{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history.", "pos": 4459}
{"speaker": "Prince de Ligne", "text": "du dyamatique, de la rapidite, du comique, de la philosophie, des choses neuves, sublimes, inimitables meme", "pos": 7975}
{"speaker": "Editor", "text": "It is not probable that these two chapters have been withdrawn from the manuscript of Casanova by a strange hand; everything leads us to believe that the author himself suppressed them, in the intention, no doubt, of re-writing them, but without having found time to do so.", "pos": 8917}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Elle venoit presque tous les jours lui faire une belle visite.", "pos": 11464}
{"speaker": "M. Laforgue", "text": "Cependant chaque jour Thérèse venait lui faire une visite.", "pos": 11551}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "avoit, comme de raison, forme le projet d’allier Dieu avec le diable.", "pos": 11640}
{"speaker": "M. Laforgue", "text": "Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d’allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde.", "pos": 11734}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "pour devenir reine du monde;", "pos": 11907}
{"speaker": "M. Laforgue", "text": "pour une couronne,", "pos": 11937}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Il ne savoit que lui dire", "pos": 11995}
{"speaker": "M. Laforgue", "text": "Dans cet etat de perplexite;", "pos": 12031}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg you to tell my servant what the biscuits are that I like to eat; dipped in wine, to fortify my stomach. I believe that they can all be found at Roman’s. A compliment which is only made to gild the pill is a positive impertinence, and Monsieur Bailli is nothing but a charlatan; the monarch ought to have spit in his face, but the monarch trembled with fear. All fools are not proud, and all proud men are fools. Many fools are happy, all proud men are unhappy. Whether it is possible to compose a Latin distich of the greatest beauty without knowing either the Latin language or prosody. We must examine the possibility and the impossibility, and afterwards see who is the man who says he is the author of the distich, for there are extraordinary people in the world. My brother, in short, ought to have composed the distich, because he says so, and because he confided it to me tete-’a-tete. I had, it is true, difficulty in believing him; but what is one to do! Either one must believe, or suppose him capable of telling a lie which could only be told by a fool; and that is impossible, for all Europe knows that my brother is not a fool.", "pos": 22552}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wager that it is not true that a man who weighs a hundred pounds will weigh more if you kill him. I wager that if there is any difference, he will weigh less. I wager that diamond powder has not sufficient force to kill a man. it had only arrived at the solution of problems of the second degree, inclusive. did not like regular towns. I like. Venice, Rome, Florence, Milan, Constantinople, Genoa. The name of Paradise is a name in Genesis which indicates a place of pleasure (lieu voluptueux): this term is Persian. This place of pleasure was made by God before he had created man. Voltaire, the hardy Voltaire, whose pen is without bit or bridle; Voltaire, who devoured the Bible, and ridiculed our dogmas, doubts, and after having made proselytes to impiety, is not ashamed, being reduced to the extremity of life, to ask for the sacraments, and to cover his body with more relics than St. Louis had at Amboise. A girl who is pretty and good, and as virtuous as you please, ought not to take it ill that a man, carried away by her charms, should set himself to the task of making their conquest. If this man cannot please her by any means, even if his passion be criminal, she ought never to take offence at it, nor treat him unkindly; she ought to be gentle, and pity him, if she does not love him, and think it enough to keep invincibly hold upon her own duty. Harmony makes beauty. An object really beautiful ought to seem beautiful to all whose eyes fall upon it. That is all; there is nothing more to be said.", "pos": 24901}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "yes. Why not, monseigneur? It is not a secret,", "pos": 27911}
{"speaker": "Prince de Rosenberg", "text": "Is His Majesty coming to Dux?", "pos": 28052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If he goes to Oberlaitensdorf (sic) he will go to Dux, too; and he may ask you for it, for there is a monument there which relates to him when he was Grand Duke.", "pos": 28084}
{"speaker": "Prince de Rosenberg", "text": "In that case, His Majesty can also see my critical remarks on the Egyptian prints.", "pos": 28248}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have all the Italians, then?", "pos": 28467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All, sire.", "pos": 28502}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See what a lie leads to. If I had not lied in saying that I was making an anthology, I should not have found myself obliged to lie again in saying that we have all the Italian poets. If the Emperor comes to Dux, I shall kill myself.", "pos": 28514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They say that this Dux is a delightful spot,", "pos": 28748}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I see that it might be for many; but not for me, for what delights me in my old age is independent of the place which I inhabit. When I do not sleep I dream, and when I am tired of dreaming I blacken paper, then I read, and most often reject all that my pen has vomited.", "pos": 28851}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have been in London for six months and have been to see them (that is the mother and daughter) in their own house, swindlers, who cause all who go there to lose their money in gambling. My handwriting is known.", "pos": 35298}
{"speaker": "Unknown Woman", "text": "Mon cher Giacometto Carissimo a Amatissimo", "pos": 36935}
{"speaker": "Francesca Buschini", "text": "Unico Mio vero Amico", "pos": 37577}
{"speaker": "Manon Baletti", "text": "goodnight, and sleep better than I Never believe me, but when I tell you that I love you, and that I shall love you always: Be assured that evil tongues, vapours, calumny, nothing can change my heart, which is yours entirely, and has no will to change its master.", "pos": 38016}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "preserve them religiously all her life.", "pos": 38961}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "These letters, numbered more than two hundred, and the shortest were of four pages:", "pos": 39003}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "un commerce epistolaire", "pos": 39715}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I replied to her, accepting the correspondence that she offered me, and telling her briefly all my vicissitudes. She related to me in turn, in some forty letters, all the history of her life. If she dies before me, I shall add these letters to these Memoirs; but to-day she is still alive, and always happy, though now old.", "pos": 39931}
{"speaker": "Henriette de Schnetzmann", "text": "No, it is impossible to be sulky with you! If I become vicious, it is you, my Mentor, who make me so, and I cast my sins upon you. Even if I were damned I should still be your most devoted friend, Henriette de Schnetzmann.", "pos": 40784}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "a distinguished man of letters whom I was anxious to see,", "pos": 42116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "since the affair of the Marquis Albergati, carried on a most interesting correspondence with me I used to spend my evenings in a very agreeable manner at the house of Count Max de Lamberg, who resided at the court of the Prince-Bishop with the title of Grand Marshal. What particularly attached me to Count Lamberg was his literary talent. A first-rate scholar, learned to a degree, he has published several much esteemed works. I carried on an exchange of letters with him which ended only with his death four years ago in 1792. supped with Count Lamberg two or three times a week,", "pos": 42700}
{"speaker": "Count Lamberg", "text": "a man known in literature, a man of profound knowledge.", "pos": 43854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "hinder black melancholy from devouring his poor existence, or sending him out of his mind,", "pos": 44645}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I write in the hope that my history will never see the broad day light of publication. Truth is the only God I have ever adored,", "pos": 46303}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where can such a book as this be found?", "pos": 48820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. The doctrine of the Stoics or of any other sect as to the force of Destiny is a bubble engendered by the imagination of man, and is near akin to Atheism. I not only believe in one God, but my faith as a Christian is also grafted upon that tree of philosophy which has never spoiled anything. I believe in the existence of an immaterial God, the Author and Master of all beings and all things, and I feel that I never had any doubt of His existence, from the fact that I have always relied upon His providence, prayed to Him in my distress, and that He has always granted my prayers. Despair brings death, but prayer does away with despair; and when a man has prayed he feels himself supported by new confidence and endowed with power to act. As to the means employed by the Sovereign Master of human beings to avert impending dangers from those who beseech His assistance, I confess that the knowledge of them is above the intelligence of man, who can but wonder and adore. Our ignorance becomes our only resource, and happy, truly happy; are those who cherish their ignorance! Therefore must we pray to God, and believe that He has granted the favour we have been praying for, even when in appearance it seems the reverse. As to the position which our body ought to assume when we address ourselves to the Creator, a line of Petrarch settles it:", "pos": 52123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Con le ginocchia della mente inchine.", "pos": 53621}
{"speaker": "Some people", "text": "What depraved tastes!", "pos": 67948}
{"speaker": "Critics", "text": "Are you not ashamed to confess such inclinations without blushing!", "pos": 67996}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pretend to the friendship, to the esteem, to the gratitude of my readers. I claim their gratitude, if my Memoirs can give them instruction and pleasure; I claim their esteem if, rendering me justice, they find more good qualities in me than faults, and I claim their friendship as soon as they deem me worthy of it by the candour and the good faith with which I abandon myself to their judgment, without disguise and exactly as I am in reality. They will find that I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms. They will not form a wrong opinion of me when they see one emptying the purse of my friends to satisfy my fancies, for those friends entertained idle schemes, and by giving them the hope of success I trusted to disappointment to cure them. I would deceive them to make them wiser, and I did not consider myself guilty, for I applied to my own enjoyment sums of money which would have been lost in the vain pursuit of possessions denied by nature; therefore I was not actuated by any avaricious rapacity. I might think myself guilty if I were rich now, but I have nothing. I have squandered everything; it is my comfort and my justification. The money was intended for extravagant follies, and by applying it to my own frolics I did not turn it into a very different, channel.", "pos": 71250}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I were deceived in my hope to please, I candidly confess I would regret it, but not sufficiently so to repent having written my Memoirs, for, after all, writing them has given me pleasure. Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first place among them. Yet I am bound to own that I entertain a great fear of hisses; it is too natural a fear for me to boast of being insensible to them, and I cannot find any solace in the idea that, when these Memoirs are published, I shall be no more. I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death: I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it. If we prefer honour to life, it is because life is blighted by infamy; and if, in the alternative, man sometimes throws away his life, philosophy must remain silent.", "pos": 72681}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, death, cruel death! Fatal law which nature necessarily rejects because thy very office is to destroy nature! Cicero says that death frees us from all pains and sorrows, but this great philosopher books all the expense without taking the receipts into account. I do not recollect if, when he wrote his ‘Tusculan Disputations’, his own Tullia was dead. Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply interests him, and this is reason enough to hate it.", "pos": 73634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All my adventures are not to be found in these Memoirs; I have left out those which might have offended the persons who have played a sorry part therein. In spite of this reserve, my readers will perhaps often think me indiscreet, and I am sorry for it. Should I perchance become wiser before I give up the ghost, I might burn every one of these sheets, but now I have not courage enough to do it.", "pos": 74161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It may be that certain love scenes will be considered too explicit, but let no one blame me, unless it be for lack of skill, for I ought not to be scolded because, in my old age, I can find no other enjoyment but that which recollections of the past afford to me. After all, virtuous and prudish readers are at liberty to skip over any offensive pictures, and I think it my duty to give them this piece of advice; so much the worse for those who may not read my preface; it is no fault of mine if they do not, for everyone ought to know that a preface is to a book what the play-bill is to a comedy; both must be read.", "pos": 74559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My Memoirs are not written for young persons who, in order to avoid false steps and slippery roads, ought to spend their youth in blissful ignorance, but for those who, having thorough experience of life, are no longer exposed to temptation, and who, having but too often gone through the fire, are like salamanders, and can be scorched by it no more. True virtue is but a habit, and I have no hesitation in saying that the really virtuous are those persons who can practice virtue without the slightest trouble; such persons are always full of toleration, and it is to them that my Memoirs are addressed.", "pos": 75178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have written in French, and not in Italian, because the French language is more universal than mine, and the purists, who may criticise in my style some Italian turns will be quite right, but only in case it should prevent them from understanding me clearly. The Greeks admired Theophrastus in spite of his Eresian style, and the Romans delighted in their Livy in spite of his Patavinity. Provided I amuse my readers, it seems to me that I can claim the same indulgence. After all, every Italian reads Algarotti with pleasure, although his works are full of French idioms.", "pos": 75784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is one thing worthy of notice: of all the living languages belonging to the republic of letters, the French tongue is the only one which has been condemned by its masters never to borrow in order to become richer, whilst all other languages, although richer in words than the French, plunder from it words and constructions of sentences, whenever they find that by such robbery they add something to their own beauty. Yet those who borrow the most from the French, are the most forward in trumpeting the poverty of that language, very likely thinking that such an accusation justifies their depredations. It is said that the French language has attained the apogee of its beauty, and that the smallest foreign loan would spoil it, but I make bold to assert that this is prejudice, for, although it certainly is the most clear, the most logical of all languages, it would be great temerity to affirm that it can never go farther or higher than it has gone. We all recollect that, in the days of Lulli, there was but one opinion of his music, yet Rameau came and everything was changed. The new impulse given to the French nation may open new and unexpected horizons, and new beauties, fresh perfections, may spring up from new combinations and from new wants.", "pos": 76359}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The motto I have adopted justifies my digressions, and all the commentaries, perhaps too numerous, in which I indulge upon my various exploits: ‘Nequidquam sapit qui sibi non sapit’. For the same reason I have always felt a great desire to receive praise and applause from polite society:", "pos": 77624}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Excitat auditor stadium, laudataque virtus Crescit, et immensum gloria calcar habet.", "pos": 77914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would willingly have displayed here the proud axiom: ‘Nemo laeditur nisi a se ipso’, had I not feared to offend the immense number of persons who, whenever anything goes wrong with them, are wont to exclaim, “It is no fault of mine!” I cannot deprive them of that small particle of comfort, for, were it not for it, they would soon feel hatred for themselves, and self-hatred often leads to the fatal idea of self-destruction.", "pos": 77999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As for myself I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good or of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.", "pos": 78428}
{"speaker": "The witch", "text": "not to be frightened", "pos": 85230}
{"speaker": "The witch", "text": "my haemorrhage would little by little leave me, provided I should never disclose to any one what she had done to cure me the loss of all my blood and with death, should I ever breathe a word concerning those mysteries a beautiful lady would pay me a visit during the following night, and that she would make me happy, on condition that I should have sufficient control over myself never to mention to anyone my having received such a visit", "pos": 86178}
{"speaker": "My grandmother", "text": "to be silent death if I dared to say anything respecting my night’s adventures", "pos": 87616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, dear mother! what is this? the trees are walking! How is it, that the trees are walking.", "pos": 97741}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "The boat is moving, the trees are not. Now dress yourself.", "pos": 98096}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then it may be, that the sun does not move, and that we, on the contrary, are revolving from west to east.", "pos": 98208}
{"speaker": "M. Baffo", "text": "Thou are right, my child. The sun does not move; take courage, give heed to your reasoning powers and let others laugh.", "pos": 98541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is Latin indeed.", "pos": 121878}
{"speaker": "My mother", "text": "We know that, but can you explain it?", "pos": 121902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To explain it is not enough, it is a question which is worthy of an answer.", "pos": 121960}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why not?", "pos": 123533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because both are obscene.", "pos": 123556}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But they are sublime.", "pos": 123584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go to bed and speak no more on the subject. Your answer was wonderful, because you cannot possibly know anything of the subject in question, or of the manner in which verses ought to be written.", "pos": 123608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As your father is away it is not necessary to leave your door ajar as usual. When we leave the supper-table I will go to your closet; you will find me there.", "pos": 138039}
{"speaker": "Bettina's mother", "text": "It may be, my dear mother, but we must be careful not to make a mistake. Who is the witch? Our old servant, and I have just had a proof of it. How so? I have barred the door of my room with two broomsticks placed in the shape of a cross, which she must have undone to go in; but when she saw them she drew back, and she went round by the other door. It is evident that, were she not a witch, she would not be afraid of touching them.", "pos": 140127}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "It is not complete evidence, dear mother; send the woman to me. Why, did you not enter my mother’s room this morning through the usual door?", "pos": 140568}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "I do not know what you mean.", "pos": 140765}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Did you not see the St. Andrew’s cross on the door?", "pos": 140796}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "What cross is that?", "pos": 140850}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "It is useless to plead ignorance, where did you sleep last Thursday night?", "pos": 140872}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "At my niece’s, who had just been confined.", "pos": 140968}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Nothing of the sort. You were at the witches’ Sabbath; you are a witch, and have bewitched my daughter.", "pos": 141013}
{"speaker": "Doctor Olivo", "text": "whether he would be in the way;", "pos": 142170}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that he had no faith in any miracles except in those of the Gospel.", "pos": 142285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take courage, get well again, and rely upon my discretion.", "pos": 142485}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "If it is the devil who has offended thee with his words, resent the insult with words likewise, jackass that thou art, but if I have offended thee myself, learn, stupid booby, that thou must respect me, and be off at once. My name is Bettina.", "pos": 143581}
{"speaker": "Friar Prospero da Bovolenta", "text": "It cannot be, for it is the name of a baptized girl.", "pos": 144040}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Then thou art of opinion that a devil must rejoice in a masculine name? Learn, ignorant friar, that a devil is a spirit, and does not belong to either sex. But as thou believest that a devil is speaking to thee through my lips, promise to answer me with truth, and I will engage to give way before thy incantations.", "pos": 144095}
{"speaker": "Friar Prospero da Bovolenta", "text": "Very well, I agree to this.", "pos": 144413}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Tell me, then, art thou thinking that thy knowledge is greater than mine?", "pos": 144443}
{"speaker": "Friar Prospero da Bovolenta", "text": "No, but I believe myself more powerful in the name of the holy Trinity, and by my sacred character.", "pos": 144519}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "If thou art more powerful than I, then prevent me from telling thee unpalatable truths. Thou art very vain of thy beard, thou art combing and dressing it ten times a day, and thou would’st not shave half of it to get me out of this body. Cut off thy beard, and I promise to come out.", "pos": 144621}
{"speaker": "Friar Prospero da Bovolenta", "text": "Father of lies, I will increase thy punishment a hundred fold.", "pos": 144907}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "I dare thee to do it.", "pos": 144972}
{"speaker": "Capuchin", "text": "that I was wanting in faith, and that I ought to leave the room;", "pos": 145168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that he had guessed rightly.", "pos": 145256}
{"speaker": "Friar Prospero", "text": "that there was no doubt of the girl being possessed, but that another exorcist must be sent for, since he had not, himself, obtained God’s grace to eject the evil spirit.", "pos": 146305}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "that she felt quite well, that, the ball taking place on the morrow, she would come to my room in the morning to dress my hair like a girl’s.", "pos": 146632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that, as she had been so ill, she ought to nurse herself.", "pos": 146858}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "You must accompany me to the ball, disguised as a girl, or I will give you a sight which will cause you to weep.", "pos": 147096}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot go to the ball, because I have fully made up my mind to avoid every opportunity of being alone with you. As for the painful sight with which you threaten to entertain me, I believe you capable of keeping your word, but I entreat you to spare my heart, for I love you as if you were my sister. I have forgiven you, dear Bettina, and I wish to forget everything. I enclose a note which you must be delighted to have again in your possession. You see what risk you were running when you left it in your pocket. This restitution must convince you of my friendship.", "pos": 147283}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Thou art not mad, my girl.", "pos": 151054}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "that he was not drunk.", "pos": 151097}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Thou art possessed of the devil, my dear child.", "pos": 151121}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Yes, father, and you alone can cure me.", "pos": 151171}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Well, I am ready.", "pos": 151213}
{"speaker": "exorcist", "text": "that he was certain that the devil would not disturb his daughter during the night.", "pos": 152164}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gozzi", "text": "that the exorcist would come again on the morrow, and that he had promised to deliver Bettina within three hours if she were truly possessed of the demon, but that he made no promise if it should turn out to be a case of madness.", "pos": 154396}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "that he would surely deliver her, that he would surely deliver her, and she poured out her thanks to God for having allowed her the grace of beholding a saint before her death.", "pos": 154647}
{"speaker": "monk", "text": "he had very good hopes of the case, and requesting that the doctor would send him news of the patient.", "pos": 155462}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gozzi", "text": "to prepare ourselves for the next day,", "pos": 156055}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You ought, all of you, to confess to Father Mancia, so as to obtain absolution from that holy man. I intend to go to him myself.", "pos": 156132}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Spurn me, but respect my honour and the shadow of peace to which I aspire. No one from this house must confess to Father Mancia; you alone can prevent the execution of that project, and I need not suggest the way to succeed. It will prove whether you have some friendship for me.", "pos": 157022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can well understand that, notwithstanding the inviolability of confession, your mother’s proposal should cause you great anxiety; but I cannot see why, in order to prevent its execution, you should depend upon me rather than upon Cordiani who has expressed his acceptance of it. All I can promise you is that I will not be one of those who may go to Father Mancia; but I have no influence over your lover; you alone can speak to him.", "pos": 157431}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I have never addressed a word to Cordiani since the fatal night which has sealed my misery, and I never will speak to him again, even if I could by so doing recover my lost happiness. To you alone I wish to be indebted for my life and for my honour.", "pos": 157881}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, for you thus afford me an occasion of assuring you that, my feelings towards you being those of a friend only, you need not have any fear of my causing you any anxiety or displeasure. Therefore Bettina, you may do whatever suits you; my love is no more. You have at one blow given the death-stroke to the intense passion which was blossoming in my heart. When I reached my room, after the ill-treatment I had experienced at Cordiani’s hands, I felt for you nothing but hatred; that feeling soon merged into utter contempt, but that sensation itself was in time, when my mind recovered its balance, changed for a feeling of the deepest indifference, which again has given way when I saw what power there is in your mind. I have now become your friend; I have conceived the greatest esteem for your cleverness. I have been the dupe of it, but no matter; that talent of yours does exist, it is wonderful, divine, I admire it, I love it, and the highest homage I can render to it is, in my estimation, to foster for the possessor of it the purest feelings of friendship. Reciprocate that friendship, be true, sincere, and plain dealing. Give up all nonsense, for you have already obtained from me all I can give you. The very thought of love is repugnant to me; I can bestow my love only where I feel certain of being the only one loved. You are at liberty to lay my foolish delicacy to the account of my youthful age, but I feel so, and I cannot help it. You have written to me that you never speak to Cordiani; if I am the cause of that rupture between you, I regret it, and I think that, in the interest of your honour, you would do well to make it up with him; for the future I must be careful never to give him any grounds for umbrage or suspicion. Recollect also that, if you have tempted him by the same manoeuvres which you have employed towards me, you are doubly wrong, for it may be that, if he truly loves you, you have caused him to be miserable.", "pos": 159924}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "All you have just said to me,", "pos": 161900}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Admit me this evening in your closet, the door of which, leading to the yard, can be left ajar, or prepare yourself to make the best of it with the doctor, to whom I intend to deliver, if you should refuse my request, the letter of which I enclose a copy. After giving to the case the consideration it required,", "pos": 165810}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Forse era ver, ma non pero credibile A chi del senso suo fosse signor.", "pos": 172183}
{"speaker": "Bettina", "text": "Well, my dear Bettina, your story has affected me; but how do you think I am going to accept your convulsions as natural, and to believe in the demoniac symptoms which came on so seasonably during the exorcisms, although you very properly expressed your doubts on the matter? Poor me! oh, poor me! I thought, that I would reconquer my lost influence over your heart, but, I see it too plainly, you no longer feel an interest in me. Go on treating me harshly; go on taking for mere fictions sufferings which are but too real, which you have caused, and which you will now increase. Some day, but too late, you will be sorry, and your repentance will be bitter indeed.", "pos": 173422}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot help being convulsed,", "pos": 174769}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but what do you mean by applying to the Jacobin that epithet of handsome? Could you suppose--?", "pos": 174816}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, not at all--I suppose nothing; to do so would be necessary for me to be jealous. But I cannot help saying that the preference given by your devils to the exorcism of that handsome monk over the incantations of the ugly Capuchin is likely to give birth to remarks rather detrimental to your honour. Moreover, you are free to do whatever pleases you.", "pos": 174913}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bettina, you are getting better; but if you dare to scratch yourself, you will become such a fright that nobody will ever love you.", "pos": 178929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He comes from Padua, where he has completed his studies.", "pos": 190756}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "But where can I find such table companions?", "pos": 194193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is rather a delicate matter,", "pos": 194249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but you must take your guests on trial, and after they have been found such as you wish them to be, the only difficulty will be to keep them as your guests without their being aware of the real cause of your preference, for no respectable man could acknowledge that he enjoys the honour of sitting at your excellency’s table only because he eats twice as much as any other man.", "pos": 194295}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "Then make her the offer of a large sum of money, or a position. She says that she would not, even for a crown, commit a deadly sin. In that case, you must either take her by storm, or banish her for ever from your presence. I can do neither one nor the other; physical as well as moral strength is deficient in me. Kill her, then. That will very likely be the case unless I die first. Indeed I pity your excellency. Do you sometimes visit her? No, for I might fall in love with her, and I would be miserable. You are right.", "pos": 196921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "clericus qui nutrit coman, anathema sit", "pos": 200813}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "It is my province, as president of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament, to choose the preacher who is to deliver the sermon on the fourth Sunday of this month, which happens to be the second Christmas holiday. I mean to appoint you, and I am certain that the abbé will not dare to reject my choice. What say you to such a triumphant reappearance? Does it satisfy you?", "pos": 206962}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "Ploravere suis non respondere favorem sperdtum meritis", "pos": 209380}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I will give you a sermon written by myself, which I have never delivered; you will commit it to memory, and I promise to let everybody suppose that it is of your own composition.", "pos": 210653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thank you, very reverend father, but I will preach my own sermon, or none at all. I will preach my own sermon, or none at all.", "pos": 210834}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "At all events, you shall not preach such a sermon as this in my church.", "pos": 210920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can talk the matter over with M. de Malipiero. In the meantime I will take my work to the censorship, and to His Eminence the Patriarch, and if it is not accepted I shall have it printed.", "pos": 210994}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "All very well, young man. The patriarch will coincide with me.", "pos": 211188}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In the first case. I can pronounce it in your church, and no responsibility can possibly fall upon your shoulders; in the second, I must, of course, give way.", "pos": 212467}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Do not go to the patriarch; I accept your sermon; I only request you to change your text. Horace was a villain.", "pos": 212692}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you quote Seneca, Tertullian, Origen, and Boethius? They were all heretics, and must, consequently, be considered by you as worse wretches than Horace, who, after all, never had the chance of becoming a Christian!", "pos": 212806}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "He can well do it, for he is a man of talent; but I should like to know what he can do with you?", "pos": 227714}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Whatever he can.", "pos": 227829}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "I am told that he thinks you rather stupid.", "pos": 227848}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "How did you find your bed?", "pos": 231043}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very comfortable; I am sure you made it. Pray, who are you?", "pos": 231083}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "I am Lucie, the daughter of the gate-keeper: I have neither brothers nor sisters, and I am fourteen years old. I am very glad you have no servant with you; I will be your little maid, and I am sure you will be pleased with me.", "pos": 231145}
{"speaker": "Lucie's parents", "text": "She is, our only child, our darling pet, the hope of our old age. She loves and obeys us, and fears God; she is as clean as a new pin, and has but one fault.", "pos": 232161}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 232334}
{"speaker": "Lucie's parents", "text": "She is too young.", "pos": 232350}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is a charming fault which time will mend.", "pos": 232370}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "Shall I disturb you?", "pos": 235521}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; but I am thinking that if your mother happened to come in, she would be angry.", "pos": 235554}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "Mother would not think of any harm.", "pos": 235639}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come, then. But Lucie, do you know what danger you are exposing yourself to?", "pos": 235677}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "Certainly I do; but you are good, and, what is more, you are a priest.", "pos": 235756}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come; only lock the door.", "pos": 235829}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "No, no, for people might think.... I do not know what.", "pos": 235857}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "When I see that man. I am afraid and I run away.", "pos": 236443}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "What ails you?", "pos": 241896}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have had no sleep through the night.", "pos": 241943}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "And why?", "pos": 241984}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I have made up my mind to impart to you a project which, although fraught with misery to myself, will at least secure me your esteem.", "pos": 241995}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "But if your project is to insure my esteem it ought to make you very cheerful. Only tell me, reverend sir, why, after calling me ‘thou’ yesterday, you treat me today respectfully, like a lady? What have I done? I will get your coffee, and you must tell me everything after you have drunk it; I long to hear you.", "pos": 242139}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "All you have just told me, proves the sincerity of your great love for me, but I cannot imagine why you should be in such dread of a feeling which affords me the most intense pleasure. You wish to banish me from your presence because you stand in fear of your love, but what would you do if you hated me? Am I guilty because I have pleased you? If it is a crime to have won your affection, I can assure you that I did not think I was committing a criminal action, and therefore you cannot conscientiously punish me. Yet I cannot conceal the truth; I am very happy to be loved by you. As for the danger we run, when we love, danger which I can understand, we can set it at defiance, if we choose, and I wonder at my not fearing it, ignorant as I am, while you, a learned man, think it so terrible. I am astonished that love, which is not a disease, should have made you ill, and that it should have exactly the opposite effect upon me. Is it possible that I am mistaken, and that my feeling towards you should not be love? You saw me very cheerful when I came in this morning; it is because I have been dreaming all night, but my dreams did not keep me awake; only several times I woke up to ascertain whether my dream was true, for I thought I was near you; and every time, finding that it was not so, I quickly went to sleep again in the hope of continuing my happy dream, and every time I succeeded. After such a night, was it not natural for me to be cheerful this morning? My dear abbé, if love is a torment for you I am very sorry, but would it be possible for you to live without love? I will do anything you order me to do, but, even if your cure depended upon it, I would not cease to love you, for that would be impossible. Yet if to heal your sufferings it should be necessary for you to love me no more, you must do your utmost to succeed, for I would much rather see you alive without love, than dead for having loved too much. Only try to find some other plan, for the one you have proposed makes me very miserable. Think of it, there may be some other way which will be less painful. Suggest one more practicable, and depend upon Lucie’s obedience.", "pos": 243955}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, dearest Lucie, yes, thou hast it in thy power to afford the sweetest relief to my devouring pain; abandon to my ardent kisses thy divine lips which have just assured me of thy love.", "pos": 246351}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "Oh, God! is it true? is it not a dream? My heart begins to speak, I must go;", "pos": 246664}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "If your complete happiness, rests in my power, be happy; there is nothing that I can refuse you.", "pos": 247456}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "There is nothing in the world, reverend sir, that I would not readily do for my friend. She visits at our house every holiday, has supper with us, and sleeps under our roof. I will suggest the best way for you to make the acquaintance of Madame Orio, our aunt; but, if you obtain an introduction to her, you must be very careful not to let her suspect your preference for Angela, for our aunt would certainly object to her house being made a place of rendezvous to facilitate your interviews with a stranger to her family. Now for the plan I propose, and in the execution of which I will give you every assistance in my power. Madame Orio, although a woman of good station in life, is not wealthy, and she wishes to have her name entered on the list of noble widows who receive the bounties bestowed by the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament, of which M. de Malipiero is president. Last Sunday, Angela mentioned that you are in the good graces of that nobleman, and that the best way to obtain his patronage would be to ask you to entreat it in her behalf. The foolish girl added that you were smitten with me, that all your visits to our mistress of embroidery were made for my special benefit and for the sake of entertaining me, and that I would find it a very easy task to interest you in her favour. My aunt answered that, as you are a priest, there was no fear of any harm, and she told me to write to you with an invitation to call on her; I refused. The procurator Rosa, who is a great favourite of my aunt’s, was present; he approved of my refusal, saying that the letter ought to be written by her and not by me, that it was for my aunt to beg the honour of your visit on business of real importance, and that, if there was any truth in the report of your love for me, you would not fail to come. My aunt, by his advice, has therefore written the letter which you will find at your house. If you wish to meet Angela, postpone your visit to us until next Sunday. Should you succeed in obtaining M. de Malipiero’s good will in favour of my aunt, you will become the pet of the household, but you must forgive me if I appear to treat you with coolness, for I have said that I do not like you. I would advise you to make love to my aunt, who is sixty years of age; M. Rosa will not be jealous, and you will become dear to everyone. For my part, I will manage for you an opportunity for some private conversation with Angela, and I will do anything to convince you of my friendship. Adieu.", "pos": 252370}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "Oh, my dear abbé! you shall have a kiss, but not on my hand, and no one can object to it, as I am thirty years older than you.", "pos": 258959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot, Madame.", "pos": 259399}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "Why, I beg?", "pos": 259419}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have--.", "pos": 259433}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "I understand. Nanette, shew the way.", "pos": 259445}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Dear aunt, excuse me.", "pos": 259484}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "Well, then, Marton.", "pos": 259508}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "Oh! dear aunt, why do you not insist upon my sister obeying your orders?", "pos": 259530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas! madame, these young ladies are quite right. Allow me to retire.", "pos": 259605}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "No, my dear abbé, my nieces are very foolish; M. Rosa, I am sure, will kindly.", "pos": 259677}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "My aunt will invite you to supper; do not accept. Go away as soon as we sit down to table, and Marton will escort you as far as the street door, but do not leave the house. When the street door is closed again, everyone thinking you are gone, go upstairs in the dark as far as the third floor, where you must wait for us. We will come up the moment M. Rosa has left the house, and our aunt has gone to bed. Angela will be at liberty to grant you throughout the night a tete-a-tete which, I trust, will prove a happy one.", "pos": 259934}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "What can we do in the dark?", "pos": 263331}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "We can talk.", "pos": 263361}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The joke,", "pos": 265135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "has lasted long enough; it is foolish, as I could not run after you, and I am surprised to hear you laugh, for your strange conduct leads me to suppose that you are making fun of me. Come and take your seat near me, and if I must speak to you without seeing you let my hands assure me that I am not addressing my words to the empty air. To continue this game would be an insult to me, and my love does not deserve such a return.", "pos": 265155}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, be calm. I will listen to every word you may say, but you must feel that it would not be decent for me to place myself near you in this dark room.", "pos": 265586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you want me to stand where I am until morning?", "pos": 265741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lie down on the bed, and go to sleep.", "pos": 265793}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In wonder, indeed, at your thinking me capable of doing so in the state I am in. Well, I suppose we must play at blind man’s buff.", "pos": 265833}
{"speaker": "Angela", "text": "If you are not afraid of passing another night with me you shall have no reason to complain of me, for I love you, and I wish to hear from your own lips whether you would still have loved me if I had consented to become contemptible in your eyes.", "pos": 271114}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "M. Rosa having undertaken to bring you back to our house, I prepare these few lines to let you know that Angela is in despair at having lost you. I confess that the night you spent with us was a cruel one, but I do not think that you did rightly in giving up your visits to Madame Orio. If you still feel any love for Angela, I advise you to take your chances once more. Accept a rendezvous for another night; she may vindicate herself, and you will be happy. Believe me; come. Farewell!", "pos": 271428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is Angela?", "pos": 272925}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "She must have been unable to come, or to send a message. Yet she knows you are here.", "pos": 272956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She thinks she has made a fool of me; but I suspected she would act in this way. You know her now. She is trifling with me, and very likely she is now revelling in her triumph. She has made use of you to allure me in the snare, and it is all the better for her; had she come, I meant to have had my turn, and to have laughed at her.", "pos": 273043}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Ah! you must allow me to have my doubts as to that.", "pos": 273378}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Doubt me not, beautiful Nanette; the pleasant night we are going to spend without her must convince you.", "pos": 273432}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "That is to say that, as a man of sense, you can accept us as a makeshift; but you can sleep here, and my sister can lie with me on the sofa in the next room.", "pos": 273539}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot hinder you, but it would be great unkindness on your part. At all events, I do not intend to go to bed.", "pos": 273699}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "What! you would have the courage to spend seven hours alone with us? Why, I am certain that in a short time you will be at a loss what to say, and you will fall asleep.", "pos": 273814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, we shall see. In the mean-time here are provisions. You will not be so cruel as to let me eat alone? Can you get any bread?", "pos": 273985}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Yes, and to please you we must have a second supper.", "pos": 274117}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I ought to be in love with you. Tell me, beautiful Nanette, if I were as much attached to you as I was to Angela, would you follow her example and make me unhappy?", "pos": 274172}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "How can you ask such a question? It is worthy of a conceited man. All I can answer is, that I do not know what I would do.", "pos": 274338}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then let me,", "pos": 275050}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "have for you the tender feelings of a brother, and share those feelings yourselves as if you were my sisters; let us exchange, in all innocence, proofs of our mutual affection, and swear to each other an eternal fidelity.", "pos": 275073}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "She loves you. I know she does, but if you do not mean to marry her, you will do well to give up all intercourse with her, for she is quite determined not to grant you even a kiss as long as you are not her acknowledged suitor. You must therefore either give up the acquaintance altogether, or make up your mind that she will refuse you everything.", "pos": 277362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You argue very well, but how do you know that she loves me?", "pos": 277740}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "I am quite sure of it, and as you have promised to be our brother, I can tell you why I have that conviction. When Angela is in bed with me, she embraces me lovingly and calls me her dear abbé.", "pos": 277801}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is no doubt, that everybody knows those trifles, and I do not think, dear Nanette, that you ought to reproach your sister with indiscretion for her friendly confidence.", "pos": 278307}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "It cannot be helped now, but such things ought not to be mentioned. If Angela knew it!", "pos": 278494}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "She would be vexed, of course; but Marton has given me a mark of her friendship which I never can forget. But it is all over; I hate Angela, and I do not mean to speak to her any more! she is false, and she wishes my ruin.", "pos": 278583}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Yet, loving you, is she wrong to think of having you for her husband?", "pos": 278808}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "Granted that she is not; but she thinks only of her own self, for she knows what I suffer, and her conduct would be very different if she loved me. In the mean time, thanks to her imagination, she finds the means of satisfying her senses with the charming Marton who kindly performs the part of her husband.", "pos": 278880}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, what name did Nanette, in her rapture, give to her husband?", "pos": 279513}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "Nobody knows.", "pos": 279590}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you love anyone, Nanette?", "pos": 279606}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "I do; but my secret is my own.", "pos": 279637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is very lucky, that I have for you only feelings of friendship; otherwise it would be very hard to pass the night without giving way to the temptation of bestowing upon you proofs of my affection, for you are both so lovely, so bewitching, that you would turn the brains of any man.", "pos": 279912}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Go to bed without any ceremony, we will lie down on the sofa in the adjoining room.", "pos": 280316}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would be a very poor-spirited fellow indeed, if I agreed to this; let us talk; my sleepiness will soon pass off, but I am anxious about you. Go to bed yourselves, my charming friends, and I will go into the next room. If you are afraid of me, lock the door, but you would do me an injustice, for I feel only a brother’s yearnings towards you.", "pos": 280402}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "We cannot accept such an arrangement, but let me persuade you; take this bed.", "pos": 280749}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot sleep with my clothes on.", "pos": 280845}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Undress yourself; we will not look at you.", "pos": 280882}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no fear of it, but how could I find the heart to sleep, while on my account you are compelled to sit up?", "pos": 280927}
{"speaker": "Marton", "text": "Well, we can lie down, too, without undressing.", "pos": 281041}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you shew me such distrust, you will offend me. Tell me, Nanette, do you think I am an honest man?", "pos": 281106}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Most certainly.", "pos": 281209}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, then, give me a proof of your good opinion; lie down near me in the bed, undressed, and rely on my word of honour that I will not even lay a finger upon you. Besides, you are two against one, what can you fear? Will you not be free to get out of the bed in case I should not keep quiet? In short, unless you consent to give me this mark of your confidence in me, at least when I have fallen asleep, I cannot go to bed.", "pos": 281227}
{"speaker": "Nanette", "text": "Yes, I am Nanette, and I declare myself happy, as well as my sister, if you prove yourself true and faithful.", "pos": 283919}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Until death, my beloved ones, and as everything we have done is the work of love, do not let us ever mention the name of Angela. Let us get up, my darlings, and swear to each other eternal affection.", "pos": 284046}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "Take me to your bedroom; I have just got an amusing idea. I wish you, to dress me up in your ecclesiastical clothes, and I will disguise you as a woman with my own things. We will go down and dance together. Come, let us first dress our hair.", "pos": 288230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As you please, beautiful Juliette, but I give you due notice that I adore you!", "pos": 288990}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! is she dead?", "pos": 296242}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "Would to God she were!", "pos": 296263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has she done?", "pos": 296288}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "She has run away with Count Daniel’s courier, and we have been unable to trace her anywhere.", "pos": 296309}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know that man l’Aigle, he is a scoundrel. Did he ask to marry Lucie?", "pos": 296656}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "No; he knew well enough that our consent would have been refused!", "pos": 296738}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wonder at Lucie acting in such a way.", "pos": 296806}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "He seduced her, and her running away made us suspect the truth, for she had become very stout.", "pos": 296848}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Had he known her long?", "pos": 296945}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "About a month after your last visit she saw him for the first time. He must have thrown a spell over her, for our Lucie was as pure as a dove, and you can, I believe, bear testimony to her goodness.", "pos": 296970}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And no one knows where they are?", "pos": 297171}
{"speaker": "The gate-keeper", "text": "No one. God alone knows what this villain will do with her.", "pos": 297206}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Oh, heavens! we shall have a storm.", "pos": 304963}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and although the chaise is covered, the rain will spoil your pretty dress. I am very sorry.", "pos": 305027}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I do not mind the dress; but the thunder frightens me so!", "pos": 305135}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Close your ears.", "pos": 305195}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "And the lightning?", "pos": 305214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Postillion, let us go somewhere for shelter.", "pos": 305235}
{"speaker": "postillion", "text": "There is not a house, sir, for a league, and before we come to it, the storm will have passed off.", "pos": 305282}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I keep my eye upon him, he is not thinking of us, and even if he should turn his head, the cloak shelters us from him. Be quiet, and pretend to have fainted, for I will not let you go. The storm, dear one, is my best friend to-day. Consent to everything, or I let the cloak drop,", "pos": 306907}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Well, you dreadful man, are you satisfied, now that you have insured my misery for the remainder of my life?", "pos": 307494}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, not yet.", "pos": 307605}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "What more do you want?", "pos": 307620}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A shower of kisses.", "pos": 307645}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "How unhappy I am! Well! here they are.", "pos": 307667}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me you forgive me, and confess that you have shared all my pleasure.", "pos": 307708}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "You know I did. Yes, I forgive you.", "pos": 307784}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me you love me,", "pos": 307998}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "No, I do not, for you are an atheist, and hell awaits you.", "pos": 308035}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, the same remedy has very likely been applied a million of times within the last thousand years. To tell you the truth, I had somewhat depended upon it, when we entered the chaise together, for I did not know any other way of obtaining the happiness of possessing you. But console yourself with the belief that, placed in the same position, no frightened woman could have resisted.", "pos": 308479}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I believe you; but for the future I will travel only with my husband.", "pos": 308877}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would be wrong, for your husband would not have been clever enough to cure your fright in the way I have done.", "pos": 308949}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "True, again. One learns some curious things in your company; but we shall not travel tete-a-tete again.", "pos": 309066}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you laughing at?", "pos": 309369}
