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The next day she had her carriage, and I had my three hundred crowns, and I let the proud prelate understand that I had avenged myself for his rudeness

About this ti a position as tutor in an illustrious Neapolitan family, and as soon as he received his journey- the town

I had kept up an interesting correspondence with M Zaguri, who had made up his mind to obtainbetter Zaguri told me that if I wanted to obtain my pardon I must come and live as near as possible to the Venetian borders, so that the State Inquisitors ood conduct M

Zuliani, brother to the duchess of Fiano, gave me the same advice, and promised to use all his interest inthis counsel I decided to set up uri told ive o by land without passing through the States of Venice I resolved to go to Ancona, whence boats sail to Trieste every day As I should pass through Pesaro I asked uishedwished to know Just then he was a good deal talked about on account of a treatise on alms which he had recently published, and which the Roman curia had placed on the ”Index”

The , and was iustine, which becomes Jansenism if pushed to an extrena, for I had spent eight pleasant months there In two days I arrived at Pesaro in perfect health and well provided for in every way

I left my letter with the marquis, and he came to see me the same day

He said his house would always be open to me, and that he would leave me in his wife's hands to be introduced to everybody and everything in the place He ended by askingthat if I cared to exaive me an excellent cup of chocolate

I went, and saw an enormous collection of comments on the Latin poets from Ennius to the poets of the twelfth century of our era He had had them all printed at his own expense and at his private press, in four tall folios, very accurately printed but without elegance I told hiht

The want of elegance which had spared him an outlay of a hundred thousand francs had deprived him of a profit of three hundred thousand

He presented me with a copy, which he sent to my inn, with an immense folio volume entitled ”Marmora Pisaurentia,” which I had no time to examine

I was hters and two sons, all good-looking and well bred

The marchioness was a woman of the world, while her husband's interests were confined to his books This difference in disposition soer would never have noticed it if he had not been told

Fifty years ago a wise edy, which should be kept private with the greatest care In fine, people should learn to wash their dirty linen in private”

Thethe five days I spent at Pesaro In the day she drove ht she introduced ht have been fifty then He was cold by temperament, had no other passion but that of study, and his morals were pure He had founded an acaden was a fly, in allusion to his name Mosca, with the words 'de me ce', that is to say, take away 'c' fro was that which the ious to excess, and this excess of religion went beyond the bounds where 'nequit consistere rectuo beyond these bounds, or not to come up to them? I cannot venture to decide the question Horace says,--

”Nulla estof an ode in which he condeion

Excess of every kind is bad

I left Pesaro delighted with the good company I had met, and only sorry I had not seen the marquis's brother as praised by everyone

CHAPTER XX

A Jew Na Coe in His House--I Fall in Love With His Daughter Leah--After a Stay of Six Weeks I Go to Trieste