Volume VI Part 34 (1/2)
”Nothing at all”
”What has become of the valet de place?”
”I paid him, and sent him away immediately after your arrest”
”I should like to have hiht, and I think the best thing you can do is to leave Spain altogether, for you will find no justice in it”
”What do they say about my assassination?”
”Why, they say you fired the shot that people heard yourself, and that you made your oord bloody, for no one was found there, either dead or wounded”
”That's an a theory Where did ht to me three days after”
”What a confusion! But was it known that I was iood reasons were given, the one in public, and the other in private”
”What are these reasons?”
”The public reason was that you had forged your passports; the private one, which was only whispered at the ear, was that you spent all your nights with Nina”
”You ht have sworn that I never slept out of your inn”
”I told everyone as o to her house, and for a certain noblelad you did not fly as I advised you, for as it is your character is cleared before everybody”
”I should like to go to the opera this evening; takeood friend, I have made updown to dinner, a banker's clerk brought me a letter which pleased e I had drawn in Genoa, in favour of M Augustin Grimaldi He now sent them back, with these words:
”Passano has been vainly endeavouring to persuade me to send these bills to Barcelona, so that they may be protested, and you arrested I now send theht in tra down the victims of bad fortune
”--Genoa, November 30th, 1768”
For the fourth tienerously to ive the infamous Passano for the sake of his four excellent fellow-countrymen
But this virtue was a little beyondI could do would be to rid the Genoese na on it, but I could never find an opportunity
Some years after I heard that the wretch died in miserable poverty in Genoa
I was curious at the time to knohat had becouard I confided my curiosity to my landlord, and he instructed one of the servants tocircuomas, or Passano, had been released at the end of November, and had then been embarked on a felucca bound for Toulon
The sarateful letter to M Grirateful, for if he had listened to ht have reduced me to a state of dreadful misery
My landlord had taken the box at the opera in reat astonish were covered by bills infor the public that two of the perforiven, and the theatre closed till the second day of the new year