{"speaker": "postillion", "text": "Oh! you know.", "pos": 309397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, take this ducat and keep a quiet tongue in your head.", "pos": 309413}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Nor I with him, for, in his fearful impiety, he exorcised the lightning with jokes.", "pos": 309882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear son, I have made here the acquaintance of a learned Minim friar, a Calabrian by birth, whose great qualities have made me think of you every time he has honoured me with a visit. A year ago I told him that I had a son who was preparing himself for the Church, but that I had not the means of keeping him during his studies, and he promised that my son would become his own child, if I could obtain for him from the queen a bishopric in his native country, and he added that it would be very easy to succeed if I could induce the sovereign to recommend him to her daughter, the queen of Naples.", "pos": 311709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Full of trust in the Almighty, I threw myself at the feet of her majesty, who granted me her gracious protection. She wrote to her daughter, and the worthy friar has been appointed by the Pope to the bishopric of Monterano. Faithful to his promise, the good bishop will take you with him about the middle of next year, as he passes through Venice to reach Calabria. He informs you himself of his intentions in the enclosed letter. Answer him immediately, my dear son, and forward your letter to me; I will deliver it to the bishop. He will pave your way to the highest dignities of the Church, and you may imagine my consolation if, in some twenty or thirty years, I had the happiness of seeing you a bishop, at least! Until his arrival, M. Grimani will take care of you. I give you my blessing, and I am, my dear child, etc., etc.", "pos": 312312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, Venice, I exclaimed; the days for vanity are gone by, and in the future I will only think of a great, of a substantial career!", "pos": 313568}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "The famous precept of the Stoic philosophers. Sequere Deum’, can be perfectly explained by these words: ‘Give yourself up to whatever fate offers to you, provided you do not feel an invincible repugnance to accept it.", "pos": 314312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have struck me while you were the slave of your anger; you cannot therefore boast of having given me a lesson, and I have not learned anything. To forgive you I must forget that you are a man of great wisdom, and I can never forget it.", "pos": 317609}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had not the slightest idea where it might be.", "pos": 318907}
{"speaker": "Antonio Razetta", "text": "he must know what I had done with the furniture.", "pos": 319021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had nothing to do with him,", "pos": 319128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "take himself off as quickly as possible,", "pos": 319208}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had found myself under the necessity of selling them to avoid running into debt.", "pos": 319747}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "a rascal, those things did not belong to me, he knew what he had to do, leave his house on the very instant.", "pos": 319891}
{"speaker": "M. Rosa", "text": "The seals shall be removed to-morrow morning, and in the meantime I shall summon Razetta before the avogador. But to-night, my dear friend, you must beg the hospitality of some one of your acquaintances. It has been a violent proceeding, but you shall be paid handsomely for it; the man is evidently acting under M. Grimani’s orders.", "pos": 320633}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "Well, that is their business. what my intentions were.", "pos": 320981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I intend to shield myself from your violent proceedings under the protection of the law, and to defend myself against a man with whom I ought never to have had any connection, and who has compelled me to pass the night in a disreputable place.", "pos": 321525}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "In a disreputable place?", "pos": 321771}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course. Why was I, against all right and justice, prevented from entering my own dwelling?", "pos": 321798}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "You have possession of it now. But you must go to your lawyer and tell him to suspend all proceedings against Razetta, who has done nothing but under my instructions. I suspected that your intention was to sell the rest of the furniture; I have prevented it. There is a room at your disposal at St. Chrysostom’s, in a house of mine, the first floor of which is occupied by La Tintoretta, our first opera dancer. Send all your things there, and come and dine with me every day. Your sister and your brothers have been provided with a comfortable home; therefore, everything is now arranged for the best.", "pos": 321894}
{"speaker": "M. Lin", "text": "was delighted to have me in her house, and would be pleased to receive me in her intimate circle.", "pos": 324203}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I did not know she was my neighbour, that M. Grimani had not mentioned the circumstance, otherwise I would have paid my duties to her before taking possession of my lodging.", "pos": 324402}
{"speaker": "La Tintoretta", "text": "I would cut but a poor figure in her drawing-room, as they seldom spoke any other language there, because she received a great many foreigners.", "pos": 325166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Reverend father, I do not think that any one has the right of punishing me.", "pos": 328407}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "No, no, my son. I only meant that you would be very happy with us.", "pos": 328485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg your pardon, madam, but I am very glad to go there, and intend to remain until the arrival of the bishop.", "pos": 329794}
{"speaker": "Madame Manzoni", "text": "You do not know your own nature, and you do not know your bishop, with whom you will not remain very long either.", "pos": 329908}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "To which school do you wish to belong?", "pos": 331347}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To the dogmatic, reverend father; I wish to study the history of the Church.", "pos": 331406}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "I will introduce you to the father examiner.", "pos": 331485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am doctor in divinity, most reverend father, and do not want to be examined.", "pos": 331532}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "It is necessary, my dear son; come with me.", "pos": 331613}
{"speaker": "Young Urchins", "text": "Accipiamus pecuniam, et mittamus asinum in patriam suam", "pos": 332174}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "Why did you feign such ignorance at the examination?", "pos": 333171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, were you unjust enough to compel me to the degradation of an examination?", "pos": 333236}
{"speaker": "Prefect", "text": "Ah, villain! wait until to-morrow--until to-morrow!", "pos": 337204}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "Listen to me, all of you. You are aware of what has taken place this last night. Two amongst you must be guilty; but I wish to forgive them, and to save their honour I promise that their names shall not be made public. I expect every one of you to come to me for confession before recess.", "pos": 337463}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And now, you are certain of being forgiven, for, of course, you have wisely confessed your error?", "pos": 338135}
{"speaker": "Friend", "text": "You are joking, why, the good rector would not have known any more than he knows at present, even if my visit to you had been paid with a criminal intent.", "pos": 338245}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you must have made a false confession: you are at all events guilty of disobedience?", "pos": 338424}
{"speaker": "Friend", "text": "That may be, but the rector is responsible for the guilt, as he used compulsion.", "pos": 338516}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear friend, you argue in a very forcible way, and the very reverend rector must by this time be satisfied that the inmates of our dormitory are more learned than he is himself.", "pos": 338599}
{"speaker": "Bed-companion", "text": "I have made a mistake, as I returned from a certain place in the dark, I found your bed empty, and mistook it for mine.", "pos": 339951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very likely. I had to get up, too.", "pos": 340084}
{"speaker": "Prefect", "text": "Yes, but how does it happen that you went to bed without making any remark when, on your return, you found your bed already tenanted? And how is it that, being in the dark, you did not suppose that you were mistaken yourself?", "pos": 340135}
{"speaker": "Bed-companion", "text": "I could not be mistaken, for I felt the pedestal of this crucifix of mine, and I knew I was right; as to my companion here, I did not feel him.", "pos": 340387}
{"speaker": "Prefect", "text": "It is all very unlikely. The wick has been forced into the oil, gentlemen; it has not gone out of itself; it has been the handiwork of one of you, but it will be seen to in the morning.", "pos": 340533}
{"speaker": "Rector", "text": "You stand both convicted of a scandalous connivance, and it is proved by the fact of the lantern having been wilfully extinguished. I am disposed to believe that the cause of all this disorder is, if not entirely innocent, at least due only to extreme thoughtlessness; but the scandal given to all your comrades, the outrage offered to the discipline and to the established rules of the seminary, call loudly for punishment. Leave the room.", "pos": 341467}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I solemnly swear by this God that I have never spoken to the seminarist who was found in my bed. As an innocent person I must protest against this shameful violence. I shall appeal to the justice of his lordship the patriarch.", "pos": 342565}
{"speaker": "Major Pelodoro", "text": "Now, reverend sir, my further orders are only to keep you a prisoner in the fort, and I am responsible for your remaining here. I give you the whole of the fortress for your prison. You shall have a good room in which you will find your bed and all your luggage. Walk anywhere you please; but recollect that, if you should escape, you would cause my ruin. I am sorry that my instructions are to give you only ten sous a day, but if you have any friends in Venice able to send you some money, write to them, and trust to me for the security of your letters. Now you may go to bed, if you need rest.", "pos": 348420}
{"speaker": "The Albanian", "text": "he owed it all to me", "pos": 356692}
{"speaker": "Madame Vida", "text": "I trust to God, that my husband will not find out that you have spent an hour alone with me, for I should never hear the end of it.", "pos": 359583}
{"speaker": "Madame Vida", "text": "my visits would not be welcome for the future, as I was a conceited puppy, unworthy of the society of good and respectable women.", "pos": 360488}
{"speaker": "Razetta", "text": "I have brought you your rags; take them.", "pos": 363136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Some day I will bring you a ‘rigano’.", "pos": 363191}
{"speaker": "Petrillo", "text": "Very likely we should have met your wife in such places. I am a good judge of faces, and I can see that you are a true gallows-bird.", "pos": 363601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have good news to give you,", "pos": 369297}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Razetta was soundly cudgelled last night and thrown into a canal.", "pos": 369365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he been killed?", "pos": 369433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; but I am glad of it for your sake, for his death would make your position much more serious. You are accused of having done it.", "pos": 369455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very glad people think me guilty; it is something of a revenge, but it will be rather difficult to bring it home to me.", "pos": 369589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear sir, there has been so much talk in Venice about the skill with which you proved your incredible alibi, that I could not help asking for the honour of your acquaintance.", "pos": 373577}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, count, the alibi being a true one, there can be no skill required to prove it. Allow me to say that those who doubt its truth are paying me a very poor compliment, for--", "pos": 373754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind; do not let us talk any more of that, and forgive me. But as we happen to be companions in misfortune, I trust you will not refuse me your friendship. Now for breakfast.", "pos": 373931}
{"speaker": "Count de Bonafede", "text": "I am the Count de Bonafede. In my early days I served under Prince Eugene, but I gave up the army, and entered on a civil career in Austria. I had to fly from Austria and take refuge in Bavaria in consequence of an unfortunate duel. In Munich I made the acquaintance of a young lady belonging to a noble family; I eloped with her and brought her to Venice, where we were married. I have now been twenty years in Venice. I have six children, and everybody knows me. About a week ago I sent my servant to the postoffice for my letters, but they were refused him because he had not any money to pay the postage. I went myself, but the clerk would not deliver me my letters, although I assured him that I would pay for them the next time. This made me angry, and I called upon the Baron de Taxis, the postmaster, and complained of the clerk, but he answered very rudely that the clerk had simply obeyed his orders, and that my letters would only be delivered on payment of the postage. I felt very indignant, but as I was in his house I controlled my anger, went home, and wrote a note to him asking him to give me satisfaction for his rudeness, telling him that I would never go out without my sword, and that I would force him to fight whenever and wherever I should meet him. I never came across him, but yesterday I was accosted by the secretary of the inquisitors, who told me that I must forget the baron’s rude conduct, and go under the guidance of an officer whom he pointed out to me, to imprison myself for a week in this fortress. I shall thus have the pleasure of spending that time with you.", "pos": 374265}
{"speaker": "Young Countess", "text": "Only wait for two years, at the utmost, and all that your imagination is now creating will then exist in reality.", "pos": 377260}
{"speaker": "Young Countess", "text": "This is the way to offer your arm to a lady,", "pos": 378558}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am learning,", "pos": 379101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and when you call upon us I will shew you Adam and Eve, after the Chevalier Liberi; I have made a copy which has been found very fine by some professors, although they did not know it was my work.", "pos": 379132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you not tell them?", "pos": 379331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because those two figures are too naked.", "pos": 379360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not curious to see your Adam, but I will look at your Eve with pleasure, and keep your secret.", "pos": 379403}
{"speaker": "Young Countess", "text": "It is, a figure with nothing in it.", "pos": 380022}
{"speaker": "the young lady", "text": "Yet it is the one which I shall like best.", "pos": 380072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; believe me, Adam will please you most.", "pos": 380117}
{"speaker": "the major's wife", "text": "I thank you for your skill in proving your alibi, but you have also to thank me for having understood you so well. My husband never heard anything about it until it was all over.", "pos": 383441}
{"speaker": "the young lady", "text": "I see that you are astonished, reverend sir, and I know the reason of your surprise. You expected to see great splendour here, and you find only misery. The government allows my father but a small salary, and there are nine of us. As we must attend church on Sundays and holidays in a style proper to our condition, we are often compelled to go without our dinner, in order to get out of pledge the clothes which urgent need too often obliges us to part with, and which we pledge anew on the following day. If we did not attend mass, the curate would strike our names off the list of those who share the alms of the Confraternity of the Poor, and those alms alone keep us afloat.", "pos": 387094}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Were I wealthy. I would soon shew you that your tale of woe has not fallen on unfeeling ears; but I am poor, and, being at the eve of my departure from Venice, even my friendship would be useless to you.", "pos": 388107}
{"speaker": "the young lady", "text": "That may happen some day, provided that the man who feels the power of my charms understands that they can be bestowed only with my heart, and is willing to render me the justice I deserve; I am only looking for a lawful marriage, without dreaming of rank or fortune; I no longer believe in the first, and I know how to live without the second; for I have been accustomed to poverty, and even to abject need; but you cannot realize that. Come and see my drawings.", "pos": 388476}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are very good, mademoiselle.", "pos": 388942}
{"speaker": "the young lady", "text": "I wish I could, but the box of chalks alone costs two sequins.", "pos": 389994}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you forgive me if I am bold enough to offer you six?", "pos": 390075}
{"speaker": "the young lady", "text": "Alas! I accept them gratefully, and to be indebted to you for such a service makes me truly happy.", "pos": 390135}
{"speaker": "the bishop", "text": "When we meet in Rome, we can go together to Martorano by way of Naples. Call upon me to-morrow morning, and have your breakfast with me. I intend to leave the day after.", "pos": 395399}
{"speaker": "Carcinelli", "text": "Wherever you please, provided you let this man know where it is, so that he can give you notice when the peotta is ready to sail. My duty, is to leave you at the lazzaretto of Ancona free of expense from the moment we leave this place. Until then enjoy yourself as well as you can.", "pos": 400163}
{"speaker": "Captain Alban", "text": "You can come to my house, if you have no objection to share a large bed with the cook, whose wife remains on board.", "pos": 400570}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right. I have lost all my money. Lend me twenty sequins.", "pos": 404245}
{"speaker": "Corsini", "text": "When I lend money I am sure to lose; you may call it superstition, but I have tried it too often. Try to find money somewhere else, and come. Farewell.", "pos": 404666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Reverend father, I am unhappy.", "pos": 408124}
{"speaker": "Friar Stephano", "text": "You will forget all your sorrow, if you will come and dine with me at the house of one of our devout friends.", "pos": 408157}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "because she was afraid of some surprise.", "pos": 412056}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you received money likewise?", "pos": 412685}
{"speaker": "Friar Stephano", "text": "God forbid! In the first place, our glorious order does not permit me to touch money, and, in the second place, were I to be foolish enough to receive any when I am begging, people would think themselves quit of me with one or two sous, whilst they give me ten times as much in eatables. Believe me Saint-Francis, was a very judicious man.", "pos": 412733}
{"speaker": "Stephano", "text": "I undertake to take care of you until we reach Rome; only tell me whether you can write. What a question! Are you joking? Why should I? Look at me; I cannot write anything but my name. True, I can write it with either hand; and what else do I want to know? You astonish me greatly, for I thought you were a priest. I am a monk; I say the mass, and, as a matter of course, I must know how to read. Saint-Francis, whose unworthy son I am, could not read, and that is the reason why he never said a mass. But as you can write, you will to-morrow pen a letter in my name to the persons whose names I will give you, and I warrant you we shall have enough sent here to live like fighting cocks all through our quarantine.", "pos": 415911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I did not know that somebody was looking at me.", "pos": 420017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Beautiful angel from the East, I worship you. I will remain all night on this balcony in the hope that you will come to me for a quarter of an hour, and listen to my voice through the hole under my feet. We can speak softly, and in order to hear me you can climb up to the top of the bale of goods which lies beneath the same hole.", "pos": 421596}
{"speaker": "keeper", "text": "What are you about?", "pos": 428170}
{"speaker": "Stephano", "text": "I agreed to meet Friar Stephano at the exchange, and I took the Jew from whom I had hired the furniture, to the convent of the Minims, where I received from Father Lazari ten sequins and the address of the bishop, who, after performing quarantine on the frontiers of Tuscany, had proceeded to Rome, where he would expect me to meet him.", "pos": 428719}
{"speaker": "elderly priest", "text": "I cannot doubt, that a person like you, travelling on foot, must come here from devout motives; come with me. You shall be well attended to.", "pos": 430464}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you suppose that I want to conceal my age?", "pos": 432554}
{"speaker": "hair-dresser", "text": "It is very natural, because, if your lordship did not wish to do so, your lordship would have shaved long ago. Countess Marcolini is here; does your lordship know her? I must go to her at noon to dress her hair. Is this your lordship’s first visit to this house? It is the finest hospital throughout the papal states.", "pos": 432606}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I quite agree with you, and I shall compliment His Holiness on the establishment.", "pos": 433029}
{"speaker": "hair-dresser", "text": "Oh! His Holiness knows all about it, he resided here before he became pope. If Monsignor Caraffa had not been well acquainted with you, he would not have introduced you here.", "pos": 433113}
{"speaker": "Brother Stephano", "text": "I want, to reach Rome without fatigue and in good health. I am in no hurry, and if you feel disposed to travel with me and in the same quiet way, Saint-Francis will not find it difficult to keep us both during the journey. I undertake to walk six miles, instead of three, today, if you will carry my cloak, which I find very heavy.", "pos": 434558}
{"speaker": "Brother Stephano", "text": "The hospitals, are all under the curse of Saint-Francis, because the mendicant friars are not admitted in them; but we do not mind their gates being shut against us, because they are too far apart from each other. We prefer the homes of the persons attached to our order; these we find everywhere.", "pos": 435996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you not ask hospitality in the convents of your order?", "pos": 436308}
{"speaker": "Brother Stephano", "text": "I am not so foolish. In the first place, I should not be admitted, because, being a fugitive, I have not the written obedience which must be shown at every convent, and I should even run the risk of being thrown into prison; your monks are a cursed bad lot. In the second place, I should not be half so comfortable in the convents as I am with our devout benefactors.", "pos": 436372}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why and how are you a fugitive?", "pos": 436742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you forgotten that we have already broken our fast to-day?", "pos": 438222}
{"speaker": "Brother Stephano", "text": "Mind your own business.", "pos": 438310}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Heavens, where am I?", "pos": 442894}
{"speaker": "Brother Stephano", "text": "Chi va piano va sano. I came to see you, and as I find you recovered from your illness, we can start again together; I agree to walk six miles every day to please you. Come, let us forget the past, and let us be at once on our way.", "pos": 446507}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot go; I have lost my purse, and I owe twenty paoli.", "pos": 447110}
{"speaker": "Friar", "text": "I will go and find the amount in the name of Saint-Francis.", "pos": 447171}
{"speaker": "Constable", "text": "I will give you, forty paoli, if you will promise me the protection of your ambassador; but if you do not succeed in obtaining it for me in Rome, you will undertake to repay me. Therefore you must give me an acknowledgement of the debt.", "pos": 447411}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no objection.", "pos": 447666}
{"speaker": "Friar", "text": "It is a good distance from here to Collefiorito; we had better put up there for the night.", "pos": 447923}
{"speaker": "Dying man", "text": "You must boil the hen, and bring out of the cellar the bottle of wine which I have kept now for twenty years.", "pos": 448480}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Oh, God!", "pos": 450331}
{"speaker": "Friar", "text": "She has her quietus.", "pos": 450361}
{"speaker": "Stephano", "text": "It is possible, but I have not done it intentionally.", "pos": 450971}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "I have,", "pos": 459134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "some very excellent muscatel wine grown in the East, which I could sell you cheap.", "pos": 459153}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I might buy some, but I warn you I am a good judge.", "pos": 459238}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So much the better. Which do you prefer?", "pos": 459292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Cerigo wine.", "pos": 459335}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right. I have some rare Cerigo muscatel, and we can taste it if you have no objection to dine with me.", "pos": 459354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "None whatever.", "pos": 459467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can likewise give you the wines of Samos and Cephalonia. I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury.", "pos": 459484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are all these goods here?", "pos": 459657}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, they are in Naples. Here I have only the muscatel wine and the mercury.", "pos": 459685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can find out if you come to my room,", "pos": 461801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we must have supper together this evening,", "pos": 462753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But,", "pos": 463323}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you must be very wealthy.", "pos": 463339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I am not, because I am in search of the secret of the augmentation of gold, and it is a very expensive study for us.", "pos": 463367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How many are there in your company?", "pos": 463490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only my uncle and myself.", "pos": 463528}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want to augment gold for? The augmentation of mercury ought to be enough for you. Pray, tell me whether the mercury augmented by you to-day is again susceptible of a similar increase.", "pos": 463556}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, if it were so, it would be an immense source of wealth for us.", "pos": 463754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am much pleased with your sincerity.", "pos": 463823}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "Willingly; but tell me, reverend abbé, whether you would feel disposed to sell me your secret?", "pos": 464992}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not? When we meet in Naples--", "pos": 465089}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "But why not now?", "pos": 465125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am expected in Salerno; besides, I would only sell the secret for a large sum of money, and I am not acquainted with you.", "pos": 465144}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "That does not matter, as I am sufficiently known here to pay you in cash. How much would you want?", "pos": 465270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two thousand ounces.", "pos": 465371}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "I agree to pay you that sum provided that I succeed in making the augmentation myself with such matter as you name to me, which I will purchase.", "pos": 465394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is impossible, because the necessary ingredients cannot be got here; but they are common enough in Naples.", "pos": 465541}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "If it is any sort of metal, we can get it at the Tour-du-Grec. We could go there together. Can you tell me what is the expense of the augmentation?", "pos": 465653}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One and a half per cent. but are you likewise known at the Tour-du-Grec, for I should not like to lose my time?", "pos": 465803}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "Your doubts grieve me.", "pos": 465917}
{"speaker": "Panagiotti", "text": "At sight, pay to bearer the sum of fifty gold ounces, on account of Panagiotti.", "pos": 466019}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "I have made the amalgam, but the mercury is not perfect.", "pos": 467462}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is equal to that which I have sold in Portici, and that is the very letter of your engagement.", "pos": 467532}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "But my engagement says likewise without injury to the quality. You must agree that the quality is injured, because it is no longer susceptible of further augmentation.", "pos": 467632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You knew that to be the case; the point is its equality with the mercury I sold in Portici. But we shall have to go to law, and you will lose. I am sorry the secret should become public. Congratulate yourself, sir, for, if you should gain the lawsuit, you will have obtained my secret for nothing. I would never have believed you capable of deceiving me in such a manner.", "pos": 467802}
{"speaker": "Greek", "text": "Reverend sir, I can assure you that I would not willingly deceive any one.", "pos": 468176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know the secret, or do you not? Do you suppose I would have given it to you without the agreement we entered into? Well, there will be some fun over this affair in Naples, and the lawyers will make money out of it. But I am much grieved at this turn of affairs, and I am very sorry that I allowed myself to be so easily deceived by your fine talk. In the mean time, here are your fifty ounces.", "pos": 468253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me your blessing,", "pos": 476204}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and let me go; or, rather, come with me. I promise you that we shall make a fortune somewhere else.", "pos": 476238}
{"speaker": "M. Gennaro Polo", "text": "What! died of laughing!", "pos": 480564}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gennaro", "text": "Yes. This disease, which was not known to Hippocrates, is called li flati.", "pos": 480605}
{"speaker": "M. Gennaro Polo", "text": "What do you mean? Does an hypochondriac affection, which causes sadness and lowness in all those who suffer from it, render you cheerful?", "pos": 480682}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gennaro", "text": "Yes, because, most likely, my flati, instead of influencing the hypochondrium, affects my spleen, which my physician asserts to be the organ of laughter. It is quite a discovery.", "pos": 480822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are mistaken; it is a very ancient notion, and it is the only function which is ascribed to the spleen in our animal organization.", "pos": 481003}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gennaro", "text": "Well, we must discuss the matter at length, for I hope you will remain with us a few weeks.", "pos": 481140}
{"speaker": "M. Gennaro Polo", "text": "I wish I could, but I must leave Naples to-morrow or the day after.", "pos": 481234}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gennaro", "text": "Have you got any money?", "pos": 481304}
{"speaker": "M. Gennaro Polo", "text": "I rely upon the sixty ducats you have to give me.", "pos": 481330}
{"speaker": "Doctor Gennaro", "text": "I am amused at the idea that I can keep you here as long as I like. But be good enough to see my son; he writes pretty verses enough.", "pos": 481482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And truly his son, although only fourteen, was already a great poet.", "pos": 481616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am, sir, the great-grandson of the unfortunate Marco Antonio Casanova, secretary to Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, who died of the plague in Rome, in the year 1528, under the pontificate of Clement VII.", "pos": 484287}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio", "text": "I am rich, and you must not scruple to come with me to my tailor;", "pos": 486949}
{"speaker": "The Neapolitan", "text": "Am I to have the honour of sleeping with the reverend gentleman?", "pos": 493787}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "The gentleman, is an advocate, and one of the ladies is his wife, but I do not know which of the two.", "pos": 494524}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "But we ought to decide first, whether or not it is slovenly to go bearded.", "pos": 495357}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "Of course it is. Beard is nothing but a dirty excrescence.", "pos": 495451}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may think so, but everybody does not share your opinion. Do we consider as a dirty excrescence the hair of which we take so much care, and which is of the same nature as the beard? Far from it; we admire the length and the beauty of the hair.", "pos": 495533}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Then, the barber is a fool.", "pos": 495796}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But after all, have I any beard?", "pos": 495847}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I thought you had,", "pos": 495893}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case, I will begin to shave as soon as I reach Rome, for this is the first time that I have been convicted of having a beard.", "pos": 495928}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "My dear wife, you should have held your tongue; perhaps the reverend abbé is going to Rome with the intention of becoming a Capuchin friar. Oh! you are wrong, for my wife is very fond of Capuchins, and if you wish to please her, you had better follow your original vocation.", "pos": 496064}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Strangers are liked in Rome. I feel certain that you will be pleased with your residence in that city.", "pos": 497194}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I hope, madam, that you will allow me to pay you my respects?", "pos": 497311}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "We shall be honoured by your calling on us,", "pos": 497379}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I am very candid, it is because the difference in your manner was so marked, and because you were so careful to avoid looking at me through the whole day. A toothache would not have prevented you from being polite, and therefore I thought it had been feigned for some purpose. But I am certain that not one of us can possibly have given you any grounds for such a rapid change in your manner.", "pos": 500367}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yet something must have caused the change, and you, madam, are only half sincere.", "pos": 500774}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "You are mistaken, sir, I am entirely sincere; and if I have given you any motive for anger, I am, and must remain, ignorant of it. Be good enough to tell me what I have done.", "pos": 500858}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing, for I have no right to complain.", "pos": 501035}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Yes, you have; you have a right, the same that I have myself; the right which good society grants to every one of its members. Speak, and shew yourself as sincere as I am.", "pos": 501079}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are certainly bound not to know, or to pretend not to know the real cause, but you must acknowledge that my duty is to remain silent.", "pos": 501253}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Very well; now it is all over; but if your duty bids you to conceal the cause of your bad humour, it also bids you not to shew it. Delicacy sometimes enforces upon a polite gentleman the necessity of concealing certain feelings which might implicate either himself or others; it is a restraint for the mind, I confess, but it has some advantage when its effect is to render more amiable the man who forces himself to accept that restraint.", "pos": 501393}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would see me at your feet, in token of my repentance, were I not afraid of injuring you--", "pos": 501957}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Do not let us allude to the matter any more,", "pos": 502068}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "I will buy you one, dear.", "pos": 503586}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then buy mine. I will let you have it for twenty ounces, and you can give me a note of hand payable to bearer in payment. I owe that amount to an Englishman, and I will give it him to redeem my debt.", "pos": 503614}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "Your snuff-box, my dear abbé, is worth twenty ounces, but I cannot buy it unless you agree to receive payment in cash; I should be delighted to see it in my wife’s possession, and she would keep it as a remembrance of you. But, can you not guess the Englishman exists only in our friend’s imagination? He would never enter an appearance, and we would have the snuff-box for nothing. Do not trust the abbé, my dear, he is a great cheat.", "pos": 503826}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "I had no idea, that the world contained rogues of this species.", "pos": 504406}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "Perhaps I may; but in that case you must come and see me often, and never conceal from me anything, you understand, not anything, of what interests you, or of what happens to you.", "pos": 512277}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don Lelio has likewise given me a letter for the Cardinal Acquaviva.", "pos": 512459}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "I congratulate you; the cardinal’s influence in Rome is greater even than that of the Pope.", "pos": 512530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Must I deliver the letter at once?", "pos": 512624}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "No; I will see him this evening, and prepare him for your visit. Call on me to-morrow morning, and I will then tell you where and when you are to deliver your letter to the cardinal. Have you any money?", "pos": 512661}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Enough for all my wants during one year.", "pos": 512866}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "That is well. Have you any acquaintances?", "pos": 512909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not one.", "pos": 512953}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "Do not make any without first consulting me, and, above all, avoid coffee-houses and ordinaries, but if you should happen to frequent such places, listen and never speak. Be careful to form your judgment upon those who ask any questions from you, and if common civility obliges you to give an answer, give only an evasive one, if any other is likely to commit you. Do you speak French?", "pos": 512964}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not one word.", "pos": 513352}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "I am sorry for that; you must learn French. Have you been a student?", "pos": 513368}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A poor one, but I have a sufficient smattering to converse with ordinary company.", "pos": 513439}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "That is enough; but be very prudent, for Rome is the city in which smatterers unmask each other, and are always at war amongst themselves. I hope you will take your letter to the cardinal, dressed like a modest abbé, and not in this elegant costume which is not likely to conjure fortune. Adieu, let me see you to-morrow.", "pos": 513523}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Come to my office to-morrow morning, and ask for the Abbé Gama, to whom I will give my instructions. You must apply yourself diligently to the study of the French language; it is indispensable.", "pos": 518008}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "Recollect, that to lead a blameless life you must curb your passions, and that whatever misfortune may befall you it cannot be ascribed by any one to a want of good luck, or attributed to fate; those words are devoid of sense, and all the fault will rightly fall on your own head.", "pos": 523072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I foresee, reverend father, that my youth and my want of experience will often make it necessary for me to disturb you. I am afraid of proving myself too heavy a charge for you, but you will find me docile and obedient.", "pos": 523380}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "I suppose you will often think me rather too severe; but you are not likely to confide everything to me.", "pos": 523602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Everything, without any exception.", "pos": 523709}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "Allow me to feel somewhat doubtful; you have not told me where you spent four hours yesterday.", "pos": 523746}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I did not think it was worth mentioning. I made the acquaintance of those persons during my journey; I believe them to be worthy and respectable, and the right sort of people for me to visit, unless you should be of a different opinion.", "pos": 523843}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "God forbid! It is a very respectable house, frequented by honest people. They are delighted at having made your acquaintance; you are much liked by everybody, and they hope to retain you as a friend; I have heard all about it this morning; but you must not go there too often and as a regular guest.", "pos": 524090}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Must I cease my visits at once, and without cause?", "pos": 524392}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "No, it would be a want of politeness on your part. You may go there once or twice every week, but do not be a constant visitor. You are sighing, my son?", "pos": 524445}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I assure you not. I will obey you.", "pos": 524600}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "I hope it may not be only a matter of obedience, and I trust your heart will not feel it a hardship, but, if necessary, your heart must be conquered. Recollect that the heart is the greatest enemy of reason.", "pos": 524641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yet they can be made to agree.", "pos": 524851}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "We often imagine so; but distrust the animism of your dear Horace. You know that there is no middle course with it: ‘nisi paret, imperat’.", "pos": 524884}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, but in the family of which we were speaking there is no danger for my heart.", "pos": 525025}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "I am glad of it, because in that case it will be all the easier for you to abstain from frequent visits. Remember that I shall trust you.", "pos": 525115}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I, reverend father; will listen to and follow your good advice. I will visit Donna Cecilia only now and then.", "pos": 525255}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Minerva, desires you to form some idea of such places. Sit down by me.", "pos": 527540}
{"speaker": "Bepino delta Mamana", "text": "if I liked, he would shew me whether I had been right or wrong.", "pos": 528889}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I flatter myself I have,", "pos": 529314}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "You are wrong, you are flattering yourself. You have so conspicuously avoided the questions put to you that everybody in the room noticed your extreme reserve. In the future no one will ask you any questions.", "pos": 529353}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be sorry if it should turn out so, but was I to expose my own concerns?", "pos": 529581}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "No, but there is a medium in all things.", "pos": 529664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, the medium of Horace, but it is often a matter of great difficulty to hit it exactly.", "pos": 529707}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "A man ought to know how to obtain affection and esteem at the same time.", "pos": 529800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is the very wish nearest to my heart.", "pos": 529875}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "To-day you have tried for the esteem much more than for the affection of your fellow-creatures. It may be a noble aspiration, but you must prepare yourself to fight jealousy and her daughter, calumny; if those two monsters do not succeed in destroying you, the victory must be yours. Now, for instance, you thoroughly refuted Salicetti to-day. Well, he is a physician, and what is more a Corsican; he must feel badly towards you.", "pos": 529920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Could I grant that the longings of women during their pregnancy have no influence whatever on the skin of the foetus, when I know the reverse to be the case? Are you not of my opinion?", "pos": 530352}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "I am for neither party; I have seen many children with some such marks, but I have no means of knowing with certainty whether those marks have their origin in some longing experienced by the mother while she was pregnant.", "pos": 530539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I can swear it is so.", "pos": 530763}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "All the better for you if your conviction is based upon such evidence, and all the worse for Salicetti if he denies the possibility of the thing without certain authority. But let him remain in error; it is better thus than to prove him in the wrong and to make a bitter enemy of him.", "pos": 530791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he become jealous?", "pos": 535747}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Oh! dear, how unhappy we are!", "pos": 536969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 537091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are at home.", "pos": 537124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have loved Barbara for the last six months, and for three months she has given me indisputable proofs of her affection. Five days ago, we were betrayed by the servant, and the father caught us in a rather delicate position. He left the room without saying one word, and I followed him, thinking of throwing myself at his feet; but, as I appeared before him, he took hold of me by the arm, pushed me roughly to the door, and forbade me ever to present myself again at his house. I cannot claim her hand in marriage, because one of my brothers is married, and my father is not rich; I have no profession, and my mistress has nothing. Alas, now that I have confessed all to you, tell me, I entreat you, how she is. I am certain that she is as miserable as I am myself. I cannot manage to get a letter delivered to her, for she does not leave the house, even to attend church. Unhappy wretch! What shall I do?", "pos": 539415}
{"speaker": "Donna Cecilia", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 541437}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I think you might find time to come and see me!", "pos": 541488}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My beloved one, it is not that I cannot find time, but I am so jealous of my love that I would rather die than let it be known publicly. I have been thinking of inviting you all to dine with me at Frascati. I will send you a phaeton, and I trust that some lucky accident will smile upon our love.", "pos": 541538}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Oh! yes, do, dearest! I am sure your invitation will be accepted.", "pos": 541837}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "If you think it to be a sin to deliver the enclosed to your friend, burn it. Have pity on an unfortunate girl, and be discreet.", "pos": 542680}
{"speaker": "Barbara's Lover", "text": "If you love me as deeply as I love you, you cannot hope to be happy without me; we cannot correspond in any other way than the one I am bold enough to adopt. I am ready to do anything to unite our lives until death. Consider and decide.", "pos": 542866}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Her grace, wishes to know whether you are making rapid progress in the French language, which she speaks admirably.", "pos": 545492}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "You should be bold, but without showing any pretension. It is the best way to disarm criticism.", "pos": 545731}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I shall have my turn as we return to Rome,", "pos": 546359}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Did you remark, with what candour I secured for us two hours of delightful ‘tete-a-tete’, and a ‘tete-a-tete’ in a ‘vis-a-vis’, too! How clever Love is!", "pos": 547059}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, darling, Love has made but one of our two souls. I adore you, and if I have the courage to pass so many days without seeing you it is in order to be rewarded by the freedom of one single day like this.", "pos": 547226}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I did not think it possible. But you have managed it all very well. You know too much for your age, dearest.", "pos": 547435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A month ago, my beloved, I was but an ignorant child, and you are the first woman who has initiated me into the mysteries of love. Your departure will kill me, for I could not find another woman like you in all Italy.", "pos": 547546}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "What! am I your first love? Alas! you will never be cured of it. Oh! why am I not entirely your own? You are also the first true love of my heart, and you will be the last. How great will be the happiness of my successor! I should not be jealous of her, but what suffering would be mine if I thought that her heart was not like mine!", "pos": 547766}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "Do not fear, my best beloved, we are under the guardianship of our good angels.", "pos": 548628}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Look there! idol of my heart, have I not told you so? Yes, the angels are watching over us! Ah! how he stares at us! He seems to try to give us confidence. Look at that little demon; admire him! He must certainly be your guardian spirit or mine. Ah!", "pos": 548865}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you saying, dearest? I do not understand you. What am I to admire?", "pos": 549142}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Do you not see that beautiful serpent with the blazing skin, which lifts its head and seems to worship us?", "pos": 549220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What!", "pos": 549579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "are you not afraid?", "pos": 549595}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I tell you, again, that the sight is delightful to me, and I feel certain that it is a spirit with nothing but the shape, or rather the appearance, of a serpent.", "pos": 549617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if the spirit came gliding along the grass and hissed at you?", "pos": 549781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would hold you tighter against my bosom, and set him at defiance. In your arms Lucrezia is safe. Look! the spirit is going away. Quick, quick! He is warning us of the approach of some profane person, and tells us to seek some other retreat to renew our pleasures. Let us go.", "pos": 549848}
{"speaker": "Donna Cecilia", "text": "In spite of all her strength of mind, she is dreadfully afraid of thunder, and she will scream with terror at the sight of the smallest snake. There are some here, but she need not be frightened, for they are not venomous.", "pos": 550427}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me, wonderful being, bewitching woman, what would you have done if, instead of your pretty serpent, you had seen your husband and your mother?", "pos": 550858}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Nothing. Do you not know that, in moments of such rapture, lovers see and feel nothing but love? Do you doubt having possessed me wholly, entirely?", "pos": 551008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you certain,", "pos": 551318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that we are not suspected?", "pos": 551349}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "My husband does not believe us to be in love with each other, or else he does not mind such trifling pleasures as youth is generally wont to indulge in. My mother is a clever woman, and perhaps she suspects the truth, but she is aware that it is no longer any concern of hers. As to my sister, she must know everything, for she cannot have forgotten the broken-down bed; but she is prudent, and besides, she has taken it into her head to pity me. She has no conception of the nature of my feelings towards you. If I had not met you, my beloved, I should probably have gone through life without realizing such feelings myself; for what I feel for my husband.... well, I have for him the obedience which my position as a wife imposes upon me.", "pos": 551378}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And yet he is most happy, and I envy him! He can clasp in his arms all your lovely person whenever he likes! There is no hateful veil to hide any of your charms from his gaze.", "pos": 552121}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Oh! where art thou, my dear serpent? Come to us, come and protect us against the surprise of the uninitiated, and this very instant I fulfil all the wishes of him I adore!", "pos": 552299}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "O Love, we thank thee!", "pos": 555063}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I pray the god of love, to grant us a night as beautiful as this day has been. But alas! the ecclesiastical lawsuit which has brought my husband to Rome is progressing so favourably that I am mortally afraid he will obtain judgment all too soon.", "pos": 555354}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "How did you like Frascati?", "pos": 559880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very much, madam; I have never seen such a beautiful place.", "pos": 559909}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "But your company was still more beautiful, and your vis-a-vis was very smart.", "pos": 559971}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "You are astonished at your adventure being known?", "pos": 560146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my lord; but I am surprised that people should talk of it. I could not have believed Rome to be so much like a small village.", "pos": 560198}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "The longer you live in Rome, the more you will find it so. You have not yet presented yourself to kiss the foot of our Holy Father?", "pos": 560330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not yet, my lord.", "pos": 560485}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "Then you must do so.", "pos": 560505}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Of course you have already shewn yourself in the Marchioness G.’s palace?", "pos": 560646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I have never been there.", "pos": 560722}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "You astonish me; but she often speaks to you!", "pos": 560753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no objection to go with you.", "pos": 560801}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "I never visit at her palace.", "pos": 560839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yet she speaks to you likewise.", "pos": 560870}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Yes, but.... You do not know Rome; go alone; believe me, you ought to go.", "pos": 560904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will she receive me?", "pos": 560980}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "You are joking, I suppose. Of course it is out of the question for you to be announced. You will call when the doors are wide open to everybody. You will meet there all those who pay homage to her.", "pos": 561003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will she see me?", "pos": 561203}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "No doubt of it.", "pos": 561222}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "You are right, place your trust in God;", "pos": 562757}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This man,", "pos": 562910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "most Holy Father, has not been pleased with the answer of Your Holiness.", "pos": 562930}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "Why?", "pos": 563005}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because most likely he had already addressed himself to God before he ventured to apply to you; and when Your Holiness sends him to God again, he finds himself sent back, as the proverb says, from Herod to Pilate.", "pos": 563012}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "I cannot, do any good without God’s assistance.", "pos": 563321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very true, Holy Father; but the man is aware that you are God’s prime minister, and it is easy to imagine his trouble now that the minister sends him again to the master. His only resource is to give money to the beggars of Rome, who for one ‘bajocco’ will pray for him. They boast of their influence before the throne of the Almighty, but as I have faith only in your credit, I entreat Your Holiness to deliver me of the heat which inflames my eyes by granting me permission to eat meat.", "pos": 563393}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "Eat meat, my son.", "pos": 563884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Holy Father, give me your blessing.", "pos": 563904}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "I was there, it is true, madam; but I had no idea that I had had the honour to be seen by your ladyship.", "pos": 564788}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "Oh! I see everybody. They tell me that you have wit.", "pos": 564895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If it is not a mistake on the part of your informants, your ladyship gives me very good news.", "pos": 564950}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "Oh! they are excellent judges.", "pos": 565046}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, madam, those persons must have honoured me with their conversation; otherwise, it is not likely that they would have been able to express such an opinion.", "pos": 565079}
