Volume V Part 31 (2/2)
”I confess,” said this honest woiven ift, and nothing to be wondered at in a rich Englishether”
She had won her suit four tie of the intricacies of English law to appeal again and again, and now he had gone to the House of Lords, the appeal to which ht last fifteen years
”This suit,” said the honest lady, ”dishonours Fermer”
”I should think it did, but you surely don't think it honours you”
”Certainly I do”
”I don't quite understand how you make that out”
”I will explain it all to you”
”We will talk it over again”
In the three hours for which we talked together this woman did not once askI intended to stay in London, or whether I had made much money In short shewith a smile, but not heedlessly,--
”I never have a penny to spare”
Her receipts amounted to more than twenty-four thousand pounds per annum, but her expenses were enoreda word about myself
I was dresssed simply but neatly, and had not any jewellry or diamonds about lad to have discovered the badness of her heart In spite of hter I deter Sunday, when I was invited to dinner
Early next oods and chattels in a carriage, and when all was ready I went to take leave of young Cornelis, telling hi hi to stay with me, then?” said he
”No, your mother doesn't knoelcoo back to Paris”
”Don't do anything so silly Reht not find a roof to shelter you Farewell; I shall see you on Sunday”
I was soon settled in my new house, and I went out to call on M
Zuccato, the Venetian aave hilad to make my acquaintance When I asked him to present me at Court the insolent fool only replied with a sht fairly be described as conte out, so I returned his sain
On leaving Zuccato I called on Lord Egre him ill left my letter with the porter He died a few days after, so M Morosini's letters were both useless through no fault of his We shall learn presently as the result of the little note
I then went to the Comte de Guerchi, the French ambassador, with a letter from the Marquis Chauvelin, and I received a elco day, and told me that if I liked he would present me at Court after chapel on Sunday It was at that ambassador's table that I made the acquaintance of the Chevalier d'Eon, the secretary of the embassy, who afterwards became famous This Chevalier d'Eon was a handsooons before entering the diplomatic service; she served Louis XV as a valiant soldier and a diplomatist of consunized her as a woman; her voice was not that of a castrato, and her shape was too rounded to be aof the absence of hair on her face, as that ht be an accident
In the first days of my stay in London I made the acquaintance of my bankers; who held at least three hundred thousand francs of my money
They all honoured my drafts and offered their services to ood offices