Volume V Part 98 (2/2)
”Certainly,” she replied
”I can scarcely believe it, for she is not pretty, and she, has, not the look nor the e of princesses”
”I have seen enough of thee I say that it is you who ought to be the princess; I would willingly give a hundred ducats to spend the night with you”
”A hundred ducats! What would you do if I were to take you at your word?”
”Try e at the same hotel as you, and if yet can contrive ways and ive you the money in advance, but not till I a taken in”
”Very good Say not a word to anyone, but try to speak with h to face certain risks, ill spend the night together”
”What is your name?”
”Caroline”
I felt certain it would colad to have amused the princess, and to have let her know that I appreciated her beauties, and I resolved to go on with the part I was playing About supper-tian a pro every now and then in front of the roo, till one of the
”I want to speak for a moment to one of your co at the fair”
”Youon the princess, but she will be out in half an hour”
I spent this half hour in my own roo the same maid to whom I had spoken came up to me and toldI went into the closet, which was small, dark, and uncomfortable I was soon joined by a woman This ti
She came, in, took my hand, and told me that if I would wait there she would come to ht?”
”Of course, or else the people of the house would notice it, and I should not like that”
”I cannot do anything without light, char Caroline; and besides, this closet is not a very nice place to pass five or six hours There is another alternative, the first room above is mine I shall be alone, and I swear to you that no one shall coot the hundred ducats here”
”Io upstairs for a million ducats”
”Soto stay in this hole which has only a chair in it, if you offer me a million and a half Farewell, sweet Caroline”
”Wait a o out first”
The sly puss went out quickly enough, but I was as sharp as she, and trod on the tail of her dress so that she could not shut the door after her So ent out together, and I left her at the door, saying,--
”Good night, Caroline, you see it was no use”
I went to bed well pleased with the incident The princess, it was plain, had intended to ht in the hole of a closet, as a punish dared to ask the mistress of an emperor to sleep witha pair of lace cuffs, the princess came into the shop with Count Zinzendorf, whom I had known at Paris twelve years before just as I was nizedabout the Casanova that had fought the duel at Warsaw