Volume VI Part 53 (1/2)
”Only one Frenche to co it from him”
”I advise you to wait till to-iven you”
”Why should I wait?”
”I can't say any more just now”
This Roland was the father of the Therese whom I had loved nine years before, and whom my brother Jean had married in 1762, a year after my departure Roland told me that my brother was in Rome with Prince Beloselski, the Russian ambassador to the Court of Saxony
”I understood that my brother could not come to Roer Electress of Saxony obtained for him from the Holy Father He wants his case to be re-tried, and there he makes a mistake, for if it were heard a hundred times the sentence would continue the sas will have nothing to say to hih he had been at Madrid”
”He has got leave of absence for a year, but his fa all this nehich was far fros ororders that I was to be roused in time for dinner
In an hour's ti to give ello's men, who had come to take over l'Etoile's effects
At dinner I told Sir B---- M---- what I had done, and we agreed that he should acco
In the afternoon we visited so Betty back to the inn ent to the bargello, who told us our man was already in prison, and that it would cost very little to send hi up my mind I should like to speak to him,” said Sir B---- M----
”You can do so to- without any trouble, andhe was not afraid of any consequences, as the young lady had gone with hie, but he evinced no emotion whatever He told me that he was an actor by profession, but also a man of rank As to the horse, he said he was at perfect liberty to sell it, as the watch he had left in pledge orth ello that the watch aforesaid belonged to Betty
We gave the worthy official fifty crowns, and supped with Betty, who had, as I have re herself in putting her things to rights
She was glad to hear that the rascal was in prison, but she did not seem to wish to pay him a visit
We went to see hiello had assigned us an advocate, whopayment by the prisoner of the expenses of the journey, and of his arrest, together with a certain sum as compensation to the person whoht to the title of count in the course of six weeks
We found l'Etoile with this docu it for him into French
As soon as the rascal saw h, that I owed him twenty-five Louis as he had left Betty to sleep with lishman told him he lied; it was he that had slept with her
”Are you Betty's lover?” asked l'Etoile
”Yes, and if I had caught you with her I should have blown out your brains, for you have deceived her doubly; you're only a beggarly actor”
”I have three thousand crowns”
”I will pay six thousand if the bill proves to be a good one In the meanwhile you will stay here, and if it be false, as I expect it is, you will go to the galleys”
”Very good”