Volume V Part 89 (1/2)
”You are right, dear, but I don't want it to be said that I have made a profit on you; besides, I intend to make you a present of the hundred roubles”
”As you are going to make me such a handsome present, why not send enerous If M
Rinaldi really loves me, he can come and talk it over withme whatever sum I like to mention”
”Not at all On the contrary, I shall be very glad to serve your family, and all the ood; you will be always dear to me in my meo to bed”
Thus it was that I parted with this charirl, whoZinowieff told me that if I had liked to deposit a small suht the rewa perfect slave to her Possibly, however, I should not have looked into matters so closely if I had not been in love with Mada together her belongings, now laughing and noeeping, and every tiivemyself When I restored her to her father, the whole family fell on their knees around raded by the iron heel of oppression
Zaira looked oddly in the hue mattress served for the entire faood part He told hter wouldso He went to the house the next day, but he did not get the girl till I had left St Petersburg He kept her for the remainder of his days, and behaved very handsomely to her
After this melancholy separation Madame Valville became my sole mistress, and we left the Russian capital in the course of a feeeks
I took an Armenian merchant into my service; he had lent me a hundred ducats, and cooked very well in the Eastern style I had a letter froustus Sulkowski, and another frolish ambassador for Prince Ada we stopped at Koporie to dine; we had taken with us some choice viands and excellent wines Two days later we met the famous chapel-master, Galuppi or Buranelli, as on his way to St Petersburg with two friends and an artiste He did not knowhiue As soon as I had pronounced my name he embraced me with exclamations of surprise and joy
The roads were heavy with rain, so ere a week in getting to Riga, and e arrived I was sorry to hear that Prince Charles was not there Fro, where Madame Valville, as expected at Berlin, had to leave ladly paid the hundred ducats I owed hiain two years later, and shall speak of the ood friends, without any sadness We spent the night at Klein Roop, near Riga, and she offered to give me her dia with the Countess Loald, to whoorouki This lady had in her house, in the capacity of governess, the pretty English woman whom I had known as Campioni's wife She toldwith Villiers She gave me a letter for him, and I promised to make him send her so as ever, but her mother seemed quite jealous of her and treated her ill
When I reached Konigsberg I sold e and took a place in a coach for Warsaw We were four in all, and my companions only spoke German and Polish, so that I had a dreadfully tedious journey At Warsaent to live with Villiers, where I hoped tobefore I saw him, and found him well in health and in coood hted to have news of fanny and his children He sent the them at Warsaw, as fanny wished He assured me she was not his wife
He told er of the comic opera, had made a fortune, and had in his company a Milanese dancer named Catai, who enchanted all the town by her charms rather than her talent Games of chance were permitted, but he warned me that Warsaas full of card-sharpers A Veronese named Giropoldi, who lived with an officer from Lorrain called Bachelier, held a bank at faro at her house, where a dancer, who had been the ht customers
Major Sadir, who-house, in company with his mistress, who came from Saxony The Baron de St
Heleine was also in Warsaw, but his principal occupation was to contract debts which he did not mean to pay He also lived in Villier's house with his pretty and virtuous young wife, ould have nothing to say to us Campioni told lad to know that I ht the better avoid thee, the latter being an absolute necessity at Warsahere in o on foot I reached the capital of Poland at the end of October, 1765
My first call was on Prince Adam Czartoryski, Lieutenant of Podolia, for whom I had an introduction I found him before a table covered with papers, surrounded by forty or fifty persons, in an immense library which he had made into his bedroom He was married to a very pretty woman, but had not yet had a child by her because she was too thin for his taste
He read the long letter I gave hih opinion of the writer of the letter; but that as he was very busy just then he hoped I would co better to do
I drove off to Prince Sulkouski, who had just been appointed ambassador to the Court of Louis XV The prince was the elder of four brothers and a , but a theorist in the style of the Abbe St Pierre He read the letter, and said he wanted to have a long talk with ed if I would come and dine with him at four o'clock I accepted the invitation
I then went to a merchant named Schempinski, as to pay me fifty ducats a month on Papanelopulo's order My man told me that there was a public rehearsal of a new opera at the theatre, and I accordingly spent three hours there, knowing none and unknown to all All the actresses were pretty, but especially the Catai, who did not know the first elereatly applauded, above all by Prince Repnin, the Russian areatest consequence
Prince Sulkouski kepton every subject except those hich I happened to be acquainted His strong points were politics and commerce, and as he found my mind a mere void on these subjects, he shone all the more, and took quite a fancy to me, as I believe, because he foundnothing better to do (a favourite phrase with the Polish noble my naneur Krasinski, the Prince-Bishop of Warmia, the Chief Prothonotary Rzewuski, whoinski, General Roniker, and two others whose barbarous naotten The last person to whom he introduced me was his wife, hoentleman came into the room, and everybody stood up Prince Ada to ”