Volume V Part 72 (2/2)

As soon as I heard he was gone I saw there was no reuineas left, and this sum was insufficient I went to Treves, a Venetian Jehoarotti, the Venetian banker I did not think of going to Bosanquet, or Sanhel, or Salvador, who ot wind of reat bankers, and discounted a bill for a hundred sequins readily enough

With the , while deadly fear dogged every step Leigh had giventi his word, still it would not do to trust to it I did not want to lose my linen nor three fine suits of clothes which reatest promptitude

I called in Jarbe and asked hiuineas and his dismissal, or to continue in my service I explained that he would have to wait in London for a week, and join me at the place from which I wrote to him

”Sir,” said he, ”I should like to remain in your service, and I will rejoin you wherever you please When are you leaving?”

”In an hour's time; but say not a word, or it will cost me my life”

”Why can't you takemy linen which is at the wash, and ive you sufficientYou shall pay me what I have spent when I rejoin you Wait a ain directly, and holding out sixty guineas, said,--

”Take this, sir, I entreat you, ood for as ood fellow, but I will not take your et your fidelity”

My tailor lived close by and I called on hi that my clothes were not yet made up I told hiold lace that was to be used in the triain to hiing, and after bidding farewell to ro I set out with Daturi We slept at Rochester, as th would carry me no farther I was in convulsions, and had a sort of deliriu my life

I had ordered post-horses to continue our journey, and Daturi of his own authority sent them back and went for a doctor, who pronounced er of an apoplectic fit and ordered a copious blood-letting, which restored my calm Six hours later he pronounced , and had only half an hour to stop, as the captain of the packet said that the tide would not allow of any delay The worthy sailor little kneell his views suitedhim to rejoin me at Calais, and Mrs Mercier, my landlady, to whoiven it him with her own hands

However, Jarbe did not coro in the course of two years

The fever and the virus that was in er of my life, and on the third day I was in extreth, and left me in a state of coma which lasted for twenty-four hours This was succeeded by a crisis which restored ain, but it was only by dint of the most careful treatht afterbeen the innocent cause of the worthy Mr Leigh's losing a large sunant with Jarbe, and angry at being obliged to abandon ot into a post-chaise with Daturi, not knohere to turn or where to go, or whether I hadM de Bragadin to send the sum I have ot to Dunkirk, the day after I left Paris, the first person I saas the merchant S----, the husband of that Therese whom my readers may remember, the niece of Tiretta's o The worthy e inillness, and then asked after his wife

”She is wonderfully well,” he answered, ”and I hope we shall have the pleasure of seeing you to dinner tomorrow”

I said I wanted to be off at day-break, but he would not hear of it, and protested he would be quite hurt if I went aithout seeing his wife and his three children At last I appeased hiether

My readers will re Therese, and this circu ht

In a quarter of an hour the husband arrived with his wife and three children, the eldest of whos and tiresoer children, rightly thinking that the eldest would be the only one in who boy; and as he was exactly like his e of the child

I laughed tothus scattered all over Europe At supper Therese gave me news of Tiretta He had entered the Dutch East India Co been concerned in a revolt at Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had hts as to the similarity between his destiny and h oing, to get hanged for a ot to Tournay, I saw so fine horses up and down, and I asked to whoed

”'To the Comte de St Geroes out Everybody who passes through the place wants to see him; but he is invisible”