Volume V Part 4 (2/2)
”Who told you that the count knew adin's a o, and on his table I saw a letter from the count to you”
”Did you tell him you were my brother?”
”I had to when he said how much I resembled you”
”He made a mistake, for you are a blockhead”
”He did not think so, at all events, for he asked ure, if you were in your present state”
”He gave me four sequins to come here; otherwise, I should never have been able to do the journey”
”Then he did a very foolish thing You're a ar, then; you take alms Why did you leave Venice? What do you ithfor you”
”Ah! do not make me despair, or I shall killyou could do; but you are too great a coward I ask again why you left Venice, where you could say , like many priests much better than you?”
”That is the kernel of the whole o in and I will tell you”
”No; wait for o somewhere where you can tell me your story, if I have patience to listen to it But don't tell any of my people that you are my brother, for I am ashamed to have such a relation Co”
”I must tell you that at my inn I am not alone, and I want to have a private intervieith you”
”Who is with you?”
”I will tell you presently, but let us go into a coffeehouse”
”Are you in co at?”
”I s I am with a woive me I was blinded by love, and seduced by my senses and her beauty, so I seduced her under a proo back to Venice, for I took her away from her father's house”
”What could you do at Geneva? They would expel you after you had been there three or four days Coo to the inn and see the woman you have deceived I will speak to you afterwards”
I began to trace ed to follow ot to the inn, he went on in front, and after clihts of stairs I entered a wretched den where I saw a tall young girl, a sweet brunette, who looked proud and not in the least confused As soon as I ,--
”Are you the brother of this liar and monster who has deceived me so abominably?”
”Yes,” said I ”I have the honour”
”A fine honour, truly Well, have the kindness to send er with this rascal whom I listened to like the fool I ho turnedto o to Geneva, and there ere to turn Protestants and gethim at Milan, but you were not there at all, and he contrived to get ht h I thank Heaven he has found you at last, for if he had not I should have started off byleft; the wretch sold all I possessed at Bergah it all To hear him talk, the world was a paradise outside Venice, but I have found to my cost that there is no place like home I curse the hour when I first saw theHe wanted to enjoy his rights as ave hiave me; take it, and do what you like with it But if you have any heart, send me back to Venice or I will tra tirade without interrupting her She th, so far as I was concerned; my astonishment took my breath away Her discourse had all the fire of eloquence, and was heightened by her expressive face and the fla doith his head between his hands, and obliged to listen in silence to this long catalogue of well-deserved reproaches, gave so of a comic element to the scene In spite of that, however, I was irl's story