Volume VI Part 25 (1/2)
Charood humour, I asked him to sup with us, and he accepted, and amused us with his witty conversation and a ly He ive word for word, but I cannot give the reader any idea of the iniravity hich it was delivered
”Ao Senior Don Jaihter I a her, and you may be assured that I shall place no obstacle in the way of your beco my son-in-law as soon as you can shew your titles of nobility”
When he was gone, I said to his daughter,--
”I should be only too happy, if it could be ed; but you must know that in my country they only are called nobles who have an hereditary right to rule the state If I had been born in Spain I should be noble, but as it is I adore you, and I hope you will ether; I cannot suffer any infidelity”
”I give you my word of honour that I will be wholly faithful to you”
”Coo in”
”No, let us put out the lights, and stay here a quarter of an hour Tell el, whence comes this unexpected happiness?”
”You owe it to a piece of tyranny which drove ood, and I am sure He would not have me become my own executioner When I toldyou, but that I could restrain myself from all excess of love, he replied that this self-confidence was misplaced, as I had already fallen He wanted ain, and on ive me absolution
”I have never had such a piece of shame cast on me, but I laid it all in the hands of God, and said, 'Thy will be done'
”Whilst I heardas you love me I shall be yours, and yours only When you leave Spain and abandon me to despair, I shall find another confessor My conscience holds uiltless; this is my comfort My cousin, whom I have told all, is astonished, but then she is not very clever”
After this declaration, which put me quite at my ease, and would have relieved me of any scruples if I had had the, she left me tired out, but more in love with her than ever
EPISODE 27 -- EXPELLED FROM SPAIN
CHAPTER VII
I Make a Mistake and Manucci Becoossa--Valentia--Nina-- I Arrive at Barcelona
If these Memoirs, only written to consoleme in Bohehas ever--if these Memoirs are ever read, I repeat, they will only be read when I aone, and all censure will be lost onthat reater conorant and superficial, and the other of the learned and reflective, I beg to state that it is to the latter I would appeal Their judgment, I believe, will be in favour of my veracity, and, indeed, why should I not be veracious? Ahimself, and it is for myself that I chiefly write
Hitherto I have spoken nothing but the truth, without considering whether the truth is in y, but I do not think it will do harm to anyone; while I fancy that those who kno to iet honey froood froression (it , but that is my business and none other's), I must confess that never have I had so unpleasant a truth to set down as that which I a to relate I committed a fatal act of indiscretion--an act which after all these years still givesas I think of it
The day after my conquest I dined with the Venetian a that all the randees hohest possible opinion of , the royal family, and the ministers would return to town, and I expected to have daily conferences with the latter respecting the colony in the Sierra Morena, where I shouldManucci, who continued to treat me as a valued friend, proposed to acco with hi to be the daughter or niece of the late cardinal of that nah in reality she was only the liardi
Such was the proht to Madrid a native of Liege, Baron de Fraiture, chief huntsamester, and a cheat, like all those who proclaim their belief in his honesty nowadays