Volume IV Part 74 (2/2)
The next day, just as I was going to M de Chauvelin's ball, I received toto communicate to me I immediately ordered lie receivedist of which was that it was ive this little slip ofto do,” said I; ”and for the rest of ain, or to reatly obliged to the Chevalier de Ville-Follet”
”I see you are angry Coirl for that I will have the woman Pacienza punished in such a way as to satisfy you, and I will place the girl in a respectable fao and see her in perfect liberty”
”I arateful; but I despise the Pacienza too heartily to wish for her punishment, and as to the Corticelli and her iven me too much trouble already I am well quit of theht to make a forcible entry into a roo to you”
”I had not the right, I confess, but if I had not taken it I could never have had a certain proof of the perfidy of ed to continue supporting her, though she entertained other lovers”
”The Corticelli pretends that you are her debtor, and not vice versa
She says that the diaht to her, and that Madame d'Urfe, whom I have the honour to know, presented her with them”
”She is a liar! And as you know Madame d'Urfe, kindly write to her (she is at Lyons); and if the , be sure that I will discharge the debt I have a hundred thousand francs in good banks of this town, and the s I have disposed of”
”I alad, as I have ridden myself of a burden that was hard to bear”
Thereupon ed politely to one another, and I left the office
At the French ambassador's ball I heard so much talk of my adventure that at last I refused to reply to any eneral opinion was that the whole affair was a trifle of which I could not honourably take any notice; but I thought e of my own honour, and was determined to take no notice of the opinions of others The Chevalier de Ville-Follet came up to me and said that if I abandoned the Corticelli for such a trifle, he should feel obliged to give ,--
”My dear chevalier, it will be enough if you do not demand satisfaction of me”
He understood how the land lay, and said no more about it; but not so his sister, the Marchioness de Prie, who ether She was handsoht have been victorious if she had liked, but luckily she did not think of exerting her power, and so gained nothing
Three days after, Madareat power in Turin, and a kind of protecting deity to all actresses, su what she wanted, I called on her uncerean to talk of the Corticelli affair with great affability; but I did not like her, and replied dryly that I had had no hesitation in abandoning the girl to the protection of the gallant gentlerante delicto' She told me I should be sorry for it, and that she would publish a little story which she had already read and which did not do ed my mind, and that threats were of no avail withshot I left her
I did not attach ossip, but a week after I received aan account--accurate in most respects--of my relations with the Corticelli and Madame d'Urfe, but so ill written and badly expressed that nobody could read it without weariness It did not ht longer in Turin without its causing ain in Paris sixin due tiatha, her mother, the Dupres, and my usual coe atha's lawful property, so I left everything to her I knew she would e to introduce the subject, and while ere at supper she said that the cohter a pair of dias worth five hundred Louis, which the Corticelli claiht
”I do not know,” she added, ”if they are real dia to the Corticelli, but I do know that entleman”
”Well, well,” said I, ”ill have no atha I put the earrings on her, saying,--
”Dearest Agatha, Itheed to me”