Volume V Part 30 (1/2)
I still kept on entleman who see with a foolish stare to Mada hireat enterprise, her immense credit, the splendid house she had built, her thirty-three servants, her two secretaries, her six horses, her country house, etc, etc
”How is entleman
”Her name is Sophie, is it? She is only known as Miss Cornelis She is a beauty, a perfect prodigy, she plays at sight on several instrulish, French, and Italian equally well--in a word, she is really wonderful She has a governess and a e; she is eight”
She was ten, but as Mada toher
My lord Cornelis, who felt very tired, asked at what hour they were to sup
”At ten o'clock and not before,” said the duenna, ”for Madaed till then She is alith her lawyer, on account of an iainst Sir Frederick Fer worth learning by listening to the woossip, so I took my hat and cane and went for a walk in the i care not to lose my way
It was seven o'clock when I went out, and a quarter of an hour after, seeing a number of people in a coffeehouse, I entered it It was the most notorious place in London, the resort of all the rascally Italians in town I had heard of it at Lyons, and had taken a firhty chance o there unknown to myself But it was lass of le a ht He had a printed paper in his hand, and I could see that the words were Italian He had a pencil hich he scratched out soin Idle curiositythe word 'ancora', putting in an 'h'
in the , and told him that for four centuries 'ancora' had been spelt without an 'h'
”Quite so,” said he, ”but I a from Boccaccio, and one should be exact in quotations”
”I apologize, sir; I see you are a man of letters”
”Well, in a sreat way indeed I know you by repute, and if I ai, who has spoken of you to me I have read some of your satires”
”May I ask to whoalt Have you finished your edition of the Deca to increase the number of lad to be of the nuave uinea I took four, and telling hiain at the same coffee-house, the name of which I asked hinorance; but his surprise vanished when I informed him that I had only been in London for an hour, and that it was reat city
”You will experience so your way back,” said he, ”allow ave e Coffee House,” the o there”
”Yes, but I can say with Juvenal:
”'Cantabit vacuus coraues can't hurt me; I know them and they knowtime in London, I suppose”
”Five years”
”I presuood many people”
”Yes, but I seldom wait on anyone but Lord Spencer I am occupied with literary work and live all by h to live on I live in furnished apartments, and have twelve shi+rts and the clothes you see on h for my happiness