Volume IV Part 91 (1/2)
The beggars ca the hta coht of this detail, which h immensely Mdlle Q---- stretched out her plate to ask an alms of Canano, who said,--
”I don't pity you with that fine hair of yours, and if you like to put it on a card I will allow you a thousand sequins for it”
She gave no answer to this polite speech, and held out her plate tothe other beggars in the saars,” said Canano, with a sratefully to me and left the room
The Marquis Triulzi who sat near Canano, said,--
”The beggar in the straw-coloured dress is certainly Casanova”
”I recognized him directly,” replied the banker, ”but who are the others?”
”We shall find out in due tiined; all the dresses are quite new”
The thousand sequins came in, and I carried the?” said Canano
I shook n of s and gaveto two thousand, five hundred sequins I put away the cheque, and after shaking hiot up and rolled away in true Pierrot fashi+on, and afterthe tour of the ball-rooiven the key to the young officer, and there I found ratulated each other on our success, and told our adventures We had nothing to fear from inquisitive eyes, for the boxes on each side of us were empty I had taken thears talked of returning iven them, but I replied in such a way that they said no more about it
”I am taken for you, sir,” said the marquis, ”and it may cause some annoyance to our fair friends here”
”I have foreseen that,” I replied, ”and I shall unmask before the end of the ball This will falsify all suppositions, and nobody will succeed in identifying you”
”Our pockets are full of sweetmeats,” said Mdlle Q---- ”Everybody wanted to fill our plates”
”Yes,” said the cousin, ”everybody admired us; the ladies came down from their boxes to have a closer view of us, and everyone said that no richer disguise could be iined”
”You have enjoyed yourselves, then?”
”Yes, indeed”
”And I too I feel quite boastful at having invented a costume which has drawn all eyes upon you, and yet has concealed your identity”
”You have made us all happy,” said the lieutenant's little ht I should have such a pleasant evening”
”Finis coronat opus,” I replied, ”and I hope the end will be even better than the beginning”
So saying I gave entle pressure, and whether she understood o do,” said she
”So will I, for I want to dance, and I ah as Pierrot”
”Do you kno ave each of us?”