Volume IV Part 64 (1/2)
”I iven me a lesson which will last ed to you for it”
”I ahted to hear it, provided that your health has not suffered”
”No, I aether”
”Well, I hope we shan't play against each other any ht or ten days I took Madame d'Urfe and the pretended Lascaris to Bale We put up at the inn of the famous Is” is the best inn in the town I think I have noted that noon at Bale is at eleven o'clock--an absurdity due to sootten The inhabitants are said to be subject to a kind ofthe waters of Sulzbach; but they 'get it again as soon as they return
We should have stayed at Bale some time, if it had not been for an incident which made me hasten our departure It was as follows:
My necessities had obliged ive the Corticelli to a certain extent, and when I caht with her; but when I came home late, as often happened, I slept in my own room The little hussy, in the latter case, slept also alone in a rooh whose chaht I ca inclined to sleep, I took a candle and went in search of nora Laura's door half open, and just as I was going in the old woo into her daughter's room
”Why?” said I
”She has been very poorly all the evening, and she is in need of sleep”
”Very good; then I will sleep too”
So saying I pushed the irl's roo under the sheets
I 'gazed at the picture for adown on the bed begged to enquire the name of the happy individual who out of theOn a chair I saw the coat, trousers, hat, and cane of the gentleman; but as I hadto fear; however, I did not want toall over, the girl tooklord,” said she, ”and I don't even know his na lord, is he? and you don't know his name, you little hussy, don't you? Well, he will tell orously stripped the sheets off the cuckoo who had got intohtcap, but the rest perfectly naked, as indeed was et his shi+rt which he had thrown on the floor, but seizing him by the arm I held him firmly, with my pistol to his forehead
”Kindly tell me your name, fair sir”
”I am Count B----, canon of Bale”
”And do you think you have been perfor an ecclesiastical function here?”
”No sir, no, and I hope you will forgive uilty party”
”I auilty or not”
”Sir, the countess is perfectly innocent”
I felt in a good teh I found the picture before ht of the two nudities on the bed was a truly lascivious one, and I re it in silence for a quarter of an hour, occupied in resisting a strong temptation to take offwhich prevented ht find the canon to be a fool, incapable of playing the part with dignity As for the Corticelli, she soon passed frohter, and would have done it well, but if, as I feared, the canon was a blockhead, I should have been degrading uessed hts, so I rose and told the canon to put on his clothes
”No oneo to a distance of two hundred paces and burn a little powder”
”No, no, sir,” cried entleman, ”you may take me where you like, and killman”