{"speaker": "Marchioness G.", "text": "No doubt; but let me see you often at my receptions.", "pos": 565242}
{"speaker": "Angelique", "text": "Sir. I give you fair notice that the moment I become mistress in this house you will be the very first person to be excluded.", "pos": 568785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I feel greatly obliged to you, signora, for your timely notice.", "pos": 568929}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "My darling, my happiness cannot last long; the cruel moment of our separation is drawing near. When I have gone, pray undertake the task of compelling her to acknowledge her error. Angelique pities me, be sure to avenge me.", "pos": 569242}
{"speaker": "Don Francisco", "text": "It should be my room that night.", "pos": 569672}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "It is my angel, my love; never mind him, and go to sleep.", "pos": 572223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, my beloved Lucrezia! how supremely happy I am! But, my darling, mind your sister; she might turn round and see us.", "pos": 572900}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Fear nothing, my life; my sister is kind, she loves me, she pities me; do you not love me, my dear Angelique? Oh! turn round, see how happy your sister is, and know what felicity awaits you when you own the sway of love. Then forgive likewise, darling Angelique, forgive him who loves me, and whom I adore,", "pos": 573021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Angelique hates me. I dare not....", "pos": 573710}
{"speaker": "Angelique", "text": "No, I do not hate you!", "pos": 573756}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Kiss her, dearest,", "pos": 573808}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Do not reproach me, when I deserve praise. I have brought light into the darkness of my charming sister’s soul; I have initiated her in the sweetest of mysteries, and now, instead of pitying me, she must envy me. Far from having hatred for you, she must love you dearly, and as I am so unhappy as to have to part from you very soon, my beloved, I leave her to you; she will replace me.", "pos": 576418}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, Lucrezia! how can I love her?", "pos": 576818}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Is she not a charming girl?", "pos": 576854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No doubt of it; but my adoration for you is a shield against any other love. Besides Don Francisco must, of course, entirely monopolize her, and I do not wish to cause coolness between them, or to ruin the peace of their home. I am certain your sister is not like you, and I would bet that, even now, she upbraids herself for having given way to the ardour of her temperament.", "pos": 576884}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Most likely; but, dearest, I am sorry to say my husband expects to obtain judgment in the course of this week, and then the short instants of happiness will for ever be lost to me.", "pos": 577263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I candidly confess, madam, that I have felt her loss deeply. She was kind and generous; above all, she was indulgent when I did not call often upon her. My friendship for her was innocent.", "pos": 579427}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "I have no doubt of it, although your ode was the work of a poet deeply in love.", "pos": 579618}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Oh! a poet cannot possibly write without professing to be in love.", "pos": 579700}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "But, if the poet is really in love, he has no need of professing a feeling which he possesses. This is the ode, it does great honour to the poet, for it is admitted to be a masterpiece by all the literati in Rome, and Donna Lucrezia knows it by heart. I only write French prose, and a prose translation destroys half the beauty of poetry. I am satisfied with writing occasionally a little Italian poetry without any pretension to poetical fame.", "pos": 579797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should consider myself fortunate, madam, if I could obtain the happiness of admiring some of your poetry.", "pos": 580707}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Here is a sonnet of her ladyship’s. If you should happen to go out in the morning, you could bring it back, and dine with me.", "pos": 580817}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Aquaviva", "text": "He will be sure to go out purposely.", "pos": 581252}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He complimented me upon the honour conferred on me by the invitation of Cardinal S. C.", "pos": 585041}
{"speaker": "Unnamed Man", "text": "But be prudent, for his eminence has the reputation of being jealous.", "pos": 585128}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "What do you think, of the sonnet?", "pos": 585527}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Monsignor, it is perfectly written, and, what is more, it is a charming composition. Allow me to return it to you with my thanks.", "pos": 585578}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "She has much talent. I wish to shew you ten stanzas of her composition, my dear abbé, but you must promise to be very discreet about it.", "pos": 585710}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your eminence may rely on me.", "pos": 585849}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "No. I have not; but would you feel disposed to lend me your poetical pen, always under the seal of secrecy?", "pos": 586376}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As to secrecy, monsignor, I promise it faithfully; but I am afraid the marchioness will remark the difference between your style and mine.", "pos": 586500}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "She has nothing of my composition. I do not think she supposes me a fine poet, and for that reason your stanzas must be written in such a manner that she will not esteem them above my abilities.", "pos": 586641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will write them with pleasure, monsignor, and your eminence can form an opinion; if they do not seem good enough to be worthy of you, they need not be given to the marchioness.", "pos": 586859}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "That is well said. Will you write them at once?", "pos": 587040}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! now, monsignor? It is not like prose.", "pos": 587090}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Well, well! try to let me have them to-morrow.", "pos": 587136}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "By-the-by, abbé, have you read my sonnet?", "pos": 588107}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, madam, and I have had the honour to return it to his eminence. I have found it so perfect that I am certain it must have cost you a great deal of time.", "pos": 588179}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Time? Oh! you do not know the marchioness.", "pos": 588338}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Monsignor, nothing can be done well without time, and that is why I have not dared to shew to your eminence an answer to the sonnet which I have written in half an hour.", "pos": 588409}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Let us see it, abbé. I want to read it.", "pos": 588594}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Answer of Silesia to Love.", "pos": 588660}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "But Love is not mentioned in the sonnet,", "pos": 588757}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Wait, we must respect the idea of the poet.", "pos": 588824}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Ah, I see, I see! Silesia is a woman.... and the King of Prussia.... Oh! oh! that is really a fine idea! I must copy that sonnet, indeed I must have it.", "pos": 589141}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "The abbé, will save you the trouble: I will dictate it to him.", "pos": 589424}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "My dear marchioness, this is wonderful; he has kept the same rhymes as in your own sonnet: did you observe it?", "pos": 589580}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "If ever your stanzas and mine become known in Rome, you may be sure of my enmity.", "pos": 592817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, I do not understand what you mean.", "pos": 592901}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "I expected you to answer me in this manner, but recollect what I have said.", "pos": 592945}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My stanzas, are too fiery; they compromise her dignity, and her pride is offended at my knowing the secret of her intrigue with Cardinal S. C. Yet, I feel certain that the dread she expresses of my want of discretion is only feigned, it is but a pretext to turn me out of her favour. She has not understood my reserve! What would she have done, if I had painted her in the simple apparel of the golden age, without any of those veils which modesty imposes upon her sex!", "pos": 593168}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "My dear sir, the cardinal wishes to see you, and I am sent by the beautiful marchioness and Cardinal S. C., who desire you to come down.", "pos": 593844}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry, but I cannot go; tell them the truth; I am ill in bed.", "pos": 593983}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "Are you truly ill?", "pos": 594694}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, monsignor, I was only sleepy.", "pos": 594728}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "I am very glad to hear it; but you are wrong, for you are loved. Cardinal S. C. has been bled this morning.", "pos": 594764}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, monsignor. The cardinal tells me so in this note, in which he invites me to dine with him, with your excellency’s permission.", "pos": 594874}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "Certainly. But this is amusing! I did not know that he wanted a third person.", "pos": 595013}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will there be a third person?", "pos": 595093}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Acquaviva", "text": "I do not know, and I have no curiosity about it.", "pos": 595125}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "I am compelled to observe strict diet. I shall have to let you dine alone, but you will not lose by it as my cook does not know it. What I wanted to tell you is that your stanzas are, I am afraid, too pretty, for the marchioness adores them. If you had read them to me in the same way that she does, I could never have made up my mind to offer them.", "pos": 595322}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But she believes them to be written by your eminence?", "pos": 595691}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Of course.", "pos": 595747}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is the essential point, monsignor.", "pos": 595760}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Yes; but what should I do if she took it into her head to compose some new stanzas for me?", "pos": 595802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would answer through the same pen, for you can dispose of me night and day, and rely upon the utmost secrecy.", "pos": 595895}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "I beg of you to accept this small present; it is some negrillo snuff from Habana, which Cardinal Acquaviva has given me.", "pos": 596011}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "If I had known you were in good company. I would not have come.", "pos": 596648}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "I am sure, dear marchioness, you will not find our dear abbé in the way.", "pos": 596742}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "No, for I believe him to be honest and true. Yes, but I shall not enjoy my dinner, for I hate to eat alone.", "pos": 596817}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "If you would honour him so far, the abbé would keep you company.", "pos": 597122}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "I have told you that the abbé is equal to me in that respect,", "pos": 597709}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "I truly believe, that he does not remain far behind you; but, you are more dainty in your tastes.", "pos": 597784}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would her ladyship be so good as to tell me in what I have appeared to her to be a mere glutton? For in all things I like only dainty and exquisite morsels.", "pos": 597939}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Explain what you mean by saying in all things,", "pos": 598098}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My courage, madam, is due to you, for I am as timid as a hare when I am not encouraged; you are the author of my impromptu.", "pos": 598348}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "I admire you. As for myself, were I encouraged by Apollo himself, I could not compose four lines without paper and ink.", "pos": 598474}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only give way boldly to your genius, madam, and you will produce poetry worthy of heaven.", "pos": 598596}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "That is my opinion, too. I entreat you to give me permission to shew your ten stanzas to the abbé.", "pos": 598688}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "They are not very good, but I have no objection provided it remains between us. How well you have read those stanzas! I can hardly believe them to be my own composition; I thank you very much. But have the goodness to give the benefit of your reading to the stanzas which his eminence has written in answer to mine. They surpass them much.", "pos": 598810}
{"speaker": "Cardinal S. C.", "text": "Do not believe it, my dear abbé. Yet try not to let them lose anything through your reading.", "pos": 599337}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, beautiful marchioness, pronounce my sentence.", "pos": 600903}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "I fear you are a libertine and an unfaithful lover.", "pos": 600956}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am neither one nor the other.", "pos": 601010}
{"speaker": "Barbara's Lover", "text": "I only come to beg of you some good advice.", "pos": 603924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On what subject can I advise you?", "pos": 603970}
{"speaker": "Barbara's Lover", "text": "Take this and read it; it will explain everything.", "pos": 604006}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "I am pregnant of a child, the pledge of our mutual love; I can no longer have any doubt of it, my beloved, and I forewarn you that I have made up my mind to quit Rome alone, and to go away to die where it may please God, if you refuse to take care of me and save me. I would suffer anything, do anything, rather than let my father discover the truth.", "pos": 604119}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you are a man of honour, you cannot abandon the poor girl. Marry her in spite of your father, in spite of her own, and live together honestly. The eternal Providence of God will watch over you and help you in your difficulties.", "pos": 604472}
{"speaker": "Barbara's Lover", "text": "I have hired, the top floor of the house next to Barbara’s dwelling; she knows it, and to-night I will gain her apartment through one of the windows of the garret, and we will make all our arrangements to enable me to carry her off. I have made up my mind; I have decided upon taking her to Naples, and I will take with us the servant who, sleeping in the garret, had to be made a confidante of.", "pos": 604864}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "God speed you, my friend! What do you want so late?", "pos": 605273}
{"speaker": "Barbara's Lover", "text": "I wish to introduce you to this handsome abbé.", "pos": 605424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has anyone seen you enter the house?", "pos": 605532}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "No; and if we had been seen, what of it? It is only an abbé. We now pass every night together.", "pos": 605583}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you.", "pos": 605680}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "The servant is our friend; she has consented to follow us, and all our arrangements are completed.", "pos": 605702}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wish you every happiness. Adieu. I beg you to leave me. What kind of execution?", "pos": 605803}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "The bargello or his lieutenant will come to execute some ‘ordine santissimo’, or to visit some suspicious dwelling in order to arrest and carry off some person who does not expect anything of the sort.", "pos": 606088}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you know it?", "pos": 606292}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "His eminence has to know it, for the Pope would not venture to encroach upon his jurisdiction without asking his permission.", "pos": 606314}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And his eminence has given it?", "pos": 606441}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Yes, one of the Holy Father’s auditors came for that purpose this morning.", "pos": 606474}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But the cardinal might have refused?", "pos": 606551}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Of course; but such a permission is never denied.", "pos": 606590}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if the person to be arrested happened to be under the protection of the cardinal--what then?", "pos": 606642}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "His eminence would give timely warning to that person.", "pos": 606741}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "No one, has seen me, I am certain, when I entered the mansion and came up to your room, and I consider my visit here a week ago as most fortunate; otherwise, I never could have known which was your room.", "pos": 608345}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas! how much better if you had never come! But what has become of your lover?", "pos": 608566}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "The ‘sbirri’ have carried him off, as well as the servant. I will tell you all about it. My lover had informed me that a carriage would wait to-night at the foot of the flight of steps before the Church of Trinita del Monte, and that he would be there himself. I entered his room through the garret window an hour ago. There I put on this disguise, and, accompanied by the servant, proceeded to meet him. The servant walked a few yards before me, and carried a parcel of my things. At the corner of the street, one of the buckles of my shoes being unfastened, I stopped an instant, and the servant went on, thinking that I was following her. She reached the carriage, got into it, and, as I was getting nearer, the light from a lantern disclosed to me some thirty sbirri; at the same instant, one of them got on the driver’s box and drove off at full speed, carrying off the servant, whom they must have mistaken for me, and my lover who was in the coach awaiting me. What could I do at such a fearful moment? I could not go back to my father’s house, and I followed my first impulse which brought me here. And here I am! You tell me that my presence will cause your ruin; if it is so, tell me what to do; I feel I am dying; but find some expedient and I am ready to do anything, even to lay my life down, rather than be the cause of your ruin.", "pos": 608648}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let me, conduct you to your father; I feel sure of obtaining your pardon.", "pos": 610170}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "I am lost. I know my father. Ah! reverend sir, turn me out into the street, and abandon me to my miserable fate.", "pos": 610297}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My poor girl, when daylight comes, and that will not be long, for it is past midnight, what do you intend to do?", "pos": 610905}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "I must leave the palace. In this disguise no one can recognize me; I will leave Rome, and I will walk straight before me until I fall on the ground, dying with grief and fatigue. Alas! reverend sir, pity is the only feeling with which I can now inspire anyone.", "pos": 611038}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "We must wait, until the cardinal is visible, but I am quite certain that, if anyone has taken refuge here unknown to him, his eminence will compel that person to leave the palace.", "pos": 614246}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "I am an honest girl, monsignor, though I am disguised in the dress of an abbé. I entreat your eminence to allow me to give my name only to you and in person. I hope that, prompted by the great goodness of your soul, your eminence will save me from dishonour.", "pos": 614773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When you are in his presence, throw yourself on your knees, tell him everything without any concealment, except as regards your having passed the night in my room. You must be sure not to mention that circumstance, for the cardinal must remain in complete ignorance of my knowing anything whatever of this intrigue. Tell him that, seeing your lover carried off, you rushed to his palace and ran upstairs as far as you could go, and that after a most painful night Heaven inspired you with the idea of writing to him to entreat his pity. I feel certain that, one way or the other, his eminence will save you from dishonour, and it certainly is the only chance you have of being united to the man you love so dearly.", "pos": 615187}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "A father, whose name I do not know yet, had requested the assistance of the Vicar-General to prevent his son from carrying off a young girl, with whom he intended to leave the States of the Church; the pair had arranged to meet at midnight in this very square, and the Vicar, having previously obtained the consent of our cardinal, as I told you yesterday, gave orders to the bargello to dispose his men in such a way as to catch the young people in the very act of running away, and to arrest them. The orders were executed, but the ‘sbirri’ found out, when they returned to the bargello, that they had met with only a half success, the woman who got out of the carriage with the young man not belonging to that species likely to be carried off. Soon afterwards a spy informed the bargello that, at the very moment the arrest was executed, he had seen a young abbé run away very rapidly and take refuge in this palace, and the suspicion immediately arose that it might be the missing young lady in the disguise of an ecclesiastic. The bargello reported to the Vicar-General the failure of his men, as well as the account given by the spy, and the Prelate, sharing the suspicion of the police, sent to his eminence, our master, requesting him to have the person in question, man or woman, turned out of the palace, unless such persons should happen to be known to his excellency, and therefore above suspicion. Cardinal Acquaviva was made acquainted with these circumstances at nine this morning through the auditor you met in my room, and he promised to have the person sent away unless she belonged to his household. According to his promise, the cardinal ordered the palace to be searched, but, in less than a quarter of an hour, the major-domo received orders to stop, and the only reason for these new instructions must be this: I am told by the major-domo that at nine o’clock exactly a very handsome, young abbé, whom he immediately judged to be a girl in disguise, asked him to deliver a note to his eminence, and that the cardinal, after reading it, had desired the said abbé be brought to his apartment, which he has not left since. As the order to stop searching the palace was given immediately after the introduction of the abbé to the cardinal, it is easy enough to suppose that this ecclesiastic is no other than the young girl missed by the police, who took refuge in the palace in which she must have passed the whole night.", "pos": 616642}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose, that his eminence will give her up to-day, if not to the bargello, at least to the Vicar-General.", "pos": 619088}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "No, not even to the Pope himself. You have not yet a right idea of the protection of our cardinal, and that protection is evidently granted to her, since the young person is not only in the palace of his eminence, but also in his own apartment and under his own guardianship.", "pos": 619209}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "Everybody, is satisfied that you knew the whole affair, and it is natural to suspect that the poor girl spent the night in your room. I admire your prudent reserve during our conversation of yesterday. You kept so well on your guard that I would have sworn you knew nothing whatever of the affair.", "pos": 620055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And it is the truth. I have only learned all the circumstances from you this moment. I know the girl, but I have not seen her for six weeks, since I gave up my French lessons; I am much better acquainted with the young man, but he never confided his project to me. However, people may believe whatever they please. You say that it is natural for the girl to have passed the night in my room, but you will not mind my laughing in the face of those who accept their own suppositions as realities.", "pos": 620367}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "That, my dear friend, is one of the vices of the Romans; happy those who can afford to laugh at it; but this slander may do you harm, even in the mind of our cardinal.", "pos": 620894}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be very happy if it should turn out so, for they are both most estimable people.", "pos": 621588}
{"speaker": "Father Georgi", "text": "It is known, that you have been in the habit of going every morning to Dalacqua’s house; it is known that the young man often called on you; that is quite enough. People do not care, to know the circumstances which might counteract the slander, but only those, likely to give it new force for slander is vastly relished in the Holy City. Your innocence will not prevent the whole adventure being booked to your account, if, in forty years time you were proposed as pope in the conclave.", "pos": 622159}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "The affair of the girl Dalacqua is now over; it is no longer spoken of, but the verdict of the public is that you and I have profited by the clumsiness of the young man who intended to carry her off. In reality I care little for such a verdict, for, under similar circumstances, I should always act in a similar manner, and I do not wish to know that which no one can compel you to confess, and which, as a man of honour, you must not admit. If you had no previous knowledge of the intrigue, and had actually turned the girl out of your room (supposing she did come to you), you would have been guilty of a wrong and cowardly action, because you would have sealed her misery for the remainder of her days, and it would not have caused you to escape the suspicion of being an accomplice, while at the same time it would have attached to you the odium of dastardly treachery. Notwithstanding all I have just said, you can easily imagine that, in spite of my utter contempt for all gossiping fools, I cannot openly defy them. I therefore feel myself compelled to ask you not only to quit my service, but even to leave Rome. I undertake to supply you with an honourable pretext for your departure, so as to insure you the continuation of the respect which you may have secured through the marks of esteem I have bestowed upon you. I promise you to whisper in the ear of any person you may choose, and even to inform everybody, that you are going on an important mission which I have entrusted to you. You have only to name the country where you want to go; I have friends everywhere, and can recommend you to such purpose that you will be sure to find employment. My letters of recommendation will be in my own handwriting, and nobody need know where you are going. Meet me to-morrow at the Villa Negroni, and let me know where my letters are to be addressed. You must be ready to start within a week. Believe me, I am sorry to lose you; but the sacrifice is forced upon me by the most absurd prejudice. Go now, and do not let me witness your grief.", "pos": 623377}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "I am sure, that they are caused by the conversation you have had with his eminence.", "pos": 625746}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; but you do not know the sorrow at my heart which I try not to shew outwardly.", "pos": 625843}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "What sorrow?", "pos": 625938}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am afraid of failing in a difficult mission which the cardinal has entrusted me with this morning. I am compelled to conceal how little confidence I feel in myself in order not to lessen the good opinion his eminence is pleased to entertain of me.", "pos": 625953}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "If my advice can be of any service to you, pray dispose of me; but you are quite right to shew yourself calm and cheerful. Is it any business to transact in Rome?", "pos": 626205}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; it is a journey I shall have to undertake in a week or ten days.", "pos": 626370}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "Which way?", "pos": 626441}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Towards the west.", "pos": 626454}
{"speaker": "Gama", "text": "Oh! I am not curious to know.", "pos": 626474}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where shall I go?", "pos": 627383}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no hope of success, for I am certain that Fortune will smile upon me only as long as I am near your eminence.", "pos": 628134}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "Constantinople!", "pos": 628549}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, monsignor, Constantinople,", "pos": 628608}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "I am glad you have not chosen Ispahan, as I should have felt rather embarrassed. When do you wish to go?", "pos": 628805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This day week, as your eminence has ordered me.", "pos": 628912}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "Do you intend to sail from Naples or from Venice?", "pos": 628962}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From Venice.", "pos": 629014}
{"speaker": "the cardinal", "text": "I will give you such a passport as will be needed, for you will find two armies in winter-quarters in the Romagna. It strikes me that you may tell everybody that I sent you to Constantinople, for nobody will believe you.", "pos": 629029}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Either I am mad, or I am obeying the impulse of a mysterious genius which sends me to Constantinople to work out my fate. Without any doubt, he did not wish me to believe that he had boasted of more than he could achieve, in telling me that he had friends everywhere. But to whom can he recommend me in Constantinople? I have not the slightest idea, but to Constantinople I must go.", "pos": 629473}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Holy Father has granted me permission to eat meat.", "pos": 632058}
{"speaker": "mine host", "text": "Let me see your permission.", "pos": 632115}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He gave it to me by word of mouth.", "pos": 632145}
{"speaker": "mine host", "text": "Reverend sir, I am not obliged to believe you.", "pos": 632182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a fool.", "pos": 632231}
{"speaker": "mine host", "text": "I am master in my own house, and I beg you will go to some other inn.", "pos": 632249}
{"speaker": "grave-looking individual", "text": "Sir, you are wrong in calling for meat, when in Ancona fish is much better; you are wrong in expecting the landlord to believe you on your bare word; and if you have obtained the permission from the Pope, you have been wrong in soliciting it at your age; you have been wrong in not asking for such permission in writing; you are wrong in calling the host a fool, because it is a compliment that no man is likely to accept in his own house; and, finally, you are wrong in making such an uproar.", "pos": 632539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I willingly plead guilty, sir, to all the counts which you allege against me; but it is raining, it is getting late, I am tired and hungry, and therefore you will easily understand that I do not feel disposed to change my quarters. Will you give me some supper, as the landlord refuses to do so?", "pos": 633156}
{"speaker": "grave-looking individual", "text": "No, because I am a good Catholic and fast. But I will undertake to make it all right for you with the landlord, who will give you a good supper.", "pos": 633468}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you not take supper with me?", "pos": 633879}
{"speaker": "grave-looking individual", "text": "No, but I will keep you company.", "pos": 633915}
{"speaker": "Sancio Pico", "text": "My name is Sancio Pico. I am a Castilian, and the ‘proveditore’ of the army of H. C. M., which is commanded by Count de Gages under the orders of the generalissimo, the Duke of Modena.", "pos": 634077}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No,", "pos": 634350}
{"speaker": "Sancio Pico", "text": "Are you not afraid such a supper will hurt you?", "pos": 634421}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, I hope it will do me a great deal of good.", "pos": 634480}
{"speaker": "Sancio Pico", "text": "Then you have deceived the Pope?", "pos": 634542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, for I did not tell him that I had no appetite, but only that I liked meat better than fish.", "pos": 634577}
{"speaker": "Sancio Pico", "text": "If you feel disposed to hear some good music, follow me to the next room; the prima donna of Ancona lives there.", "pos": 634675}
{"speaker": "Castilian", "text": "I intend to leave very early to-morrow morning, for Sinigaglia, with the Abbé Vilmarcati, but I expect to return for supper the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 636798}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Reverend sir, the persons you have invited here have each the appetite of two men at least; I give you notice of it, because I must charge accordingly.", "pos": 639437}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All right, but let us have a good dinner.", "pos": 639591}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "The manager of the theatre, is a miser who has given us only fifty Roman crowns for the whole carnival. We have spent them for our living, and, to return to Bologna, we shall have to walk and beg our way.", "pos": 639902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise you another gold quadruple, madam, if you will confide in me entirely. Confess that Bellino is a pretty woman in disguise.", "pos": 640247}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "I can assure you it is not so, although he has the appearance of a woman.", "pos": 640392}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not only the appearance, madam, but the tone, the manners; I am a good judge.", "pos": 640468}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Nevertheless, he is a boy, for he has had to be examined before he could sing on the stage here.", "pos": 640548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And who examined him?", "pos": 640647}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "My lord bishop’s chaplain.", "pos": 640671}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A chaplain?", "pos": 640700}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Yes, and you may satisfy yourself by enquiring from him.", "pos": 640714}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The only way to clear my doubts would be to examine him myself.", "pos": 640773}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You may, if he has no objection, but truly I cannot interfere, as I do not know what your intentions are.", "pos": 640839}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are quite natural. Bellino, I am certain that your natural conformation is different from mine; my dear, you are a girl.", "pos": 640947}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "I am a man, but a castrato; I have been examined.", "pos": 641351}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Allow me to examine you likewise, and I will give you a doubloon.", "pos": 641403}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "I cannot, for it is evident that you love me, and such love is condemned by religion.", "pos": 641471}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You did not raise these objections with the bishop’s chaplain.", "pos": 641559}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "He was an elderly priest, and besides, he only just glanced at me.", "pos": 641624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will know the truth,", "pos": 641693}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! this is enough. I can no longer doubt that you are a beautifully-formed woman!", "pos": 642688}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "It is, the defect of all castrati.", "pos": 642788}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, it is the perfection of all handsome women. Bellino, believe me, I am enough of a good judge to distinguish between the deformed breast of a castrato, and that of a beautiful woman; and your alabaster bosom belongs to a young beauty of seventeen summers.", "pos": 642839}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "Bellino begged me to take him to Rimini, where he was engaged to sing in an opera to be performed after Easter.", "pos": 644118}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and tell him, my dear little seraph, that I am ready to do what he wishes, if he will only grant me in your presence what I desire; I want to know for a certainty whether he is a man or a woman.", "pos": 644231}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "Bellino had gone to bed, but that if I would postpone my departure for one day only he promised to satisfy me on the morrow.", "pos": 644473}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me the truth, Cecilia, and I will give you six sequins.", "pos": 644599}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "I cannot earn them, for I have never seen him naked, and I cannot swear to his being a girl. But he must be a man, otherwise he would not have been allowed to perform here.", "pos": 644662}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I will remain until the day after to-morrow, provided you keep me company tonight.", "pos": 644837}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "Do you love me very much?", "pos": 644928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very much indeed, if you shew yourself very kind.", "pos": 644956}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "I will be very kind, for I love you dearly likewise. I will go and tell my mother.", "pos": 645008}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course you have a lover?", "pos": 645093}
{"speaker": "Cecilia", "text": "I never had one. her mother believed me an honest man; You have made me so happy!", "pos": 645123}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "the day was not passed yet, he was certain of traveling with me.", "pos": 646439}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I fairly warn you that you cannot accompany me unless I am fully satisfied.", "pos": 646519}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "Well, I will satisfy you.", "pos": 646597}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shall we go and take a walk together?", "pos": 646625}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "Willingly; I will dress myself.", "pos": 646665}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Cecilia has passed the night with you, Bellino will go with you to-morrow, I am the most unfortunate of us all.", "pos": 646816}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you want money?", "pos": 646930}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "No, for I love you.", "pos": 646951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, Marinetta, you are too young.", "pos": 646973}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "I am much stronger than my sister.", "pos": 647010}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps you have a lover.", "pos": 647047}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Oh! no.", "pos": 647075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, we can try this evening.", "pos": 647085}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Good! Then I will tell mother to prepare clean sheets for to-morrow morning; otherwise everybody here would know that I slept with you.", "pos": 647123}
{"speaker": "Greek woman", "text": "Now is your time!", "pos": 648515}
{"speaker": "Greek slave", "text": "Spolaitis,", "pos": 649225}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "How unhappy they must be!", "pos": 649899}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think, that coquettes are happier?", "pos": 649937}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "No, but I think that when a woman yields to love, she should not be conquered before she has fought with her own desires; she should not give way to the first impulse of a lustful desire and abandon herself to the first man who takes her fancy, like an animal--the slave of sense. You must confess that the Greek woman has given you an evident proof that you had taken her fancy, but that she has at the same time given you a proof not less certain of her beastly lust, and of an effrontery which exposed her to the shame of being repulsed, for she could not possibly know whether you would feel as well disposed for her as she felt for you. She is very handsome, and it all turned out well, but the adventure has thrown me into a whirlpool of agitation which I cannot yet control.", "pos": 649992}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope you will excuse me if I had felt certain that he would not refuse me the honour of his company to supper with Bellino.", "pos": 651352}
{"speaker": "Don Sancio", "text": "he could not declare himself thoroughly pleased unless I promised to sup with him the next evening with the same guests.", "pos": 651820}
{"speaker": "Marinetta", "text": "I am delighted you find me so, we must not sleep at all throughout the night.", "pos": 653329}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sleep, my darling, will prove our friend, and our strength renewed by repose will reward you in the morning for what you may suppose lost time.", "pos": 653421}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you satisfied, that Bellino is a woman?", "pos": 656005}
{"speaker": "Don Sancio", "text": "Woman or man, what do I care! I think he is a very pretty ‘castrato’, and I have seen many as good-looking as he is.", "pos": 656075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But are you sure he is a ‘castrato’?", "pos": 656194}
{"speaker": "Don Sancio", "text": "'Valgame Dios'! I have not the slightest wish to ascertain the truth.", "pos": 656234}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bellino, everything must have an end; you have promised: it will soon be over. If you are what you represent yourself to be, I will let you go back to your own room; if you are what I believe you to be, and if you consent to remain with me to-night, I will give you one hundred sequins, and we will start together tomorrow morning.", "pos": 657944}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "You must go alone, and forgive me if I cannot fulfil my promise. I am what I told you, and I can neither reconcile myself to the idea of exposing my shame before you, nor lay myself open to the terrible consequences that might follow the solution of your doubts.", "pos": 658278}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There can be no consequences, since there will be an end to it at the moment I have assured myself that you are unfortunate enough to be what you say, and without ever mentioning the circumstances again, I promise to take you with me to-morrow and to leave you at Rimini.", "pos": 658543}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "No, my mind is made up; I cannot satisfy your curiosity.", "pos": 658817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Should it be the case. I should have no difficulty in passing over a deformity which, in reality, is only laughable. Bellino, the impression you produce upon me, this sort of magnetism, your bosom worthy of Venus herself, which you have once abandoned to my eager hand, the sound of your voice, every movement of yours, assure me that you do not belong to my sex. Let me see for myself, and, if my conjectures are right, depend upon my faithful love; if, on the contrary, I find that I have been mistaken, you can rely upon my friendship. If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the most accursed school that the best way of preventing a young man from curing himself of an amorous passion is to excite it constantly; but you must agree with me that, to put such tyranny in practice, it is necessary to hate the person it is practised upon, and, if that be so, I ought to call upon my reason to give me the strength necessary to hate you likewise.", "pos": 661678}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "Recollect that you are not my master, that I am in your hands, because I had faith in your promise, and that, if you use violence, you will be guilty of murder. Order the postillion to stop, I will get out of the carriage, and you may rely upon my not complaining of your treatment.", "pos": 663042}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We might have spent a little time in Rimini like good friends, if you had felt any friendship for me, for, with a little kind compliance, you could have easily cured me of my passion.", "pos": 663946}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "It would not cure you, no, you would not be cured, whether you found me to be man or woman, for you are in love with me independently of my sex, and the certainty you would acquire would make you furious. In such a state, should you find me inexorable, you would very likely give way to excesses which would afterwards cause you deep sorrow.", "pos": 664132}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You expect to make me admit that you are right, but you are completely mistaken, for I feel that I should remain perfectly calm, and that by complying with my wishes you would gain my friendship.", "pos": 664559}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "I tell you again that you would become furious.", "pos": 664757}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bellino, that which has made me furious is the sight of your charms, either too real or too completely deceiving, the power of which you cannot affect to ignore. You have not been afraid to ignite my amorous fury, how can you expect me to believe you now, when you pretend to fear it, and when I am only asking you to let me touch a thing, which, if it be as you say, will only disgust me?", "pos": 664807}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "Ah! disgust you; I am quite certain of the contrary. Listen to me. Were I a girl, I feel I could not resist loving you, but, being a man, it is my duty not to grant what you desire, for your passion, now very natural, would then become monstrous. Your ardent nature would be stronger than your reason, and your reason itself would easily come to the assistance of your senses and of your nature. That violent clearing-up of the mystery, were you to obtain it, would leave you deprived of all control over yourself. Disappointed in not finding what you had expected, you would satisfy your passion upon that which you would find, and the result would, of course, be an abomination. How can you, intelligent as you are, flatter yourself that, finding me to be a man, you could all at once cease to love me? Would the charms which you now see in me cease to exist then? Perhaps their power would, on the contrary, be enhanced, and your passion, becoming brutal, would lead you to take any means your imagination suggested to gratify it. You would persuade yourself that you might change me into a woman, or, what is worse, that you might change yourself into one. Your passion would invent a thousand sophisms to justify your love, decorated with the fine appellation of friendship, and you would not fail to allege hundreds of similarly disgusting cases in order to excuse your conduct. You would certainly never find me compliant; and how am I to know that you would not threaten me with death?", "pos": 665199}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing of the sort would happen, Bellino, positively nothing, and I am sure you are exaggerating your fears. Yet I am bound to tell you that, even if all you say should happen, it seems to me that to allow what can strictly be considered only as a temporary fit of insanity, would prove a less evil than to render incurable a disease of the mind which reason would soon cut short.", "pos": 666695}
{"speaker": "Bellino", "text": "Dearest, are you satisfied now? Have you found me truly loving?", "pos": 671069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Truly loving? Ah! traitress that you are! Do you, then, confess that I was not mistaken when I guessed that you were a charming woman? And if you truly loved me, tell me how you could contrive to defer your happiness and mine so long? But is it quite certain that I did not make a mistake?", "pos": 671146}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I am yours all over; see for yourself.", "pos": 671438}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has become, of that dreadful monstrosity?", "pos": 671656}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Listen to me, and I will tell you everything. My name is Thérèse. My father, a poor clerk in the Institute of Bologna, had let an apartment in his house to the celebrated Salimberi, a castrato, and a delightful musician. He was young and handsome, he became attached to me, and I felt flattered by his affection and by the praise he lavished upon me. I was only twelve years of age; he proposed to teach me music, and finding that I had a fine voice, he cultivated it carefully, and in less than a year I could accompany myself on the harpsichord. His reward was that which his love for me induced him to ask, and I granted the reward without feeling any humiliation, for I worshipped him. Of course, men like yourself are much above men of his species, but Salimberi was an exception. His beauty, his manners, his talent, and the rare qualities of his soul, made him superior in my eyes to all the men I had seen until then. He was modest and reserved, rich and generous, and I doubt whether he could have found a woman able to resist him; yet I never heard him boast of having seduced any. The mutilation practised upon his body had made him a monster, but he was an angel by his rare qualities and endowments. Salimberi was at that time educating a boy of the same age as myself, who was in Rimini with a music teacher. The father of the boy, who was poor and had a large family, seeing himself near death, had thought of having his unfortunate son maimed so that he should become the support of his brothers with his voice. The name of the boy was Bellino; the good woman whom you have just seen in Ancona was his mother, and everybody believes that she is mine. I had belonged to Salimberi for about a year, when he announced to me one day, weeping bitterly, that he was compelled to leave me to go to Rome, but he promised to see me again. The news threw me into despair. He had arranged everything for the continuation of my musical education, but, as he was preparing himself for his departure, my father died very suddenly, after a short illness, and I was left an orphan. Salimberi had not courage enough to resist my tears and my entreaties; he made up his mind to take me to Rimini, and to place me in the same house where his young ‘protege’ was educated. We reached Rimini, and put up at an inn; after a short rest, Salimberi left me to call upon the teacher of music, and to make all necessary arrangements respecting me with him; but he soon returned, looking sad and unhappy; Bellino had died the day before.", "pos": 671715}
