Volume VI Part 81 (2/2)

I applauded his generosity, but I formed the conclusion that they had laid some plot between them, and that I should soon hear of the results of this new alliance

I returned Zanovitch's call the next day He was at table with his nized if she had not pronounced my name directly she saw me

As she had addressed me as Don Giacomo, I called her Donna Ippolita, but in a voice which indicated that I was not certain of her identity She told ht

I had supped with her at Naples in company with Lord Baltimore, and she was very pretty then

Zanovitch askedday, and I should have thanked hied to be excused if Donna Ippolita had not pressed ood company there, and that the cook would excel himself

I felt rather curious to see the co Zanovitch that I was not likely to beconificently once more

As I had expected, I found Medini and his n ladies and their attendant cavaliers, and a fine-looking and well-dressed Venetian, between thirty-five and forty, whonized if Zanovitch had not told me his name, Alois Zen

”Zen was a patrician naive hih it is very possible you do not recollect me, as I was only ten years oldeach other last”

Zen then told me he was the son of the captain I had knohen I was under arrest at St Andrews

”That's twenty-eight years ago; but I reh you had not had the small-pox in those days”

I saw that he was annoyed by this remark, but it was his fault, as he had no business to say where he had known me, or who his father was

He was the son of a noble Venetian--a good-for-nothing in every sense of the word

When I met him at Florence he had just co a bank at faro in the house of the Venetian alad to meet him, but I found out before the dinner was over that he was coentleman; but he ell content with the one talent he possessed, naaht of the cheats on the dupes, but tookthe seven months which I spent at Florence

After this dinner I never saw Zen, or Medini, or Zanovitch, except by chance in the public places

Here I must recount some incidents which took place towards the hteen, fell in love with a Venetian dancer naht when the opera was given the young English to her camerino, and everyone wondered why he did not visit her at her own house, where he would be certain of a good welco, and handsome I believe he was the only son of the Duke of Newcastle

Zanovitch marked him down, and in a short time had become an intimate friend of the fair Lamberti He then made up to Lord Lincoln, and took him to the lady's house, as a polite man takes a friend to see his mistress

Madame Laardly of her favours with the young Englishht to supper with Zanovitch and Zen, who had been presented by the Sclav, either because of his capital, or because Zanovitch was not so accohts they took care to let the young nobleman win

As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custoht hand fro to find that luck had been as kind to hi lord nibbled, and, as ht

Zen elve thousand pounds of him, and Zanovitch lent him the money by installlishman had promised his tutor not to play, on his word of honour