Volume VI Part 86 (2/2)

”Where shall I be?”

”I will tell you at the moment of your departure; trust in me I will send you at once where you will be comfortable All you have to do is to leave your trunk in the hands of your landlord, with orders not to give it up to anyone but o without my trunk, then”

”Yes You o, andBologna”

”I will take care not to do so”

The worthy young fellow looked quite radiant I e so ood work I was about to perforer when she found that her lover had escaped

I wrote toabbe would present hied Dandolo to get hi, as my friend was so unfortunate as to be indifferently provided with h an excellent man I then wrote the letter of which the abbe was to be the bearer

Next day Bolini toldto his gaiety at the thought of freedoht she had passed with hiht him as much in love as she was

”She has all ood part of it back under one pretext or another, and she is welcome to the rest”

On the day appointed he called on e carpet bag containing necessaries I took him to Modena in a post chaise, and there we dined; afterward I gave hi to send on his trunk the next day

He was delighted to hear that Venice was his destination, as he had long wished to go there, and I promised him that M Dandolo should see that he lived as cona

I saw hina The trunk I dispatched after hi day

As I had expected, the poor victim appeared before me all in tears the next day I felt it my duty to pity her; it would have been cruel to pretend I did not know the reason for her despair I gave her a long but kindly ser to persuade her that I had acted for the best in preventing the abbe ed the atby all the saints that she would neverher, I said I would do my best to win him over

She asked where he was, and I said at Venice; but of course she did not believe me There are circu the truth, and such a lie as this orous moralists

Twenty-seven months later Iin its proper place

A few days after he had gone, I made the acquaintance of the fair Viscioletta, and fell so ardently in love with her that I had to make up my mind to buy her with hard cash The time when I could make women fall in love with me was no more, and I had to make up my mind either to do without the when people ask me for advice, as I feel so certain that my advice will not be taken Man is an animal that has to learn his lesson by hard experience in battling with the storms of life

Thus the world is always in disorder and always ignorant, for those who know are always in an infinitesimal proportion to the whole

Madame Viscioletta, whom I went to see every day, treated h therequired forms and ceremonies which I could dispense with in the presence of the fair Viscioletta, as nothing else than a professional courtezan, though she called herself a virtuosa

I had besieged her for three weeks without any success, and when I nor Buoncoh all the town knew it, but this sort of conventional secrecy is coh in Italy As as ecclesiastic he could not court her openly, but the hussyin need of e than of anything else, I announced it for sale at the price of three hundred and fifty Roe, and orth the price I was told that the vice-legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival's desires I told the man that I had stated my price and

I went to see ood condition, and ate's, andon his preserves He told e was not worth lad of the opportunity of getting rid of it, as it was th ofhim dryly that I did not chaffer I turned my back on him and went my way

Next day the fair Viscioletta wrote ed if I would let the vice-legate have the carriage at his own price, as she felt sure he would give it to her I replied that I would call on her in the afternoon, and that my ansould depend on my welcoave way, and I signified e for the suate