Volume IV Part 88 (2/2)
”What would you have done with this blood?”
”I should have plastered you with it”
”What do you mean by 'plastered'? I don't understand you”
”I will shew you”
As I tre, containing a waxen statue of a h it was badly e bore enerative organs were made of an enorhter, and had to sit down in an arot back h, do you? Woe to you if I had bathed you in the bath of bloodto my art, and more woe still if, after I had bathed you, I had thrown your i coal:”
”Is this all?”
”Yes”
”All the apparatus is to become mine for twelve sequins; here they are
And now, quick! light me a fire that I may melt this monster, and as for the blood I think I will throw it out of the ”
This was no sooner said than done
The old woe hohted to see oodness, and begged me not to tell anyone of what had passed between us I swore I would keep my own counsel, even with the countess
I was astonished when she calmly offered to make the countess madly in love with me for another twelve sequins, but I politely refused and advised her to abandon her fearful trade if she did not want to be burnt alive
I found Clairone through, I was not sorry to have acquired the inforood Capuchin who really believed me to be in deadly peril He had doubtless heard of it in the confessional from the woman who had carried the blood to the witch Auricular confession often works miracles of this kind
I was determined never to let the countess suspect that I had discovered her criminal project, and I resolved to behave towards her so as to appease her anger, and to et the cruel insult to which I had subjected her It was lucky for me that she believed in sorcery; otherwise she would have had ot in, I chose the better of the two cloaks I had, and presented her with it She accepted the gift with exquisite grace, and asked ave it her
”I dreaoing to have me assassinated”
She blushed, and answered that she had not gone mad I left her absorbed in a soave, or whether she could hit upon no other way of taking vengeance, she was perfectly agreeable tothe rest of my stay in Milan
The count cao and see the place at the beginning of Lent I promised I would come, but the countess said she could not be of the party I pretended to be mortified, but in reality her determination was an extremely pleasant one to me
CHAPTER XX
The Masquerade--My Amour with the Fair Marchioness--The Deserted Girl; I Becoelo
As I had engaged uise, I wanted to invent a costuinality and its richness I tortured my brains so to speak, and ood one