Volume IV Part 101 (1/2)

”That's a good distinction I will read it this evening Now I a oblivion that I was a hts that could be called indecent Nevertheless it struck ht I was in love with her, she would have been more reserved, for as she put on her chearters above her knee, and drew on her boots, I saw glied to go out before she was ready to quench the flames she had kindled in my senses

I took the countess and Cle the baby on hed merrily, for I held the child as if to the manner born When we had traversed half the distance the baby de mother hastened to uncover a sphere over which ht, not at all to her displeasure The child left its ht of the liquor which flowed so abundantly I exclaimed,--

”It must not be lost, madam; allow me to sip nectar which will elevate me to the rank of the Gods Do not be afraid ofcountess n, while the ladies laughed that h which not painter can portray The divine Ho it in those lines in which he describes Andro Astyanax in her ar her to return to the battle

I asked Clerant me a similar favour

”Certainly,” said she, ”if I had any milk”

”You have the source of the irl's face suffused with such a violent blush that I was sorry I had spoken; however, I changed the conversation, and it soon passed away Our spirits were so high that when the tiet down at the inn at Lodi, we could scarcely believe it possible, so swiftly had the tie to a lady friend of hers, begging her to dine with us, and to bring her sister; while I dispatched Clairhtpaper, pens, sealing-wax, ink-well, paper knife, seal, and in fact, everything necessary for writing It was a present I htful to watch her surprise and pleasure, and to read gratitude so legibly written in her beautiful eyes There is not a worateful It is the best and surest way to get on, but it ht her sister, a girl as dazzlingly beautiful I was greatly struck with her, but just then Venus herself could not have dethroned Clementine from her place in my affections After the friends had kissed each other, and expressed their joy at , I was introduced, and in so coed to turn it off with a jest

The dinner was suuests came in, the lady's husband and the sister's lover, but they elcome, for it was a case of the more the merrier After the meal, in accordance with the request of the company, I hted to find myself a loser to the extent of forty sequins It was these little losses at the right tiai, and I asked him if he was descended from the author of the thirteenth book of the ”AEneid” He said he was, and that in honour of his ancestor he had translated the poem into Italian verse I expresseditto such a noble and ancient fa of the fifteenth century

We started in the evening, and less than two hours we got ho any attempts on Cleht be able to hold her little nepheithiven them; I was a universal favourite with them all

We did not feel inclined to eat any supper, and therefore retired to our apartments; and I accompanied Cle anything about the ”AEneid”

”Vigi will bring his translation of the thirteenth book, and I shall not knoord about it”

I co her that ould read the fine translation by Annibale Caro that very night It was auilara, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Marchetti's Lucreece

”But I wanted to read the Pastor Fido”

”We are in a hurry; we must read that another tis, my dear Iolas”

”That will ht in reading that nificent translation in Italian blank verse, but the reading was often interrupted by hter e cahly aave 'AEneas an opportunity of proving his love for Dido in a very inconvenient place, and stillof the son of Priaht still pardon you if, before abandoning me, you had left me a little AEneas to play about these halls”

Cle laughable in it; but how is it that one does not feel inclined to s the Latin--'Si quis ht for in the grave and dignified nature of the Latin tongue

We did not finish our reading till day-break

”What a night!” exclaireat pleasure to me, has it not to you?”