{"speaker": "Salimberi", "text": "I will give her, everything necessary for the completion of your musical education, and in four years, I will take you to Dresden (he was in the service of the Elector of Saxony, King of Poland), not as a girl, but as a castrato. There we will live together without giving anyone cause for scandal, and you will remain with me and minister to my happiness until I die. All we have to do is to represent you as Bellino, and it is very easy, as nobody knows you in Bologna. Bellino’s mother will alone know the secret; her other children have seen their brother only when he was very young, and can have no suspicion. But if you love me you must renounce your sex, lose even the remembrance of it, and leave immediately for Bologna, dressed as a boy, and under the name of Bellino. You must be very careful lest anyone should find out that you are a girl; you must sleep alone, dress yourself in private, and when your bosom is formed, as it will be in a year or two, it will only be thought a deformity not uncommon amongst ‘castrati’. Besides, before leaving you, I will give you a small instrument, and teach how to fix it in such manner that, if you had at any time to submit to an examination, you would easily be mistaken for a man. If you accept my plan, I feel certain that we can live together in Dresden without losing the good graces of the queen, who is very religious. Tell me, now, whether you will accept my proposal?", "pos": 674586}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "He could not entertain any doubt of my consent, for I adored him. As soon as he had made a boy of me we left Rimini for Bologna, where we arrived late in the evening. A little gold made everything right with Bellino’s mother; I gave her the name of mother, and she kissed me, calling me her dear son. Salimberi left us, and returned a short time afterwards with the instrument which would complete my transformation. He taught me, in the presence of my new mother, how to fix it with some tragacanth gum, and I found myself exactly like my friend. I would have laughed at it, had not my heart been deeply grieved at the departure of my beloved Salimberi, for he bade me farewell as soon as the curious operation was completed. People laugh at forebodings; I do not believe in them myself, but the foreboding of evil, which almost broke my heart as he gave me his farewell kiss, did not deceive me. I felt the cold shivering of death run through me; I felt I was looking at him for the last time, and I fainted away. Alas! my fears proved only too prophetic. Salimberi died a year ago in the Tyrol in the prime of life, with the calmness of a true philosopher. His death compelled me to earn my living with the assistance of my musical talent. My mother advised me to continue to give myself out as a castrato, in the hope of being able to take me to Rome. I agreed to do so, for I did not feel sufficient energy to decide upon any other plan. In the meantime she accepted an offer for the Ancona Theatre, and Petronio took the part of first female dancer; in this way we played the comedy of ‘The World Turned Upside Down.’ After Salimberi, you are the only man I have known, and, if you like, you can restore me to my original state, and make me give up the name of Bellino, which I hate since the death of my protector, and which begins to inconvenience me. I have only appeared at two theatres, and each time I have been compelled to submit to the scandalous, degrading examination, because everywhere I am thought to have too much the appearance of a girl, and I am admitted only after the shameful test has brought conviction. Until now, fortunately, I have had to deal only with old priests who, in their good faith, have been satisfied with a very slight examination, and have made a favourable report to the bishop; but I might fall into the hands of some young abbé, and the test would then become a more severe one. Besides, I find myself exposed to the daily persecutions of two sorts of beings: those who, like you, cannot and will not believe me to be a man, and those who, for the satisfaction of their disgusting propensities, are delighted at my being so, or find it advantageous to suppose me so. The last particularly annoy me! Their tastes are so infamous, their habits so low, that I fear I shall murder one of them some day, when I can no longer control the rage in which their obscene language throws me. Out of pity, my beloved angel, be generous; and, if you love me, oh! free me from this state of shame and degradation! Take me with you. I do not ask to become your wife, that would be too much happiness; I will only be your friend, your mistress, as I would have been Salimberi’s; my heart is pure and innocent, I feel that I can remain faithful to my lover through my whole life. Do not abandon me. The love I have for you is sincere; my affection for Salimberi was innocent; it was born of my inexperience and of my gratitude, and it is only with you that I have felt myself truly a woman.", "pos": 676029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you loved me truly,", "pos": 680236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how could you let me sleep with your sisters, out of spite at your resistance?", "pos": 680269}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Alas, dearest! think of our great poverty, and how difficult it was for me to discover myself. I loved you; but was it not natural that I should suppose your inclination for me only a passing caprice? When I saw you go so easily from Cecilia to Marinetta, I thought that you would treat me in the same manner as soon as your desires were satisfied, I was likewise confirmed in my opinion of your want of constancy and of the little importance you attached to the delicacy of the sentiment of love, when I witnessed what you did on board the Turkish vessel without being hindered by my presence; had you loved me, I thought my being present would have made you uncomfortable. I feared to be soon despised, and God knows how much I suffered! You have insulted me, darling, in many different ways, but my heart pleaded in your favour, because I knew you were excited, angry, and thirsting for revenge. Did you not threaten me this very day in your carriage? I confess you greatly frightened me, but do not fancy that I gave myself to you out of fear. No, I had made up my mind to be yours from the moment you sent me word by Cecilia that you would take me to Rimini, and your control over your own feelings during a part of our journey confirmed me in my resolution, for I thought I could trust myself to your honour, to your delicacy.", "pos": 680350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Throw up,", "pos": 681685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the engagement you have in Rimini; let us proceed on our journey, and, after remaining a couple of days in Bologna, you will go with me to Venice; dressed as a woman, and with another name, I would challenge the manager here to find you out.", "pos": 681705}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I accept. Your will shall always be my law. I am my own mistress, and I give myself to you without any reserve or restriction; my heart belongs to you, and I trust to keep yours.", "pos": 681949}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shew me,", "pos": 682281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how you were when I mistook you for a man.", "pos": 682300}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest Thérèse, all you have told me leaves me no doubt of your love for me, and the consciousness you feel of being the mistress of my heart enhances my love for you to such a degree, that I am ready to do everything to convince you that you were not mistaken in thinking that you had entirely conquered me. I wish to prove to you that I am worthy of the noble confidence you have reposed in me by trusting you with equal sincerity.", "pos": 684546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Our hearts must be on a footing of perfect equality. I know you, my dearest Thérèse, but you do not know me yet. I can read in your eyes that you do not mind it, and it proves our great love, but that feeling places me too much below you, and I do not wish you to have so great an advantage over me. I feel certain that my confidence is not necessary to your love; that you only care to be mine, that your only wish is to possess my heart, and I admire you, my Thérèse; but I should feel humiliated if I found myself either too much above or too much below you. You have entrusted your secrets to me, now listen to mine; but before I begin, promise me that, when you know everything that concerns me, you will tell me candidly if any change has taken place either in your feelings or in your hopes.", "pos": 684982}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I promise it faithfully; I promise not to conceal anything from you; but be upright enough not to tell me anything that is not perfectly true, for I warn you that it would be useless. If you tried any artifice in order to find me less worthy of you than I am in reality, you would only succeed in lowering yourself in my estimation. I should be very sorry to see you guilty of any cunning towards me. Have no more suspicion of me than I have of you; tell me the whole truth.", "pos": 685783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here it is. You suppose me wealthy, and I am not so; as soon as what there is now in my purse is spent I shall have nothing left. You may fancy that I was born a patrician, but my social condition is really inferior to your own. I have no lucrative talents, no profession, nothing to give me the assurance that I am able to earn my living. I have neither relatives nor friends, nor claims upon anyone, and I have no serious plan or purpose before me. All I possess is youth, health, courage, some intelligence, honour, honesty, and some tincture of letters. My greatest treasure consists in being my own master, perfectly independent, and not afraid of misfortune. With all that, I am naturally inclined to extravagance. Lovely Thérèse, you have my portrait. What is your answer?", "pos": 686260}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "In the first place, dearest, let me assure you that I believe every word you have just uttered, as I would believe in the Gospel; in the second, allow me to tell you that several times in Ancona I have judged you such as you have just described yourself, but far from being displeased at such a knowledge of your nature, I was only afraid of some illusion on my part, for I could hope to win you if you were what I thought you to be. In one word, dear one, if it is true that you are poor and a very bad hand at economy, allow me to tell you that I feel delighted, because, if you love me, you will not refuse a present from me, or despise me for offering it. The present consists of myself, such as I am, and with all my faculties. I give myself to you without any condition, with no restriction; I am yours, I will take care of you. For the future think only of your love for me, but love me exclusively. From this moment I am no longer Bellino. Let us go to Venice, where my talent will keep us both comfortably; if you wish to go anywhere else, let us go where you please.", "pos": 687042}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must go to Constantinople.", "pos": 688120}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Then let us proceed to Constantinople. If you are afraid to lose me through want of constancy, marry me, and your right over me will be strengthened by law. I should not love you better than I do now, but I should be happy to be your wife.", "pos": 688151}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is my intention to marry you, and I am delighted that we agree in that respect. The day after to-morrow, in Bologna, you shall be made my legal-wife before the altar of God; I swear it to you here in the presence of Love. I want you to be mine, I want to be yours, I want us to be united by the most holy ties.", "pos": 688393}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I am the happiest of women! We have nothing to do in Rimini; suppose we do not get up; we can have our dinner in bed, and go away to-morrow well rested after our fatigues.", "pos": 688709}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "What have you done with your passport?", "pos": 689480}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have lost it.", "pos": 689544}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "A passport is not so easily lost.", "pos": 689562}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I have lost mine.", "pos": 689598}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "You cannot proceed any further.", "pos": 689624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I come from Rome, and I am going to Constantinople, bearing a letter from Cardinal Acquaviva. Here is the letter stamped with his seal.", "pos": 689658}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "All I can do for you is to send you to M. de Gages.", "pos": 689796}
{"speaker": "M. de Gages", "text": "The only favour I can grant you is to put you under arrest till you receive another passport from Rome delivered under the same name as the one you have given here. To lose a passport is a misfortune which befalls only a thoughtless, giddy man, and the cardinal will for the future know better than to put his confidence in a giddy fellow like you.", "pos": 690013}
{"speaker": "Horace", "text": "Nisi quum pituita molesta est.", "pos": 694959}
{"speaker": "French Officer", "text": "To what chance, reverend sir, am I indebted for the honour of having you in my custody?", "pos": 696571}
{"speaker": "Prince Lobkowitz", "text": "I ought, to put you under arrest, but I am willing to save you that unpleasantness. Then you can go wherever you please, but take care not to again enter the lines of my army without a passport, or you might fare badly.", "pos": 701817}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "I have one, sir, but I live half a league from here.", "pos": 704023}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and get it, I will wait for you here.", "pos": 704089}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I know him, and he is a worthy man, but he comes here every evening, and you must conceal yourself.", "pos": 705270}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "As soon as I can get a passport, there is nothing to hinder me from remaining near you until the end of your engagement. But as M. Vais calls upon you, tell me whether you have informed him of my having spent a few days in Ancona? I did, and I even told him that you had been arrested because you had lost your passport.", "pos": 706218}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In Rome, my good woman, the false Bellino would have been found out, and Thérèse would have been consigned to a miserable convent for which she was never made.", "pos": 707097}
{"speaker": "muleteer", "text": "You are welcome to the ride, but I would advise you not to get on the mule till we are outside the city, and to pass through the gate on foot as if you were one of the drivers.", "pos": 709146}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Casanova. Your profession, if you please, sir?", "pos": 713534}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Officer.", "pos": 713585}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "In which service?", "pos": 713596}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "None.", "pos": 713616}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Your native place?", "pos": 713624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Venice.", "pos": 713645}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Where do you come from?", "pos": 713655}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is no business of yours.", "pos": 713681}
{"speaker": "Monsignor Cornaro", "text": "But we have met before, at Venice and Rome.", "pos": 714668}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he must certainly be mistaken.", "pos": 714773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not know, what affair you are alluding to.", "pos": 715417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be, but you are certainly the Casanova I knew a month ago at Cardinal Acquaviva’s, and two years ago at the house of my sister, Madame Lovedan, in Venice. Besides the Ancona banker speaks of you as an ecclesiastic in his letter of advice to M. Orsi.", "pos": 716265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, monsignor; your excellency compels me to agree to my being the same Casanova, but I entreat you not to ask me any more questions as I am bound in honour to observe the strictest reserve.", "pos": 716526}
{"speaker": "Monsignor Cornaro", "text": "That is enough for me, and I am satisfied. Let us talk of something else.", "pos": 716726}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "I did not expect to see you in such a costume. I have resolved to throw off the garb which could not procure me a fortune likely to satisfy my ambition. Where are you going? To Constantinople; and I hope to find a quick passage to Corfu, as I have dispatches from Cardinal Acquaviva. Where do you come from now? From the Spanish army, which I left ten days ago.", "pos": 726424}
{"speaker": "young nobleman", "text": "That is not true.", "pos": 726885}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "The profession to which I belong, does not permit me to let anyone give me the lie.", "pos": 726905}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "I should be only too happy, to have you so long, but I have no room to offer you.", "pos": 728465}
{"speaker": "M. Rosa", "text": "Yes, you have one, my dear, and I undertake to put it to rights within two hours.", "pos": 728565}
{"speaker": "Madame Orio", "text": "There would be no need for them to do that, madam, and if I am likely to occasion the slightest disturbance, I can remain at the inn. There will be no disturbance whatever; but forgive my nieces, they are young prudes, and have a very high opinion of themselves.", "pos": 728896}
{"speaker": "Secretary of War", "text": "I could not receive my discharge, as I was never in the service. And how did you manage to come to Venice without performing quarantine? Persons coming from Mantua are not subject to it. True; but I advise you to enter the Venetian service like Major Pelodoro.", "pos": 730793}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "Even the Spanish officer? No, for he remarked that, if you had truly been with the army, you could not act differently, and he has himself assured me that you were there, and to prove what he asserted he made me read an article in the newspaper, in which it is stated that you killed your captain in a duel. Of course it is only a fable?", "pos": 731211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How do you know that it is not a fact?", "pos": 731553}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "Is it true, then?", "pos": 731594}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "I do not say so, but it may be true, quite as true as my having been with the Spanish army ten days ago.", "pos": 731614}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "But that is impossible, unless you have broken through the quarantine.", "pos": 731721}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "I have broken nothing. I have openly crossed the Po at Revero, and here I am. I am sorry not to be able to present myself at your excellency’s palace, but I cannot do so until I have received the most complete satisfaction from the person who has given me the lie. I could put up with an insult when I wore the livery of humility, but I cannot bear one now that I wear the garb of honour.", "pos": 731794}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "You are wrong to take it in such a high tone. The person who attacked your veracity is M. Valmarana, the proveditore of the sanitary department, and he contends that, as nobody can pass through the cordon, it would be impossible for you to be here. Satisfaction, indeed! Have you forgotten who you are?", "pos": 732185}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "No, I know who I am; and I know likewise that, if I was taken for a coward before leaving Venice, now that I have returned no one shall insult me without repenting it.", "pos": 732490}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "Come and dine with me.", "pos": 732660}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "No, because the Spanish officer would know it.", "pos": 732685}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grimani", "text": "He would even see you, for he dines with me every day.", "pos": 732734}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "Very well, then I will go, and I will let him be the judge of my quarrel with M. Valmarana.", "pos": 732791}
{"speaker": "Major Pelodoro", "text": "I am acquainted, with a young lieutenant whose health is not sufficiently strong to allow him to go to the East, and who would be glad to sell his commission, for which he wants one hundred sequins. But it would be necessary to obtain the consent of the secretary of war.", "pos": 733039}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "Mention the matter to him, the one hundred sequins are ready.", "pos": 733331}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "The duke is old, but even if he were young, you would have no cause for uneasiness on my account. Should you ever want any money, draw upon me from any place where you may happen to be, and be quite certain that your letters of exchange will be paid, even if I had to sell everything I possess to honour your signature.", "pos": 735445}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "Irasci, celerem tamen et placabilem esse", "pos": 741874}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "Might I presume to enquire whether this is your first visit to Orsera, captain?", "pos": 742845}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sir, it is my second visit to this city.", "pos": 742927}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "Were you not here last year?", "pos": 742974}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was.", "pos": 743005}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "But you were not in uniform then?", "pos": 743014}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True again; but your questions begin to sound rather indiscreet.", "pos": 743050}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "Be good enough to forgive me, sir, for my curiosity is the offspring of gratitude. I am indebted to you for the greatest benefits, and I trust that Providence has brought you here again only to give me the opportunity of making greater still my debt of gratitude to you.", "pos": 743117}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What on earth have I done, and what can I do for you? I am at a loss to guess your meaning.", "pos": 743390}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "Will you be so kind as to come and breakfast with me? My house is near at hand; my refosco is delicious, please to taste it, and I will convince you in a few words that you are truly my benefactor, and that I have a right to expect that you have returned Orsera to load me with fresh benefits.", "pos": 743484}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "Yes, captain; I have been practising surgery in this place for twenty years, and in a very poor way, for I had nothing to do, except a few cases of bleeding, of cupping, and occasionally some slight excoriation to dress or a sprained ankle to put to rights. I did not earn even the poorest living. But since last year a great change has taken place; I have made a good deal of money, I have laid it out advantageously, and it is to you, captain, to you (may God bless you!) that I am indebted for my present comforts.", "pos": 744149}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But how so?", "pos": 744669}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "In this way, captain. You had a connection with Don Jerome’s housekeeper, and you left her, when you went away, a certain souvenir which she communicated to a friend of hers, who, in perfect good faith, made a present of it to his wife. This lady did not wish, I suppose, to be selfish, and she gave the souvenir to a libertine who, in his turn, was so generous with it that, in less than a month, I had about fifty clients. The following months were not less fruitful, and I gave the benefit of my attendance to everybody, of course, for a consideration. There are a few patients still under my care, but in a short time there will be no more, as the souvenir left by you has now lost all its virtue. You can easily realize now the joy I felt when I saw you; you are a bird of good omen. May I hope that your visit will last long enough to enable you to renew the source of my fortune?", "pos": 744683}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l’ame d’un devot!", "pos": 746587}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "I am an Atheist", "pos": 747724}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "I had no recollection of it, but it was true.", "pos": 749196}
{"speaker": "Poorly Dressed Man", "text": "We are sentenced to live, and perhaps to die, in this island by the despotism of the Council of Ten. There are forty others as unfortunate as ourselves, and we are all born subjects of the Republic.", "pos": 754399}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Pocchini", "text": "The crime of which we have been accused, which is not considered a crime anywhere, is that we were in the habit of living with our mistresses, without being jealous of our friends, when, finding our ladies handsome, they obtained their favours with our ready consent. As we were not rich, we felt no remorse in availing ourselves of the generosity of our friends in such cases, but it was said that we were carrying on an illicit trade, and we have been sent to this place, where we receive every day ten sous in ‘moneta lunga’. We are called ‘mangia-mayroni’, and are worse off than galley slaves, for we are dying of ennui, and we are often starving without knowing how to stay our hunger. My name is Don Antonio Pocchini, I am of a noble Paduan family, and my mother belongs to the illustrious family of Campo San-Piero.", "pos": 754599}
{"speaker": "Constantine the Great", "text": "Here is the proper seat of the empire of the whole world!", "pos": 756150}
{"speaker": "Osman Pacha", "text": "Then, without this letter, you never would have come to Constantinople, and you have no need of me? True, but I consider myself fortunate in having thus made the acquaintance of a man who has attracted the attention of the whole of Europe, and who still commands that attention.", "pos": 758213}
{"speaker": "Osman Pacha", "text": "Here are. Here are, my library and my harem. I am old, women would only shorten my life but good wine will prolong it, or at least, make it more agreeable. I imagine your excellency has obtained a dispensation from the mufti? You are mistaken, for the Pope of the Turks is very far from enjoying as great a power as the Christian Pope. He cannot in any case permit what is forbidden by the Koran; but everyone is at liberty to work out his own damnation if he likes. The Turkish devotees pity the libertines, but they do not persecute them; there is no inquisition in Turkey. Those who do not know the precepts of religion, say the Turks, will suffer enough in the life to come; there is no need to make them suffer in this life. The only dispensation I have asked and obtained, has been respecting circumcision, although it can hardly be called so, because, at my age, it might have proved dangerous. That ceremony is generally performed, but it is not compulsory. I am certain, that I shall die-calmer and much happier than Prince Eugene. I have had to say that God is God, and that Mahomet is the prophet. I have said it, and the Turks care very little whether I believe it or not. I wear the turban as the soldier wears the uniform. I was nothing but a military man; I could not have turned my hand to any other profession, and I made up my mind to become lieutenant-general of the Grand Turk only when I found myself entirely at a loss how to earn my living. When I left Venice, the pitcher had gone too often to the well, it was broken at last, and if the Jews had offered me the command of an army of fifty thousand men, I would have gone and besieged Jerusalem.", "pos": 759520}
{"speaker": "Yusuf Ali", "text": "Your hydromel, is very good, and the Mussulmans who offend against the law by drinking wine do not deserve any indulgence; I believe they drink wine only because it is forbidden.", "pos": 769740}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Many of the true believers, think that they can take it as a medicine. The Grand Turk’s physician has brought it into vogue as a medicine, and it has been the cause of his fortune, for he has captivated the favour of his master who is in reality constantly ill, because he is always in a state of intoxication. I cannot understand, why wine is allowed by all religions, when its use deprives man of his reason.", "pos": 769931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All religions forbid excess in drinking wine, and the crime is only in the abuse.", "pos": 770526}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "The tobacco you are now smoking is of a very fine quality, and you ought to swallow its balsam which is mixed with the saliva.", "pos": 771107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose you are right; smoking cannot be truly enjoyed without the best tobacco.", "pos": 771236}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "That is true to a certain extent, but the enjoyment found in smoking good tobacco is not the principal pleasure, because it only pleases our senses; true enjoyment is that which works upon the soul, and is completely independent of the senses.", "pos": 771321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot realize pleasures enjoyed by the soul without the instrumentality of the senses.", "pos": 771567}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Listen to me. When you fill your pipe do you feel any pleasure?", "pos": 771659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 771725}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Whence does that pleasure arise, if it is not from your soul? Let us go further. Do you not feel pleased when you give up your pipe after having smoked all the tobacco in it--when you see that nothing is left but some ashes?", "pos": 771732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is true.", "pos": 771959}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Well, there are two pleasures in which your senses have certainly nothing to do, but I want you to guess the third, and the most essential.", "pos": 771973}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The most essential? It is the perfume.", "pos": 772115}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "No; that is a pleasure of the organ of smelling--a sensual pleasure.", "pos": 772156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I do not know.", "pos": 772227}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Listen. The principal pleasure derived from tobacco smoking is the sight of a smoke itself. You must never see it go out of the bowl of your pipe,--but only from the corner of your mouth, at regular intervals which must not be too frequent. It is so truly the greatest pleasure connected with the pipe, that you cannot find anywhere a blind man who smokes. Try yourself the experiment of smoking a pipe in your room, at night and without a light; you will soon lay the pipe down.", "pos": 772249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is all perfectly true; yet you must forgive me if I give the preference to several pleasures, in which my senses are interested, over those which afford enjoyment only to my soul.", "pos": 772731}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Forty years ago I was of the same opinion, and in forty years, if you succeed in acquiring wisdom, you will think like me. Pleasures which give activity to our senses, my dear son, disturb the repose of our soul--a proof that they do not deserve the name of real enjoyments.", "pos": 772916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But if I feel them to be real enjoyments, it is enough to prove that they are truly so.", "pos": 773193}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Granted; but if you would take the trouble of analyzing them after you have tasted them, you would not find them unalloyed.", "pos": 773283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It may be so, but why should I take a trouble which would only lessen my enjoyment.", "pos": 773409}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "A time will come when you will feel pleasure in that very trouble.", "pos": 773495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It strikes me, dear father, that you prefer mature age to youth.", "pos": 773564}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "You may boldly say old age.", "pos": 773631}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You surprise me. Must I believe that your early life has been unhappy?", "pos": 773661}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Far from it. I was always fortunate in good health, and the master of my own passions; but all I saw in my equals was for me a good school in which I have acquired the knowledge of man, and learned the real road to happiness. The happiest of men is not the most voluptuous, but the one who knows how to choose the highest standards of voluptuousness, which can be found, I say again, not in the pleasures which excite our senses, but in those which give greater repose to the soul.", "pos": 773734}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is the voluptuousness which you consider unalloyed.", "pos": 774217}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Yes, and such is the sight of a vast prairie all covered with grass. The green colour, so strongly recommended by our divine prophet, strikes my eyes, and at the same moment I feel that my soul is wrapped up in a calm so delightful that I fancy myself nearer the Creator. I enjoy the same peace, the same repose, when I am seated on the banks of a river, when I look upon the water so quiet, yet always moving, which flows constantly, yet never disappears from my sight, never loses any of its clearness in spite of its constant motion. It strikes me as the image of my own existence, and of the calm which I require for my life in order to reach, like the water I am gazing upon, the goal which I do not see, and which can only be found at the other end of the journey.", "pos": 774276}
{"speaker": "the baili", "text": "We envy you, the prospect you have before you of spending agreeably three or four months in this country, while, in our quality of ministers, we must pine away with melancholy.", "pos": 776137}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Recollect, my son, that the nations to which the prophet brought the knowledge of the true God were all idolators. Men are weak; if the disciples of the prophet had continued to see the same objects, they might have fallen back into their former errors.", "pos": 777430}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No one ever worshipped an image as an image; the deity of which the image is a representation is what is worshipped.", "pos": 777686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I may grant that, but God cannot be matter, and it is right to remove from the thoughts of the vulgar the idea of a material divinity. You are the only men, you Christians, who believe that you see God.", "pos": 777805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is true, we are sure of it, but observe that faith alone gives us that certainty.", "pos": 778010}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know it; but you are idolators, for you see nothing but a material representation, and yet you have a complete certainty that you see God, unless you should tell me that faith disaffirms it.", "pos": 778097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God forbid I should tell you such a thing! Faith, on the contrary, affirms our certainty.", "pos": 778292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We thank God that we have no need of such self-delusion, and there is not one philosopher in the world who could prove to me that you require it.", "pos": 778384}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That would not be the province of philosophy, dear father, but of theology--a very superior science.", "pos": 778532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are now speaking the language of our theologians, who differ from yours only in this; they use their science to make clearer the truths we ought to know, whilst your theologians try to render those truths more obscure.", "pos": 778635}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Recollect, dear father, that they are mysteries.", "pos": 778860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The existence of God is a sufficiently important mystery to prevent men from daring to add anything to it. God can only be simple; any kind of combination would destroy His essence; such is the God announced by our prophet, who must be the same for all men and in all times. Agree with me that we can add nothing to the simplicity of God. We say that God is one; that is the image of simplicity. You say that He is one and three at the same time, and such a definition strikes us as contradictory, absurd, and impious.", "pos": 778911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a mystery.", "pos": 779432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you mean God or the definition? I am speaking only of the definition, which ought not to be a mystery or absurd. Common sense, my son, must consider as absurd an assertion which is substantially nonsensical. Prove to me that three is not a compound, that it cannot be a compound and I will become a Christian at once.", "pos": 779451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My religion tells me to believe without arguing, and I shudder, my dear Yusuf, when I think that, through some specious reasoning, I might be led to renounce the creed of my fathers. I first must be convinced that they lived in error. Tell me whether, respecting my father’s memory, I ought to have such a good opinion of myself as to sit in judgement over him, with the intention of giving my sentence against him?", "pos": 779774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With such feelings, my son, you are sure to find grace in the eyes of God, and you are, therefore, one of the elect. If you are in error, God alone can convince you of it, for no just man on earth can refute the sentiment you have just given expression to.", "pos": 780288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you believe, dear father, that the religion of Mahomet is the only one in which salvation can be secured?", "pos": 781442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my dear son, I am not certain of it, and no man can have such a certainty; but I am sure that the Christian religion is not the true one, because it cannot be universal.", "pos": 781553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 781729}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because there is neither bread nor wine to be found in three-fourths of the world. Observe that the precepts of the Koran can be followed everywhere.", "pos": 781740}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If God cannot be matter,", "pos": 781950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "then He must be a spirit?", "pos": 781985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We know what He is not but we do not know what He is: man cannot affirm that God is a spirit, because he can only realize the idea in an abstract manner. God is immaterial; that is the extent of our knowledge and it can never be greater.", "pos": 782013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Observe, my son, that God never abandons the man who, in the midst of misfortunes, falls down in prayer before Him, and that He often allows the wretch who has no faith in prayer to die miserably.", "pos": 782911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yet we meet with Atheists who are fortunate and happy.", "pos": 783110}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True; but, in spite of their tranquillity, I pity them because they have no hope beyond this life, and are on a level with animals. Besides, if they are philosophers, they must linger in dark ignorance, and, if they never think, they have no consolation, no resource, when adversity reaches them. God has made man in such a manner that he cannot be happy unless he entertains no doubt of the existence of his Divine Creator; in all stations of life man is naturally prone to believe in that existence, otherwise man would never have admitted one God, Creator of all beings and of all things.", "pos": 783167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should like to know why Atheism has only existed in the systems of the learned, and never as a national creed.", "pos": 783761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because the poor feel their wants much more than the rich, There are amongst us a great many impious men who deride the true believers because they have faith in the pilgrimage to Mecca. Wretches that they are, they ought to respect the ancient customs which, exciting the devotion of fervent souls, feed religious principles, and impart courage under all misfortunes. Without such consolation, people would give way to all the excess of despair.", "pos": 783876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would like to know, for instance,", "pos": 786280}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "what name can be given to the chastity of your knights of Malta. They take a vow of chastity, but it does not mean that they will renounce women altogether, they renounce marriage only. Their chastity, and therefore chastity in general, is violated only by marriage; yet I observe that marriage is one of your sacraments. Therefore, those knights of Malta promise not to give way to lustful incontinence in the only case in which God might forgive it, but they reserve the license of being lustful unlawfully as often as they please, and whenever an opportunity may offer itself; and that immoral, illicit license is granted to them to such an extent, that they are allowed to acknowledge legally a child which can be born to them only through a double crime! The most revolting part of it all is that these children of crime, who are of course perfectly innocent themselves, are called natural children, as if children born in wedlock came into the world in an unnatural manner! In one word, my dear son, the vow of chastity is so much opposed to Divine precepts and to human nature that it can be agreeable neither to God nor to society, nor to those who pledge themselves to keep it, and being in such opposition to every divine and human law, it must be a crime.", "pos": 786327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What!", "pos": 787732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must then believe that you are not a perfect man, or that you intend to work out your own damnation; unless you should tell me that you are a Christian only outwardly.", "pos": 787754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am a man in the very strongest sense of the word, and I am a true Christian. I must even confess that I adore women, and that I have not the slightest idea of depriving myself of the most delightful of all pleasures.", "pos": 787926}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "According to your religion, damnation awaits you.", "pos": 788147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel certain of the contrary, because, when we confess our sins, our priests are compelled to give us absolution.", "pos": 788199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know it, but you must agree with me that it is absurd to suppose that God will forgive a crime which you would, perhaps, not commit, if you did not think that, after confession, a priest, a man like you, will give you absolution. God forgives only the repenting sinner.", "pos": 788317}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No doubt of it, and confession supposes repentance; without it, absolution has no effect.", "pos": 788591}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is onanism a crime amongst you?", "pos": 788683}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, even greater than lustful and illegitimate copulation.", "pos": 788717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was aware of it, and it has always caused me great surprise, for the legislator who enacts a law, the execution of which is impossible, is a fool. A man in good health, if he cannot have a woman, must necessarily have recourse to onanism, whenever imperious nature demands it, and the man who, from fear of polluting his soul, would abstain from it, would only draw upon himself a mortal disease.", "pos": 788779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We believe exactly the reverse; we think that young people destroy their constitutions, and shorten their lives through self-abuse. In several communities they are closely watched, and are as much as possible deprived of every opportunity of indulging in that crime.", "pos": 789180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Those who watch them are ignorant fools, and those who pay the watchers for such a service are even more stupid, because prohibition must excite the wish to break through such a tyrannical law, to set at nought an interdiction so contrary to nature.", "pos": 789449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yet it seems to me that self-abuse in excess must be injurious to health, for it must weaken and enervate.", "pos": 789701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, because excess in everything is prejudicial and pernicious; but all such excess is the result of our severe prohibition. If girls are not interfered with in the matter of self-abuse, I do not see why boys should be.", "pos": 789810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because girls are very far from running the same risk; they do not lose a great deal in the action of self-abuse, and what they lose does not come from the same source whence flows the germinal liquid in men.", "pos": 790039}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know, but we have some physicians who say that chlorosis in girls is the result of that pleasure indulged in to excess.", "pos": 790250}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "I have two sons and a daughter. I no longer think of my sons, because they have received their share of my fortune. As far as my daughter is concerned she will, after my death, inherit all my possessions, and I am, besides, in a position while I am alive to promote the fortune of the man who may marry her. Five years ago I took a young wife, but she has not given me any progeny, and I know to a certainty that no offspring will bless our union. My daughter, whose name is Zelmi, is now fifteen; she is handsome, her eyes are black and lovely like her mother’s, her hair is of the colour of the raven’s wing, her complexion is animated alabaster; she is tall, well made, and of a sweet disposition; I have given her an education which would make her worthy of our master, the Sultan. She speaks Greek and Italian fluently, she sings delightfully, and accompanies herself on the harp; she can draw and embroider, and is always contented and cheerful. No living man can boast of having seen her features, and she loves me so dearly that my will is hers. My daughter is a treasure, and I offer her to you if you will consent to go for one year to Adrianople to reside with a relative of mine, who will teach you our religion, our language, and our manners. You will return at the end of one year, and as soon as you have become a Mussulman my daughter shall be your wife. You will find a house ready furnished, slaves of your own, and an income which will enable you to live in comfort. I have no more to say at present. I do not wish you to answer me either to-day, or to-morrow, or on any fixed day. You will give me your decision whenever you feel yourself called upon by your genius to give it, and you need not give me any answer unless you accept my offer, for, should you refuse it, it is not necessary that the subject should be again mentioned. I do not ask you to give full consideration to my proposal, for now that I have thrown the seed in your soul it must fructify. Without hurry, without delay, without anxiety, you can but obey the decrees of God and follow the immutable decision of fate. Such as I know you, I believe that you only require the possession of Zelmi to be completely happy, and that you will become one of the pillars of the Ottoman Empire.", "pos": 790585}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have abandoned myself to God, dear Yusuf, and, full of confidence in Him, I feel certain that I shall decide for the best, whether I make up my mind to become your son, or believe that I ought to remain what I am now. In the mean time, my mind ponders over it day and night, whenever I am quiet and feel myself composed and collected. When I come to a decision, I will impart it to you alone, and from that moment you shall have over me the authority of a father.", "pos": 794728}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Continue to act in that way, my dear son, and be certain that you can never act wrongly.", "pos": 795357}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, one thing might happen, Zelmi might not accept me.", "pos": 795448}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Have no anxiety about that. My daughter loves you; she, as well as my wife and her nurse, sees you every time that we dine together, and she listens to you with pleasure.", "pos": 795523}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does she know that you are thinking of giving her to me as my wife?", "pos": 795696}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "She knows that I ardently wish you to become a true believer, so as to enable me to link her destiny to yours.", "pos": 795766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad that your habits do not permit you to let me see her, because she might dazzle me with her beauty, and then passion would soon have too much weight in the scale; I could no longer flatter myself that my decision had been taken in all the unbiased, purity of my soul.", "pos": 795879}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ancora sei, a poi basta, se non volete vedermi a morire.", "pos": 800654}
{"speaker": "M. de Bonneval", "text": "The worthy Ismail, has been to-day the dupe of his vanity, and I have no doubt that he is sorry already for what he has done. To bring out his beautiful slave to dance with you! According to the prejudices of this country it is injurious to his dignity, for you are sure to have kindled an amorous flame in the poor girl’s breast. I would advise you to be careful and to keep on your guard, because she will try to get up some intrigue with you; but be prudent, for intrigues are always dangerous in Turkey.", "pos": 801232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Should you wish to see the person with whom you danced the forlana, take a walk towards evening in the garden beyond the fountain, and contrive to become acquainted with the old servant of the gardener by asking her for some lemonade. You may perchance manage to see your partner in the forlana without running any risk, even if you should happen to meet Ismail; she is a native of Venice. Be careful not to mention this invitation to any human being.", "pos": 802583}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not such a fool, my lovely countrywoman,", "pos": 803037}
{"speaker": "Elderly Woman", "text": "She sees us at this very moment, from behind that green window-blind, and we love you ever since Yusuf has informed us that you may, perhaps, become Zelmi’s husband.", "pos": 803836}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I mention our conversation to Yusuf?", "pos": 804017}
{"speaker": "Elderly Woman", "text": "No.", "pos": 804072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then it must be a pleasure seldom enjoyed, if it is so much talked of?", "pos": 804816}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "Very seldom indeed, for there is amongst us an invincible prejudice against exposing our lovely women to the eyes of other men; but everyone may do as he pleases in his own house: Ismail is a very worthy and a very intelligent man.", "pos": 804889}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is the lady with whom I danced known?", "pos": 805123}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "I believe not. She wore a mask, and everybody knows that Ismail possesses half a dozen slaves of surpassing beauty.", "pos": 805163}
{"speaker": "Ismail", "text": "Let us leave this place quietly. I have just heard a slight noise which heralds something that will amuse us. Let us go to a small room, the key of which I luckily have with me, but let us be careful not to make any noise. That room has a window overlooking the fountain where I think that two or three of my beauties have just gone to bathe. We will see them and enjoy a very pleasing sight, for they do not imagine that anyone is looking at them. They know that the place is forbidden to everybody except me.", "pos": 807641}
{"speaker": "the veiled beauty", "text": "I suppose, that you do not know who I am?", "pos": 810024}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I could not guess, if I tried.", "pos": 810094}
{"speaker": "the veiled beauty", "text": "I have been for the last five years the wife of your friend, and I am a native of Scio. I was thirteen years of age when I became his wife.", "pos": 810127}
{"speaker": "the veiled beauty", "text": "Dost thou deserve. Yusuf’s friendship, when thou abusest the sacred laws of hospitality by insulting his wife?", "pos": 812735}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, you must kindly forgive me, for I never had any intention to insult you. In my country the lowest of men may fix his eyes upon the face of a queen.", "pos": 812860}
{"speaker": "the veiled beauty", "text": "Yes, but he cannot tear off her veil, if she chooses to wear it. Yusuf shall avenge me. Take a seat. Art thou excited?", "pos": 813017}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How could I be otherwise, when thou art scorching me with an ardent fire?", "pos": 813628}
{"speaker": "the veiled beauty", "text": "Here is my husband,", "pos": 813806}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thought, that I had Zelmi before me.", "pos": 814351}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "That would have been too much against our established rules. What I have done is not much, but I do not know an honest man who would be bold enough to bring his daughter into the presence of a stranger.", "pos": 814409}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think your wife must be handsome; is she more beautiful than Zelmi?", "pos": 814614}
{"speaker": "Yusuf", "text": "My daughter’s beauty is cheerful, sweet, and gentle; that of Sophia is proud and haughty. She will be happy after my death. The man who will marry her will find her a virgin.", "pos": 814686}
{"speaker": "M. de Bonneval", "text": "She was laughing at you, and you ran no danger. She felt very sorry, believe me, to have to deal with a novice like you. You have been playing the comedy in the French fashion, when you ought to have gone straight to the point. What on earth did you want to see her nose for? She knew very well that she would have gained nothing by allowing you to see her. You ought to have secured the essential point. If I were young I would perhaps manage to give her a revenge, and to punish my friend Yusuf. You have given that lovely woman a poor opinion of Italian valour. The most reserved of Turkish women has no modesty except on her face, and, with her veil over it, she knows to a certainty that she will not blush at anything. I am certain that your beauty keeps her face covered whenever our friend Yusuf wishes to joke with her.", "pos": 815021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is yet a virgin.", "pos": 815870}
{"speaker": "M. de Bonneval", "text": "Rather a difficult thing to admit, my good friend; but I know the daughters of Scio; they have a talent for counterfeiting virginity.", "pos": 815893}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "having observed that a very, very fine turkey had been placed before me, told me to carve it, and I immediately went to work.", "pos": 825386}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What do you do with your money?", "pos": 829117}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I keep it, madam, as a provision against possible losses.", "pos": 829151}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "But as you do not indulge in any expense it would be better for you not to play; it is time wasted.", "pos": 829211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Time given to pleasure is never time lost, madam; the only time which a young man wastes is that which is consumed in weariness, because when he is a prey to ennui he is likely to fall a prey to love, and to be despised by the object of his affection.", "pos": 829313}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Very likely; but you amuse yourself with hoarding up your money, and shew yourself to be a miser, and a miser is not less contemptible than a man in love. Why do you not buy yourself a pair of gloves?", "pos": 829567}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "having sent me with dispatches to M. de Condulmer, captain of a ‘galeazza’, I had to wait until midnight to deliver them, and when I returned I found that M. D---- R---- had retired to his apartment for the night.", "pos": 831778}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Pray be seated. I wish to speak with you. Last evening my husband lost two hundred sequins upon trust at your faro bank; he believed that amount to be in my hands, and I must therefore give it to him immediately, as he is bound in honour to pay his losses to-day. Unfortunately I have disposed of the money, and I am in great trouble. I thought you might tell Maroli that I have paid you the amount lost by my husband. Here is a ring of some value; keep it until the 1st of January, when I will return the two hundred sequins for which I am ready to give you my note of hand.", "pos": 833283}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I believe, sir, that if I had known that you were so well disposed to oblige me, I could not have made up my mind to beg that service from you. What you say is very complimentary, but I trust never to find myself again under the necessity of making such a cruel experiment.", "pos": 834709}
{"speaker": "M. de Malipiero", "text": "If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.", "pos": 837304}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "So, your servant was a prince! Why? He is dead, but he was not insane. You have seen his armorial bearings, his certificate of baptism, as well as what he wrote with his own hand. When a man is so near death, he does not fancy practical jokes.", "pos": 841928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If your excellency is satisfied of the truth of the story, my duty is to remain silent.", "pos": 842305}
{"speaker": "Monsignor", "text": "The story cannot be anything but true, and your doubts surprise me.", "pos": 842395}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I doubt, monsignor, because I happen to have positive information respecting the families of La Rochefoucault and Du Plessis. Besides, I have seen too much of the man. He was not a madman, but he certainly was an extravagant jester. I have never seen him write, and he has told me himself a score of times that he had never learned.", "pos": 842465}
{"speaker": "Monsignor", "text": "The paper he has written proves the contrary. His arms have the ducal bearings; but perhaps you are not aware that M. de la Rochefoucault is a duke and peer of the French realm?", "pos": 842800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg your eminence’s pardon; I know all about it; I know even more, for I know that Francois VI. married a daughter of the house of Vivonne.", "pos": 842980}
{"speaker": "Monsignor", "text": "You know nothing.", "pos": 843124}
{"speaker": "Madame Sagredo", "text": "He was only twenty-five years of age, and if he was endowed with all those qualities, you must have discovered them.", "pos": 843954}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can only give you, madam, a true likeness of the man, such as I have seen him. Always gay, often even to folly, for he could throw a somersault beautifully; singing songs of a very erotic kind, full of stories and of popular tales of magic, miracles, and ghosts, and a thousand marvellous feats which common-sense refused to believe, and which, for that very reason, provoked the mirth of his hearers. His faults were that he was drunken, dirty, quarrelsome, dissolute, and somewhat of a cheat. I put up with all his deficiences, because he dressed my hair to my taste, and his constant chattering offered me the opportunity of practising the colloquial French which cannot be acquired from books. He has always assured me that he was born in Picardy, the son of a common peasant, and that he had deserted from the French army. He may have deceived me when he said that he could not write. And I likewise, monsignor, but his confessor will certainly kill him to-night.", "pos": 844125}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Why should the father confessor kill him?", "pos": 845291}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To escape the galleys to which your excellency would not fail to send him for having violated the secrecy of the confessional.", "pos": 845335}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I am of your opinion about that prince, but you have incurred the displeasure of the proveditore.", "pos": 845802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry, madam, but it could not have been avoided, for I cannot help speaking the truth openly.", "pos": 845914}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "You might have spared him, the cutting jest of the confessor killing the false prince.", "pos": 846021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, sir, but I thought it would make him laugh as well as it made madam and your excellency. In conversation people generally do not object to a witty jest causing merriment and laughter.", "pos": 846137}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "True; only those who have not wit enough to laugh do not like the jest.", "pos": 846338}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I bet a hundred sequins that the madman will recover, and that, having the general on his side, he will reap all the advantages of his imposture. I long to see him treated as a prince, and making love to Madame Sagredo.", "pos": 846412}
{"speaker": "Madame Sagredo", "text": "I have it from his own lips, and he cannot make out your obstinacy in believing him an impostor.", "pos": 851297}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have given him that advice, madam, because my heart is good, and my judgment sane.", "pos": 851409}
{"speaker": "Madame Sagredo", "text": "Then we are all of us as many fools, the proveditore included?", "pos": 851496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That deduction would not be right, madam. An opinion contrary to that of another does not necessarily make a fool of the person who entertains it. It might possibly turn out, in ten or twelve days, that I have been entirely mistaken myself, but I should not consider myself a fool in consequence. In the mean time, a lady of your intelligence must have discovered whether that man is a peasant or a prince by his education and manners. For instance, does he dance well?", "pos": 851561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He does not know one step, but he is the first to laugh about it; he says he never would learn dancing.", "pos": 852033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does he behave well at table?", "pos": 852139}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, he doesn’t stand on ceremony. He does not want his plate to be changed, he helps himself with his spoon out of the dishes; he does not know how to check an eructation or a yawn, and if he feels tired he leaves the table. It is evident that he has been very badly brought up.", "pos": 852171}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And yet he is very pleasant, I suppose. Is he clean and neat?", "pos": 852454}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, but then he is not yet well provided with linen.", "pos": 852518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am told that he is very sober.", "pos": 852573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are joking. He leaves the table intoxicated twice a day, but he ought to be pitied, for he cannot drink wine and keep his head clear. Then he swears like a trooper, and we all laugh, but he never takes offence.", "pos": 852608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he witty?", "pos": 852825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has a wonderful memory, for he tells us new stories every day.", "pos": 852840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does he speak of his family?", "pos": 852908}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very often of his mother, whom he loved tenderly. She was a Du Plessis.", "pos": 852939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If his mother is still alive she must be a hundred and fifty years old.", "pos": 853013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What nonsense!", "pos": 853087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all; she was married in the days of Marie de Medicis.", "pos": 853104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the certificate of baptism names the prince’s mother, and his seal--", "pos": 853167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does he know what armorial bearings he has on that seal?", "pos": 853242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you doubt it?", "pos": 853301}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very strongly, or rather I am certain that he knows nothing about it.", "pos": 853320}
