Volume VI Part 54 (2/2)
”I can't prevent your interpreting ht to my own opinion I wantto leave you any ht You ements with M Goudar, and by noon to- me that suives it ot any money”
”I am sure you will have soht”
I would not listen to any of their swindling arguhtest doubt that they were trying to cheatas soon as I had got my money back by fairI received a note fro me to call on him and settle the e on him
In the course of an hour he paid me a visit, and exerted all his eloquence to persuade me to take a bill for two hundred ounces, payable in a week I gave hi that my business ith Goudar and Gondar only, and that unless I received the money by noon I should proceed to extree was offensive; and forthwith I took up a pistol and placed it against his cheek, ordering him to leave the room He turned pale, and went aithout a word
At noon I went to Gondar's without ood pistols into assassinate him in my own house
I took no notice of this, but told Gondar to give ive him the money
There would undoubtedly have been a quarrel, if I had not been prudent enough to leave the roo Gondar with ruin if he did not send on thethe house, the fair Sara put her head out of the , and begged ged to be excused, so she said she would come down, and in a ht about your ot any; you really uarantee the payment”
”I ae such a char that will pacify me is my money, and till I have had it, you will see ainst which I declare war”
Thereupon she drew fro, worth at least four hundred ounces, and begged e
I took it, and left her aftermy bow She was doubtless astonished at my behaviour, for in her state of deshabille she could not have counted onsuch firmness
I was very well satisfied with atha's husband I told hiive
”I will do it ment and two hundred ounces on the spot He then wrote inhi
This done, I recovered atha took me into her boudoir and shewed iven her when I was rich and in love
”Now I aood fortune is all your ave ood husband and I agreed on this plan this ht have, she shewed ed to his first wife and orth a considerable sureat for words, I could only press her hand, and let s of my heart Just then her husband came in
It had evidently been concerted between theed me to accede to his wife's request
We then joined the company which consisted of a dozen or so of their friends, but the only person who attractedatha His name was Don Pascal Latilla; and I could well believe that he would be successful in love, for he was intelligent, handsome, and well-mannered We becast the ladies I was greatly pleased with one young girl She was only fourteen, but she looked eighteen Agatha told e as she was so poor
”So pretty, and yet poor?”