Volume VI Part 91 (2/2)

”I shall be delighted to do you this small service”

At dinner Leah sat doithherself about my monosyllabic answers

I supposed she wished me to credit her with calm confidence and philosophy, while I looked upon it all as brazen impudence

I hated and despised her She had inflamed my passions, told me to my face she did not love h it all

Possibly she expected rateful for her re her to her father

As she drank my Scopolo she said there were several bottles left, as well as some Muscat

”I make you a present of it all,” I replied, ”it will priies”

She sht of a spectacle which orth ladly have given me another opportunity

This piece of impudence made me want to break the wine bottle on her head Sheto do from the way I took it up, but she did not waver for aa cri that she was the most impudent slut I had everhand, as if that were the purpose for which I had taken up the bottle

After this scene I got up and went into the next room; nevertheless, in half an hour she causted me, but I calmed myself by the reflection that her conduct eance

”I should like to help you to pack,” said she

”And I should like to be left alone,” I replied; and taking her by the arm I led her out of the room and locked the door after her

We were both of us in the right Leah had deceived and humiliated me, and I had reason to detest her, while I had discovered her for a ood cause for her to disliketwo sailors ca ive it to her father, who had taken the box of which I was to be the bearer down to the vessel

We set sail with a fair wind, and I thought never to set face on Leah again But fate had ordered otherwise

We had gone twenty ood wind in our quarter, by which ere borne gently from wave to wave, when all of a sudden there fell a dead calh in the Adriatic, especially in the part ere in

The calm lasted but a short tian to bloith the result that the sea becaht the storerous The captain toldin the wind's eye we should be wrecked, and that the only thing to be done was to return to Ancona

In less than three hours we nizedto the officer the sailors tookto ask my leave

I was vexed I wanted to avoid Leah, and I had intended to sleep at the nearest inn However, there was no help for it When I arrived the Jew got up, and said he was delighted to see , and I felt very ill, so I said I would not get up till late, and that I would dine in ras I slept ten hours, and when I awoke I felt hungry and rang my bell

The maid answered and said that she would have the honour of waiting on me, as Leah had a violent headache