{"speaker": "Madame Sagredo", "text": "Prince, here is M. Casanova; he pretends that you do not know your own armorial bearings.", "pos": 853503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I left the room very slowly, not forgetting my hat and my cane, and went downstairs, while M. D---- R---- was loudly ordering the servants to throw the madman out of the window.", "pos": 853720}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, adjutant, it shall be done.", "pos": 855196}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But how can you find it out?", "pos": 858006}
{"speaker": "The Greek of Cephalonia", "text": "The Papa Deldimopulo will tell me; he will communicate faithfully the oracle of the Holy Virgin.", "pos": 858037}
{"speaker": "The Greek of Cephalonia", "text": "Oh! quite satisfied. I know now that my father-in-law is alive, and that he will pay me the dowry, if I consent to leave my child with him. I am aware that it is his fancy and I will give him the boy.", "pos": 858721}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does the papa know you?", "pos": 858924}
{"speaker": "The Greek of Cephalonia", "text": "No; he is not even acquainted with my name.", "pos": 858950}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you any fine goods on board your tartan?", "pos": 858996}
{"speaker": "The Greek of Cephalonia", "text": "Yes; come and breakfast with me; you can see all I have.", "pos": 859044}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very willingly.", "pos": 859103}
{"speaker": "Papa", "text": "Thieves! Murder!", "pos": 863422}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To eat it, my good fellow, but not before I have paid for it.", "pos": 864926}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "But his holiness, the papa, might choose to charge one sequin for it.", "pos": 864990}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here is one sequin. My good man, I would like to have in my service twenty-four fellows like these under military discipline. I would give each man twenty gazzette a day, and you would have forty as my lieutenant.", "pos": 865062}
{"speaker": "Lieutenant", "text": "I will, raise for you this very day a body-guard of which you will be proud.", "pos": 865777}
{"speaker": "Honest Man", "text": "Next Sunday, the Papa Deldimopulo will fulminate against you the ‘cataramonachia’. If you do not prevent him, a slow fever will send you into the next world in six weeks.", "pos": 869140}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have never heard of such a drug.", "pos": 869313}
{"speaker": "Honest Man", "text": "It is not a drug. It is a curse pronounced by a priest with the Host in his hands, and it is sure to be fulfilled.", "pos": 869350}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What reason can that priest have to murder me?", "pos": 869467}
{"speaker": "Honest Man", "text": "You disturb the peace and discipline of his parish. You have seduced several young girls, and now their lovers refuse to marry them.", "pos": 869516}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the first symptom of fever, I will shoot you like a dog. Throw over me a curse which will kill me instantly, or make your will. Farewell!", "pos": 870166}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are alone, and therefore you come as a friend. Let us embrace.", "pos": 871390}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "I must come as a friend, for, as an enemy, I should not have enough men. But what I see seems a dream.", "pos": 871475}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Take a seat, and dine with me. I will treat you splendidly.", "pos": 871580}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "Most willingly, and after dinner we will leave the island together.", "pos": 871642}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may go alone, if you like; but I will not leave this place until I have the certainty, not only that I shall not be sent to the ‘bastarda’, but also that I shall have every satisfaction from the knave whom the general ought to send to the galleys.", "pos": 871712}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "Be reasonable, and come with me of your own accord. My orders are to take you by force, but as I have not enough men to do so, I shall make my report, and the general will, of course, send a force sufficient to arrest you.", "pos": 871966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never; I will not be taken alive.", "pos": 872191}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "You must be mad; believe me, you are in the wrong. You have disobeyed the order I brought you to go to the ‘bastarda; in that you have acted wrongly, and in that alone, for in every other respect you were perfectly right, the general himself says so.", "pos": 872227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I ought to have put myself under arrest?", "pos": 872480}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "Certainly; obedience is necessary in our profession.", "pos": 872528}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you have obeyed, if you had been in my place?", "pos": 872583}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "I cannot and will not tell you what I would have done, but I know that if I had disobeyed orders I should have been guilty of a crime.", "pos": 872637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But if I surrendered now I should be treated like a criminal, and much more severely than if I had obeyed that unjust order.", "pos": 872774}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "I think not. Come with me, and you will know everything.", "pos": 872901}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Go without knowing what fate may be in store for me? Do not expect it. Let us have dinner. If I am guilty of such a dreadful crime that violence must be used against me, I will surrender only to irresistible force. I cannot be worse off, but there may be blood spilled.", "pos": 872960}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "You are mistaken, such conduct would only make you more guilty. But I say like you, let us have dinner. A good meal will very likely render you more disposed to listen to reason.", "pos": 873238}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "It is all very amusing, but it will turn out very serious if you let me go away alone, for my duty compels me to give an exact account of all I have witnessed.", "pos": 873928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will follow you, if you will give me your word of honour to land me free in Corfu.", "pos": 874111}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "I have orders to deliver your person to M. Foscari, on board the bastarda.", "pos": 874198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, you shall not execute your orders this time.", "pos": 874275}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "If you do not obey the commands of the general, his honour will compel him to use violence against you, and of course he can do it. But tell me, what would you do if the general should leave you in this island for the sake of the joke? There is no fear of that, however, and, after the report which I must give, the general will certainly make up his mind to stop the affair without shedding blood.", "pos": 874328}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Without a fight it will be difficult to arrest me, for with five hundred peasants in such a place as this I would not be afraid of three thousand men.", "pos": 874729}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "One man will prove enough; you will be treated as a leader of rebels. All these peasants may be devoted to you, but they cannot protect you against one man who will shoot you for the sake of earning a few pieces of gold. I can tell you more than that: amongst all those men who surround you there is not one who would not murder you for twenty sequins. Believe me, go with me. Come to enjoy the triumph which is awaiting you in Corfu. You will be courted and applauded. You will narrate yourself all your mad frolics, people will laugh, and at the same time will admire you for having listened to reason the moment I came here. Everybody feels esteem for you, and M. D---- R---- thinks a great deal of you. He praises very highly the command you have shewn over your passion in refraining from thrusting your sword through that insolent fool, in order not to forget the respect you owed to his house. The general himself must esteem you, for he cannot forget what you told him of that knave.", "pos": 874882}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has become of him?", "pos": 875876}
{"speaker": "Adjutant Minolto", "text": "Four days ago Major Sardina’s frigate arrived with dispatches, in which the general must have found all the proof of the imposture, for he has caused the false duke or prince to disappear very suddenly. Nobody knows where he has been sent to, and nobody ventures to mention the fellow before the general, for he made the most egregious blunder respecting him.", "pos": 875902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But was the man received in society after the thrashing I gave him?", "pos": 876263}
{"speaker": "Adjutant", "text": "God forbid! Do you not recollect that he wore a sword? From that moment no one would receive him. His arm was broken and his jaw shattered to pieces. But in spite of the state he was in, in spite of what he must have suffered, his excellency had him removed a week after you had treated him so severely. But your flight is what everyone has been wondering over. It was thought for three days that M. D---- R---- had concealed you in his house, and he was openly blamed for doing so. He had to declare loudly at the general’s table that he was in the most complete ignorance of your whereabouts. His excellency even expressed his anxiety about your escape, and it was only yesterday that your place of refuge was made known by a letter addressed by the priest of this island to the Proto-Papa Bulgari, in which he complained that an Italian officer had invaded the island of Casopo a week before, and had committed unheard-of violence. He accused you of seducing all the girls, and of threatening to shoot him if he dared to pronounce ‘cataramonachia’ against you. This letter, which was read publicly at the evening reception, made the general laugh, but he ordered me to arrest you all the same.", "pos": 876333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madame Sagredo is the cause of it all.", "pos": 877533}
{"speaker": "Adjutant", "text": "True, but she is well punished for it. You ought to call upon her with me to-morrow.", "pos": 877574}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To-morrow? Are you then certain that I shall not be placed under arrest?", "pos": 877661}
{"speaker": "Adjutant", "text": "Yes, for I know that the general is a man of honour.", "pos": 877736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am of the same opinion. Well, let us go on board your felucca. We will embark together after midnight.", "pos": 877791}
{"speaker": "Adjutant", "text": "Why not now?", "pos": 877898}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I will not run the risk of spending the night on board M. Foscari’s bastarda. I want to reach Corfu by daylight, so as to make your victory more brilliant.", "pos": 877913}
{"speaker": "Adjutant", "text": "But what shall we do for the next eight hours?", "pos": 878079}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will pay a visit to some beauties of a species unknown in Corfu, and have a good supper.", "pos": 878128}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "You can’t think, how interested Madame F---- was in your fate. She would be really delighted if you called on her immediately.", "pos": 880905}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not know, madam, how I have deserved such great happiness, for all I dared aim at was toleration.", "pos": 882536}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "We all admired the control you kept over your feelings when you refrained from killing that insolent madman on the spot; he would have been thrown out of the window if he had not beat a hurried retreat.", "pos": 882641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should certainly have killed him, madam, if you had not been present.", "pos": 882846}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "A very pretty compliment, but I can hardly believe that you thought of me in such a moment.", "pos": 882920}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Would you have the courage, to repeat all you have just told me, and exactly in the same terms, before the proveditore-generale?", "pos": 883536}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Most certainly, madam, provided he asked me himself.", "pos": 883679}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Well, then, prepare to redeem your promise. I want our excellent general to love you and to become your warmest protector, so as to shield you against every injustice and to promote your advancement. Leave it all to me.", "pos": 883734}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Here comes the young man who is a good judge of princes.", "pos": 887939}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, I have become a judge of nobility by frequenting the society of men like you.", "pos": 887998}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "The ladies are curious to know all you have done from the time of your escape from Corfu up to your return.", "pos": 888087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you sentence me, monsignor, to make a public confession?", "pos": 888197}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Exactly; but, as it is to be a confession, be careful not to omit the most insignificant circumstance, and suppose that I am not in the room.", "pos": 888261}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, I wish to receive absolution only from your excellency. But my history will be a long one.", "pos": 888405}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "If such is the case, your confessor gives you permission to be seated. Your story is a very instructive one,", "pos": 888515}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my lord, for the adventures shew that a young man is never so near his utter ruin than when, excited by some great passion, he finds himself able to minister to it, thanks to the gold in his purse.", "pos": 888761}
{"speaker": "Proto-Papa Bulgari", "text": "It is nothing else but regular cheating, but it is very difficult to put a stop to it; it is an old custom.", "pos": 889419}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Why did you refuse to tell your adventures in Constantinople before the general?", "pos": 890225}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I do not wish everybody to know that you allow me to tell you such things. What I may dare, madam, to say to you when we are alone, I would certainly not say to you in public.", "pos": 890308}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "And why not? It seems to me, on the contrary, that if you are silent in public out of respect for me, you ought to be all the more silent when we are alone.", "pos": 890494}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wanted to amuse you, and have exposed myself to the danger of displeasing you, but I can assure you, madam, that I will not run such a risk again.", "pos": 890653}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I have no wish to pry into your intentions, but it strikes me that if your wish was to please me, you ought not to have run the risk of obtaining the opposite result. We take supper with the general this evening, and M. D---- R---- has been asked to bring you. I feel certain that the general will ask you again for your adventures in Constantinople, and this time you cannot refuse him.", "pos": 890804}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "M. Casanova pretends that if he had given an account of his meeting with Yusuf’s wife without changing anything everybody would think that I allowed him to entertain me with indecent stories. I want you to give your opinion about it. Will you, be so good as to relate immediately the adventure in the same words which you have used when you told me of it?", "pos": 892991}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Yes, madam, if you wish me to do so.", "pos": 893377}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Do you think, that he ought to have related that adventure before all our friends as he has just related it to us?", "pos": 893765}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "If it be wrong for him to tell it in public, it is also wrong to tell it to me in private.", "pos": 893921}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "You are the only judge of that: yes, if he has displeased you; no, if he has amused you. As for my own opinion, here it is: He has just now amused me very much, but he would have greatly displeased me if he had related the same adventure in public.", "pos": 894014}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Then. I must request you never to tell me in private anything that you cannot repeat in public.", "pos": 894265}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "I promise, madam, to act always according to your wishes.", "pos": 894389}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "It being understood, that madam reserves all rights of repealing that order whenever she may think fit.", "pos": 894449}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "In spite of my distress. I fell in love with a young and beautiful Greek slave, who very nearly contrived to make me break through all the sanitary laws.", "pos": 895281}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "How so?", "pos": 895447}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "You are alone, madam, and I have not forgotten your orders.", "pos": 895457}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Is it a very improper story?", "pos": 895519}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "No: yet I would not relate it to you in public.", "pos": 895550}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Well. I repeal my order, as M. D---- R---- said I would. Tell me all about it. What do you mean by your misery? I think that the poor girl was more to be pitied than you. You have never seen her since?", "pos": 895600}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "I beg your pardon, madam; I met her again, but I dare not tell you when or how.", "pos": 895958}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Now you must go on; it is all nonsense for you to stop. Tell me all; I expect you have been guilty of some black deed.", "pos": 896040}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Very far from it, madam, for it was a very sweet, although incomplete, enjoyment.", "pos": 896161}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Go on! But do not call things exactly by their names. It is not necessary to go into details.", "pos": 896245}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "It is here, and God alone knows what happiness it has given me.", "pos": 897782}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You have drunk my blood with happiness! Are you then a cannibal?", "pos": 897887}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "I believe not, madam; but it would have been sacrilege in my eyes if I had suffered one single drop of your blood to be lost.", "pos": 897954}
{"speaker": "Fastidio", "text": "Sir, we are twenty, and shall require six rooms with ten beds, one sitting-room for all of us, and thirty Neapolitan ducats a day, all travelling expenses paid. Here is my stock of plays, and we will perform those that you may choose.", "pos": 901597}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I wanted to see you, to return the two hundred sequins which you lent me so nobly. Here they are; be good enough to give me back my note of hand.", "pos": 907865}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Your note of hand, madam, is no longer in my possession. I have deposited it in a sealed envelope with the notary who, according to this receipt of his, can return it only to you.", "pos": 908025}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Why did you not keep it yourself?", "pos": 908207}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Because I was afraid of losing it, or of having it stolen. And in the event of my death I did not want such a document to fall into any other hands but yours.", "pos": 908243}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "A great proof of your extreme delicacy, certainly, but I think you ought to have reserved the right of taking it out of the notary’s custody yourself.", "pos": 908404}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "I did not forsee the possibility of calling for it myself.", "pos": 908557}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Yet it was a very likely thing. Then I can send word to the notary to transmit it to me?", "pos": 908618}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Certainly, madam; you alone can claim it.", "pos": 908709}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You have acted, most nobly; but you must agree with me that I cannot be certain that this piece of paper is really my note of hand, although I see my name on it.", "pos": 908953}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "True, madam; and if you are not certain of it, I confess myself in the wrong.", "pos": 909129}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I must be certain of it, and I am so; but you must grant that I could not swear to it.", "pos": 909209}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova", "text": "Granted, madam.", "pos": 909298}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Three times, my lord. And always happily, of course. Always unhappily. The first time, perhaps, because, being an ecclesiastic, I durst not speak openly of my love. The second, because a cruel, unexpected event compelled me to leave the woman I loved at the very moment in which my happiness would have been complete. The third time, because the feeling of pity, with which I inspired the beloved object, induced her to cure me of my passion, instead of crowning my felicity. But what specific remedies did she use to effect your cure? She has ceased to be kind. I understand she has treated you cruelly, and you call that pity, do you? You are mistaken.", "pos": 910915}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Certainly, a woman may pity the man she loves, but she would not think of ill-treating him to cure him of his passion. That woman has never felt any love for you.", "pos": 911582}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "I cannot, I will not believe it, madam. But are you cured? Oh! thoroughly; for when I happen to think of her, I feel nothing but indifference and coldness. But my recovery was long. Your convalescence lasted, I suppose, until you fell in love with another. With another, madam? I thought I had just told you that the third time I loved was the last.", "pos": 911768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not experience any weariness in your society, madam; at all events, I can leave you only by your express command, and, in that case, I must spend the next four hours in your ante-room, for M. D-- R---- has told me to wait for him here.", "pos": 912539}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "If so, you may take a seat. What has become of your cheerfulness?", "pos": 912785}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "If it has disappeared, madam, it can only be by your will. Call it back, and you will see it return in full force.", "pos": 913243}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What must I do to obtain that result?", "pos": 913360}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Only be towards me as you were when I returned from Casopo. I have been disagreeable to you for the last four months, and as I do not know why, I feel deeply grieved.", "pos": 913400}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I am always the same: in what do you find me changed?", "pos": 913569}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Good heavens! In everything, except in beauty. But I have taken my decision.", "pos": 913625}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "And what is it?", "pos": 913704}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "To suffer in silence, without allowing any circumstance to alter the feelings with which you have inspired me; to wish ardently to convince you of my perfect obedience to your commands; to be ever ready to give you fresh proofs of my devotion.", "pos": 913722}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I thank you, but I cannot imagine what you can have to suffer in silence on my account. I take an interest in you, and I always listen with pleasure to your adventures. As a proof of it, I am extremely curious to hear the history of your three loves.", "pos": 913968}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "If she truly loved you, she may have wished not to cure you, but to cure herself.", "pos": 915133}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "M. F----, whose adjutant died yesterday, has just been entreating me to give you to him until he can find another officer. I have told him that I had no right to dispose of your person, and that he ought to apply to you, assuring him that, if you asked me leave to go with him, I would not raise any objection, although I require two adjutants. Has he not mentioned the matter to you? No, monsignor, he has only tendered me his thanks for having accompanied him to Butintro, nothing else. He is sure to speak to you about it. What do you intend to say? Simply that I will never leave the service of your excellency without your express command to do so. I never will give you such an order.", "pos": 916388}
{"speaker": "M---- F----", "text": "Well, M. Casanova, would you not be willing to live with me as my adjutant?", "pos": 917380}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Does his excellency dismiss me from his service? Not at all, but I leave you the choice. My lord, I could not be guilty of ingratitude.", "pos": 917458}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "M. Casanova is right,", "pos": 918241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will accept,", "pos": 918701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if M. D---- R---- tells me positively that I shall please him by doing so. It is for M. F---- to make him say it.", "pos": 918736}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Ah! yes, you are aware that our adjutant is dead, and that we want to replace him. My husband, who has a great esteem for you, and feels that M. D---- R---- leaves you perfectly free to make your choice, has taken the singular fancy that you will come, if I ask you myself to do us that pleasure. Is he mistaken? If you would come to us, you would have that room. M. D---- R---- will not love you less, and as he will see you here every day, he will not be likely to forget his interest in your welfare. Now, tell me, will you come or not?", "pos": 919930}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "I wish I could, madam, but indeed I cannot.", "pos": 920678}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You cannot? That is singular. Take a seat, and tell me what there is to prevent you, when, in accepting my offer, you are sure to please M. D---- R---- as well as us.", "pos": 920724}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "If I were certain of it, I would accept immediately; but all I have heard from his lips was that he left me free to make a choice.", "pos": 920893}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Then you are afraid to grieve him, if you come to us?", "pos": 921026}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "It might be, and for nothing on earth....", "pos": 921082}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I am certain of the contrary.", "pos": 921126}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Will you be so good as to obtain that he says so to me himself?", "pos": 921158}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "And then you will come?", "pos": 921224}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Oh, madam! that very minute!", "pos": 921250}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Your hand, is burning.", "pos": 921689}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Casanova, as you suit each other so well, you may be certain that you will greatly please me by remaining in the service of M. F.", "pos": 923552}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You have enemies, but I silenced them last night.", "pos": 925154}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "They are envious, madam, and they would pity me if they could read the secret pages of my heart. You could easily deliver me from those enemies.", "pos": 925206}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "How can you be an object of pity for them, and how could I deliver you from them?", "pos": 925353}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "They believe me happy, and I am miserable; you would deliver me from them by ill-treating me in their presence.", "pos": 925437}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Then you would feel my bad treatment less than the envy of the wicked?", "pos": 925551}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Yes, madam, provided your bad treatment in public were compensated by your kindness when we are alone, for there is no vanity in the happiness I feel in belonging to you. Let others pity me, I will be happy on condition that others are mistaken.", "pos": 925624}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "That’s a part that I can never play.", "pos": 925872}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Sir, you forget yourself.", "pos": 927034}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "No, madam, I do not, for you might have feigned not to have observed such an innocent theft.", "pos": 927062}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Feigning is tiresome.", "pos": 927157}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Was such petty larceny a very great crime?", "pos": 927181}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "No crime, but it was an indication of feelings which you have no right to entertain for me.", "pos": 927226}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "Feelings which you are at liberty not to return, madam, but which hatred or pride can alone forbid my heart to experience. If you had a heart you would not be the victim of either of those two fearful passions, but you have only head, and it must be a very wicked head, judging by the care it takes to heap humiliation upon me. You have surprised my secret, madam, you may use it as you think proper, but in the meantime I have learned to know you thoroughly. That knowledge will prove more useful than your discovery, for perhaps it will help me to become wiser.", "pos": 927320}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What ails you, my poor Casanova?", "pos": 928958}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A very bad headache, madam, which will be cured to-morrow.", "pos": 928993}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Why should you wait until to-morrow? You must get better at once. I have ordered a basin of broth and two new-laid eggs for you.", "pos": 929054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing, madam; complete abstinence can alone cure me.", "pos": 929185}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "He is right. I know those attacks.", "pos": 929242}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "It is all owing to my Eau des carmes, and I will leave you my bottle.", "pos": 930729}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, madam, be kind enough to take it with you, for the water would have no virtue without your presence.", "pos": 930837}
{"speaker": "M. D---- R----", "text": "I am sure of that, so I will leave you here with your patient.", "pos": 930944}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "No, no, he must go to sleep now.", "pos": 931032}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "My friend, I do not entreat you to respect my weakness, but be generous enough to spare me for the sake of all the love I feel for you.", "pos": 934768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you love me, and you refuse to make me happy! It is impossible! it is unnatural. You compel me to believe that you do not love me. Only allow me to press my lips one moment upon your lips, and I ask no more.", "pos": 934906}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "No, dearest, no; it would only excite the ardour of your desires, shake my resolution, and we should then find ourselves more miserable than we are now.", "pos": 935122}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you acknowledge your cruelty towards me? You are afraid of the world guessing all your heartless rigour, and yet you continue to enjoy it! You condemn me unmercifully to the torments of Tantalus! You would be delighted to see me gay, cheerful, happy, even at the expense of a judgment by which the world would find you guilty of a supposed but false kindness towards me, and yet you refuse me even the slightest favours!", "pos": 935910}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I do not mind people believing anything, provided it is not true.", "pos": 936353}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What a contrast! Would it be possible for me not to love you, for you to feel nothing for me? Such contradictions strike me as unnatural. But you are growing thinner yourself, and I am dying. It must be so; we shall both die before long, you of consumption, I of exhausting decline; for I am now reduced to enjoying your shadow during the day, during the night, always, everywhere, except when I am in your presence.", "pos": 936421}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I do not believe it, but are they different from those I eat myself?", "pos": 938712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are exactly the same, with the exception of the ingredient I have just mentioned, which has been put only in mine.", "pos": 938799}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Tell me what the ingredient is.", "pos": 938921}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is a secret which I cannot reveal to you.", "pos": 938955}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Then I will never eat any of your comfits.", "pos": 939002}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because you refuse to take my comfits.", "pos": 939348}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You are master of your secret, and I am mistress of my diet.", "pos": 939389}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is my reward for having taken you into my confidence. Two more doses like this, and I shall die mad with love for you. Then you will be revenged for my reserve. Farewell, madam.", "pos": 939452}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "To prove to you, that you do not require anything of the sort to be loved, here is a token of my affection. Your crime! You frighten me. Yes, I forgive you, but speak quickly, and tell me all.", "pos": 939936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, everything. My comfits contain your hair reduced to a powder. Here on my arm, see this bracelet on which our names are written with your hair, and round my neck this chain of the same material, which will help me to destroy my own life when your love fails me. Such is my crime, but I would not have been guilty of it, if I had not loved you.", "pos": 940417}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What gives you, the strength to control yourself?", "pos": 941265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "After the kiss which you granted to me of your own accord, I felt that I ought not to wish any favour unless your heart gave it as freely. You cannot imagine the happiness that kiss has given me.", "pos": 941337}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "I not imagine it, you ungrateful man! Which of us has given that happiness?", "pos": 941535}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Neither you nor I, angel of my soul! That kiss so tender, so sweet, was the child of love!", "pos": 941613}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Yes, dearest, of love, the treasures of which are inexhaustible. Never, dearest friend, never. Love is a child which must be amused with trifles; too substantial food would kill it.", "pos": 941706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know love better than you; it requires that substantial food, and unless it can obtain it, love dies of exhaustion. Do not refuse me the consolation of hope.", "pos": 942185}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Hope as much as you please, if it makes you happy.", "pos": 942347}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What should I do, if I had no hope? I hope, because I know you have a heart.", "pos": 942400}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Ah! yes. Do you recollect the day, when, in your anger, you told me that I had only a head, but no heart, thinking you were insulting me grossly!", "pos": 942479}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! yes, I recollect it.", "pos": 942627}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "How heartily I laughed, when I had time to think! Yes, dearest, I have a heart, or I should not feel as happy as I feel now. Let us keep our happiness, and be satisfied with it, as it is, without wishing for anything more.", "pos": 942654}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "See whether my leg is less inflamed.", "pos": 944599}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "To give an opinion, madam, I ought to have seen it yesterday.", "pos": 944638}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "True. I feel great pain, and I am afraid of erysipelas.", "pos": 944702}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "Do not be afraid, madam, keep your bed, and I answer for your complete recovery.", "pos": 944759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I feel humiliated, by the thought that the felicity I have just enjoyed was only a theft.", "pos": 945747}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "But supposing you were mistaken?", "pos": 945856}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What are you thinking of?", "pos": 946614}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of the supreme felicity I have just been enjoying.", "pos": 946652}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "You are a cruel man.", "pos": 946705}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I am not cruel, for, if you love me, you must not blush for your indulgence. You must know, too, that, loving you passionately, I must not suppose that it is to be a surprise that I am indebted for my happiness in the enjoyment of the most ravishing sights, for if I owed it only to mere chance I should be compelled to believe that any other man in my position might have had the same happiness, and such an idea would be misery to me. Let me be indebted to you for having proved to me this morning how much enjoyment I can derive from one of my senses. Can you be angry with my eyes?", "pos": 946728}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 947320}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They belong to you; tear them out.", "pos": 947327}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Ah! my maid has forgotten to change my chemise.", "pos": 947456}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Allow me to take her place.", "pos": 947538}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Very well, but recollect that I give permission only to your eyes to take a share in the proceedings.", "pos": 947568}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Agreed!", "pos": 947672}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Give me my chemise, it is there on that small table.", "pos": 947861}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where?", "pos": 947933}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "There, near the bed. Well, I will take it myself.", "pos": 947942}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Let us make up to-night for to-morrow’s disappointment, and let us spend it together in conversation. Here are the keys; when you know that my maid has left me, come to me through my husband’s room. Love, must be kept in check with a tight hand, and we can laugh at him, since, in spite of the tyranny which we force him to obey, we succeed all the same in gratifying our desires.", "pos": 949298}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, thou cruel, beloved woman! Thou art burning with the fire of love, and thou deprivest thyself of the only remedy which could bring calm to thy senses! Thy lovely hand is more humane than thou art, but thou has not enjoyed the felicity that thy hand has given me. My hand must owe nothing to thine. Come, darling light of my heart, come! Love doubles my existence in the hope that I will die again, but only in that charming retreat from which you have ejected me in the very moment of my greatest enjoyment.", "pos": 950963}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "How canst thou complain, when it is to that very imperfection of our enjoyment that we are indebted for its continuance? I loved thee a few minutes since, now I love thee a thousand times more, and perhaps I should love thee less if thou hadst carried my enjoyment to its highest limit.", "pos": 951775}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! how much art thou mistaken, lovely one! How great is thy error! Thou art feeding upon sophisms, and thou leavest reality aside; I mean nature which alone can give real felicity. Desires constantly renewed and never fully satisfied are more terrible than the torments of hell.", "pos": 952085}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "But are not these desires happiness when they are always accompanied by hope?", "pos": 952367}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, if that hope is always disappointed. It becomes hell itself, because there is no hope, and hope must die when it is killed by constant deception.", "pos": 952447}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Dearest, if hope does not exist in hell, desires cannot be found there either; for to imagine desires without hopes would be more than madness.", "pos": 952599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, answer me. If you desire to be mine entirely, and if you feel the hope of it, which, according to your way of reasoning, is a natural consequence, why do you always raise an impediment to your own hope? Cease, dearest, cease to deceive yourself by absurd sophisms. Let us be as happy as it is in nature to be, and be quite certain that the reality of happiness will increase our love, and that love will find a new life in our very enjoyment.", "pos": 952745}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "What I see proves the contrary; you are alive with excitement now, but if your desires had been entirely satisfied, you would be dead, benumbed, motionless. I know it by experience: if you had breathed the full ecstacy of enjoyment, as you desired, you would have found a weak ardour only at long intervals.", "pos": 953196}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! charming creature, your experience is but very small; do not trust to it. I see that you have never known love. That which you call love’s grave is the sanctuary in which it receives life, the abode which makes it immortal. Give way to my prayers, my lovely friend, and then you shall know the difference between Love and Hymen. You shall see that, if Hymen likes to die in order to get rid of life, Love on the contrary expires only to spring up again into existence, and hastens to revive, so as to savour new enjoyment. Let me undeceive you, and believe me when I say that the full gratification of desires can only increase a hundredfold the mutual ardour of two beings who adore each other.", "pos": 953506}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Well, I must believe you; but let us wait. In the meantime let us enjoy all the trifles, all the sweet preliminaries of love. Devour thy mistress, dearest, but abandon to me all thy being. If this night is too short we must console ourselves to-morrow by making arrangements for another one.", "pos": 954208}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if our intercourse should be discovered?", "pos": 954502}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Do we make a mystery of it? Everybody can see that we love each other, and those who think that we do not enjoy the happiness of lovers are precisely the only persons we have to fear. We must only be careful to guard against being surprised in the very act of proving our love. Heaven and nature must protect our affection, for there is no crime when two hearts are blended in true love. Since I have been conscious of my own existence, Love has always seemed to me the god of my being, for every time I saw a man I was delighted; I thought that I was looking upon one-half of myself, because I felt I was made for him and he for me. I longed to be married. It was that uncertain longing of the heart which occupies exclusively a young girl of fifteen. I had no conception of love, but I fancied that it naturally accompanied marriage. You can therefore imagine my surprise when my husband, in the very act of making a woman of me, gave me a great deal of pain without giving me the slightest idea of pleasure! My imagination in the convent was much better than the reality I had been condemned to by my husband! The result has naturally been that we have become very good friends, but a very indifferent husband and wife, without any desires for each other. He has every reason to be pleased with me, for I always shew myself docile to his wishes, but enjoyment not being in those cases seasoned by love, he must find it without flavour, and he seldom comes to me for it. When I found out that you were in love with me, I felt delighted, and gave you every opportunity of becoming every day more deeply enamoured of me, thinking myself certain of never loving you myself. As soon as I felt that love had likewise attacked my heart, I ill-treated you to punish you for having made my heart sensible. Your patience and constancy have astonished me, and have caused me to be guilty, for after the first kiss I gave you I had no longer any control over myself. I was indeed astounded when I saw the havoc made by one single kiss, and I felt that my happiness was wrapped up in yours. That discovery flattered and delighted me, and I have found out, particularly to-night, that I cannot be happy unless you are so yourself.", "pos": 954549}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is, my beloved, the most refined of all sentiments experienced by love, but it is impossible for you to render me completely happy without following in everything the laws and the wishes of nature.", "pos": 956772}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "My darling, we were on the brink of the precipice.", "pos": 958391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The precipice! Ah! cruel woman, you have killed me, I feel myself dying, and perhaps you will never see me again.", "pos": 958444}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you doing there at this time of night?", "pos": 959168}
{"speaker": "Melulla", "text": "I am enjoying the cool evening breeze. Come up for a little while. I am enjoying the cool evening breeze. Come up for a little while.", "pos": 959229}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Dear one, let there be no concealment either on my part or on yours. I felt deeply grieved when I saw you leave me last night, and a little consideration made me understand all the evil which might accrue to you in consequence of what I had done. With a nature like yours, such scenes might cause very dangerous disorders, and I have resolved not to do again anything by halves. I thought that you went out to breathe the fresh air, and I hoped it would do you good. I placed myself at my window, where I remained more than an hour without seeing a light in your room. Sorry for what I had done, loving you more than ever, I was compelled, when my husband came to my room, to go to bed with the sad conviction that you had not come home. This morning, M. F. sent an officer to tell you that he wanted to see you, and I heard the messenger inform him that you were not yet up, and that you had come home very late. I felt my heart swell with sorrow. I am not jealous, dearest, for I know that you cannot love anyone but me; I only felt afraid of some misfortune. At last, this morning, when I heard you coming, I was happy, because I was ready to shew my repentance, but I looked at you, and you seemed a different man. Now, I am still looking at you, and, in spite of myself, my soul reads upon your countenance that you are guilty, that you have outraged my love. Tell me at once, dearest, if I am mistaken; if you have deceived me, say so openly. Do not be unfaithful to love and to truth. Knowing that I was the cause of it, I should never forgive my self, but there is an excuse for you in my heart, in my whole being. What, my darling! you are weeping! Your tears make me miserable. You ought not to have shed any with me but tears of happiness and love. Quick, my beloved, tell me whether you have made me wretched. Tell me what fearful revenge you have taken on me, who would rather die than offend you. If I have caused you any sorrow, it has been in the innocence of a loving and devoted heart.", "pos": 961741}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My own darling angel, I never thought of revenge, for my heart, which can never cease to adore you, could never conceive such a dreadful idea. It is against my own heart that my cowardly weakness has allured me to the commission of a crime which, for the remainder of my life, makes me unworthy of you.", "pos": 964189}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Have you, then, given yourself to some wretched woman?", "pos": 964494}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I have spent two hours in the vilest debauchery, and my soul was present only to be the witness of my sadness, of my remorse, of my unworthiness.", "pos": 964551}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Sadness and remorse! Oh, my poor friend! I believe it. But it is my fault; I alone ought to suffer; it is I who must beg you to forgive me.", "pos": 964704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Divine soul, the reproaches you are addressing to yourself increase twofold the gravity of my crime. You would never have been guilty of any wrong against me if I had been really worthy of your love.", "pos": 964878}
{"speaker": "Madame F----", "text": "Villainous, infamous Melulla!", "pos": 968469}
{"speaker": "the master of the galley slave", "text": "Keep on your guard, and if you catch him in the act of stealing, thrash him, but be careful not to cripple him; otherwise you must pay me the one hundred ducats the man has cost me.", "pos": 975994}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "He works for the major there, he copies Simonetti’s battle-pieces, and the major pays him for them; in that manner he earns his living, and is becoming a good painter.", "pos": 978162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But he is not a prisoner?", "pos": 978343}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "Well, very much like it, for he cannot leave the fort. The major, whose name is Spiridion, is a friend of Razetta, who could not refuse him the pleasure of taking care of your brother.", "pos": 978371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is my sister, still with him?", "pos": 978676}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "No, she has gone to your mother in Dresden.", "pos": 978722}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ask the major,", "pos": 979075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I have not the faintest idea.", "pos": 979101}
{"speaker": "Major", "text": "I am not accountable to you for my actions.", "pos": 979262}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That remains to be seen.", "pos": 979308}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "It would be a good joke to carry off those three blockheads, and to keep the pretty woman in our possession. Under penalty of death, and by order of the Council of Ten, I command you to follow us immediately, without making the slightest noise; as to you, my good woman, you need not be frightened, you will be escorted to your house.", "pos": 989604}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "Do not weep, my beauty, we will not hurt you. We intend only to take some refreshment at the Rialto, and then we will take you home in safety.", "pos": 991308}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Where is my husband?", "pos": 991474}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "Never fear; you shall see him again to-morrow.", "pos": 991497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I, sir,", "pos": 1000050}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "will remain near his bed in this arm-chair, for if I went away the patient would die, and he will live as long as I am near him.", "pos": 1000072}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Doctor, the person who has delivered me from your mercury, which was killing me, is a more skilful physician than you;", "pos": 1003238}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "a fiddler could know more than all the doctors in Venice, and that he owed his life to me. for a young man of my age, he thought my learning too extensive, and that he was certain I was the possessor of some supernatural endowment.", "pos": 1004611}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "The hermit, has without informing you of it, linked an invisible spirit to the calculus he has taught you, for simple numbers can not have the power of reason. You possess a real treasure, and you may derive great advantages from it.", "pos": 1005857}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know,", "pos": 1006117}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in what way I could make my science useful, because the answers given by the numerical figures are often so obscure that I have felt discouraged, and I very seldom tried to make any use of my calculus. Yet, it is very true that, if I had not formed my pyramid, I never should have had the happiness of knowing your excellency.", "pos": 1006142}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1006471}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "On the second day, during the festivities at the Soranzo Palace, I enquired of my oracle whether I would meet at the ball anyone whom I should not care to see. The answer I obtained was this: ‘Leave the ball-room precisely at four o’clock.’ I obeyed implicitly, and met your excellency.", "pos": 1006481}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "How long I would require to teach them the rules of my sublime calculus.", "pos": 1008370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not very long,", "pos": 1008444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I will teach you as you wish, although the hermit assured me that I would die suddenly within three days if I communicated my science to anyone, but I have no faith whatever in that prediction.", "pos": 1008473}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "that I was bound to have faith in it,", "pos": 1008749}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Whoever you may be, I am indebted to you for my life. Your first protectors wanted to make you a priest, a doctor, an advocate, a soldier, and ended by making a fiddler of you; those persons did not know you. God had evidently instructed your guardian angel to bring you to me. I know you and appreciate you. If you will be my son, you have only to acknowledge me for your father, and, for the future, until my death, I will treat you as my own child. Your apartment is ready, you may send your clothes: you shall have a servant, a gondola at your orders, my own table, and ten sequins a month. It is the sum I used to receive from my father when I was your age. You need not think of the future; think only of enjoying yourself, and take me as your adviser in everything that may happen to you, in everything you may wish to undertake, and you may be certain of always finding me your friend.", "pos": 1016778}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Here is a parcel for you.", "pos": 1024755}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "M. de Casanova may be sure that our playing last night was only a joke: he owes me nothing. My wife begs to send him half of the gold which he has lost in cash.", "pos": 1024935}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "This evening, you can have a gay supper with the charming countess.", "pos": 1025476}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This evening, my dear, respected benefactor, I will have supper with you. You have given me a masterly lesson.", "pos": 1025574}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "The next time you lose money upon trust, you had better not pay it.", "pos": 1025687}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I should be dishonoured.", "pos": 1025757}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Never mind. The sooner you dishonour yourself, the more you will save, for you will always be compelled to accept your dishonour whenever you find yourself utterly unable to pay your losses. It is therefore more prudent not to wait until then.", "pos": 1025788}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is much better still to avoid that fatal impossibility by never playing otherwise than with money in hand.", "pos": 1026034}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "No doubt of it, for then you will save both your honour and your purse. But, as you are fond of games of chance, I advise you never to punt. Make the bank, and the advantage must be on your side.", "pos": 1026146}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but only a slight advantage.", "pos": 1026344}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "As slight as you please, but it will be on your side, and when the game is over you will find yourself a winner and not a loser. The punter is excited, the banker is calm. The last says, ‘I bet you do not guess,’ while the first says, ‘I bet I can guess.’ Which is the fool, and which is the wise man? The question is easily answered. I adjure you to be prudent, but if you should punt and win, recollect that you are only an idiot if at the end you lose.", "pos": 1026380}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why an idiot? Fortune is very fickle.", "pos": 1026838}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "It must necessarily be so; it is a natural consequence. Leave off playing, believe me, the very moment you see luck turning, even if you should, at that moment, win but one groat.", "pos": 1026878}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Why, my dear son, do you not ask M. de l’Abbadie to render you that service?", "pos": 1028122}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should not dare to do so, dear father.", "pos": 1028201}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Try him; I am certain that he will be glad to lend you that sum.", "pos": 1028244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I doubt it, but I will try.", "pos": 1028311}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "The Frenchman was deficient in intelligence. You may spare yourself that trouble; the senate has rejected his nomination.", "pos": 1028820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How so? Three days ago L’Abbadie felt sure of his success.", "pos": 1029347}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "He was right then, for he would have been appointed if I had not made up my mind to speak against him. I have proved to the senate that a right policy forbade the government to trust such an important post to a foreigner.", "pos": 1029408}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am much surprised, for your excellency was not of that opinion the day before yesterday.", "pos": 1029632}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Very true, but then I did not know M. de l’Abbadie. I found out only yesterday that the man was not sufficiently intelligent to fill the position he was soliciting. Is he likely to possess a sane judgment when he refuses to lend you one hundred sequins? That refusal has cost him an important appointment and an income of three thousand crowns, which would now be his.", "pos": 1029725}
