Volume IV Part 57 (2/2)
”I know it, but I do not forget my filial duties I have sent her so to stay at Augsburg?”
”I shall take a house, and if you like you shall be the htful! We will give little suppers, and play cards all night”
”Your prograood cook; all the Bavarian cooks are good
We shall cut a fine figure, and people will say we love each other madly”
”You must know, dearest, that I do not understand jokes at the expense of fidelity”
”You may trust me for that You kno I lived at Dresden”
”I will trust you, but not blindly, I promise you And now let us address each other in the same way; you must call me tu You must remember we are lovers”
”Kiss ht; she preferred to eat a good supper, to drink heavily, and to go to bed just as her head began to whirl The heat of the wine made her into a Bacchante, hard to appease; but when I could do no more I told her to leavewe alighted at the ”Three Moors,” but the landlord told us that though he could give us a good dinner he could not put us up, as the whole of the hotel had been engaged by the French ambassador I called on M Corti, the banker to whoot arden, which I took for six months The Renaud liked it i The Renaud contrived towithout her, and succeeded in persuading ,”
and made ourselves very comfortable, while Desarmoises went to stay somewhere else As ave her a servant and a carriage to herself, and iven me a letter frolish a then at Munich I hastened to deliver the letter He received me very well, and promised to do all he could as soon as he had ti his Britannic Lordshi+p's I called on M de Folard, the French aave hiave me a hearty welcome, and asked me to dine with him the next day, and the day after introducedthe four fatal weeks I spent at Munich, the ambassador's house was the only one I frequented I call these weeks fatal, and with reason, for in then I lost all ed jewels (which I never recovered) to the amount of forty thousand francs, and finally I lost my health My assassins were the Renaud and Desarmoises, ed me so much and paid me so badly
The third day after er Electress of Saxony It was o, by tellingfor , as the Electress gave ood reception, and made me talk to any extent She was extremely curious, like most people who have no eence to as in the course of my existence I confess it as frankly as Rousseau, and enius; but I never committed such an act of folly as I did when I went to Munich, where I had nothing to do But it was a crisis in enius had made me co at Lord Lismore's, my connection with Desarmoises, my party at Choisi, my trust in Costa, my union with the Renaud, and worse than all,amesters is renowned all over Europe, followed one another in fatal succession A the players was the famous, or rather infamous, Affisio, the friend of the Duc de Deux-Ponts, whom the duke called his aide-decaue in the world
I played every day, and as I often lostthe next day often caused me the utmost anxiety
When I had exhausted my credit with the bankers, I had recourse to the Jeho require pledges, and in this Desarents, the latter of who herselfshe did to ave me a disease, which devoured her interior parts and left no erous, as the freshness of her complexion seemed to indicate the most perfect health In short, this serpent, who must have come from hell to destroy me, had acquired such a mastery over me that she persuaded me that she would be dishonoured if I called in a doctor during our stay at Munich, as everybody knew that ere living together as ine what had becouiled, while every day I renewed the poison that she had poured into hout that dreadful month I seemed to have a foretaste of the pains of the da, and Desarmoises was her partner I took care not to play with theated cheat and often tricked with less skill than impudence He asked disreputable people toscenes of a disgraceful character took place
The Dowager Electress mortified me extremely by the way she addressed me on my last two visits to her
”Everybody knohat kind of a life you lead here, and the way the Renaud behaves, possibly without your knowing it I advise you to have done with her, as your character is suffering”
She did not knohat a thraldom I was under I had left Paris for a month, and I had neither heard of Madauess the reason, but I began to suspect ood Madaht be dead or have co so far as I was concerned; and I could not possibly return to Paris to obtain the informy purse
I was in a terrible state, and an to experience a certain abate years I had no longer that daring born of youth and the knowledge of one's strength, and I was not yet old enough to have learnt how to husband my forces Nevertheless, Iher I would await her at Augsburg
She did not try to detain aged in selling her jewellery I set out preceded by Le Duc, feeling very glad that Desarmoises had chosen to stay with the wretched woman to whosburg I took to my bed, determined not to rise till I was cured or dead M Carli, my banker, recommended to me a doctor named Cephalides, a pupil of the famous Fayet, who had cured me of a similar complaint several years before This Cephalides was considered the best doctor in Augsburg He examinedrecourse to the knife He began his treat baths, and applying mercury locally I endured this treatment for six weeks, at the end of which ti I had becouinal tuh the operation nearly killed me it did not to makegreat loss of blood which was arrested with difficulty, and would have proved fatal if it had not been for the care of M Algardi, a Bolognese doctor in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg