Volume VI Part 93 (2/2)

In a secondher spheres of rose and alabaster I penetrated to the sanctuary of love, which, in citadel

There was a short silence, and then I said,--

”Dearest Leah, you oblige me to adore you; why did you first inspire me with hate? Are you not come here merely to huive you; but you are in the wrong, for, believe eance”

”Nay, I have not coive myself to you without reserve, to render youme happy, break down the barrier which I kept intact, despite its fragility and my ardour, and if this sacrifice does not convince you of my affection you etic opinions, and I had never seen a an the work, and while Leah aided ate, and on Leah's face I read the led In the first ecstasy of delight I felt her tremble in every limb

As for ain, but I had the self-restraint ofher inWhen I left her she was inundated and exhausted with pleasure, while I could do nothe soaking linen aith her

I slept on till twelve o'clock

When I awoke and saw her standing by , the idea ofdeparture saddenedas I could I repeated that ould arrange everything e ht

We had a delicious dinner, for Mardocheus was bent on convincing me that he was no ed that I should go on a Neapolitan man-of-hich was in quarantine at the tied to pass another month at Ancona, I blessed the storold snuff-box hich the Elector of Cologne had presentedthe portrait as a old sequins, which was afor another er feed at my expense Of course I did not insist Leah still dined with h perhaps I may be mistaken, that the Jeas perfectly well aware of hter Jews are usually very liberal on this article, possibly because they count on the child being an Israelite

I took care that my dear Leah should have no reason to repent of our connection How grateful and affectionate she hen I told her that I meant to stay another month! How she blessed the bad weather which had driventhose nights forbidden by the laws of Moses

I gave her the little gold heart, which ht be worth ten sequins, but that would be no reward for the care she had taken of my linen She also made me accept soain at Pesaro

I left Ancona on November 14th, and on the 15th I was at Trieste

CHAPTER XXI

Pittoni--Zaguri--The Procurator Morosini--The Venetian Consul--Gorice--The French Consul--Madame Leo--My Devotion to The State Inquisitors--Strasoldo--Madahausen

The landlord asked reeed Next day I went to the post-office and found several letters which had been awaiting me for the last month I opened one from M Dandolo, and found an open enclosure from the patrician Marco Dona, addressed to Baron Pittoni, Chief of Police On reading it, I found I was very warave him the letter, which he took but did not read He told me that M Donna had written to hi in his power for me

I then took Mardocheus's letter to his friend Moses Levi I had not the slightest idea that the letter had any reference to ave it to the first clerk that I saw in the office

Levi was an honest and an agreeable man, and the next day he called on me and offered me his services in the most cordial manner He shewed hted to find that it referred to ivethat any politeness shewn to me would be as if shewn to himself

This behaviour on the part of Mardocheus filled ratitude, and reconciled me, so to speak, with the whole Jewish nation I wrote hi to serve him at Venice in any way I could

I could not help co the cordiality of Levi's welcome with the formal and ceremonious reception of Baron Pittoni The baron was ten or twelve years younger than I He was a man of parts, and quite devoid of prejudice A sworn foe of 'meum and tuum', and wholly incapable of economy, he left the whole care of his house to his valet, who robbed him, but the baron knew it and allant, and the friend and patron of libertines His chief defect was his forgetfulness and absence of e ily, to be a liar A liar is a person who tells falsehoods intentionally, while if Pittoni told lies it was because he had forgotten the truth We becaood friends in the course of a month, and we have remained friends to this day

I wrote tomy arrival at Trieste, and for the next ten days I kept ether the notes I had made on Polish events since the death of Elizabeth Petrovna

I meant to write a history of the troubles of unhappy Poland up to its dis place at the epoch in which I riting