{"speaker": "L’Abbadie", "text": "If you had told me, that the one hundred sequins were intended as a gag to stop M. de Bragadin’s mouth, I would have contrived to procure them for you.", "pos": 1030256}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you had had an inspector’s brains you would have easily guessed it.", "pos": 1030429}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We are not here in the right place for conversation, but if you would be kind enough to come with me to a cafe, you would be able to speak and to explain your wishes.", "pos": 1032206}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have then some hope of recalling him to the path of duty? I suppose he has promised you marriage?", "pos": 1033240}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "He has engaged his faith to me in writing. The only favour I claim from your kindness is to take me to his house, to leave me there, and to keep my secret.", "pos": 1033344}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may trust, madam, to the feelings of a man of honour. I am worthy of your trust. Have entire confidence in me, for I already take a deep interest in all your concerns. Tell me his name.", "pos": 1033502}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "Alas! sir, I give way to fate.", "pos": 1033694}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "For God’s sake take me to his house.", "pos": 1034226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will do anything you wish; but have entire confidence in me, and be good enough to hear me. I advise you not to go to his house. He has already done you great injury, and, even supposing that you should happen to find him at home, he might be capable of receiving you badly; if he should not be at home, it is most likely that his mother would not exactly welcome you, if you should tell her who you are and what is your errand. Trust to me, and be quite certain that God has sent me on your way to assist you. I promise you that to-morrow at the latest you shall know whether Steffani is in Venice, what he intends to do with you, and what we may compel him to do. Until then my advice is not to let him know your arrival in Venice.", "pos": 1034265}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "Good God! where shall I go to-night?", "pos": 1035003}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To a respectable house, of course.", "pos": 1035042}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "I will go to yours, if you are married.", "pos": 1035079}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am a bachelor.", "pos": 1035121}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "I was unfortunate enough, to inspire him with love, and he postponed his departure. He remained one month in C----, never going out but in the evening, and spending every night under my windows conversing with me. He swore a thousand times that he adored me, that his intentions were honourable. I entreated him to present himself to my parents to ask me in marriage, but he always excused himself by alleging some reason, good or bad, assuring me that he could not be happy unless I shewed him entire confidence. He would beg of me to make up my mind to run away with him, unknown to everybody, promising that my honour should not suffer from such a step, because, three days after my departure, everybody should receive notice of my being his wife, and he assured me that he would bring me back on a visit to my native place shortly after our marriage. Alas, sir! what shall I say now? Love blinded me; I fell into the abyss; I believed him; I agreed to everything. He gave me the paper which you have read, and the following night I allowed him to come into my room through the window under which he was in the habit of conversing with me. I consented to be guilty of a crime which I believed would be atoned for within three days, and he left me, promising that the next night he would be again under my window, ready to receive me in his arms. Could I possibly entertain any doubt after the fearful crime I had committed for him? I prepared a small parcel, and waited for his coming, but in vain. Oh! what a cruel long night it was! In the morning I heard that the monster had gone away with his servant one hour after sealing my shame. You may imagine my despair! I adopted the only plan that despair could suggest, and that, of course, was not the right one. One hour before midnight I left my father’s roof, alone, thus completing my dishonour, but resolved on death, if the man who has cruelly robbed me of my most precious treasure, and whom a natural instinct told me I could find here, does not restore me the honour which he alone can give me back. I walked all night and nearly the whole day, without taking any food, until I got into the barge, which brought me here in twenty-four hours. I travelled in the boat with five men and two women, but no one saw my face or heard my voice, I kept constantly sitting down in a corner, holding my head down, half asleep, and with this prayer-book in my hands. I was left alone, no one spoke to me, and I thanked God for it. When I landed on the wharf, you did not give me time to think how I could find out the dwelling of my perfidious seducer, but you may imagine the impression produced upon me by the sudden apparition of a masked man who, abruptly, and as if placed there purposely by Providence, offered me his services; it seemed to me that you had guessed my distress, and, far from experiencing any repugnance, I felt that I was acting rightly in trusting myself in your hands, in spite of all prudence which, perhaps, ought to have made me turn a deaf ear to your words, and refuse the invitation to enter alone with you the house to which you took me. You know all now, sir; but I entreat you not to judge me too severely; I have been virtuous all through my life; one month ago I had never committed a fault which could call a blush upon my face, and the bitter tears which I shed every day will, I hope, wash out my crime in the eyes of God. I have been carefully brought up, but love and the want of experience have thrown me into the abyss. I am in your hands, and I feel certain that I shall have no cause to repent it.", "pos": 1035616}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "I have no objection, to your going to C----, and I thank you for the generosity of your offer, but I beg you will postpone your journey. I still hope that Steffani will return, and then I can take a decision.", "pos": 1041472}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you are quite right. Will you allow me to have some breakfast with you?", "pos": 1041695}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "Do you suppose I could refuse you?", "pos": 1041787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be very sorry to disturb you in any way. How did you use to amuse yourself at home?", "pos": 1041824}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "I am very fond of books and music; my harpsichord was my delight.", "pos": 1041919}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It was easy for me, madam, to guess that you were a beauty in distress, when I observed your youth, the nobleness of your countenance, and, more than all, your candour. The stamp of truth was so well affixed to the first words you uttered that I could not have the shadow of a doubt left in me as to your being the unhappy victim of the most natural of all feelings, and as to your having abandoned your home through a sentiment of honour. Your fault was that of a warm heart seduced by love, over which reason could have no sway, and your flight--the action of a soul crying for reparation or for revenge-fully justifies you. Your cowardly seducer must pay with his life the penalty due to his crime, and he ought never to receive, by marrying you, an unjust reward, for he is not worthy of possessing you after degrading himself by the vilest conduct.", "pos": 1044592}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "Everything you say is true. My brother, I hope, will avenge me.", "pos": 1045463}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are greatly mistaken if you imagine that Steffani will fight your brother; Steffani is a coward who will never expose himself to an honourable death. What is this?", "pos": 1045529}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "It is a weapon upon which I reckoned until now to use against myself in case I should not succeed in obtaining reparation for the crime I have committed. But you have opened my eyes. Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me. I trust in your friendship, and I have an inward certainty that I shall be indebted to you for my honour as well as for my life.", "pos": 1045875}
{"speaker": "the widow", "text": "You are mistaken, it is a portrait of my brother. He is two years older than I, and is an officer in the papal army. Ah, sir! in the situation in which I am placed, I must think of defending myself against my own self much more than against you.", "pos": 1048731}
{"speaker": "the widow", "text": "I owe you an apology for not having sung to you yet, knowing that you are fond of music.", "pos": 1049741}
{"speaker": "the widow", "text": "Does she not know who you are?", "pos": 1051742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Answer me, and do not ask questions,", "pos": 1051775}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "He must have found out, that I was in the habit of conversing with him every night from my window, and he must have heard of my having embarked for Venice on board the Ferrara barge. I feel certain that my father is now in Venice, making secretly every effort to discover me. When he visits this city he always puts up at Boncousin; will you ascertain whether he is there?", "pos": 1053103}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "A nobleman, a subject of the Pope, has been recommended to me, and wishes me to assist him with my influence in a rather delicate and intricate matter. One of our citizens has, it appears, carried off his daughter, and has been hiding somewhere with her for the last fortnight, but nobody knows where. The affair ought to be brought before the Council of Ten, but the mother of the ravisher claims to be a relative of mine, and I do not intend to interfere.", "pos": 1053847}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I would rather die than become the wife of the monster who had dishonoured her.", "pos": 1054840}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You ought to interfere, but only to advise the father to forgive his daughter and to give up all idea of compelling her to marry her ravisher, for Steffani has been sentenced to death by the will of God.", "pos": 1055956}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "You had better invite the count and his son to dinner here to-morrow. You must act slowly and prudently; it would be necessary to know where the daughter is before you endeavour to make the father forgive her.", "pos": 1056559}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Confess, confess that if you found me to be in love with you you would fear me.", "pos": 1058393}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "Alas! my only fear is to lose you.", "pos": 1058563}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "What offence have I to forgive you for, dear friend? You have not rightly interpreted my thoughts. Your love caused me to think of my happiness, and in that moment a cruel recollection drew that sigh from me. Pray rise from your knees.", "pos": 1059531}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "Then, it is impossible to be certain that he actually seduced her, or to prove that she went off with him.", "pos": 1062160}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Very true, sir, but although it cannot be proved, there is no doubt of it, and now that no one knows where Steffani is, he can be nowhere but with her. I only want him to marry her.", "pos": 1062292}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "It strikes me that it would be better not to insist upon a compulsory marriage which would seal your daughter’s misery, for Steffani is, in every respect, one of the most worthless young men we have amongst our government clerks.", "pos": 1062476}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Were I in your place. I would let my daughter’s repentance disarm my anger, and I would forgive her.", "pos": 1062708}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Where is she? I am ready to fold her in my arms, but how can I believe in her repentance when it is evident that she is still with him.", "pos": 1062834}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "Is it quite certain that in leaving C---- she proceeded to this city?", "pos": 1062972}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "I have it from the master of the barge himself, and she landed within twenty yards of the Roman gate. An individual wearing a mask was waiting for her, joined her at once, and they both disappeared without leaving any trace of their whereabouts.", "pos": 1063044}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "Very likely it was Steffani waiting there for her.", "pos": 1063292}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "No, for he is short, and the man with the mask was tall. Besides, I have heard that Steffani had left Venice two days before the arrival of my daughter. The man must have been some friend of Steffani, and he has taken her to him.", "pos": 1063345}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "But, my dear count, all this is mere supposition.", "pos": 1063577}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "There are four persons who have seen the man with the mask, and pretend to know him, only they do not agree. Here is a list of four names, and I will accuse these four persons before the Council of Ten, if Steffani should deny having my daughter in his possession.", "pos": 1063629}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "This is Casanova my son, and I give you my word of honour that, if your daughter is in his hands, she is perfectly safe, although he may not look exactly the sort of man to whom young girls should be trusted.", "pos": 1064269}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "I have not seen Steffani for six months, sir, but I promise you to kill him in a duel as soon as he returns.", "pos": 1065193}
{"speaker": "young count", "text": "You shall not do it, unless he kills me first.", "pos": 1065327}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Gentlemen. I can assure you that you will neither of you fight a duel with him, for Steffani is dead.", "pos": 1065417}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Dead!", "pos": 1065549}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "We must not, take that word in its literal sense, but the wretched man is dead to all honour and self-respect.", "pos": 1065572}
{"speaker": "her brother", "text": "You shall not kill him, unless he kills me first.", "pos": 1066302}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Steffani,", "pos": 1066578}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "is dead, as our angel Paralis revealed it to us; he is dead to the world, for he has become a Capuchin friar. The senate, as a matter of course, has been informed of it. We alone are aware that it is a punishment which God has visited upon him. Let us worship the Author of all things, and the heavenly hierarchy which renders us worthy of knowing what remains a mystery to all men. Now we must achieve our undertaking, and console the poor father. We must enquire from Paralis where the girl is. She cannot now be with Steffani. Of course, God has not condemned her to become a Capuchin nun.", "pos": 1067182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I need not consult my angel, dearest father, for it is by his express orders that I have been compelled until now to make a mystery of the refuge found by the young countess.", "pos": 1067777}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "We must only, keep up the mystery of his daughter’s place of refuge for the count, until we know for a certainty that he will forgive her, and that he will take her with him to C----, or to any other place where he may wish to live hereafter.", "pos": 1068384}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He cannot refuse to forgive her, when he finds that the amiable girl would never have left C---- if her seducer had not given her this promise of marriage in his own handwriting. She walked as far as the barge, and she landed at the very moment I was passing the Roman gate. An inspiration from above told me to accost her and to invite her to follow me. She obeyed, as if she was fulfilling the decree of Heaven, I took her to a refuge impossible to discover, and placed her under the care of a God-fearing woman.", "pos": 1068641}
{"speaker": "the charming girl", "text": "Ah! why can we not belong for ever to each other? It is not my acquaintance with Steffani, it is your loss which will seal my eternal misery.", "pos": 1071060}
{"speaker": "Steffani's mother", "text": "He had the choice, between killing himself and turning friar, and he took the wiser course.", "pos": 1071620}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "I have joyful news for you, count; your beloved daughter has been found! This, gentlemen, evidently brought your lovely young lady to the verge of madness when she found that he had gone from C---- without her. She left your house alone on foot, and as she landed in Venice Providence threw her in the way of this young man, who induced her to follow him, and has placed her under the care of an honest woman, whom she has not left since, whom she will leave only to fall in your arms as soon as she is certain of your forgiveness for the folly she has committed.", "pos": 1073303}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Oh! let her have no doubt of my forgiving her. Dear sir, I beg of you not to delay the fortunate moment on which the whole happiness of my life depends.", "pos": 1074004}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "Ah! then we can spend a few more hours together! Go, dearest, go and bring my brother.", "pos": 1075114}
{"speaker": "her brother", "text": "To whom, dear sister, are we indebted for the happiness of having found you again?", "pos": 1076223}
{"speaker": "The young countess", "text": "To my guardian angel, to this generous man who was waiting for me, as if Heaven had sent him with the special mission of watching over your sister; it is he who has saved me, who has prevented me from falling into the gulf which yawned under my feet, who has rescued me from the shame threatening me, of which I had then no conception; it is to him I am indebted for all, to him who, as you see, kisses my hand now for the first time.", "pos": 1076308}
{"speaker": "elderly priest", "text": "Those gondoliers, are very fortunate. They took us up at the Rialto for thirty soldi, on condition that they would be allowed to embark other passengers, and here is one already; they will certainly find more.", "pos": 1087150}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When I am in a gondola, reverend sir, there is no room left for any more passengers. I am not a Venetian nobleman, reverend sir, and I have no right to the title of Excellenza.", "pos": 1087439}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Ah! I am very glad of it.", "pos": 1087867}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why so, signora?", "pos": 1087918}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Because when I find myself near a nobleman I am afraid. But I suppose that you are an illustrissimo.", "pos": 1087937}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not even that, signora; I am only an advocate’s clerk.", "pos": 1088040}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So much the better, for I like to be in the company of persons who do not think themselves above me. My father was a farmer, brother of my uncle here, rector of P----, where I was born and bred. As I am an only daughter I inherited my father’s property after his death, and I shall likewise be heiress to my mother, who has been ill a long time and cannot live much longer, which causes me a great deal of sorrow; but it is the doctor who says it. Now, to return to my subject, I do not suppose that there is much difference between an advocate’s clerk and the daughter of a rich farmer. I only say so for the sake of saying something, for I know very well that, in travelling, one must accept all sorts of companions: is it not so, uncle?", "pos": 1088097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, my dear Christine, and as a proof you see that this gentleman has accepted our company without knowing who or what we are.", "pos": 1088839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do you think I would have come if I had not been attracted by the beauty of your lovely niece?", "pos": 1088969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you laugh so heartily, beautiful ‘demigella’? Is it to shew me your fine teeth? I confess that I have never seen such a splendid set in Venice.", "pos": 1089291}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! it is not for that, sir, although everyone in Venice has paid me the same compliment. I can assure you that in P---- all the girls have teeth as fine as mine. Is it not a fact, uncle?", "pos": 1089444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, my dear niece.", "pos": 1089634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was laughing, sir, at a thing which I will never tell you.", "pos": 1089656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! tell me, I entreat you.", "pos": 1089719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! certainly not, never.", "pos": 1089749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will not,", "pos": 1089820}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you do I will go away.", "pos": 1089883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I defy you to do it, my dear. Do you know what she said, sir, when she saw you on the wharf? ‘Here is a very handsome young man who is looking at me, and would not be sorry to be with us.’ And when she saw that the gondoliers were putting back for you to embark she was delighted.", "pos": 1089911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why are you angry, lovely Christine, at my hearing that you liked my appearance, when I am so glad to let you know how truly charming I think you?", "pos": 1090284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are glad for a moment. Oh! I know the Venetians thoroughly now. They have all told me that they were charmed with me, and not one of those I would have liked ever made a declaration to me.", "pos": 1090433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What sort of declaration did you want?", "pos": 1090628}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There’s only one sort for me, sir; the declaration leading to a good marriage in church, in the sight of all men. Yet we remained a fortnight in Venice; did we not, uncle?", "pos": 1090669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This girl,", "pos": 1090843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is a good match, for she possesses three thousand crowns. She has always said that she would marry only a Venetian, and I have accompanied her to Venice to give her an opportunity of being known. A worthy woman gave us hospitality for a fortnight, and has presented my niece in several houses where she made the acquaintance of marriageable young men, but those who pleased her would not hear of marriage, and those who would have been glad to marry her did not take her fancy.", "pos": 1090872}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do you imagine, reverend sir, that marriages can be made like omelets? A fortnight in Venice, that is nothing; you ought to live there at least six months. Now, for instance, I think your niece sweetly pretty, and I should consider myself fortunate if the wife whom God intends for me were like her, but, even if she offered me now a dowry of fifty thousand crowns on condition that our wedding takes place immediately, I would refuse her. A prudent young man wants to know the character of a girl before he marries her, for it is neither money nor beauty which can ensure happiness in married life.", "pos": 1091352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean by character?", "pos": 1091958}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is it a beautiful hand-writing?", "pos": 1092008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my dear. I mean the qualities of the mind and the heart. I shall most likely get married sometime, and I have been looking for a wife for the last three years, but I am still looking in vain. I have known several young girls almost as lovely as you are, and all with a good marriage portion, but after an acquaintance of two or three months I found out that they could not make me happy.", "pos": 1092042}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what were they deficient?", "pos": 1092436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I will tell you, because you are not acquainted with them, and there can be no indiscretion on my part. One whom I certainly would have married, for I loved her dearly, was extremely vain. She would have ruined me in fashionable clothes and by her love for luxuries. Fancy! she was in the habit of paying one sequin every month to the hair-dresser, and as much at least for pomatum and perfumes.", "pos": 1092467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She was a giddy, foolish girl. Now, I spend only ten soldi in one year on wax which I mix with goat’s grease, and there I have an excellent pomatum.", "pos": 1092871}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another, whom I would have married two years ago, laboured under a disease which would have made me unhappy; as soon as I knew of it, I ceased my visits.", "pos": 1093022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What disease was it?", "pos": 1093178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A disease which would have prevented her from being a mother, and, if I get married, I wish to have children.", "pos": 1093201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All that is in God’s hands, but I know that my health is excellent. Is it not, uncle?", "pos": 1093313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another was too devout, and that does not suit me. She was so over-scrupulous that she was in the habit of going to her confessor twice a week, and every time her confession lasted at least one hour. I want my wife to be a good Christian, but not bigoted.", "pos": 1093401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She must have been a great sinner, or else she was very foolish. I confess only once a month, and get through everything in two minutes. Is it not true, uncle? and if you were to ask me any questions, uncle, I should not know what more to say.", "pos": 1093659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One young lady thought herself more learned than I, although she would, every minute, utter some absurdity. Another was always low-spirited, and my wife must be cheerful.", "pos": 1093905}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hark to that, uncle! You and my mother are always chiding me for my cheerfulness.", "pos": 1094078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another, whom I did not court long, was always afraid of being alone with me, and if I gave her a kiss she would run and tell her mother.", "pos": 1094162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How silly she must have been! I have never yet listened to a lover, for we have only rude peasants in P----, but I know very well that there are some things which I would not tell my mother.", "pos": 1094302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One had a rank breath; another painted her face, and, indeed, almost every young girl is guilty of that fault. I am afraid marriage is out of the question for me, because I want, for instance, my wife to have black eyes, and in our days almost every woman colours them by art; but I cannot be deceived, for I am a good judge.", "pos": 1094495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are mine black?", "pos": 1094823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are laughing?", "pos": 1094841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I laugh because your eyes certainly appear to be black, but they are not so in reality. Never mind, you are very charming in spite of that.", "pos": 1094861}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, that is amusing. You pretend to be a good judge, yet you say that my eyes are dyed black. My eyes, sir, whether beautiful or ugly, are now the same as God made them. Is it not so, uncle?", "pos": 1095003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I never had any doubt of it, my dear niece.", "pos": 1095197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you do not believe me, sir?", "pos": 1095243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, they are too beautiful for me to believe them natural.", "pos": 1095277}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, dear me! I cannot bear it.", "pos": 1095338}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Excuse me, my lovely damigella, I am afraid I have been too sincere.", "pos": 1095371}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very well, reverend sir, we will hear it, and you must say it for my intention.", "pos": 1098595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is what I am in the habit of giving,", "pos": 1098711}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you suppose that I cannot walk alone?", "pos": 1098968}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no such idea, but if I do not give you my arm, people will think me wanting in politeness.", "pos": 1099011}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I will take it. But now that I have your arm, what will people think?", "pos": 1099111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps that we love each other and that we make a very nice couple.", "pos": 1099189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if anyone should inform your mistress that we are in love with each other, or even that you have given your arm to a young girl?", "pos": 1099260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no mistress, and I shall have none in future, because I could not find a girl as pretty as you in all Venice.", "pos": 1099395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very sorry for you, for we cannot go again to Venice; and even if we could, how could we remain there six months? You said that six months were necessary to know a girl well.", "pos": 1099514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would willingly defray all your expenses.", "pos": 1099696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed? Then say so to my uncle, and he will think it over, for I could not go alone.", "pos": 1099742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In six months you would know me likewise.", "pos": 1099830}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Oh! I know you very well already.", "pos": 1099873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Could you accept a man like me?", "pos": 1099909}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1099943}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And will you love me?", "pos": 1099954}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Yes, very much, when you are my husband.", "pos": 1099978}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear sir, you would greatly oblige me if you would come back here from P---- to pledge the ring yourself. Now that it has been offered once by you, it might look very strange if it were brought by another person. Of course I will pay all your expenses.", "pos": 1102902}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "I promise you to come back.", "pos": 1103170}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Reverend sir, let me advise you to take your niece again to Venice. I undertake to defray all expenses, and to find an honest woman with whom your Christine will be as safe as with her own mother. I want to know her well in order to make her my wife, and if she comes to Venice our marriage is certain.", "pos": 1103644}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Sir, I will bring my niece myself to Venice as soon as you inform me that you have found a worthy woman with whom I can leave her in safety.", "pos": 1103959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear Christine, within a week I shall have arranged the affair. In the meantime, I will write to you. I hope that you have no objection to correspond with me.", "pos": 1104197}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "My uncle will write for me, for I have never been taught writing.", "pos": 1104371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, my dear child! you wish to become the wife of a Venetian, and you cannot write.", "pos": 1104439}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Is it then necessary to know how to write in order to become a wife? I can read well.", "pos": 1104527}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is not enough, and although a girl can be a wife and a mother without knowing how to trace one letter, it is generally admitted that a young girl ought to be able to write. I wonder you never learned.", "pos": 1104615}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "There is no wonder in that, for not one girl in our village can do it. Ask my uncle.", "pos": 1104823}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "It is perfectly true, but there is not one who thinks of getting married in Venice, and as you wish for a Venetian husband you must learn.", "pos": 1104910}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, and before you come to Venice, for everybody would laugh at you, if you could not write. I see that it makes you sad, my dear, but it cannot be helped.", "pos": 1105051}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "I am sad, because I cannot learn writing in a week.", "pos": 1105226}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "I undertake, to teach you in a fortnight, if you will only practice diligently. You will then know enough to be able to improve by your own exertions.", "pos": 1105280}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "It is a great undertaking, but I accept it; I promise you to work night and day, and to begin to-morrow.", "pos": 1105451}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "We need not undress, as we mean to leave very early, but you can take off your clothes, sir, because you are not going with us, and you will like to remain in bed to-morrow morning.", "pos": 1106199}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Oh! I must undress myself, otherwise I could not sleep, but I only want a few minutes to get ready in the morning.", "pos": 1106395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you do not mind the expense, sir, trust to me, and I undertake to please you. I will give you some Gatta wine.", "pos": 1107678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right, but let us have supper early.", "pos": 1107794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know what is the matter?", "pos": 1107982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "my niece is caressing me because she wants me to leave her here until my return. She tells me that you were like brother and sister during the hour you have spent alone together this morning, and I believe it, but she does not consider that she would be a great trouble to you.", "pos": 1108031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all, quite the reverse, she will afford me great pleasure, for I think her very charming. As to our mutual behaviour, I believe you can trust us both to do our duty.", "pos": 1108311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no doubt of it. Well, I will leave her under your care until the day after to-morrow. I will come back early in the morning so as to attend to your business.", "pos": 1108486}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can assure you,", "pos": 1109197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that I wish you to have a thorough knowledge of me; you will see that I have none of the faults which have displeased you so much in the young ladies you have known in Venice, and I promise to learn writing immediately.", "pos": 1109227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are charming and true; but you must be discreet in P----, and confide to no one that we have entered into an agreement with each other. You must act according to your uncle’s instructions, for it is to him that I intend to write to make all arrangements.", "pos": 1109449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may rely upon my discretion. I will not say anything even to my mother, until you give me permission to do so.", "pos": 1109710}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My uncle has gone. I did not hear him.", "pos": 1110976}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest Christine, you are as lovely as one of God’s angels. I have a great longing to give you a kiss.", "pos": 1111017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you long for a kiss, my dear friend, come and give me one.", "pos": 1111123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have we done?", "pos": 1111766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have become husband and wife.", "pos": 1111818}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What will my uncle say to-morrow?", "pos": 1111853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He need not know anything about it until he gives us the nuptial benediction in his own church.", "pos": 1111889}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when will he do so?", "pos": 1111987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As soon as we have completed all the arrangements necessary for a public marriage.", "pos": 1112013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How long will that be?", "pos": 1112098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "About a month.", "pos": 1112123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We cannot be married during Lent.", "pos": 1112140}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will obtain permission.", "pos": 1112176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are not deceiving me?", "pos": 1112204}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for I adore you.", "pos": 1112232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, you no longer want to know me better?", "pos": 1112255}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; I know you thoroughly now, and I feel certain that you will make me happy.", "pos": 1112301}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And will you make me happy, too?", "pos": 1112382}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope so.", "pos": 1112417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us get up and go to church. Who could have believed that, to get a husband, it was necessary not to go to Venice, but to come back from that city!", "pos": 1112430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It must be,", "pos": 1112829}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the same reason which causes you to be thoughtful.", "pos": 1112853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An air of thoughtfulness, my dear, is proper to love when it finds itself in consultation with honour. This affair has become serious, and love is now compelled to think and consider. We want to be married in the church, and we cannot do it before Lent, now that we are in the last days of carnival; yet we cannot wait until Easter, it would be too long. We must therefore obtain a dispensation in order to be married. Have I not reason to be thoughtful?", "pos": 1112906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! what will my uncle say?", "pos": 1114802}
{"speaker": "The Oracle", "text": "Serenus must attend to it.", "pos": 1117913}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must, obtain from the Holy Father a dispensation for a worthy and virtuous girl, so as to give her the privilege of marrying during Lent in the church of her village; she is a young country girl. Here is her certificate of birth. The husband is not yet known; but it does not matter, Paralis undertakes to find one.", "pos": 1118135}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Trust to me. I will write at once to our ambassador in Rome, and I will contrive to have my letter sent by special express. You need not be anxious, leave it all to me, I will make it a business of state, and I must obey Paralis all the more readily that I foresee that the intended husband is one of us four. Indeed, we must prepare ourselves to obey.", "pos": 1118474}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "Charles, has lost his father and his mother, and I feel satisfied that his godfather will guarantee the dowry brought by his wife. I have spoken to him, and I believe him disposed to marry an honest girl whose dowry would enable him to purchase M. Ragionato’s office.", "pos": 1123190}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It seems to promise very well, but I cannot decide until I have seen him.", "pos": 1123485}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "I have invited him to dine with us to-morrow.", "pos": 1123561}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "I do not care for love, but I should like to get married in order to have a house of my own.", "pos": 1124092}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "whether he was likewise a clerk.", "pos": 1125953}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "he was clerk at Ragionato.", "pos": 1126008}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "I want you to look at my writing, and afterwards we will go and see my mother. Well, sir, what does it matter to you? Besides, I must tell you that I am seventeen, and not nineteen years of age.", "pos": 1126098}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "For me?", "pos": 1127878}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, for you. Charles is one of a thousand; you would be much happier with him than you could be with me; the doctor knows him, and you could ascertain from him everything which I cannot find time to tell you now about my friend.", "pos": 1127888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It will be at dinner, my dear Christine, that my friend will examine and study you; do not fail to shew all the charms and qualities with which God has endowed you, but do not let him suspect our intimacy.", "pos": 1128651}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "It is all very strange. Is my uncle informed of this wonderful change?", "pos": 1128859}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No.", "pos": 1128932}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "If your friend should feel pleased with me, when would he marry me?", "pos": 1128938}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Within ten days. I will take care of everything, and you will see me again in the course of the week.", "pos": 1129008}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "You are made, lovely Christine, to minister to the happiness of a prince.", "pos": 1130039}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "I should esteem myself fortunate, sir, if you should judge me worthy of ministering to yours.", "pos": 1130151}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "I will call to-morrow morning upon Count Algarotti, and you may write to the priest to come with all the necessary documents to make the contract of marriage which I long to sign. Then, we must go full speed ahead!", "pos": 1131145}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When you promised to marry me, after we had both been weak enough to give way to our love, did you intend to deceive me?", "pos": 1132490}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Certainly not. Then you have not deceived me. On the contrary, I owe you some gratitude for having thought that, if our union should prove unhappy, it was better to find another husband for me, and I thank God that you have succeeded so well. Tell me, now, what I can answer to your friend in case he should ask me, during the first night, why I am so different to what a virgin ought to be?", "pos": 1132613}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is not likely that Charles, who is full of reserve and propriety, would ask you such a thing, but if he should, tell him positively that you never had a lover, and that you do not suppose yourself to be different to any other girl.", "pos": 1133009}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "Will he believe me?", "pos": 1133246}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He would deserve your contempt, and entail punishment on himself if he did not. But dismiss all anxiety; that will not occur. A sensible man, my dear Christine, when he has been rightly brought up, never ventures upon such a question, because he is not only certain to displease, but also sure that he will never know the truth, for if the truth is likely to injure a woman in the opinion of her husband, she would be very foolish, indeed, to confess it.", "pos": 1133268}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "I understand your meaning perfectly, my dear friend; let us, then, embrace each other for the last time.", "pos": 1133725}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for we are alone and I am very weak. I adore thee as much as ever.", "pos": 1133831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not cry, dear friend, for, truly speaking, I have no wish for it.", "pos": 1133904}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "We intend to be married, on such a day at P----, and I trust that you will crown your work of kindness by being present at the ceremony. I am deeply in love with her, and I feel that it is to you that I shall be indebted for the happiness I am sure to enjoy with my charming wife. She will soon get rid of her country way of talking in Venice, because here envy and slander will but too easily shew her the absurdity of it.", "pos": 1135230}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "As soon as I am your wife. I will dress as you please, but here I will not appear before my young companions in any other costume than the one in which they have always seen me. I shall thus avoid being laughed at, and accused of pride, by the girls among whom I have been brought up.", "pos": 1136871}
{"speaker": "Charles", "text": "was evidently destined by Heaven for my happiness, and to you I am indebted for the precious possession of that treasure.", "pos": 1137558}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Her cheerful spirits, her artless simplicity, her natural wit, are like her beauty, they must be dressed in the Venetian fashion. We are highly pleased with my nephew’s choice, and he has incurred everlasting obligations towards you. I hope that for the future you will consider our house as your own.", "pos": 1142026}
{"speaker": "Christine", "text": "M. Casanova, I am happy, and I love to be indebted to you for my happiness.", "pos": 1143858}
{"speaker": "Demetrio", "text": "Whoever you may be, go away and let me sleep quietly, for I do not believe in ghosts;", "pos": 1156379}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I? What have I done?", "pos": 1157419}
{"speaker": "Mistress of the house", "text": "M. Demetrio is dying.", "pos": 1157442}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have I killed him?", "pos": 1157466}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am astonished, reverend sir, at the hasty judgment which is thus passed upon me, when there is no proof to condemn me.", "pos": 1157987}
{"speaker": "All the guests", "text": "You have done it, you alone are capable of such an abomination; it is just like you. No one but you would have dared to do such a thing!", "pos": 1158134}
{"speaker": "Archpriest", "text": "I am compelled, to draw up an official report.", "pos": 1158301}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As you please, I have not the slightest objection. I have nothing to fear.", "pos": 1158373}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "My daughter is yet a virgin, and she is quite right not to lose her maidenhood without making a good profit by it.", "pos": 1160670}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If so. I will give you ten sequins for her virginity.", "pos": 1160787}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You may judge for yourself,", "pos": 1160857}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, did you move?", "pos": 1161819}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Because I would not have it in that position.", "pos": 1161857}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would not?", "pos": 1161905}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "No.", "pos": 1161922}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "This gentleman, is Count Celi, of Rome; he is my lover.", "pos": 1165227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you. Sir, do not be angry at our mutual affection, Marina is my daughter.", "pos": 1165297}
{"speaker": "Count Celi", "text": "She is a prostitute.", "pos": 1165457}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "True, and you can believe the count, for he is my procurer.", "pos": 1165480}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Stop, or you are a dead man. With pleasure. Very well, sir, at four in the afternoon,", "pos": 1165707}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Are you sorry to have saved me from the rage of that brute?", "pos": 1166233}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I am glad to have done so, but tell me truly who and what he is.", "pos": 1166295}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "He is a gambler by profession, and gives himself out as Count Celi. I made his acquaintance here. He courted me, invited me to supper, played after supper, and, having won a large sum from an Englishman whom he had decoyed to his supper by telling him that I would be present, he gave me fifty guineas, saying that he had given me an interest in his bank. As soon as I had become his mistress, he insisted upon my being compliant with all the men he wanted to make his dupes, and at last he took up his quarters at my lodgings. The welcome I gave you very likely vexed him, and you know the rest. Here I am, and here I will remain until my departure for Mantua where I have an engagement as first dancer. My servant will bring me all I need for to-night, and I will give him orders to move all my luggage to-morrow. I will not see that scoundrel any more. I will be only yours, if you are free as in Corfu, and if you love me still.", "pos": 1166366}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my dear Marina, I do love you, but if you wish to be my mistress, you must be only mine.", "pos": 1167301}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Oh! of course. I have three hundred sequins, and I will give them to you to-morrow if you will take me as your mistress.", "pos": 1167397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not want any money; all I want is yourself. Well, it is all arranged; to-morrow evening we shall feel more comfortable.", "pos": 1167520}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Perhaps you are thinking of a duel for to-morrow? But do not imagine such a thing, dearest. I know that man; he is an arrant coward.", "pos": 1167647}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must keep my engagement with him.", "pos": 1167782}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "I know that, but he will not keep his, and I am very glad of it. I am the most unhappy of the family.", "pos": 1167820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How so? You are beautiful, and you have become an excellent dancer. Do not be so prodigal of your favours, and you cannot fail to meet with a man who will take care of your fortune.", "pos": 1168204}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "To be sparing of my favours is very difficult; when I love, I am no longer mine, but when I do not love, I cannot be amiable. Well, dearest, I could be very happy with you.", "pos": 1168388}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear Marina, I am not wealthy, and my honour would not allow me....", "pos": 1168563}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "Hold your tongue; I understand you.", "pos": 1168633}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why have you not a lady’s maid with you instead of a male servant? You are right. A maid would look more respectable, but my servant is so clever and so faithful!", "pos": 1168671}
{"speaker": "Companion", "text": "I can guess all his qualities, but he is not a fit servant for you.", "pos": 1168837}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You told me that you would come alone.", "pos": 1170555}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "My friend will not be in the way, as I only want to speak to you.", "pos": 1170596}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I had known that, I would not have gone out of my way. But do not let us be noisy, and let us go to some place where we can exchange a few words without being seen. Follow me.", "pos": 1170664}
{"speaker": "Celi", "text": "Two to one!", "pos": 1171236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Send your friend away, and this gentleman will go likewise; at all events, your friend wears a sword, therefore we are two against two.", "pos": 1171266}
{"speaker": "Frenchman", "text": "Yes, let us have a four-handed game.", "pos": 1171404}
{"speaker": "Cutthroat", "text": "I do not cross swords with a dancer,", "pos": 1171465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, speak.", "pos": 1171870}
{"speaker": "Celi", "text": "You know me and I do not know you. Tell me who you are.", "pos": 1171885}
{"speaker": "Marina", "text": "I will, amuse everybody at the theatre this evening with the story of your meeting. But that which pleases me most is that, if your second is really a dancer, he can be no other than M. Baletti, who is engaged with me for the Mantua Theatre.", "pos": 1172549}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is that lovely lady?", "pos": 1175938}
{"speaker": "French Officer", "text": "She is a truly charming woman, and I can tell you an anecdote about her worthy of being transmitted to posterity. You need not suppose that I am going to exaggerate, for the adventure is known to everybody in Cremona. The charming woman whom you have just seen is gifted with wit greater even than her beauty, and here is a specimen of it. A young officer, one amongst many military men who were courting her, when Marshal de Richelieu was commanding in Genoa, boasted of being treated by her with more favour than all the others, and one day, in the very coffee-room where we met, he advised a brother officer not to lose his time in courting her, because he had no chance whatever of obtaining any favour.", "pos": 1175977}
{"speaker": "Indiscreet Officer", "text": "My dear fellow. I have a much better right to give you that piece of advice; for I have already obtained from her everything which can be granted to a lover.", "pos": 1176687}
{"speaker": "Incredulous Officer", "text": "I am certain that you are telling a lie, and I request you to follow me out.", "pos": 1176874}
{"speaker": "Indiscreet Officer", "text": "Most willingly, but what is the good of ascertaining the truth through a duel and of cutting our throats, when I can make the lady herself certify the fact in your presence.", "pos": 1176981}
{"speaker": "Incredulous Officer", "text": "I bet twenty-five louis that it is all untrue,", "pos": 1177187}
{"speaker": "Indiscreet Officer", "text": "I accept your bet. Let us go.", "pos": 1177267}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "Well gentlemen, what lucky wind has brought you here together at this hour?", "pos": 1177493}
{"speaker": "Incredulous Officer", "text": "It is a bet, madam, and you alone can be the umpire in our quarrel. This gentleman has been boasting of having obtained from you everything a woman can grant to the most favoured lover. I have given him the lie in the most impressive manner, and a duel was to ensue, when he offered to have the truth of his boast certified by you. I have bet twenty-five Louis that you would not admit it, and he has taken my bet. Now, madam, you can say which of us two is right.", "pos": 1177583}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "You have lost, sir, but now I beg both of you to quit my house, and I give you fair warning that if you ever dare to shew your faces here again, you will be sorry for it.", "pos": 1178086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did the husband take it all?", "pos": 1178631}
{"speaker": "French Officer", "text": "Quite well, and like an intelligent, sensible man. He said that, if his wife had acted differently, he would have applied for a divorce, because in that case no one would have entertained a doubt of her being guilty.", "pos": 1178666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That husband is indeed a sensible fellow. It is certain that, if his wife had given the lie to the indiscreet officer, he would have paid the bet, but he would have stood by what he had said, and everybody would have believed him. By declaring him the winner of the bet she has cut the matter short, and she has avoided a judgment by which she would have been dishonoured. The inconsiderate boaster was guilty of a double mistake for which he paid the penalty of his life, but his adversary was as much wanting in delicacy, for in such matters rightly-minded men do not venture upon betting. If the one who says yes is imprudent, the one who says no is a dupe. I like the lady’s presence of mind. But what sentence would you pass on her. Guilty or not guilty?", "pos": 1178885}
{"speaker": "French Officer", "text": "Not guilty. I am of the same opinion, and it has been the verdict of the public likewise, for she has since been treated even better than before the affair. You will see, if you go to the casino, and I shall be happy to introduce you to her.", "pos": 1179649}
