Volume VI Part 41 (1/2)
”And if they refuse to pay?”
”Then their safety is not so sure”
”Money does everything in Lugano, I suppose”
”But, sir---- ”
”I understand, but letto be excused froive me, but I happen to know that you have some disputes with the Venetian Governood fellow”
”No, I am not”
”If you are so sure, find someone to bet me two hundred sequins that I have reason to fear the Venetian Government; I will take the bet and deposit the aello remained silent, and the landlord told him he seemed to havevery disappointed
My landlord was delighted to hear that I thought of h bailiff, who governed the place
”He's a very nice Swiss gentleman,” said he, ”and his wife a clever woo and see hih bailiff at noon on the day following, and as my surprise to findwife Beside her was a pretty boy, five or six years old
Our ined!
CHAPTER XI
The Punishano--Turin-- M Dubois at Parhorn--The Duke of Orloff--Pisa-- Stratico--Sienna--The Marchioness Chigi--My Departure frolishwos with old friends have always been the happiest moments of ht M de R was the first to break the silence by giving me a cordial eined that thereascertained his name He made me take pot-luck with him the same day, and we seeiven him this employ--a very lucrative one--and he was only sorry that it would expire in two years He told ed hted to hear that I should be engaged in seeing h the press for three or four months, and seemed vexed when I told him that I could not accept his hospitality more than once a week as my labours would be incessant
Madame de R---- could scarcely recover from her surprise It was nine years since I had seen her at Soleure, and then I thought her beauty , she was still more beautiful and I told her so She shewed me her only child, who had been born four years after my departure She cherished the child as the apple of her eye, and seeo, that this child is now an amiable and accomplished man
In a quarter of an hour Madame de R---- informed me of all that had happened at Soleure since one to Besancon, where he lived happily with his char wife
She happened to observe in a casual way that I no longer looked as young as I had done at Soleure, and this ht not otherwise have done I did not let her beauty carry me away; I resisted the effect of her charms, and I was content to enjoy her friendshi+p, and to be worthy of the friendshi+p of her good husband
The work on which I was engaged demanded all my care and attention, and a love affair would have wasted , and save for an hour's visit frohtfall The next day I had the first proof-sheet hich I ell enough pleased
I spent the whole of the nextout to mass on feast days, to dine with M de R----, and to ith his wife and her child
At the end of a month my first volume was printed and stitched, and the manuscript of the second volume was ready for the press Towards the end of October the printer sent in the entire work in three volumes, and in less than a year the edition was sold out