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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.Vol. I."Venetian Years"by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.CASANOVA AT DUX An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons I The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad re
- 501 "He can go as he likes; that can't make much difference to either of us.""You say she is young and pretty.""I have been told so, but I haven't seen her myself.""What sort of a man is her companion?""H
- 502 "Pray do not let me disturb you. This is a pleasant room, and they can lay the table in the next. Lie down, and sleep if you can, and I will order dinner to be ready by two. I hope you will be feeling better by then."I left her without giving he
- 503 With these words she became silent, and I left her to her thoughts.At seven o'clock we arrived at St. Quirico, and the so-called Comte de l'Etoile came out and welcomed his wife in the most loving fas.h.i.+on, kissing her before everybody, no do
- 504 We were walking along engaged in agreeable converse, when all at once we heard the church bells peal out. Betty said she had never seen a Catholic service, and I was glad to give her that pleasure. It was the feast day of some local saint, and Betty a.s.s
- 505 "And when you are convinced, will you cease to love him?""Certainly; if you prove him to be dishonest, my love will vanish away.""You are mistaken; you will still love him, even when you have had proof positive of his wickedness.
- 506 "Not at all; to bed with you, I shall love you all the more.""You must be crazy, I shall do nothing of the kind."The count took her in his arms, and caressing her in the tenderest manner begged her to do him this favour, not so much fo
- 507 We got over our supper hastily, and then Betty begged me to leave her alone for a few moments for her to change her linen and go to bed."If you like," said I, "I will have a bed made up for me in the next room.""No, dear friend, o
- 508 CHAPTER XIII Rome--The Actor's Punishment--Lord Baltimore--Naples--Sara Goudar--Departure of Betty--Agatha--Medina--Albergoni--Miss Chudleigh--The Prince of Francavilla--The Swimmers As I fell over the Englishman I had struck my hand against a nail,
- 509 "Only one Frenchman, the Comte de l'Etoile, who is waiting for his equipage to come on. He has an excellent horse, and I am thinking of buying it from him.""I advise you to wait till to-morrow, and to say nothing about the advice I hav
- 510 Five or six days after Betty had left I chanced to meet the Abby Gama, who had aged a good deal, but was still as gay and active as ever. After we had told each other our adventures he informed me that, as all the differences between the Holy See and the
- 511 "Yes, for she will have all or nothing; and lovers of that kind are rare in Naples.""But she must have some lover?""If she has, no one has heard of him. You had better make her acquaintance and go and see her. You will soon be fri
- 512 This was as much as to tell me that though she did not love me yet I had only to wait patiently, and I resolved to follow her advice. I had reached an age which knows nothing of the impatient desires of youth.I gave her a tender embrace, and as I was gett
- 513 I thanked him, but I would not look at his trinkets, as I was afraid the temptation of making such a profit would be too great.When I got back to my inn I found some guests had arrived, of whom a few were known to me. Bartoldi had arrived from Dresden wit
- 514 "I will try, but I warn you that I shall tell her the simple truth.""Very good.""Come again to-morrow."At six o'clock I went to ask Hamilton how I could exchange the English notes I had won, and he gave me the money hims
- 515 He told me that Madame Cornelis was head over ears in debts, and spent about half the year in prison. She would then get out by giving fresh bills and making various arrangements with her creditors, who knew that if they did not allow her to give her b.a.
- 516 Don Pascal Latilla, who had been lucky enough to avoid his majesty's notice, told us a number of pleasant anecdotes about the king; all shewed him in the amiable light of a friend of mirth and an enemy to all pomp and stateliness, by which kings are
- 517 I was sitting down to table when I had the pleasure of seeing Lucrezia herself come in. She gave a cry of delight and rushed to my arms.This excellent woman was exactly my own age, but she would have been taken for fifteen years younger.After I had told h
- 518 "Who is the other diplomatist with whom you are afraid of failing?""'Tis yourself.""Then your battle is over, for I consent before I know what you ask. I only make a reserve on one point.""So much the worse, as that
- 519 "Do you think I may draw my bill at nine months?" said I."It will very probably be met," said she."Really?""Yes, really; and it will be to you that my husband will owe the happiness he has so long desired. He told me so
- 520 As she left me she gave me such a kind embrace that I could bear it no longer, and guiding her hand I skewed her the power she exercised over me. She then went away, and I shall not say whether my behaviour irritated or pleased her.The next day I was curi
- 521 The Prince of Santa Croce was the d.u.c.h.ess's 'cavaliere servante', and the princess was served by Cardinal Bernis. The princess was a daughter of the Marquis Falconieri, and was young, pretty, lively, and intended by nature for a life of
- 522 I guessed the latter circ.u.mstance one day when, after I had asked her to tell me her adventures from the age of eleven to that of eighteen, she proceeded to tell me tales, the telling of which necessitated her throwing all modesty to the winds.I took th
- 523 He was a lad of fifteen or sixteen, and very handsome though short.Nature had endowed him with an enormous symbol of virility, and at Lampsacus he would no doubt have had an altar erected to him beside that of Priapus, with which divinity he might well ha
- 524 The day after, I went to dinner with him. The Chevalier de Neuville came in towards the close of the meal, and Medini a few moments later. The latter called on us to hold a bank, each in his turn, and we agreed.Manucci gained double what he had lost; Neuv
- 525 The worthy Pope did not stop there. He ordered a rigid scrutiny of the accounts to be made, and reduced the number from a hundred to fifty, doubling the dower. He also ordered that all girls who reached the age of twenty-five without getting married shoul
- 526 "My husband set up at Frascati eight years ago, and we have lived there very happily ever since.""I am very glad to hear it. Have you any children?""Four; and the eldest, who is nine years old, is very like you.""Do you
- 527 A few days later, the princess told Cardinal Orsini that she had taken a peculiar interest in two of the young recluses, and desiring to provide them with suitable establishments she wished to take them now and again to the theatre so as to give them some
- 528 I then told my tale, and I saw she was moved."I have always tried," she said, "never to believe evil except on compulsion, nevertheless, knowing as I do the weakness of the human heart, I could never have believed that throughout so long an
- 529 "I was afraid she would take me for a simpleton if I did not do so.""Then do you think you committed a sin in kissing her like that?""Certainly not, for it was very unpleasant for me.""Then why won't you make the sa
- 530 The next day I amused the princess and the cardinal by a circ.u.mstantial account of what had happened."You missed your opportunity," said the princess."I don't think so," said the cardinal, "I believe, on the contrary, that
- 531 To finish the matter up, she said by way of soothing me that the young man did not mean to vex me, as he doubtless took me for her father.What could I reply to this observation, as cruel as it was reasonable?Nothing; I could only take refuge in silence an
- 532 I lifted the bandage and saw everything, but they pretended not to suspect anything.They treated me in the same way, no doubt to see what it was that they felt when they fell upon me.This delightful game went on; till exhausted, nature would not allow me
- 533 I thanked him for doing Margarita the honour of accepting a cup of coffee from her hands, and begged him to take one with me, saying I would breakfast with him next morning. He lived with Roland, opposite St. Charles, where Madame Gabrieli, the famous sin
- 534 I asked him to dinner, and had Margarita to dine with us. Not caring for her I should have been glad if he had fallen in love with her; there would have been no difficulty, I believe, on her part, and certainly not on mine; but nothing came of it. She adm
- 535 About half-past eleven the Marchioness d'Aout, who was delighted with Armelline, and possibly had her protege's happiness in view, asked me, in a tone that amounted to a command, to sup with her in company with my two companions."I cannot h
- 536 Such was my conversation with the young sovereign, and after his a.s.surances I concluded that no one would molest me.My adventures in Tuscany the years before were in all probability forgotten, or almost forgotten, as the new Government had nothing in co
- 537 I told the vetturino that I would on no account be Medini's surety, or be answerable for him in any way.Just as I was going out, he leapt forward crying that I must not abandon him.I had opened the door, and the police, fearing he would escape, ran f
- 538 Zanovitch won from Zen what Zen won from the lord, and so the game was kept up till the young pigeon had lost the enormous sum of twelve thousand guineas.Lord Lincoln promised to pay three thousand guineas the next day, and signed three bills of exchange
- 539 "No doubt. Count Marulli told me yesterday that you spoke very highly of the grand duke, and you are quite right. You can talk to me in confidence; the walls of this room have no ears. How much did you get of the twelve thousand guineas?"I told
- 540 When we had gone half a league we stopped at a good inn, and then proceeded on our way back to Bologna.The same day I wrote to M. de Zaguri, and described the welcome I had received at the hands of the marquis. I enclosed the letter in another to M. Dando
- 541 Count Ricla, a dupe to the last, gave her a considerable yearly income on the condition that she should never come to Barcelona again; but in a year the count died.Nina did not survive him for more than a year, and died miserably from her fearful debauche
- 542 "I have taken good care not to do so, and that's what has irritated her; she calls all my little stratagems detestable treason.""Nevertheless, you have made up your mind to marry her sooner or later?""I'd as soon hang my
- 543 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 time Severini succeeded in obtaining a position as tutor in an ill.u.s.trious Neapolitan fam
- 544 After this the poor man said no more. When we were going to take our dinner I asked him to sit beside me, but he said his religion would not allow him to do so, and that he would only eat eggs, fruit, and some foiegras sausage he had in his pocket. He onl
- 545 She pretended not to understand, and left me burning with desire. I felt that I must either obtain possession of her or tell her father not to send her into my room any more.The Turin Jewess had given me some valuable hints as to the conduct of amours wit
- 546 We dined very pleasantly together. The servant brought in some sh.e.l.l-fish, which are forbidden by the Mosaic Law. While the maid was in the room I asked Leah to take some, and she refused indignantly; but directly the girl was gone she took some of her
- 547 After what I had said to the consul I felt I should be bound to go, and I went to bed calmly enough. But about two o'clock in the morning I had, contrary to my usual habit, to get up and offer sacrifice to Cloacina. I left my room without any candle, as
- 548 I made no answer, thanking Providence for delivering me from this impudent and dangerous woman.Having found my dinner rather spare I told the cook to get me a good supper.The weather was dreadful. The Venetian consul had heard of my return, and not having
- 549 "Try if you like," I said, "to persuade me to drink some Scopolo or Muscat. I meant to have taken some, but your taunt has turned me to steel. I mean to prove that when I make up my mind I never alter it.""The strong-minded man never gives way," sai
- 550 I had foreseen all this when the Polish Diet recognized the dying czarina as Empress of all the Russians, and the Elector of Brandenburg as King of Prussia, and I proceeded with my history; but only the first three volumes were published, owing to the pri
- 551 I dressed myself as if I had been about to speak to a monarch, and sent in a note to his room.I had not long to wait; he came out and welcomed me most graciously, telling me how delighted he was to see me again.When he heard the reason of my being at Trie
- 552 "In future all goods for Lombardy will be embarked here and disembarked at Mezzola without troubling the Republic. Mezzola is in the territories of the Duke of Modem; a s.h.i.+p can cross the gulf in the night, and our goods will be placed in storehouses
- 553 "Well; well, let them come; they will get nothing by it."I heard footsteps approaching, and went out, closing the door behind me, and begging them to excuse my not asking them in, as there was a contraband commodity in my room."Only tell me that it is
- 554 A handsome negress, who served the prettiest of my actresses to whom I shewed great attentions, said to me one day,-- "I can't make out how you can be so much in love with my mistress, who is as white as the devil.""Have you never loved a white man?"
- 555 "Ah!" said he, "this is the room my poor old father used to love to sit in; like you, he was very fond of study. You may be sure of enjoying perfect liberty here, for you will see no one."We dined late, and consequently no supper was served. The eatin
- 556 The servant who escorted me to my room asked me at what time I should like breakfast. I told him, and he was punctual; and this time the coffee was brought in the coffee-pot and the sugar in the sugar basin.The valet did my hair, and the maid did my room,
- 557 "What have you got to say?""If you leave my house in this fas.h.i.+on you will dishonour me, and I will not allow it.""Excuse me, but I should very much like to see how you are going to prevent me from leaving your house."&qu
- 558 She was the banker, and she begged me to join the party now and then."I will come after the play to-night," I replied, "but you must not expect any high play of me."I kept the appointment and supped with a number of silly young tradesm
- 559 Doctor Gozzi, his former teacher at Padua, now become Arch-Priest of St.George of the Valley, and his sister Betting. "When I went to pay him a visit ... she breathed her last in my arms, in 1776, twenty-four hours after my arrival. I will speak of h
- 560 "Dearest and best beloved, " ... In the way of novelties, I find nothing except that S. E. Pietro Zaguri has arrived at Venice; his servant has been twice to ask for you, and I have said you were still at the Baths of Abano ..."The Casanova
- 561 After leaving Venice, Casanova apparently took an opportunity to pay his last disrespects to the Tribunal. At least, in May 1783, M. Schlick, French Secretary at Venice, wrote to Count Vergennes: "Last week there reached the State Inquisitors an anon
- 562 3rd April 1784. "I see with pleasure that you have gone to amuse yourself in company with two ladies and that you have traveled five posts to see the Emperor [Joseph II] ... . You say that your fortune consists of one sequin ... . I hope that you obt
- 563 1st July 1786. "After a silence of a year and a half, I received from you yesterday a good letter which has consoled me in informing me that you are in perfect health. But, on the other hand, I was much pained to see that in your letter you did not c
- 564 Casanova complained of the Faulkircher incident to the mother of Count Waldstein, who wrote: "I pity you, Monsieur, for being obliged to live among such people and in such evil company, but my son will not forget that which he owes to himself and I a
- 565 But Opiz replied: "As the father of a family, I do not feel myself authorized to dispose of my revenues on the impulse of my fancy or as my heart suggests....and no offer of yours could make me a book-seller."This shows plainly enough that Opiz, for all
- 566 Scattered through the Memoirs are many of Casanova's thoughts about his old age. Some were possibly incorporated in the original text, others possibly added when he revised the text in 1797. These vary from resignation to bitterness, doubtless depend