Volume VI Part 71 (2/2)
”Why not?”
”Because I wish to cure myself of an unhappy passion Your sister does not loveman, and I don't feel inclined to becooes rather too far when it prevents a girl giving the le kiss”
”Indeed, I would not have believed that of her”
”Nevertheless it is the fact, and I er she runs in treating a lover in this fashi+on Tell her all that, ive her any advice of your own”
”You can't think how grieved I am to hear all this; perhaps it's Emilie's presence that makes her so cold”
”No; I have often pressed her e have been alone together, but all in vain I want to cure myself, for if she does not love me I do not wish to obtain her either by seduction or by any feeling of gratitude on her part Tell me how your future bride treats you”
”Very well, ever since she has been sure of iven myself out as a iven her a pro to deceive her
Menicuccio went on his way distressed, and I went to theof the ”Arcadians,” at the Capitol, to hear the Marchioness d'Aout recite her reception piece ThisFrenchwoman who had been at Rome for the last six months with her husband, a enius Frohtest idea of an intrigue, leaving all that to a French priest as hopelessly in love with her, and had thrown up his chances of preferment for her sake
Every day the Princess Santa Croce told me that I could have the key to her box at the theatre whenever I liked to take Ariving any sign she began to believe that I had really broken off the connection
The cardinal, on the other hand, believed me to be still in love, and praised my conduct He told me that I should have a letter froht; for at the end of the week she wrote ed to obey
I called on her, and she began by asking me plainly why my visits had ceased
”Because I aht you here every day, I do not see how it can have suddenly operated in another direction”
”And yet it is all quite natural; for when one loves one desires, and when one desires in vain one suffers, and continual suffering is great unhappiness And so you see that I am bound to act thus for my own sake”
”I pity you, and see the wisdo Ar passed upon her which is very far froment is that?”
”That your love was only a whim, and that as soon as it was satisfied you abandoned her”
”I am sorry indeed to hear of this, but what can I do? I must cure myself of this unhappy passion Do you know any other remedy than absence? Kindly advise me”
”I don't know much about the affection called love, but it seerees love becomes friendshi+p, and peace is restored”
”True, but if it is to becoently treated
If the beloved object is not very tender, love grows desperate and turns to indifference or conterow desperate nor to despise Aroodness I shall do my utmost for her, just as if she had made me happy, but I will see her no more”
”I am in complete darkness on the matter They assure me that they have never failed in their duty towards you, and that they cannot i here”
”Whether by prudence, or tiainst me, they have told you a lie; but you deserve to know all, and my honour requires that I should tell you the whole story”
”Please do so; you may count on my discretion”