Volume IV Part 46 (2/2)

”I will not contradict you”

”Farewell, abbe”

”Farewell, M Casanova”

Nextand broad shouldered, his eyes black and glittering, his eyebrows strongly arched, and his general air being that of a cut-throat, accosted ed me to step aside and hear what he had to say

”If you like to stop at Parive ello is dead, I promise to shoot him within the next twenty-four hours”

”Thanks Such an animal as that should be allowed to die a natural death Here's a crown to drink my health”

At the present time I feel very thankful that I acted as I did, but I confess that if I had felt sure that it was not a trap I should have pro ot to Par-house under the naalt, which I still bear When an honest ht to contest his use of it; it becomes a man's duty to keep the name I had now borne it for two years, but I often subjoined to it ot to Parma I dismissed Costa, but in a week after I had the ain His father, as a poor violin player, as I had once been, with a large family to provide for, excited my pity

I made enquiries about M Antonio, but he had left the place; and M

Dubois Chalelereux, Director of the Mint, had gone to Venice with the permission of the Duke of Parht into use Republics are famous for their superstitious attaches for the better overninal Greek character

My Spaniard was delighted when I dismissed Costa and proportionately sorry when I took hiate,” said Le Duc; ”he is sober, and has no liking for bad coerous robber, too I know it, because he sees Reain your confidence, and then he will strike houe in a sht was, keener than mine, for five or six months later the Italian robbed me of fifty thousand crowns Twenty-three years afterwards, in 1784, I found hi, and I felt inclined to have hied I shewed him by proof positive that I could do so if I liked; but he had resource to tears and supplications, and to the intercession of a worthy man na of Sardinia I esteemed this individual, and he appealed to me successfully to pardon Costa I asked the wretch what he had done with the gold and jewels he had stolen from me, and he toldfunds for a bank at Biribi, that he had been despoiled by his own associates, and had been poor and miserable ever since

In the sahter, and afterher a mother he abandoned her

To pursue our story

At Turin I lodged in a private house with the Abbe Gaood abbe's sermon on economy, I took the whole of the first floor, and a fine suite it was

We discussed diplomatic topics, and he assured ive me instructions as to the part I was to play I was pleased with his coo to Augsburg whenever the aerent powers eard to my meals I went to a coffeehouse to read the papers, and the first person I saas the Marquis Desar he said was that all games of chance were forbidden, and that the ladies I had hted to see ah he was not at all lucky at it, as talent went for ame I can understand how, if fortune is neutral, the best player in, but I do not see how the contrary can take place

We went for a walk in the pro to the citadel, where I saw numerous extrehtful, but the police regulations are troubleso a small one and thinly peopled, the police spies find out everything Thus one cannot enjoy any little freedo procuresses, who have to be well paid, as they would be cruelly punished if they were found out No prostitutes and no kept woht of the ht have anticipated As well be iined, pederasty has a fine field in this tohere the passions are kept under lock and key

Ast the beauties I looked at, one only attracted me I asked Desarmoises her name, as he knew all of them

”That's the fanable

She has resisted the attacks of the best strategists in Turin Her father's a fah, but there's nothing to be done there”

The greater the difficulty the more I felt spurred on to attempt it

”Take me there,” said I, to Desarmoises