Volume IV Part 31 (1/2)
”I don't think that will be necessary; the auditor can't force me to pay”
”He can do worse”
”What can he do?”
”He can make you leave Florence”
”Well, I shall be astonished if he uses his power in this case, but rather than pay I will leave the town Let us go to the marshal”
We called on him at four o'clock, and we found the banker there, who had told him the whole story
”I am sorry to tell you,” said M Sassi, ”that I could do nothing with the auditor, and if you want to remain in Florence you will have to pay”
”I will leave as soon as I receive the order,” said I; ”and as soon as I reach another state I will print the history of this shameful perversion of justice”
”It's an incredible, a monstrous sentence,” said the ht,” he added, ”to leave the place rather than pay”
Early the next hte me to pay, he was forced to warn me to leave Florence in three days, and Tuscany in seven This, he added, he did in virtue of his office; but whenever the Grand Duke, to whoht return
I took a piece of paper and wrote upon it, ”Your judgment is an iniquitous one, but it shall be obeyed to the letter”
At that ave orders to pack up and have all in readiness formyself with Therese
I also saw the worthy Sir Mann, and I promised the Corticelli to fetch her in Lent, and spend sona The Abbe Gama did not leave my side for three days, and shewed himself my true friend
It was a kind of triurets at my departure, and curses of the auditor The Marquis Botta seelaid for thirty, and the couished people in Florence This was a delicate attention on his part, of which I was very sensible
I consecrated the last day to Therese, but I could not find any opportunity to ask her for a last consoling embrace, which she would not have refused me under the circumstances, and which I should still fondly remember We promised to write often to one another, and we embraced each other in a way to make her husband's heart ache Next day I started on ot to Roht when I passed under the Porta del Popolo, for one may enter the Eternal City at any time I was then taken to the custom-house, which is always open, andthey are strict about at Roht I had about thirty voluion, or the virtues inculcated thereby I had resolved to surrender theo to bed, but the clerk told e for the night, and he would bring the I did so, and he kept his word He ell enough pleased when he touched the two sequins hich I rewarded hina It is the best inn in the town All the world, I found, was drowned in sleep, but when they let round floor while a fire was lighted in my room All the seats were covered with dresses, petticoats, and chelike carbuncles
”What splendid eyes!” said I, ”let me kiss them”
By way of reply she hid her head under the coverlet, and I slid a hasty hand under the sheets; but finding her quite naked, I drew it back and begged pardon She put out her head again, and I thought I read gratitude for el?”
”I ahter, and this is irl beside her, whom I had not seen, as her head was under the bolster
”How old are you?”
”Nearly seventeen”
”I hope I shall see you in ”
”Have you any ladies with you?”
”No”