Volume V Part 51 (2/2)

The affair was over, but it was soon in all the newspapers, garnished with all the wit iinable, and Giardini armly praised for the action he had taken

As for h to have thefled without giving the lovers a lesson

I wrote an account of the circumstances to Baletti, and I heard froiven her husband a hundred guineas to leave the country Soue

A Flemish officer, the man whom I had helped at Aix-la-Chapelle, had called on me several times, and had even dined three or four ti been polite enough to return his call, and ebeen to see hihter with hiood deal of curiosity made me call on him

When he sawed to receive all the compliments which knaves make to honest men when they hope to take theirl caalt, of who surprise, said she had known a M Casanova, as very like alt, but that I had not the happiness of recollecting her

”My naher when I saw you,” she replied, ”but now it is Charpillon; and considering that we only met once, and that I was only thirteen at the ti me I have been in London with my mother and aunts for the last four years”

”But where had I the pleasure of speaking to you?”

”At Paris”

”In what part of Paris?”

”In the Bazaar You ith a charave me these buckles” (she shewed me them on her shoes), ”and you also did me the honour to kiss me”

I recollected the circumstance, and the reader will re-seller

”Now I renize your aunt”

”This is the sister of the one you saw, but if you will take tea with us you will see her”

”Where do you live?”

”In Denmark Street, Soho”

CHAPTER XI

The Charpillon--Dreadful Consequences of My Acquaintance With Her

The name Charpillon remindedit froht to cement our acquaintance

”What!” she exclaihted I am to have it! And you have actually been all theseit me?”

”I confess I am to blarateful for the chance which has enabled e my commission to-day”

”Come and dine with us to- Lord Pembroke to dinner”