{"speaker": "Captain O’Neilan", "text": "No, indeed, I want you to spend a joyous night with me, and in good company. I only consider you, my dear sir, as my friend and guest.", "pos": 1181268}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, you are in the wrong, for faro is the freest of games. Why do you not take the bank yourself?", "pos": 1182601}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "It would be too much trouble, and these gentlemen do not punt high enough for me, but if that sort of thing amuses you, take the bank and I will punt.", "pos": 1182729}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Captain, will you take a fourth share in my bank?", "pos": 1182882}
{"speaker": "Captain O’Neilan", "text": "Willingly.", "pos": 1182944}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Gentlemen, I beg you to give notice that I will lay the cards down after six games.", "pos": 1182957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good for a hundred sequins, O’Neilan,", "pos": 1183160}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "Your bank might be defunct before the end of the sixth game.", "pos": 1183294}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 1183978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have been very lucky, but I hope you will give me my revenge to-morrow.", "pos": 1184000}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be with the greatest pleasure, sir, but I never play except when I am under arrest.", "pos": 1184078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise it,", "pos": 1184941}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but do not break your word.", "pos": 1184972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you were all right before that night?", "pos": 1185365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, my health was excellent.", "pos": 1185423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry that you should have lost your health in such an ugly place. I would have warned you if I had thought you had any intentions in that quarter.", "pos": 1185454}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you know of the woman having . . . ?", "pos": 1185609}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Zounds! Did I not? It is only a week since I paid a visit to the very same place myself, and I believe the creature was all right before my visit.", "pos": 1185652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I have to thank you for the present she has bestowed upon me.", "pos": 1185801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Most likely; but it is only a trifle, and you can easily get cured if you care to take the trouble.", "pos": 1185870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! Do you not try to cure yourself?", "pos": 1185972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Faith, no. It would be too much trouble to follow a regular diet, and what is the use of curing such a trifling inconvenience when I am certain of getting it again in a fortnight. Ten times in my life I have had that patience, but I got tired of it, and for the last two years I have resigned myself, and now I put up with it.", "pos": 1186013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pity you, for a man like you would have great success in love.", "pos": 1186342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not care a fig for love; it requires cares which would bother me much more than the slight inconvenience to which we were alluding, and to which I am used now.", "pos": 1186409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not of your opinion, for the amorous pleasure is insipid when love does not throw a little spice in it. Do you think, for instance, that the ugly wretch I met at the guard-room is worth what I now suffer on her account?", "pos": 1186576}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course not, and that is why I am sorry for you. If I had known, I could have introduced you to something better.", "pos": 1186803}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The very best in that line is not worth my health, and health ought to be sacrificed only for love.", "pos": 1186921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! you want women worthy of love? There are a few here; stop with us for some time, and when you are cured there is nothing to prevent you from making conquests.", "pos": 1187023}
{"speaker": "Laurent", "text": "I do not care!", "pos": 1188605}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "It is that mark, which gave me the name of ‘La Fragoletta.’", "pos": 1192293}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, madam. I am the son of Gaetan Casanova, of Parma.", "pos": 1193053}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "Heavens and earth! what is this? Ah! my friend, I adored your father! He was jealous without cause, and abandoned me. Had he not done so, you would have been my son! Allow me to embrace you with the feelings of a loving mother. Although. I do not look an old woman yet. The only fault of your dear father, was a want of gratitude.", "pos": 1193120}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Sir. I have been guilty only through ignorance, and if you would be so good as to call for me at my hotel to-morrow morning, before the evening I shall have atoned for my error, and you will no longer have the right to address me the same reproach.", "pos": 1195122}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pray, tell me, what relation there is between this collection and natural history? I see nothing here representing the three kingdoms.", "pos": 1195997}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "What! You do not see the antediluvian kingdom, that of Sesostris and that of Semiramis? Are not those the three kingdoms?", "pos": 1196151}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you are the possessor of this knife, and you are not as rich as Croesus?", "pos": 1196623}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "How could I be so through the possession of the knife?", "pos": 1196719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In two ways. In the first place, you could obtain possession of all the treasures hidden under ground in the States of the Church.", "pos": 1196776}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Yes, that is a natural consequence, because St. Peter has the keys.", "pos": 1196909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In the second place, you might sell the knife to the Pope, if you happen to possess proof of its authenticity.", "pos": 1196979}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "You mean the parchment. Of course I have it; do you think I would have bought one without the other?", "pos": 1197092}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All right, then. In order to get possession of that knife, the Pope would, I have no doubt, make a cardinal of your son, but you must have the sheath too.", "pos": 1197195}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "I have not got it, but it is unnecessary. At all events I can have one made.", "pos": 1197352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would not do, you must have the very one in which Saint Peter himself sheathed the knife when God said, ‘Mitte gladium tuum in vaginam’. That very sheath does exist, and it is now in the hands of a person who might sell it to you at a reasonable price, or you might sell him your knife, for the sheath without the knife is of no use to him, just as the knife is useless to you without the sheath.", "pos": 1197431}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "How much would it cost me?", "pos": 1197835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "One thousand sequins.", "pos": 1197864}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "And how much would that person give me for the knife?", "pos": 1197888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "One thousand sequins, for one has as much value as the other.", "pos": 1197944}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Well, son, would you ever have thought that I would be offered one thousand sequins for this knife? It is not necessary for me to buy it, or for your friend to purchase the knife. We can find out and dig up the treasures together.", "pos": 1198113}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all. The rubric says in the most forcible manner that the owner of the blade, ‘in vaginam’, shall be one. If the Pope were in possession of it he would be able, through a magical operation known to me, to cut off one of the ears of every Christian king who might be thinking of encroaching upon the rights of the Church.", "pos": 1198605}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Wonderful, indeed! But it is very true, for it is said in the Gospel that Saint Peter did cut off the ear of somebody.", "pos": 1198935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, of a king.", "pos": 1199056}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Oh, no! not of a king.", "pos": 1199074}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of a king, I tell you. Enquire whether Malek or Melek does not mean king.", "pos": 1199099}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Well! in case I should make up my mind to sell the knife, who would give me the thousand sequins?", "pos": 1199175}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would; one half to-morrow, cash down; the balance of five hundred in a letter of exchange payable one month after date.", "pos": 1199275}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Ah! that is like business. Be good enough, to accept a dish of macaroni with us to-morrow, and under a solemn pledge of secrecy we will discuss this important affair. The Treasure, is worth millions; but let us have dinner. You are not going to be served in silver plates and dishes, but in real Raphael mosaic.", "pos": 1199399}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear commissary, your magnificence astonishes me; mosaic is, indeed, by far superior to silver plate, although an ignorant fool would only consider it ugly earthen ware.", "pos": 1200215}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "A man in very good circumstances, residing in the Papal States, and owner of the country house in which he lives with all his family, is certain that there is a treasure in his cellar. He has written to my son, declaring himself ready to undertake all expenses necessary to possess himself of that treasure, if we could procure a magician powerful enough to unearth it. Therefore all that is necessary is to give me the possibility of purchasing the sheath on credit, for I have no ready cash at present. You need not be afraid of endorsing my letters of exchange, and if you should know the magician you might go halves with him.", "pos": 1200455}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The magician is ready; it is I, but unless you give me five hundred sequins cash down we cannot agree.", "pos": 1201419}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "I have no money.", "pos": 1201524}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then sell me the knife.", "pos": 1201543}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "No.", "pos": 1201569}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are wrong, for now that I have seen it I can easily take it from you. But I am honest enough not to wish to play such a trick upon you.", "pos": 1201575}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "You could take my knife from me? I should like to be convinced of that, but I do not believe it.", "pos": 1201717}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You do not? Very well, to-morrow the knife will be in my possession, but when it is once in my hands you need not hope to see it again. A spirit which is under my orders will bring it to me at midnight, and the same spirit will tell me where the treasure is buried.", "pos": 1201816}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Capitani", "text": "Let the spirit tell you that, and I shall be convinced.", "pos": 1202084}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give me a pen, ink and paper. That is, a torrent which was once a river.", "pos": 1202142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The treasure is buried in the earth at a depth of seventeen and a half fathoms, and has been there for six centuries. Its value amounts to two millions of sequins, enclosed in a casket, the same which was taken by Godfrey de Bouillon from Mathilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the year 1081, when he endeavoured to assist Henry IV, against that princess. He buried the box himself in the very spot where it now is, before he went to lay siege to Jerusalem. Gregory VII, who was a great magician, having been informed of the place where it had been hidden, had resolved on getting possession of it himself, but death prevented him from carrying out his intentions. After the death of the Countess Mathilda, in the year 1116, the genius presiding over all hidden treasures appointed seven spirits to guard the box. During a night with a full moon, a learned magician can raise the treasure to the surface of the earth by placing himself in the middle of the magical ring called maximus.", "pos": 1202967}
{"speaker": "the commissary", "text": "I cannot decide, before I have seen the sheath.", "pos": 1204391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I pledge my word to shew it to you to-morrow,", "pos": 1204464}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very glad it is so, my pretty child. Madame Franzia, what is the cause of that bad smell?", "pos": 1207774}
{"speaker": "Madame Franzia", "text": "Sir, it arises from the hemp which we are macerating.", "pos": 1208257}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that hemp worth, madam?", "pos": 1208389}
{"speaker": "Madame Franzia", "text": "About forty crowns.", "pos": 1208435}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here they are; the hemp belongs to me now, and I must beg your husband to have it removed immediately.", "pos": 1208457}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I intend to take up my quarters here to-morrow. I require two meals every day, and the only wine I can drink is jevese. For my breakfast I drink a peculiar kind of chocolate which I make myself, and which I have brought with me. I promise to pay my own expenses in case we do not succeed. Please remove the hemp to a place sufficiently distant from the house, so that its bad smell may not annoy the spirits to be evoked by me, and let the air be purified by the discharge of gunpowder. Besides, you must send a trusty servant to-morrow to convey our luggage from the hotel here, and keep constantly in the house and at my disposal one hundred new wax candles and three torches.", "pos": 1209489}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "Sir, be kind enough to take back the forty crowns which you paid to my wife for the hemp.", "pos": 1210362}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I will not do anything of the sort, for I do not want you to sustain any loss.", "pos": 1210471}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "Take them back, I beg. I can sell the hemp in the course of the day for forty crowns without difficulty.", "pos": 1210556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case I will, for I have confidence in what you say.", "pos": 1210663}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, now tell me what grounds you have for supposing that there is a treasure in your house?", "pos": 1211638}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "In the first place, the oral tradition transmitted from father to son for the last eight generations; in the second, the heavy sounds which are heard under ground during the night. Besides, the door of the cellar opens and shuts of itself every three or four minutes; which must certainly be the work of the devils seen every night wandering through the country in the shape of pyramidal flames.", "pos": 1211749}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it is as you say, it is evident that you have a treasure hidden somewhere in your house; it is as certain as the fact that two and two are four. Be very careful not to put a lock to the door of the cellar to prevent its opening and shutting of itself; otherwise you would have an earthquake, which would destroy everything here. Spirits will enjoy perfect freedom, and they break through every obstacle raised against them.", "pos": 1212147}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "God be praised for having sent here, forty years ago, a learned man who told my father exactly the same thing! That great magician required only three days more to unearth the treasure when my father heard that the Inquisition had given orders to arrest him, and he lost no time in insuring his escape. Can you tell me how it is that magicians are not more powerful than the Inquisitors?", "pos": 1212576}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because the monks have a greater number of devils under their command than we have. But I feel certain that your father had already expended a great deal of money with that learned man.", "pos": 1212966}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "About two thousand crowns.", "pos": 1213154}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! more, more.", "pos": 1213183}
{"speaker": "Franzia", "text": "I have not bargained for anything, and the merchants must, I have no doubt, have taken me for a fool, for I have certainly paid one-third more than the things are worth.", "pos": 1216444}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So much the worse for them if they have deceived you, but you would have spoilt everything if you had beaten them down in their price. Now, send me your daughter and let me be alone with her. Sit down near my bed and begin sewing. You will dine here and remain at work until the evening. When your father comes, you must let us be alone, but as soon as he leaves me, come back and go to bed.", "pos": 1216633}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go, Javotte, get into the bath and call me when you are ready, for I must purify you as I have purified your father and Capitani.", "pos": 1218136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear Javotte, have you been displeased at all I have compelled you to submit to this evening?", "pos": 1219485}
{"speaker": "Javotte", "text": "Not at all; I liked it very much.", "pos": 1219584}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I hope that you will have no objection to get in the bath with me to-morrow, and to wash me as I have washed you.", "pos": 1219619}
{"speaker": "Javotte", "text": "Most willingly, but shall I know how to do it well?", "pos": 1219740}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will teach you, and for the future I wish you to sleep every night in my room, because I must have a complete certainty that on the night of the great operation I shall find you such as you ought to be.", "pos": 1219794}
{"speaker": "Javotte", "text": "Would it injure the success of your operation if we were to sleep together?", "pos": 1221973}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, my dear girl; provided you are a virgin on the day of the great incantation, it is all I require.", "pos": 1222051}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As for you, Capitani, proceed at once to Cesena, and remain at the inn until our luggage has been brought by the man whom Franzia is going to send with it.", "pos": 1231769}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may have it, with the sheath, if you will let me have the one thousand Roman crowns, the amount of the letter of exchange.", "pos": 1232583}
{"speaker": "Narici", "text": "I am only engaged with the manager,", "pos": 1234591}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you any lover?", "pos": 1234643}
{"speaker": "Narici", "text": "No.", "pos": 1234665}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I offer myself for the post, if you have no objection.", "pos": 1234671}
{"speaker": "Narici", "text": "Will you take four tickets for the four performances?", "pos": 1234760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, through a letter which I have received from Venice, and I beg to offer my most sincere congratulations to Madame.", "pos": 1236308}
{"speaker": "Celi", "text": "How could you possibly expect my visit?", "pos": 1239921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will tell you my reason as soon as you have handed me one hundred sequins, and you are going to do so at once.", "pos": 1239963}
{"speaker": "Celi", "text": "Here are fifty which I brought for you; you cannot demand more from me.", "pos": 1240078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thank you, I take them on account, but as I am good-natured I advise you not to shew yourself this evening in Count Spada’s drawing-rooms, for you would not be admitted, and it would be owing to me.", "pos": 1240152}
{"speaker": "Celi", "text": "I hope that you will think twice before you are guilty of such an ungenerous act.", "pos": 1240353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have made up my mind; but now leave me.", "pos": 1240437}
{"speaker": "Count Alfani", "text": "Here are fifty sequins more, but as an honest man you can take them only to give them to Madame Querini. But how can you hand the amount to her without letting her know that you have forced me to refund it? You understand what consequences such a confession might have for me.", "pos": 1241195}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall give her the money only when you have left this place; in the mean time I promise to be discreet, but be careful not to assist fortune in my presence, or I must act in a manner that will not be agreeable to you.", "pos": 1241485}
{"speaker": "Count Alfani", "text": "Double the capital of my bank, and we can be partners.", "pos": 1241707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your proposal is an insult.", "pos": 1241764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In that case,", "pos": 1243053}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will take the bank tonight.", "pos": 1243091}
{"speaker": "Madame Querini", "text": "I suppose, that by means of this fable you hope to make me accept fifty sequins, but I thank you, I am not in want of money.", "pos": 1243275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I give you my word that I have compelled the thief to refund this money, together with the fifty sequins of which he had likewise cheated me.", "pos": 1243414}
{"speaker": "Madame Querini", "text": "That may be, but I do not wish to believe you. I beg to inform you that I am not simple enough to allow myself to be duped, and, what is worse, cheated in such a manner.", "pos": 1243558}
{"speaker": "Inn-keeper", "text": "This gentleman, who, it appears, can only speak Latin, is in bed with a girl, and the ‘sbirri’ of the bishop have been sent to know whether she is truly his wife; all perfectly regular. If she is his wife, he has only to convince them by shewing a certificate of marriage, but if she is not, of course he must go to prison with her. Yet it need not happen, for I undertake to arrange everything in a friendly manner for a few sequins. I have only to exchange a few words with the chief of the ‘sbirri’, and they will all go away. If you can speak Latin, you had better go in, and make him listen to reason.", "pos": 1244860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who has broken open the door of his room?", "pos": 1245494}
{"speaker": "Inn-keeper", "text": "Nobody; I have opened it myself with the key, as is my duty.", "pos": 1245538}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, the duty of a highway robber, but not of an honest inn-keeper.", "pos": 1245601}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "At all events. I am determined not to give one crown to arrange the affair, and to remain in bed until my door is shut. The moment I am dressed, I will treat you to an amusing denouement of the comedy. I will drive away all those scoundrels at the point of my sword. I have written my name and profession, in the hotel book.", "pos": 1246278}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The insult you have offered to that officer, Mr. Landlord, will cost you very dear.", "pos": 1246912}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "I have two, therefore I can let you have one.", "pos": 1247196}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 1247783}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Do exactly as you please,", "pos": 1248049}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Captain,", "pos": 1248501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "keep your bed until I return. I am going now to the bishop to give him an account of these proceedings, and make him understand that he owes you some reparation. Besides, General Spada is here, and....", "pos": 1248537}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "I know him, and if I had been aware of his being in Cesena, I would have shot the landlord when he opened my door to those scoundrels.", "pos": 1248741}
{"speaker": "Lackey", "text": "Never mind, I cannot wait.", "pos": 1249179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall go to somebody else,", "pos": 1250034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "reverend sir, besides the captain of the ‘sbirri’.", "pos": 1250073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From what country,", "pos": 1251529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is your travelling companion?", "pos": 1251563}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "From France, and he only speaks his native language.", "pos": 1251595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you speak French?", "pos": 1251650}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Not one word.", "pos": 1251675}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is amusing! Then you converse in pantomime?", "pos": 1251691}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 1251742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pity you, for it is a difficult language.", "pos": 1251753}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Yes, to express the various shades of thought, but in the material part of our intercourse we understand each other quite well.", "pos": 1251799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I invite myself to breakfast with you?", "pos": 1251929}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Ask my friend whether he has any objection.", "pos": 1251974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Amiable companion of the captain,", "pos": 1252020}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "will you kindly accept me as a third guest at the breakfast-table?", "pos": 1252074}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "I shall, immediately put a stop to this ridiculous comedy, and treat it in a very serious manner. Go at once to the inn, invite that officer and his companion to dine with me to-day, and repair afterwards to the bishop’s palace. Give him notice that the officer who has been so grossly insulted by his ‘sbirri’ shall not leave the city before he has received a complete apology, and whatever sum of money he may claim as damages. Tell him that the notice comes from me, and that all the expenses incurred by the officer shall be paid by him.", "pos": 1253942}
{"speaker": "Hungarian", "text": "Thirty or nothing,", "pos": 1256792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is the reason,", "pos": 1258435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for which no bolts are allowed in the rooms of the hotels, so that strangers may not shut themselves up in their chambers. The Holy Inquisition does not allow a man to sleep with any woman but his wife.", "pos": 1258466}
{"speaker": "Madame Querini", "text": "It seems strange, that you and the captain should live together without ever speaking to each other.", "pos": 1259588}
{"speaker": "young female officer", "text": "Why, madam? We understand one another perfectly, for speech is of very little consequence in the kind of business we do together.", "pos": 1259707}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "I do not know any kind of business, that can be transacted without the assistance of the voice or the pen.", "pos": 1260034}
{"speaker": "young female officer", "text": "Excuse me, madam, there are some: playing at cards, for instance, is a business of that sort.", "pos": 1260155}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "Are you always playing?", "pos": 1260251}
{"speaker": "young female officer", "text": "We do nothing else. We play the game of the Pharaoh (faro), and I hold the bank.", "pos": 1260277}
{"speaker": "Count Spada", "text": "But tell me, does the bank receive much?", "pos": 1260509}
{"speaker": "young female officer", "text": "As for the deposits, they are of so little importance, that they are hardly worth mentioning.", "pos": 1260572}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Adieu. I wish you a pleasant journey to Naples, and hope you will enjoy yourself there.", "pos": 1260973}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, general, I am not going to Naples immediately; I have changed my mind and intend to proceed to Parma, where I wish to see the Infante. I also wish to constitute myself the interpreter of these two officers who know nothing of Italian.", "pos": 1261074}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Ah, young man! opportunity makes a thief, does it not? Well, if I were in your place, I would do the same.", "pos": 1261317}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "As I have no carriage of my own, we shall have to take the coach.", "pos": 1262920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have a very comfortable carriage, and I offer you the two back seats if you have no objection to my society.", "pos": 1263003}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "That is a piece of good fortune. Be kind enough to propose it to Henriette.", "pos": 1263116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you, madam, grant me the favour of accompanying you to Parma?", "pos": 1263194}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I should be delighted, for we could have some conversation, but take care, sir, your task will not be an easy one, you will often find yourself obliged to translate for both of us.", "pos": 1263263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall do so with great pleasure; I am only sorry that the journey is not longer. We can arrange everything at supper-time; allow me to leave you now as I have some business to settle.", "pos": 1263446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "At least tell me, madam, whether the captain is your husband or your father.", "pos": 1265286}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Neither one nor the other,", "pos": 1265365}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because, in consequence of the agreement in which I have entered with the spirits watching the treasure, at the first attempt made by any other person, the casket containing the treasure will sink to twice its present depth, that is to say as deep as thirty-five fathoms, and then I shall have myself ten times more difficulty in raising it to the surface. I cannot state precisely the time of my return, for it depends upon certain combinations which are not under my control, but recollect that the treasure cannot be obtained by anyone but I.", "pos": 1267070}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "If you wish to know, ask him to relate the whole story himself, only you must request him not to omit any of the particulars.", "pos": 1273250}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "A friend of mine, an officer in the army, having occasion to go to Rome, I solicited a furlough of six months, and accompanied him. I seized with great delight the opportunity of visiting a city, the name of which has a powerful influence on the imagination, owing to the memories of the past attached to it. I did not entertain any doubt that the Latin language was spoken there in good society, at least as generally as in Hungary. But I was indeed greatly mistaken, for nobody can speak it, not even the priests, who only pretend to write it, and it is true that some of them do so with great purity. I was therefore rather uncomfortable during my stay in Rome, and with the exception of my eyes my senses remained perfectly inactive. I had spent a very tedious month in that city, the ancient queen of the world, when Cardinal Albani gave my friend dispatches for Naples. Before leaving Rome, he introduced me to his eminence, and his recommendation had so much influence that the cardinal promised to send me very soon with dispatches for the Duke of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, assuring me that all my travelling expenses would be defrayed. As I wished to see the harbour called in former times Centum cellae and now Civita-Vecchia, I gave up the remainder of my time to that visit, and I proceeded there with a cicerone who spoke Latin. I was loitering about the harbour when I saw, coming out of a tartan, an elderly officer and this young woman dressed as she is now. Her beauty struck me, but I should not have thought any more about it, if the officer had not put up at my inn, and in an apartment over which I had a complete view whenever I opened my window. In the evening I saw the couple taking supper at the same table, but I remarked that the elderly officer never addressed a word to the young one. When the supper was over, the disguised girl left the room, and her companion did not lift his eyes from a letter which he was reading, as it seemed to me, with the deepest attention. Soon afterwards the officer closed the windows, the light was put out, and I suppose my neighbors went to bed. The next morning, being up early as is my habit, I saw the officer go out, and the girl remained alone in the room. I sent my cicerone, who was also my servant, to tell the girl in the garb of an officer that I would give her ten sequins for an hour’s conversation. He fulfilled my instructions, and on his return he informed me that her answer, given in French, had been to the effect that she would leave for Rome immediately after breakfast, and that, once in that city, I should easily find some opportunity of speaking to her.", "pos": 1273570}
{"speaker": "my cicerone", "text": "I can find out from the vetturino, where they put up in Rome, and I promise you to enquire of him.", "pos": 1276222}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "She left Civita-Vecchia with the elderly officer, and I returned home on the following day. Two days afterwards, the cardinal gave me the dispatches, which were addressed to M. Dutillot, the French minister, with a passport and the money necessary for the journey. He told me, with great kindness, that I need not hurry on the road. I had almost forgotten the handsome adventuress, when, two days before my departure, my cicerone gave me the information that he had found out where she lived, and that she was with the same officer. I told him to try to see her, and to let her know that my departure was fixed for the day after the morrow. She sent me word by him that, if I would inform her of the hour of my departure, she would meet me outside of the gate, and get into the coach with me to accompany me on my way. I thought the arrangement very ingenious and during the day I sent the cicerone to tell her the hour at which I intended to leave, and where I would wait for her outside of the Porto del Popolo. She came at the appointed time, and we have remained together ever since. As soon as she was seated near me, she made me understand by signs that she wanted to dine with me. You may imagine what difficulty we had in understanding one another, but we guessed somehow the meaning expressed by our pantomime, and I accepted the adventure with delight. We dined gaily together, speaking without understanding, but after the dessert we comprehended each other very well. I fancied that I had seen the end of it, and you may imagine how surprised I was when, upon my offering her the ten sequins, she refused most positively to take any money, making me understand that she would rather go with me to Parma, because she had some business in that city, and did not want to return to Rome.", "pos": 1276343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The proposal was, after all, rather agreeable to me; I consented to her wishes. I only regretted my inability to make her understand that, if she was followed by anyone from Rome, and if that person wanted to take her back, I was not in a position to defend her against violence. I was also sorry that, with our mutual ignorance of the language spoken by each of us, we had no opportunity of conversation, for I should have been greatly pleased to hear her adventures, which, I think, must be interesting. You can, of course, guess that I have no idea of who she can be. I only know that she calls herself Henriette, that she must be a Frenchwoman, that she is as gentle as a turtledove, that she has evidently received a good education, and that she enjoys good health. She is witty and courageous, as we have both seen, I in Rome and you in Cesena at General Spada’s table. If she would tell you her history, and allow you to translate it for me in Latin she would indeed please me much, for I am sincerely her friend, and I can assure you that it will grieve me to part from her in Parma. Please to tell her that I intend to give her the thirty sequins I received from the Bishop of Cesena, and that if I were rich I would give her more substantial proofs of my tender affection. Now, sir, I shall feel obliged to you if you will explain it all to her in French.", "pos": 1278143}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Be good enough to inform him, that the same principle which forbids me to utter a falsehood, does not allow me to tell the truth. As for the thirty sequins which he intends to give me, I will not accept even one of them, and he would deeply grieve me by pressing them upon me. The moment we reach Parma I wish him to allow me to lodge wherever I may please, to make no enquiries whatever about me, and, in case he should happen to meet me, to crown his great kindness to me by not appearing to have ever known me.", "pos": 1279961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can assure him,", "pos": 1280989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that he need not entertain any anxiety about me.", "pos": 1281025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who can she be,", "pos": 1281761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "this girl who seems to have the most elevated feelings under the veil of the most cynical libertinism? She says that in Parma she wishes to remain perfectly unknown, her own mistress, and I cannot, of course, flatter myself that she will not place me under the same restrictions as the captain to whom she has already abandoned herself. Goodbye to my expectations, to my money, and my illusions! But who is she--what is she? She must have either a lover or a husband in Parma, or she must belong to a respectable family; or, perhaps, thanks to a boundless love for debauchery and to her confidence in her own charms, she intends to set fortune, misery, and degradation at defiance, and to try to enslave some wealthy nobleman! But that would be the plan of a mad woman or of a person reduced to utter despair, and it does not seem to be the case with Henriette. Yet she possesses nothing. True, but she refused, as if she had been provided with all she needed, the kind assistance of a man who has the right to offer it, and from whom, in sooth, she can accept without blushing, since she has not been ashamed to grant him favours with which love had nothing to do. Does she think that it is less shameful for a woman to abandon herself to the desires of a man unknown and unloved than to receive a present from an esteemed friend, and particularly at the eve of finding herself in the street, entirely destitute in the middle of a foreign city, amongst people whose language she cannot even speak? Perhaps she thinks that such conduct will justify the ‘faux pas’ of which she has been guilty with the captain, and give him to understand that she had abandoned herself to him only for the sake of escaping from the officer with whom she was in Rome. But she ought to be quite certain that the captain does not entertain any other idea; he shews himself so reasonable that it is impossible to suppose that he ever admitted the possibility of having inspired her with a violent passion, because she had seen him once through a window in Civita-Vecchia. She might possibly be right, and feel herself justified in her conduct towards the captain, but it is not the same with me, for with her intelligence she must be aware that I would not have travelled with them if she had been indifferent to me, and she must know that there is but one way in which she can obtain my pardon. She may be endowed with many virtues, but she has not the only one which could prevent me from wishing the reward which every man expects to receive at the hands of the woman he loves. If she wants to assume prudish manners towards me and to make a dupe of me, I am bound in honour to shew her how much she is mistaken.", "pos": 1281810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall ask her,", "pos": 1284643}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to grant me the same favours which she has so easily granted to her old captain, and if I meet with a refusal the best revenge will be to shew her a cold and profound contempt until our arrival in Parma.", "pos": 1284680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The reason for which she begs you,", "pos": 1287775}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to leave her in Parma and not to take any further notice of her, must be that she hopes to meet some lover of hers there. Let me have half an hour’s conversation with her, and I flatter myself I can persuade her to sacrifice that lover for me. If she refuses me, I remain here; you will go with her to Parma, where you will leave my carriage at the post, only sending me a receipt, so that I can claim it whenever I please.", "pos": 1287821}
{"speaker": "the excellent man", "text": "As soon as breakfast is over. I shall go and visit the institute, and leave you alone with Henriette. I hope you may succeed, for I should be delighted to see her under your protection when I part with her. Should she persist in her first resolution, I could easily find a ‘vetturino’ here, and you could keep your carriage. I thank you for your proposal, and it will grieve me to leave you.", "pos": 1288246}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I should like it very much, if I had some other clothes; but with such a costume as this I do not care to shew myself about the city.", "pos": 1288847}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you do not want to go out?", "pos": 1288995}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "No.", "pos": 1289029}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can I keep you company?", "pos": 1289035}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "That would be delightful.", "pos": 1289061}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me now whether you intended the order which you gave him yesterday to forget you, never to enquire after you; and even not to know you if he happened to meet you, from the time of our arrival in Parma, for me as well as for him.", "pos": 1289290}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "It is not an order that I gave him; I have no right to do so, and I could not so far forget myself; it is only a prayer I addressed to him, a service which circumstances have compelled me to claim at his hands, and as he has no right to refuse me, I never entertained any doubt of his granting my command. As far as you are concerned, it is certain that I should have addressed the same prayer to you, if I had thought that you had any views about me. You have given me some marks of your friendship, but you must understand that if, under the circumstances, I am likely to be injured by the kind attentions of the captain, yours would injure me much more. If you have any friendship for me, you would have felt all that.", "pos": 1289526}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As you know that I entertain great friendship for you, you cannot possibly suppose that I would leave you alone, without money, without resources in the middle of a city where you cannot even make yourself understood. Do you think that a man who feels for you the most tender affection can abandon you when he has been fortunate enough to make your acquaintance, when he is aware of the sad position in which you are placed? If you think such a thing possible, you must have a very false idea of friendship, and should such a man grant your request, he would only prove that he is not your friend.", "pos": 1290250}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I am certain that the captain is my friend; yet you have heard him, he will obey me, and forget me.", "pos": 1290850}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not know what sort of affection that honest man feels for you, or how far he can rely upon the control he may have over himself, but I know that if he can grant you what you have asked from him, his friendship must be of a nature very different from mine, for I am bound to tell you it is not only impossible for me to afford you willingly the strange gratification of abandoning you in your position, but even that, if I go to Parma, you could not possibly carry out your wishes, because I love you so passionately that you must promise to be mine, or I must remain here. In that case you must go to Parma alone with the captain, for I feel that, if I accompanied you any further, I should soon be the most wretched of men. I could not bear to see you with another lover, with a husband, not even in the midst of your family; in fact, I would fain see you and live with you forever. Let me tell you, lovely Henriette, that if it is possible for a Frenchman to forget, an Italian cannot do it, at least if I judge from my own feelings. I have made up my mind, you must be good enough to decide now, and to tell me whether I am to accompany you or to remain here. Answer yes or no; if I remain here it is all over. I shall leave for Naples to-morrow, and I know I shall be cured in time of the mad passion I feel for you, but if you tell me that I can accompany you to Parma, you must promise me that your heart will forever belong to me alone. I must be the only one to possess you, but I am ready to accept as a condition, if you like, that you shall not crown my happiness until you have judged me worthy of it by my attentions and by my loving care. Now, be kind enough to decide before the return of the too happy captain. He knows all, for I have told him what I feel.", "pos": 1290952}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "And what did he answer?", "pos": 1292733}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That he would be happy to see you under my protection. But what is the meaning of that smile playing on your lips?", "pos": 1292759}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Pray, allow me to laugh, for I have never in my life realized the idea of a furious declaration of love. Do you understand what it is to say to a woman in a declaration which ought to be passionate, but at the same time tender and gentle, the following terrible words: 'Madam, make your choice, either one or the other, and decide instanter!' Ha! ha! ha! Ha! ha! ha!", "pos": 1292876}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I understand perfectly. It is neither gentle, nor gallant, nor pathetic, but it is passionate. Remember that this is a serious matter, and that I have never yet found myself so much pressed by time. Can you, on your side, realize the painful position of a man, who, being deeply in love, finds himself compelled to take a decision which may perhaps decide issues of life and death? Be good enough to remark that, in spite of the passion raging in me, I do not fail in the respect I owe you; that the resolution I intend to take, if you should persist in your original decision, is not a threat, but an effort worthy of a hero, which ought to call for your esteem. I beg of you to consider that we cannot afford to lose time. The word choose must not sound harshly in your ears, since it leaves my fate as well as yours entirely in your hands. To feel certain of my love, do you want to see me kneeling before you like a simpleton, crying and entreating you to take pity on me? No, madam, that would certainly displease you, and it would not help me. I am conscious of being worthy of your love, I therefore ask for that feeling and not for pity. Leave me, if I displease you, but let me go away; for if you are humane enough to wish that I should forget you, allow me to go far away from you so as to make my sorrow less immense. Should I follow you to Parma, I would not answer for myself, for I might give way to my despair. Consider everything well, I beseech you; you would indeed be guilty of great cruelty, were you to answer now: ‘Come to Parma, although I must beg of you not to see me in that city.’ Confess that you cannot, in all fairness, give me such an answer; am I not right?", "pos": 1293234}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Certainly, if you truly love me.", "pos": 1294932}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good God! if I love you? Oh, yes! believe me, my love is immense, sincere! Now, decide my fate.", "pos": 1294967}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "What! always the same song?", "pos": 1295065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1295095}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "But are you aware that you look very angry?", "pos": 1295102}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, for it is not so. I am only in a state of uncontrollable excitement, in one of the decisive hours of my life, a prey to the most fearful anxiety. I ought to curse my whimsical destiny and the ‘sbirri’ of Cesena (may God curse them, too!), for, without them, I should never have known you.", "pos": 1295148}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Are you, then, so very sorry to have made my acquaintance?", "pos": 1295443}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have I not some reason to be so?", "pos": 1295504}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "No, for I have not given you my decision yet.", "pos": 1295539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now I breathe more freely, for I am sure you will tell me to accompany you to Parma.", "pos": 1295587}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Yes, come to Parma.", "pos": 1295674}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I am sure that you love me, and be quite certain that I shall leave nothing undone to secure the constancy of your feelings.", "pos": 1296881}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, I wish to make some purchases.", "pos": 1302719}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "Sir, shall I send for someone speaking French?", "pos": 1302759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You need not do so, I am an Italian.", "pos": 1302808}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "God be praised! Italians are scarce in these days.", "pos": 1302847}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why scarce?", "pos": 1302900}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "Do you not know that Don Philip has arrived, and that his wife, Madame de France, is on the road?", "pos": 1302914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you, for it must make trade very good. I suppose that money is plentiful, and that there is abundance of all commodities.", "pos": 1303014}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "That is true, but everything is high in price, and we cannot get reconciled to these new fashions. They are a bad mixture of French freedom and Spanish haughtiness which addles our brains. But, sir, what sort of linen do you require?", "pos": 1303153}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In the first place, I must tell you that I never try to drive a hard bargain, therefore be careful. If you charge me too much, I shall not come again. I want some fine linen for twenty-four chemises, some dimity for stays and petticoats, some muslin, some cambric for pocket-handkerchiefs, and many other articles which I should be very glad to find in your shop, for I am a stranger here, and God knows in what hands I am going to trust myself!", "pos": 1303389}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "You will be in honest ones, if you will give me your confidence.", "pos": 1303837}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sure that you deserve it, and I abandon my interests to you. I want likewise to find some needlewomen willing to work in the lady’s room, because she requires everything to be made very rapidly.", "pos": 1303904}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "And dresses?", "pos": 1304106}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, dresses, caps, mantles-in fact, everything, for she is naked.", "pos": 1304121}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "With money she will soon have all she wants. Is she young?", "pos": 1304190}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is four years younger than I. She is my wife.", "pos": 1304251}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "Ah! may God bless you! Any children?", "pos": 1304303}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not yet, my good lady; but they will come, for we do all that is necessary to have them.", "pos": 1304342}
{"speaker": "Shop Woman", "text": "I have no doubt of it. How pleased I am! Well, sir, I shall send for the very phoenix of all dressmakers. In the mean time, choose what you require, it will amuse you.", "pos": 1304433}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "Nothing, madam, I am only waiting for your orders.", "pos": 1306028}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Have I not told you that you would be called when your services were required?", "pos": 1306081}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "I should like to know who is my master, you or the gentleman?", "pos": 1306162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Neither. Here are your day’s wages. Be off at once.", "pos": 1306226}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "What country does he belong to?", "pos": 1306403}
{"speaker": "Crispin", "text": "To Flanders, madam, he is a very learned man, about fifty years old. He is said to be a good man. He charges three libbre for each lesson of one hour, and six for two hours, but he requires to be paid each time.", "pos": 1306451}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "My dear, do you wish me to engage that master?", "pos": 1306685}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, dearest, it will amuse you.", "pos": 1306758}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "You shall have one this very day, sir, if I took him I should be certain to have neither a thief nor a spy about me, and that he spoke French pretty well.", "pos": 1307085}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It would be a curious coincidence, if that dressmaker should be my aunt, and my valet my cousin! I entreat you, my darling, never, for the future, to ask my consent in such trifling matters. Be quite certain, my beloved, that I shall always approve everything you may do. Take these fifty sequins, dearest, to pay for all your small expenses, and to buy the many trifles which I should be sure to forget.", "pos": 1307910}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "My darling, you are spending a great deal of money on me, and if you do so in the hope of my loving you more dearly I must tell you it is money lost, for I do not love you now more than I did yesterday, but I do love you with my whole heart. All you may do that is not strictly necessary pleases me only because I see more and more how worthy you are of me, but it is not needed to make me feel all the deep love which you deserve.", "pos": 1310348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe you, dearest, and my happiness is indeed great if you feel that your love for me cannot be increased. But learn also, delight of my heart, that I have done it all only to try to love you even more than I do, if possible. I wish to see you beautiful and brilliant in the attire of your sex, and if there is one drop of bitterness in the fragrant cup of my felicity, it is a regret at not being able to surround you with the halo which you deserve. Can I be otherwise than delighted, my love, if you are pleased?", "pos": 1310835}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "You cannot for one moment doubt my being pleased, and as you have called me your wife you are right in one way, but if you are not very rich I leave it to you to judge how deeply I ought to reproach myself.", "pos": 1311358}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, my beloved angel! let me, I beg of you, believe myself wealthy, and be quite certain that you cannot possibly be the cause of my ruin. You were born only for my happiness. All I wish is that you may never leave me. Tell me whether I can entertain such a hope.", "pos": 1311567}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I wish it myself, dearest, but who can be sure of the future? Are you free? Are you dependent on anyone?", "pos": 1311833}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am free in the broadest meaning of that word, I am dependent on no one but you, and I love to be so.", "pos": 1311940}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I congratulate you, and I am very glad of it, for no one can tear you from my arms, but, alas! you know that I cannot say the same as you. I am certain that some persons are, even now, seeking for me, and they will not find it very difficult to secure me if they ever discover where I am. Alas! I feel how miserable I should be if they ever succeeded in dragging me away from you!", "pos": 1312045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make me tremble. Are you afraid of such a dreadful misfortune here?", "pos": 1312428}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "No, unless I should happen to be seen by someone knowing me.", "pos": 1312502}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are any such persons likely to be here at present?", "pos": 1312565}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I think not.", "pos": 1312618}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then do not let our love take alarm, I trust your fears will never be verified. Only, my darling one, you must be as cheerful as you were in Cesena.", "pos": 1312633}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I shall be more truly so now, dear friend. In Cesena I was miserable; while now I am happy. Do not be afraid of my being sad, for I am of a naturally cheerful disposition.", "pos": 1312784}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose that in Cesena you were afraid of being caught by the officer whom you had left in Rome?", "pos": 1312958}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Not at all; that officer was my father-in-law, and I am quite certain that he never tried to ascertain where I had gone. He was only too glad to get rid of me. I felt unhappy because I could not bear to be a charge on a man whom I could not love, and with whom I could not even exchange one thought. Recollect also that I could not find consolation in the idea that I was ministering to his happiness, for I had only inspired him with a passing fancy which he had himself valued at ten sequins. I could not help feeling that his fancy, once gratified, was not likely at his time of life to become a more lasting sentiment, and I could therefore only be a burden to him, for he was not wealthy. Besides, there was a miserable consideration which increased my secret sorrow. I thought myself bound in duty to caress him, and on his side, as he thought that he ought to pay me in the same money, I was afraid of his ruining his health for me, and that idea made me very unhappy. Having no love for each other, we allowed a foolish feeling of regard to make both of us uncomfortable. We lavished, for the sake of a well-meaning but false decorum, that which belongs to love alone. Another thing troubled me greatly. I was afraid lest people might suppose that I was a source of profit to him. That idea made me feel the deepest shame, yet, whenever I thought of it, I could not help admitting that such a supposition, however false, was not wanting in probability. It is owing to that feeling that you found me so reserved towards you, for I was afraid that you might harbour that fearful idea if I allowed, you to read in my looks the favourable impression which you had made on my heart.", "pos": 1313059}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then it was not owing to a feeling of self-love?", "pos": 1314747}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "No, I confess it, for you could but judge me as I deserved. I had been guilty of the folly now known to you because my father-in-law intended to bury me in a convent, and that did not suit my taste. But, dearest friend, you must forgive me if, I cannot confide even to you the history of my life.", "pos": 1314798}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I respect your secret, darling; you need not fear any intrusion from me on that subject. All we have to do is to love one another, and not to allow any dread of the future to mar our actual felicity.", "pos": 1315097}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What does your husband do?", "pos": 1316707}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "He is steward to the Marquis of Sissa.", "pos": 1316749}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your father still alive?", "pos": 1316790}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "No, sir, he is dead.", "pos": 1316820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What was his family name?", "pos": 1316843}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "Scotti.", "pos": 1316871}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are your husband’s parents still alive?", "pos": 1316881}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "His father is dead, but his mother is still alive, and resides with her uncle, Canon Casanova.", "pos": 1316923}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are the Parmesans satisfied with being the subjects of a Spanish prince?", "pos": 1317254}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "Satisfied? Well, in that case, we should be easily pleased, for we are now in a regular maze. Everything is upset, we do not know where we are. Oh! happy times of the house of Farnese, whither have you departed? The day before yesterday I went to the theatre, and Harlequin made everybody roar with laughter. Well, now, fancy, Don Philipo, our new duke, did all he could to remain serious, and when he could not manage it, he would hide his face in his hat so that people should not see that he was laughing, for it is said that laughter ought never to disturb the grave and stiff countenance of an Infante of Spain, and that he would be dishonoured in Madrid if he did not conceal his mirth. What do you think of that? Can such manners suit us? Here we laugh willingly and heartily! Oh! the good Duke Antonio (God rest his soul!) was certainly as great a prince as Duke Philipo, but he did not hide himself from his subjects when he was pleased, and he would sometimes laugh so heartily that he could be heard in the streets. Now we are all in the most fearful confusion, and for the last three months no one in Parma knows what’s o’clock.", "pos": 1317329}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have all the clocks been destroyed?", "pos": 1318472}
