Volume VI Part 7 (1/2)
”Not at all, I have no intentions of the kind I sih twenty-six grains, I shall lose two hundred Louis, if it weighs ”
”That's a scandalous proposal; it's as much as to tell me that I am a liar”
I did not like the tone hich these words were spoken, and I went up to the chest of drahere I kept o and leave me in peace
Just then General Roniker ca told hi, and said to hi I should not have the stone taken out, because one should not look a gift horse in theI would not give a crown for it, were the owner an emperor, before the stone was taken out; and I a to let this be done”
Without a word the knavereive hi?” said I
”Because I have advanced him fifty Louis on it; but if he does not redeee, and afterwards I shall sell it by auction”
”I don't like theanyone toconclusion: The ie trades removed The diamond was found to be placed on a bed of rock crystal, which formed two-thirds of the whole bulk However, the diaht it A week afterwards the knave ed me to follow him to place where we should be free from observation, as his sword had soh I happened to be wearing my sword at the time
”I will not follow you,” I replied; ”the matter can be settled here?”
”We are observed”
”All the better Make haste and draw your sword first”
”The advantage is with you”
”I know it, and so it ought to be If you do not draill proclaim you to be the coward I am sure you are”
At this he drew his sword rapidly and caan to fence to try ave him three inches of cold steel I should have killed hi he would take his revenge at another ti his hand to the wound
A score of people were close by, but no one troubled himself about the wounded ressor The duel had no further consequences for eon's hands He was so worse than an adventurer, and all the French at Spa disowned him
But to return to Croce and his dinner
Thelady of sixteen or seventeen, fair-coian nobility The history of her escape is well known to her brothers and sisters, and as her faed toher name
Her husband had told her about racious ns of sadness or of repentance for the steps she had taken She ith child for so to the sliure Nevertheless she had the aspect of perfect health Her countenance expressed candour and frankness of disposition in a ree and blue, her complexion a roseate hue, her small sweet mouth, her perfect teeth ht nomy, and concluded that she was not only perfectly happy, but also the cause of happiness But here letit is for anyone to pronounce a man or woman to be happy or unhappy fro avethe beauty of her hands
Conti's wife did not cut any figure at all, and I was all eyes for the marchioness, whose name was Charlotte I was profoundly i dinner
I sought in vain to discover by what merits Croce had been able to seduce two such superior wo man, he was not well educated, hisby noabout hiirls leave their homes to follow him I lost myself in conjecture; but I had no premonition of as to happen in the course of a feeeks
When dinner was over I took Croce apart, and talked seriously to him I impressed on him the necessity of circumspect conduct, as in my opinion he would be for ever infamous if the beautiful woman whom he had seduced was to become wretched by his fault
”For the future I mean to trust to ”
”Does she know, that your revenue is fed solely by the purses of dupes?”