Volume V Part 35 (2/2)
She called me ”elder” because I was the oldest of her friends
”Nor did I know that you were here I came to town after the close of the opera How is it that you are not living with your husband?”
”Because he games, loses, and despoils me of all I possess Besides, a woman of my condition, if she be married, cannot hope that a rich lover will come and see her, while if she be alone she can receive visits without any constraint”
”I shouldn't have thought they would be afraid of Binetti; he used to be far from jealous”
”Nor is he jealous now; but you lish lahich allows the husband to arrest his wife and her lover if he finds therante delicto' He only wants titnesses, and it is enough that they are sitting together on a bed The lover is forced to pay to the husband the half of all he possesses Several rich Englishht in this way, and now they are very shy of visiting married women, especially Italians”
”So you have much to be thankful for You enjoy perfect liberty, can receive any visitors you like, and are in a fair way to make a fortune”
”Alas! my dear friend, you do not know all When he has information from his spies that I have had a visitor, he coht, and threatens to turn ive him all the money I have He is a terrible rascal!”
I left the poor wo her to coiven land has very good laws, but most of them are capable of abuse The oath which jurymen have to take to execute them to the letter has caused several to be interpreted in a islators, thus placing the judges in a difficult predicalosses to explain the old ones
My Lord Pethe kitchen, where the cook was at work, told me that there was not a nobleman in toho had such a well-furnished and comfortable house He made a calculation, and told me that if I wanted to entertain my friends I should require three hundred pounds a month
”You can't live here,” said he, ”without a pretty girl, and those who know that you keep bachelor's hall are of opinion that you are very wise, and will save a great deal of useless expense”
”Do you keep a girl, usted with a woman after I have had her for a day”
”Then you require a fresh one every day?”
”Yes, and without being as comfortable as you I spend four tier I never dine atalone”
”I can't speak English I like soup and good wine, and that is enough to keep me from your taverns”
”I expect so, with your French tastes”
”You will confess that they are not bad tastes”
”You are right, for, good Englishet on very well in Paris”
He burst out laughing when I told him how I had dispatched a score of wenches at the ”Staven Tavern,” and that my disappointment was due to him
”I did not tell you what naht to have told me”