive the door-keeper a small piece of money”

The Abbe Gama cah talents whom the affair of Genoa had already rendered famous

He was in cory at the sight of the foreigners, who had only come to put them under the Austrian yoke, rose in revolt and made them leave the town This patriotic riot saved the Republic I found hientlemen, whom he left to welcome me He talked about Venice in a way that shewed he understood the country thoroughly, and I conversed to him on France, and, I believe, satisfied him In his turn he spoke of the Court of Russia, at which he was staying when Elizabeth Petrovna, as still reigning at the period in question, so easily mounted the throne of her father, Peter the Great ”It is only in Russia,” said he, ”that poison enters into politics”

At the tian the marshal left the room, and everybody went away On my way the abbe assured overnor, and I afterwards went to the theatre, and obtained ad-room for a tester

I found her in the hands of her pretty cha-rooht, perhaps, allow me to assist in her toilette

I followed her advice, but the oing to dress I assured her that I would turn , and on this condition she let me in, and made me sit down at a table on which stood a onde's e; above all, when she lifted her legs to put on her breeches, eitherto her intentions She did not lose anything by what she shewed, however, for I was so pleased, that to possess her charned any conditions she cared to iondein the glass;” and the idea inflaaveto be desired

Redegonde went out, and I followed her to the wings