Volume V Part 27 (2/2)
”Yes, you would, only in some other way; your misfortunes are the result of your bad conduct But tell me what are your misfortunes”
”As I could not stay in Turin after you had dishonoured me ”
”You came to dishonour yourself here, I suppose Drop that tone, or else I will leave you”
She began her wretched tale, which struckthat I was the first and final cause of this long list of woes Hence I felt it was my duty to succour her, however ill she had treated me in the past
”Then,” said I, ”you are at present the victim of a fearful disease, heavily in debt, likely to be turned out of doors and imprisoned by your creditors What do you propose to do?”
”Do! Why, throw myself in the Seine, to be sure; that's all that is left forleft”
”And ould you do if you had some money?”
”I would put myself under the doctor's hands, in the first place, and then if anysomehow Perhaps I should have learnt a little wisdoirl, I pity you! and in spite of your bad treatht you to this pass, I will not abandon you Here are four louis for your present wants, and to-o for your cure When you have got well again, I will give you enough money for the journey Dry your tears, repent, amend your ways, and irl threw herself on the ground beforeive her for the ill she had donevery sad I took a coach and drove to the Rue de Seine, where I called on an old surgeon I knew, told him the story, and what I wanted him to do He toldabout it, but that he irl is poor, and I a it out of charity”
The worthy aveSt Antoine, which ran as follows:
”You will take in the person who brings you this note and three hundred francs, and in six weeks you will send her back cured, if it please God
The person has reasons for not wishi+ng to be known”
I was delighted to have ed the matter so speedily and at such a cheap rate, and I went to bed in a cal my intervieith ht o'clock, and, constant to his folly, told me he had a plan to which he was sure I could have no objection
”I don't want to hear anything about it; make your choice, Paris or Rome”
”Give ive a written engageain That should be sufficient”
”It is not for you to judge of that Begone! I have neither the time nor the wish to listen to you Re, or Rome with twenty-five louis”
Thereupon I called Clairmont, and told him to put the abbe out
I was in a hurry to have done with the Corticelli affair, and went to the house in the Faubourg St Antoine, where I found a kindly and intelligent-looking ements of the house satisfactory and appropriate to the performance of secret cures I saw the roo was clean and neat, and I gave them a hundred crowns, for which they handed me a receipt I told them that the lady would either co
I went to dine with Mada Count d'Aranda After dinner the worthy nancy, dwelling on her symptoms, and on the happiness that would be hers when the babe stirred within her I had put to a strong restrain uponWhen I had finished with her I went to the Corticelli, who called ave her two louis to get some linen out of pawn, and proive her a hundred crohich would take her back to Bologna Then I waited on Madame du Rumain who had said farewell to society for three weeks
This lady had an excellent heart, and was pretty as well, but she had so curious a society-h most heartily She talked of the sun and es, to who with reatest happiness was, no doubt, to love God to distraction, for she had no idea of calave her the incense for the fuation, and told her what psalms to recite, and then we had a delicious supper She told her chamber-maid to escort me at ten o'clock to a room on the second floor which she had furnished for ,--
”Take care that the Chevalier de Seingalt is able to come into my room at five o'clock to-morrow”