{"speaker": "the dressmaker", "text": "No, but ever since God created the world, the sun has always gone down at half-past five, and at six the bells have always been tolled for the Angelus. All respectable people knew that at that time the candle had to be lit. Now, it is very strange, the sun has gone mad, for he sets every day at a different hour. Our peasants do not know when they are to come to market. All that is called a regulation but do you know why? Because now everybody knows that dinner is to be eaten at twelve o’clock. A fine regulation, indeed! Under the Farnese we used to eat when we were hungry, and that was much better.", "pos": 1318510}
{"speaker": "the teacher", "text": "I should have been able, to teach your lady heraldry, geography, history, and the use of the globes, but she knows that already. She has received an excellent education.", "pos": 1319792}
{"speaker": "the milliner", "text": "Madame et Monsieur, j’ai l’honneur de vous souhaiter le bonjour.", "pos": 1320711}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Why, do you not say Monsieur et madame?", "pos": 1320778}
{"speaker": "the milliner", "text": "I have always heard that in society the precedence is given to the ladies.", "pos": 1320838}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "But from whom do we wish to receive that honour?", "pos": 1320915}
{"speaker": "the milliner", "text": "From gentlemen, of course.", "pos": 1320966}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "And do you not see that women would render themselves ridiculous if they did not grant to men the same that they expect from them. If we wish them never to fail in politeness towards us, we must shew them the example.", "pos": 1320995}
{"speaker": "the milliner", "text": "Madam, you have taught me an excellent lesson, and I will profit by it. Monsieur et madame, je suis votre servante.", "pos": 1321215}
{"speaker": "A beautiful woman", "text": "No, I am satisfied to be as I am.", "pos": 1322840}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Am I not then always the same?", "pos": 1326694}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, heavenly creature, and it is so true that you are no longer the same in my eyes that I could not now use any familiarity towards you. You are no longer the witty, free young officer who told Madame Querini about the game of Pharaoh, and about the deposits made to your bank by the captain in so niggardly a manner that they were hardly worth mentioning.", "pos": 1326762}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "It is very true that, wearing the costume of my sex, I should never dare to utter such words. Yet, dearest friend, it does not prevent my being your Henriette--that Henriette who has in her life been guilty of three escapades, the last of which would have utterly ruined me if it had not been for you, but which I call a delightful error, since it has been the cause of my knowing you.", "pos": 1327122}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I am glad that you think me worth more than ten sequins. Oh! tell him that I do not doubt it. But is it not strange that a poor little female dress should command more respect than the garb of an officer?", "pos": 1328203}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pray do not abuse the officer’s costume, for it is to it that I am indebted for my happiness.", "pos": 1328856}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Yes, as I owe mine to the sbirri of Cesena.", "pos": 1328952}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "What, dearest! You wish to go every evening to the opera?", "pos": 1330390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think, my love, that, if we did not go, we should give some excuse for scandal-mongers to gossip. Yet, should you not like it, you know that there is no need for us to go. Do not think of me, for I prefer our pleasant chat in this room to the heavenly concert of the seraphs.", "pos": 1330450}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I am passionately fond of music, darling, but I cannot help trembling at the idea of going out.", "pos": 1330730}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you tremble, I must shudder, but we ought to go to the opera or leave Parma. Let us go to London or to any other place. Give your orders, I am ready to do anything you like.", "pos": 1330828}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Well, take a private box as little exposed as possible.", "pos": 1331007}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How kind you are!", "pos": 1331065}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I do not think there is any danger, for I have not seen the name of any person of my acquaintance in the list of foreigners which you gave me to read.", "pos": 1331233}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Sir. I have taken the liberty of bringing the medals you wished to have; here they are.", "pos": 1333125}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "The workmanship is beyond all price, but the gold can be bartered for other gold.", "pos": 1333421}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Madam, the medals weigh sixteen sequins. Your taste, madam, is sure to be mine.", "pos": 1333523}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Then you have guessed that I always drink coffee without sugar. I am glad we have that taste in common.", "pos": 1333918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, you will be the first victim of your mischief, for whenever he dines with us, you must keep up the joke, in order not to betray yourself.", "pos": 1334827}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Oh! I can easily contrive to drink my coffee well sweetened, and to make him drain the bitter cup.", "pos": 1334995}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Most of the foreign ladies whom we have here are unknown to us.", "pos": 1336376}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Very likely, many of them would not shew themselves if they were known.", "pos": 1336442}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Very likely, madam, as you say, but I can assure you that, even if their beauty and the richness of their toilet made them conspicuous, our sovereigns wish for freedom. I still hope, madam, that we shall have the happiness of seeing you at the court of the duke.", "pos": 1336516}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I do not think so, for, in my opinion, it is superlatively ridiculous for a lady to go to the court without being presented, particularly if she has a right to be so.", "pos": 1336781}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "What do they mean, darling--those crazy fools--by saying that happiness is not lasting, and how do they understand that word? If they mean everlasting, immortal, unintermitting, of course they are right, but the life of man not being such, happiness, as a natural consequence, cannot be such either. Otherwise, every happiness is lasting for the very reason that it does exist, and to be lasting it requires only to exist. But if by complete felicity they understand a series of varied and never-interrupted pleasures, they are wrong, because, by allowing after each pleasure the calm which ought to follow the enjoyment of it, we have time to realize happiness in its reality. In other words those necessary periods of repose are a source of true enjoyment, because, thanks to them, we enjoy the delight of recollection which increases twofold the reality of happiness. Man can be happy only when in his own mind he realizes his happiness, and calm is necessary to give full play to his mind; therefore without calm man would truly never be completely happy, and pleasure, in order to be felt, must cease to be active. Then what do they mean by that word lasting? Every day we reach a moment when we long for sleep, and, although it be the very likeness of non-existence, can anyone deny that sleep is a pleasure? No, at least it seems to me that it cannot be denied with consistency, for, the moment it comes to us, we give it the preference over all other pleasures, and we are grateful to it only after it has left us. Those who say that no one can be happy throughout life speak likewise frivolously. Philosophy teaches the secret of securing that happiness, provided one is free from bodily sufferings. A felicity which would thus last throughout life could be compared to a nosegay formed of a thousand flowers so beautifully, so skillfully blended together, that it would look one single flower. Why should it be impossible for us to spend here the whole of our life as we have spent the last month, always in good health, always loving one another, without ever feeling any other want or any weariness? Then, to crown that happiness, which would certainly be immense, all that would be wanted would be to die together, in an advanced age, speaking to the last moment of our pleasant recollections. Surely that felicity would have been lasting. Death would not interrupt it, for death would end it. We could not, even then, suppose ourselves unhappy unless we dreaded unhappiness after death, and such an idea strikes me as absurd, for it is a contradiction of the idea of an almighty and fatherly tenderness.", "pos": 1337609}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Soyez-vous l’un a l’autre un monde toujours beau, Toujours divers, toujours nouveau; Tenez-vous lieu de tout; comptez pour rien le reste.", "pos": 1341765}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I should accept his invitation, and with delight, if I were not afraid of meeting at his house some person who might know me, and would destroy the happiness I am now enjoying with you.", "pos": 1342677}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you have any fresh motive for dreading such an occurrence, you are quite right, but if it is only a vague, groundless fear, my love, why should you deprive yourself of a real and innocent pleasure? If you knew how pleased I am when I see you enjoy yourself, and particularly when I witness your ecstacy in listening to fine music!", "pos": 1342881}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Well, darling, I do not want to shew myself less brave than you. We will go immediately after dinner. The artists will not sing before. Besides, as he does not expect us, he is not likely to have invited any person curious to speak to me. We will go without giving him notice of our coming, without being expected, and as if we wanted to pay him a friendly visit. He told us that he would be at his country-house, and Caudagna knows where it is.", "pos": 1343217}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I am delighted to see you, but as I did not expect to see you I altered my arrangements, and instead of the dinner I had intended to give I have invited my friends to supper. I hope you will not refuse me the honour of your company. The two virtuosi will soon be here.", "pos": 1344022}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will there be many guests?", "pos": 1344348}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "You will find yourselves in the midst of people worthy of you. I am only sorry that I have not invited any ladies.", "pos": 1344389}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I entreat your forgiveness for a movement of vanity which has made me encroach on your patience for half an hour.", "pos": 1347840}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is she, this Henriette? what is this treasure I have in my possession?", "pos": 1348092}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I know, my darling, why you went into the garden", "pos": 1348807}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "What can I say about the Italians. I know only one? If I am to judge them all from that one my judgment must certainly be most favourable to them, but one single example is not sufficient to establish the rule. No. I never felt any inclination for any other. I learned the violoncello at the convent to please my mother, who can play it pretty well, and without an order from my father, sanctioned by the bishop, the abbess would never have given me permission to practise it.", "pos": 1350684}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "What objection could the abbess make?", "pos": 1351570}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "That devout spouse of our Lord pretended that I could not play that instrument without assuming an indecent position.", "pos": 1351610}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! you were right, my own Henriette, when you refused to go to that concert, for you knew that you would raise many enemies against me. I am certain that all those men hate me, but what do I care? You are my universe! Cruel darling, you almost killed me with your violoncello, because, having no idea of your being a musician, I thought you had gone mad, and when I heard you I was compelled to leave the room in order to weep undisturbed. My tears relieved my fearful oppression. Oh! I entreat you to tell me what other talents you possess. Tell me candidly, for you might kill me if you brought them out unexpectedly, as you have done this evening.", "pos": 1352144}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I have no other accomplishments, my best beloved. I have emptied my bag all at once. Now you know your Henriette entirely. Had you not chanced to tell me about a month ago that you had no taste for music, I would have told you that I could play the violoncello remarkably well, but if I had mentioned such a thing, I know you well enough to be certain that you would have bought an instrument immediately, and I could not, dearest, find pleasure in anything that would weary you.", "pos": 1352798}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I foresee, madam, all the difficulty I shall have in defending myself against the prayers of all my friends, who will beg of me to introduce them to you.", "pos": 1354191}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "You need not have much trouble on that score: you know that I never, receive anyone.", "pos": 1354371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On madam or on me?", "pos": 1357346}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "On both.", "pos": 1357384}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, but one at a time. Madam, as you know, has her own room and I have mine.", "pos": 1357395}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Yes, but they are so near each other!", "pos": 1357481}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Granted, yet I must tell you that, as far as I am concerned, I should have much pleasure in waiting upon his excellency if he should ever wish to communicate with me, and you will oblige me by letting him know it. As for madam, she is here, speak to her, my dear M. Dubois, for I am only her very humble servant.", "pos": 1357521}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Sir, I beg you will offer my thanks to M. Dutillot, and enquire from him whether he knows me.", "pos": 1357902}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I am certain, madam, that he does not.", "pos": 1357997}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "You see he does not know me, and yet he wishes to call on me. You must agree with me that if I accepted his visits I should give him a singular opinion of my character. Be good enough to tell him that, although known to no one and knowing no one, I am not an adventuress, and therefore I must decline the honour of his visits.", "pos": 1358060}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I do not recollect having ever had the honour of seeing you before.", "pos": 1359715}
{"speaker": "M. d'Antoine", "text": "That is enough, madam, and I entreat you to forgive me.", "pos": 1359785}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "In that state of doubt, and wishing to clear it, he introduced himself, but now he must see that he was mistaken.", "pos": 1360218}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "No, dearest, I can assure you. I know his name which belongs to an illustrious family of Provence, but I have never seen him before.", "pos": 1360461}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps he may know you?", "pos": 1360596}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "He might have seen me, but I am certain that he never spoke to me, or I would have recollected him.", "pos": 1360623}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That meeting causes me great anxiety, and it seems to have troubled you.", "pos": 1360725}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I confess it has disturbed my mind.", "pos": 1360800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let us leave Parma at once and proceed to Genoa. We will go to Venice as soon as my affairs there are settled.", "pos": 1360838}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Yes, my dear friend, we shall then feel more comfortable. But I do not think we need be in any hurry.", "pos": 1360951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This letter, troubles me.", "pos": 1361205}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I think M. d’Antoine is a man of honour, and I hope that we may have nothing to fear.", "pos": 1361328}
{"speaker": "D'Antoine", "text": "Either at your hotel or at my residence, or at any other place you may wish to appoint, I entreat you, sir, to give me an opportunity of conversing with you on a subject which must be of the greatest importance to you. I have the honour to be, etc. D’ANTOINE.", "pos": 1361444}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think I must see him, but where?", "pos": 1361736}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Neither here nor at his residence, but in the ducal gardens. Your answer must name only the place and the hour of the meeting.", "pos": 1361783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dressed myself at once in order to be in good time, and meanwhile we both endeavoured, Henriette and I, to keep a cheerful countenance, but we could not silence our sad forebodings. I was exact to my appointment and found M. d’Antoine waiting for me. As soon as we were together, he said to me,", "pos": 1362082}
{"speaker": "M. d'Antoine", "text": "I have been compelled, sir, to beg from you the favour of an interview, because I could not imagine any surer way to get this letter to Madame d’Arci’s hands. I entreat you to deliver it to her, and to excuse me if I give it you sealed. Should I be mistaken, my letter will not even require an answer, but should I be right, Madame d’Arci alone can judge whether she ought to communicate it to you. That is my reason for giving it to you sealed. If you are truly her friend, the contents of that letter must be as interesting to you as to her. May I hope, sir, that you will be good enough to deliver it to her?", "pos": 1362380}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, on my honour I will do it.", "pos": 1362994}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "Dearest friend, do not be offended, but the honour of two families does not allow of my imparting to you the contents of this letter. I am compelled to receive M. d’Antoine, who represents himself as being one of my relatives. Dearest friend, do not be offended, but the honour of two families does not allow of my imparting to you the contents of this letter. I am compelled to receive M. d’Antoine, who represents himself as being one of my relatives.", "pos": 1363727}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! this is the beginning of the end! What a dreadful thought! I am near the end of a felicity which was too great to last! Wretch that I have been! Why did I tarry so long in Parma? What fatal blindness! Of all the cities in the whole world, except France, Parma was the only one I had to fear, and it is here that I have brought you, when I could have taken you anywhere else, for you had no will but mine! I am all the more guilty that you never concealed your fears from me. Why did I introduce that fatal Dubois here? Ought I not to have guessed that his curiosity would sooner or later prove injurious to us? And yet I cannot condemn that curiosity, for it is, alas! a natural feeling. I can only accuse all the perfections which Heaven has bestowed upon you!--perfections which have caused my happiness, and which will plunge me in an abyss of despair, for, alas! I foresee a future of fearful misery.", "pos": 1363956}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "I entreat you, dearest, to foresee nothing, and to calm yourself. Let us avail ourselves of all our reason in order to prove ourselves superior to circumstances, whatever they may be. I cannot answer this letter, but you must write to M. d’Antoine to call here tomorrow and to send up his name.", "pos": 1364882}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas! you compel me to perform a painful task.", "pos": 1365179}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "You are my best, my only friend; I demand nothing, I impose no task upon you, but can you refuse me?", "pos": 1365228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, never, no matter what you ask. Dispose of me, I am yours in life and death.", "pos": 1365331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I knew what you would answer. You must be with me when M. d’Antoine calls, but after a few minutes given to etiquette, will you find some pretext to go to your room, and leave us alone? M. d’Antoine knows all my history; he knows in what I have done wrong, in what I have been right; as a man of honour, as my relative, he must shelter me from all affront. He shall not do anything against my will, and if he attempts to deviate from the conditions I will dictate to him, I will refuse to go to France, I will follow you anywhere, and devote to you the remainder of my life. Yet, my darling, recollect that some fatal circumstances may compel us to consider our separation as the wisest course to adopt, that we must husband all our courage to adopt it, if necessary, and to endeavour not to be too unhappy.", "pos": 1365413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have confidence in me, and be quite certain that I shall take care to reserve for myself the small portion of happiness which I can be allowed to enjoy without the man who alone has won all my devoted love. You will have, I trust, and I expect it from your generous soul, the same care of your future, and I feel certain that you must succeed. In the mean time, let us drive away all the sad forebodings which might darken the hours we have yet before us.", "pos": 1366222}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! why did we not go away immediately after we had met that accursed favourite of the Infante!", "pos": 1366680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We might have made matters much worse; for in that case M. d’Antoine might have made up his mind to give my family a proof of his zeal by instituting a search to discover our place of residence, and I should then have been exposed to violent proceedings which you would not have endured. It would have been fatal to both of us.", "pos": 1366778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall we go away to-morrow, dearest?", "pos": 1368086}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! yes, I am ready. Where do you wish me to take you?", "pos": 1368125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Anywhere you like, but we must be here in a fortnight.", "pos": 1368182}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here! Oh, fatal illusion!", "pos": 1368239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas! it is so. I have promised to be here to receive the answer to a letter I have just written. We have no violent proceedings to fear, but I cannot bear to remain in Parma.", "pos": 1368267}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! I curse the hour which brought us to this city. Would you like to go to Milan?", "pos": 1368445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1368530}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As we are unfortunately compelled to come back, we may as well take with us Caudagna and his sister.", "pos": 1368537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As you please.", "pos": 1368640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let me arrange everything. I will order a carriage for them, and they will take charge of your violoncello. Do you not think that you ought to let M. d’Antoine know where we are going?", "pos": 1368657}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, it seems to me, on the contrary, that I need not account to him for any of my proceedings. So much the worse for him if he should, even for one moment, doubt my word.", "pos": 1368844}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Adieu!", "pos": 1374799}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "You will forget Henriette.", "pos": 1375188}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "It is I, dearest and best friend, who have been compelled to abandon you, but do not let your grief be increased by any thought of my sorrow. Let us be wise enough to suppose that we have had a happy dream, and not to complain of destiny, for never did so beautiful a dream last so long! Let us be proud of the consciousness that for three months we gave one another the most perfect felicity. Few human beings can boast of so much! Let us swear never to forget one another, and to often remember the happy hours of our love, in order to renew them in our souls, which, although divided, will enjoy them as acutely as if our hearts were beating one against the other. Do not make any enquiries about me, and if chance should let you know who I am, forget it for ever. I feel certain that you will be glad to hear that I have arranged my affairs so well that I shall, for the remainder of my life, be as happy as I can possibly be without you, dear friend, by my side. I do not know who you are, but I am certain that no one in the world knows you better than I do. I shall not have another lover as long as I live, but I do not wish you to imitate me. On the contrary I hope that you will love again, and I trust that a good fairy will bring along your path another Henriette. Farewell . . . farewell.", "pos": 1377732}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "There is a stranger here, who, being in want of a carriage, offers to buy yours", "pos": 1380508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not want to sell it.", "pos": 1380601}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "Excuse me if I have disturbed you, but you look ill.", "pos": 1380629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I wish to be left alone.", "pos": 1380684}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "What is the matter with you? What did you eat yesterday?", "pos": 1380716}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have eaten nothing, thank God! for two days.", "pos": 1380859}
{"speaker": "Paterno", "text": "Yet. I wish you would make the attempt, and tell me the result candidly.", "pos": 1383875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I offer only one ducat,", "pos": 1384370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to those who are not respectable.", "pos": 1384404}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "It is not known whether God created the world during the vernal equinox or during the autumnal one.", "pos": 1389105}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Creation being granted,", "pos": 1389207}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "such a question is childish, for the seasons are relative, and differ in the different quarters of the globe.", "pos": 1389269}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "After I had been educated in a good school, and had devoted myself with some success to the arts and sciences, I was for twenty years employed at the University of Paris. Afterwards I served as an engineer in the army, and since that time I have published several works anonymously, which are now in use in every boys’ school. Having given up the military service, and being poor, I undertook and completed the education of several young men, some of whom shine now in the world even more by their excellent conduct than by their talents. My last pupil was the Marquis Botta. Now being without employment I live, as you see, trusting in God’s providence. Four years ago, I made the acquaintance of Baron Bavois, from Lausanne, son of General Bavois who commanded a regiment in the service of the Duke of Modena, and afterwards was unfortunate enough to make himself too conspicuous. The young baron, a Calvinist like his father, did not like the idle life he was leading at home, and he solicited me to undertake his education in order to fit him for a military career. Delighted at the opportunity of cultivating his fine natural disposition, I gave up everything to devote myself entirely to my task. I soon discovered that, in the question of faith, he knew himself to be in error, and that he remained a Calvinist only out of respect to his family. When I had found out his secret feelings on that head, I had no difficulty in proving to him that his most important interests were involved in that question, as his eternal salvation was at stake. Struck by the truth of my words, he abandoned himself to my affection, and I took him to Rome, where I presented him to the Pope, Benedict XIV., who, immediately after the abjuration of my pupil got him a lieutenancy in the army of the Duke of Modena. But the dear proselyte, who is only twenty-five years of age, cannot live upon his pay of seven sequins a month, and since his abjuration he has received nothing from his parents, who are highly incensed at what they call his apostacy. He would find himself compelled to go back to Lausanne, if I did not assist him. But, alas! I am poor, and without employment, so I can only send him the trifling sums which I can obtain from the few good Christians with whom I am acquainted.", "pos": 1389726}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "My pupil, whose heart is full of gratitude, would be very glad to know his benefactors, but they refuse to acquaint him with their names, and they are right, because charity, in order to be meritorious, must not partake of any feeling of vanity. Thank God, I have no cause for such a feeling! I am but too happy to act as a father towards a young saint, and to have had a share, as the humble instrument of the Almighty, in the salvation of his soul. That handsome and good young man trusts no one but me, and writes to me regularly twice a week. I am too discreet to communicate his letters to you, but, if you were to read them, they would make you weep for sympathy. It is to him that I have sent the three gold pieces which you gave me yesterday.", "pos": 1392019}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "by following the precepts of the Gospel so well, I should certainly win the kingdom of heaven.", "pos": 1393386}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "It is God’s will, that you employ all your influence in Venice to find an honourable position for M. de la Haye, and to promote the interests of young M. Bavois in his profession.", "pos": 1394405}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "De la Haye could take up his quarters with us in his palace, and that Bavois was to write to his protector, the Pope, entreating His Holiness to recommend him to the ambassador of Venice, who would then forward that recommendation to the Senate, and that Bavois could, in that way, feel sure of good employment.", "pos": 1394712}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By George, sir!", "pos": 1396339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "know you! Why, did we not fight side by side at the battle of Arbela?", "pos": 1396371}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "Well, gentlemen, I do not see anything so very laughable in that. I was at that battle, and therefore this gentleman might very well have remarked me; in fact, I think I can recollect him. M. d’Arbela, I have something of importance to tell you; make haste and follow me. If you are afraid, you may take anyone you please with you. I am good for half a dozen men.", "pos": 1396544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No one,", "pos": 1397402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "has the right to come and disturb me in my room; be off this minute, or I blow your brains out.", "pos": 1397435}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "that I had insulted him in public, and that he would take care that the reparation I owed him should be as public as the insult.", "pos": 1397809}
{"speaker": "M. de Bertolan", "text": "Sir, as you have made a laughing-stock of this officer in a public place, it is but right that you should give him publicly the satisfaction which he claims, and as commander of this city I find myself bound in duty to ask you for that satisfaction in order to settle the affair amicably.", "pos": 1398698}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Commander,", "pos": 1398989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not see why a satisfaction should be offered to this gentleman, for it is not true that I have insulted him by turning him into ridicule. I told him that I had seen him at the battle of Arbela, and I could not have any doubt about it when he said that he had been present at that battle, and that he knew me again.", "pos": 1399014}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "Yes, but I heard Rodela and not Arbela, and everybody knows that I fought at Rodela. But you said Arbela, and certainly with the intention of laughing at me, since that battle has been fought more than two thousand years ago, while the battle of Rodela in Africa took place in our time, and I was there under the orders of the Duke de Mortemar.", "pos": 1399336}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the first place, sir, you have no right to judge of my intentions, but I do not dispute your having been present at Rodela, since you say so; but in that case the tables are turned, and now I demand a reparation from you if you dare discredit my having been at Arbela. I certainly did not serve under the Duke de Mortemar, because he was not there, at least to my knowledge, but I was aid-de-camp of Parmenion, and I was wounded under his eyes. If you were to ask me to shew you the scar, I could not satisfy you, for you must understand that the body I had at that time does not exist any longer, and in my present bodily envelope I am only twenty-three years old.", "pos": 1399710}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "All this seems to me sheer madness, but, at all events, I have witnesses to prove that you have been laughing at me, for you stated that you had seen me at that battle, and, by the powers! it is not possible, because I was not there. At all events, I demand satisfaction.", "pos": 1400381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So do I, and we have equal rights, if mine are not even better than yours, for your witnesses are likewise mine, and these gentlemen will assert that you said that you had seen me at Rodela, and, by the powers! it is not possible, for I was not there.", "pos": 1400655}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "Well, I may have made a mistake.", "pos": 1400909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So may I, and therefore we have no longer any claim against one another.", "pos": 1400944}
{"speaker": "Commander", "text": "My dear sir, I do not see that you have the slightest right to demand satisfaction, since this gentleman confesses, like you, that he might have been mistaken.", "pos": 1401094}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "But, is it credible that he was at the battle of Arbela?", "pos": 1401256}
{"speaker": "Commander", "text": "This gentleman leaves you free to believe or not to believe, and he is at liberty to assert that he was there until you can prove the contrary. Do you wish to deny it to make him draw his sword?", "pos": 1401339}
{"speaker": "Provencal", "text": "God forbid! I would rather consider the affair ended.", "pos": 1401536}
{"speaker": "Commander", "text": "Well, gentlemen. I have but one more duty to perform, and it is to advise you to embrace one another like two honest men.", "pos": 1401592}
{"speaker": "Bavois", "text": "I trust, that we shall enjoy ourselves in an agreeable way, for I have no doubt that our inclinations are the same.", "pos": 1408001}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "unless we hurried, we would not have time to hear mass,", "pos": 1409912}
{"speaker": "Bavois", "text": "whether it was a festival.", "pos": 1409994}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "negatively,", "pos": 1410070}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How have you contrived, such as you are, to deceive De la Haye?", "pos": 1411007}
{"speaker": "Bavois", "text": "God forbid I should deceive anyone. De la Haye is perfectly well aware of my system, and of my way of thinking on religious matters, but, being himself very devout, he entertains a holy sympathy for my soul, and I do not object to it. He has bestowed many kindnesses upon me, and I feel grateful to him; my affection for him is all the greater because he never teases me with his dogmatic lessons or with sermons respecting my salvation, of which I have no doubt that God, in His fatherly goodness, will take care. All this is settled between De la Haye and me, and we live on the best of terms.", "pos": 1411098}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "God knows where!", "pos": 1414146}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I come, as a true worshipper of the Gospel, to tell you in private something that, another time, I would say in public.", "pos": 1414465}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "What is it, my dear friend?", "pos": 1414587}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I advise you for the future not to hurl at me the slightest taunt respecting the life I am leading with Bavois, when we are in the presence of my three worthy friends. I do not object to listen to you when we are alone.", "pos": 1414617}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "You are wrong in taking my innocent jests seriously.", "pos": 1414839}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wrong or right, that does not matter. Why do you never attack your proselyte? Be careful for the future, or I might on my side, and only in jest like you, throw at your head some repartee which you have every reason to fear, and thus repay you with interest.", "pos": 1414894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An abbé jealous?", "pos": 1417677}
{"speaker": "The good lady", "text": "Why not? He never allows her to go out except on Sundays to attend the first mass at the Church of Santa Maria Mater Domini, close by his dwelling. He did not object to her coming here, because he knew that we never had any visitors, and very likely he has heard through the servant of your being here every evening.", "pos": 1417696}
{"speaker": "Jeanne Marchetti", "text": "That abbé, is a distant relative. He used to live alone in his house in Venice, and two years ago he told me that he was in want of a housekeeper. He asked me to let my daughter go to him in that capacity, assuring me that in Venice she would have good opportunities of getting married. He offered to give me a deed in writing stating that, on the day of her marriage, he would give her all his furniture valued at about one thousand ducats, and the inheritance of a small estate, bringing one hundred ducats a year, which he possesses here. It seemed to me a good bargain, and, my daughter being pleased with the offer, I accepted. He gave me the deed duly drawn by a notary, and my daughter went with him. I know that he makes a regular slave of her, but she chose to go. Nevertheless, I need not tell you that my most ardent wish is to see her married, for, as long as a girl is without a husband, she is too much exposed to temptation, and the poor mother cannot rest in peace.", "pos": 1419389}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then come to Venice with me. You will take your daughter out of the abbé’s house, and I will make her my wife. Unless that is done I cannot marry her, for I should dishonour myself if I received my wife from his hands.", "pos": 1420385}
{"speaker": "Jeanne Marchetti", "text": "Oh, no! for he is my cousin, although only in the fourth degree, and, what is more, he is a priest and says the mass every day.", "pos": 1420606}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make me laugh, my good woman. Everybody knows that a priest says the mass without depriving himself of certain trifling enjoyments. Take your daughter with you, or give up all hope of ever seeing her married.", "pos": 1420736}
{"speaker": "Jeanne Marchetti", "text": "But if I take her with me, he will not give her his furniture, and perhaps he will sell his small estate here.", "pos": 1420951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I undertake to look to that part of the business. I promise to take her out of his hands, and to make her come back to you with all the furniture, and to obtain the estate when she is my wife. If you knew me better, you would not doubt what I say. Come to Venice, and I assure you that you shall return here in four or five days with your daughter. In Venice you shall not want for anything, in the mean time, here are ten sequins.", "pos": 1421064}
{"speaker": "Jeanne Marchetti", "text": "Ten sequins! Then I can go with my sister-in-law?", "pos": 1421726}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come with anyone you like, but let us go soon so as to reach Chiozza, where we must sleep. To-morrow we shall dine in Venice, and I undertake to defray all expenses.", "pos": 1421778}
{"speaker": "The daughter", "text": "I was told, that my mother was waiting for me in the gondola, but I did not expect to find you, and I never suspected that you were at the bottom of the whole affair.", "pos": 1424171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is the first proof I give you of my love.", "pos": 1424353}
{"speaker": "M. Barbaro", "text": "Then people say that I am married? It is said everywhere and by everybody. The members of the Council themselves believe it, and they have good reason to believe that they are right.", "pos": 1425938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To be right in believing such a thing, they ought to be certain of it, and those gentlemen have no such certainty. As they are not infallible any more than any one, except God, I tell you that they are mistaken. I like to perform good actions and to get pleasure for my money, but not at the expense of my liberty: Whenever you want to know my affairs, recollect that you can receive information about them only from me, and public rumour is only good to amuse fools.", "pos": 1426124}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "But, you spent the night with the person who is represented as your wife?", "pos": 1426594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite true, but I have no account to give to anyone respecting what I have done last night. Are you not of my opinion, M. de la Haye?", "pos": 1426689}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "I wish you would not ask my opinion, for I do not know. But I must say that public rumour ought not to be despised. The deep affection I have for you causes me to grieve for what the public voice says about you.", "pos": 1426825}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "How is it that those reports do not grieve M. de Bragadin, who has certainly greater affection for me than you have?", "pos": 1427039}
{"speaker": "M. de la Haye", "text": "I respect you, but I have learned at my own expense that slander is to be feared. It is said that, in order to get hold of a young girl who was residing with her uncle--a worthy priest, you suborned a woman who declared herself to be the girl’s mother, and thus deceived the Supreme Council, through the authority of which she obtained possession of the girl for you. The bailiff sent by the Council swears that you were in the gondola with the false mother when the young girl joined her. It is said that the deed, in virtue of which you caused the worthy ecclesiastic’s furniture to be carried off, is false, and you are blamed for having made the highest body of the State a stepping-stone to crime. In fine, it is said that, even if you have married the girl, and no doubt of it is entertained, the members of the Council will not be silent as to the fraudulent means you have had recourse to in order to carry out your intentions successfully.", "pos": 1427158}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a very long speech,", "pos": 1428109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.", "pos": 1428162}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Ignacio was dressed in private clothes, and therefore he did not come as the official messenger of the dread tribunal. M. Cantarini wishes to speak to you only as a private citizen, as he sends you word to call at his palace and not at the court-house. He is an elderly man, strict but just, to whom you must speak frankly and without equivocating, otherwise you would make matters worse.", "pos": 1430125}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "I must know them, monsignor, as one of them will become my wife when she has convinced me by her good conduct that she is worthy of that honour.", "pos": 1431078}
{"speaker": "His excellency", "text": "Her conduct is good, she lives with her mother at Lusia; you have deceived her. Why do you postpone your marriage with her? Why do you not visit her? You never answer her letters, and you let her be in want.", "pos": 1431225}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "I cannot marry her, your excellency, before I have enough to support her. That will come in three or four years, thanks to a situation which M. de Bragadin, my only protector, promises to obtain for me. Until then she must live honestly, and support herself by working. I will only marry her when I am convinced of her honesty, and particularly when I am certain that she has given up all intercourse with the abbé, her cousin in the fourth degree. I do not visit her because my confessor and my conscience forbid me to go to her house.", "pos": 1431435}
{"speaker": "His excellency", "text": "She wishes you to give her a legal promise of marriage, and sustentation.", "pos": 1431974}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Monsignor, I am under no obligation to give her a promise of marriage, and having no means whatever I cannot support her. She must earn her own living with her mother", "pos": 1432050}
{"speaker": "her mother", "text": "When she lived with her cousin, she never wanted anything, and she shall go back to him.", "pos": 1432219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If she returns to his house I shall not take the trouble of taking her out of his hands a second time, and your excellency will then see that I was right to defer my marriage with her until I was convinced of her honesty.", "pos": 1432329}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, here he is!", "pos": 1437072}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quick, quick, a seat for him near me; take his luggage to his room.", "pos": 1437237}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "Well, I told you he would arrive to-day? My dear cousin, you must be hungry; Here is my intended husband whom I beg to introduce to you, as well as my father and mother-in-law. The other guests round the table are friends of the family. But, my dear cousin, tell me why my mother has not come with you?", "pos": 1437349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your mother, my dear cousin, will be here in three or four days, at the latest.", "pos": 1437884}
{"speaker": "future mother-in-law", "text": "What is the matter with your hand, sir?", "pos": 1439954}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing serious, madam; only a slight sprain which a little rest will soon cure.", "pos": 1439996}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "I am glad to find it a laughing matter, cousin. I laugh, because it reminds me of a sprained ankle which I once feigned to have in order not to dance.", "pos": 1440275}
{"speaker": "mother-in-law", "text": "most likely my cousin wanted to talk with me on family matters, and that we ought to be left alone.", "pos": 1440514}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "Although I only know you by name. I have entire confidence in you, but you will do well to go away to-morrow. I have been here for two months without any money. I have nothing but a few dresses and some linen, which I should have been compelled to sell to defray my expenses if I had not been lucky enough to inspire the son of the landlord with the deepest love. I have flattered his passion by promising to become his wife, and to bring him as a marriage portion twenty thousand crowns’ worth of diamonds which I am supposed to have in Venice, and which my mother is expected to bring with her. But my mother has nothing and knows nothing of the affair, therefore she is not likely to leave Venice.", "pos": 1440804}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, tell me, lovely madcap, what will be the end of this extravaganza? I am afraid it will take a tragic turn at the last.", "pos": 1441525}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "You are mistaken; it will remain a comedy, and a very amusing one, too. I am expecting every hour the arrival of Count Holstein, brother of the Elector of Mainz. He has written to me from Frankfort; he has left that city, and must by this time have reached Venice. He will take me to the Fair of Reggio, and if my intended takes it into his head to be angry, the count will thrash him and pay my bill, but I am determined that he shall be neither thrashed nor paid. As I go away, I have only to whisper in his ear that I will certainly return, and it will be all right. I know my promise to become his wife as soon as I come back will make him happy.", "pos": 1441651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s all very well! You are as witty as a cousin of Satan, but I shall not wait your return to marry you; our wedding must take place at once.", "pos": 1442304}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "What folly! Well, wait until this evening.", "pos": 1442451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not a bit of it, for I can almost fancy I hear the count’s carriage. If he should not arrive, we can continue the sport during the night.", "pos": 1442496}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "Do you love me?", "pos": 1442636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To distraction! but what does it matter? However, your excellent comedy renders you worthy of adoration. Now, suppose we do not waste our time.", "pos": 1442654}
{"speaker": "Catinella", "text": "You are right: it is an episode, and all the more agreeable for being impromptu.", "pos": 1442800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has the prince paid her expenses?", "pos": 1445116}
{"speaker": "Lover", "text": "Not at all. We would not have allowed him to do it, even if he had offered. My future wife would have felt offended, for you can have no idea of the delicacy of her feelings.", "pos": 1445152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What does your father say of her departure?", "pos": 1445329}
{"speaker": "Lover", "text": "My father always sees the worst side of everything; he says that she will never come back, and my mother shares his opinion rather than mine. But you, signor maestro, what do you think?", "pos": 1445375}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That if she has promised to return, she will be sure to keep her word.", "pos": 1445563}
{"speaker": "Lover", "text": "Of course; for if she did not mean to come back, she would not have given me her promise.", "pos": 1445636}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Precisely; I call that a good argument.", "pos": 1445728}
{"speaker": "Priestess", "text": "I am a priestess to bless and not to curse!", "pos": 1459973}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is a scoundrel. We knew that before!", "pos": 1460360}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Gentlemen, you are all wrong, for my stomach is excellent, and I have not had any supper.", "pos": 1462444}
{"speaker": "Elderly man", "text": "Is it not the same thing? I beg your pardon, sir, one way of speaking is polite, the other is not. I suppose you are an Italian?", "pos": 1462894}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I am, but would you oblige me by telling me how you have found it out?", "pos": 1463125}
{"speaker": "Elderly man", "text": "Oh! I guessed it from the attention with which you have listened to my long prattle. What is it? You must abandon, and, if I may say so, forget, the particle ‘non’, which you use frequently at random. ‘Non’ is not a French word; instead of that unpleasant monosyllable, say, ‘Pardon’. ‘Non’ is equal to giving the lie: never say it, or prepare yourself to give and to receive sword-stabs every moment.", "pos": 1463203}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thank you, monsieur, your present is very precious, and I promise you never to say non again. Your pardon, sir.", "pos": 1463953}
{"speaker": "Young fop", "text": "Sir, pardon me yourself.", "pos": 1464416}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, yourself.", "pos": 1464443}
{"speaker": "Young fop", "text": "Yourself!", "pos": 1464459}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, sir, let us pardon and embrace one another!", "pos": 1464471}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Ah, sir! look at that mansion!", "pos": 1464679}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see it; what of it?", "pos": 1464712}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Ah! I pray you, do you not find it....", "pos": 1464736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I find nothing particular; and you?", "pos": 1464777}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Nothing wonderful, if it were not situated at a distance of forty leagues from Paris. But here! Ah! would my ‘badauds’ of Parisians believe that such a beautiful mansion can be found forty leagues distant from the metropolis? How ignorant a man is when he has never travelled!", "pos": 1464815}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are quite right.", "pos": 1465094}
{"speaker": "Silvia", "text": "I hope, sir, that my son’s friend will accept a share of our family supper this evening.", "pos": 1466883}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, I came here to learn and not to unlearn. You will kindly allow me to tell you that the pronunciation of that word ‘scevra’ with a v, and not ‘sceura’ with a u, because it is a contraction of ‘sceverra’.", "pos": 1469958}
{"speaker": "Flaminia", "text": "It remains to be seen which of us is wrong.", "pos": 1470170}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You, madam, according to Ariosto, who makes ‘scevra’ rhyme with ‘persevra’, and the rhyme would be false with ‘sceura’, which is not an Italian word.", "pos": 1470216}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My small stature, your honour, will be a guarantee that I shall never borrow your clothes to go to some amorous rendezvous. Your name?", "pos": 1476016}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "Any name you please.", "pos": 1476155}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you mean? I want the name by which you are known.", "pos": 1476178}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "I have none. Every master I serve calls me according to his fancy, and I have served more than fifty in my life. You may call me what you like.", "pos": 1476238}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you must have a family name.", "pos": 1476384}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "I never had any family. I had a name, I believe, in my young days, but I have forgotten it since I have been in service. My name has changed with every new master.", "pos": 1476419}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well! I shall call you Esprit.", "pos": 1476585}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "You do me a great honour.", "pos": 1476618}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, go and get me change for a Louis.", "pos": 1476646}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "I have it, sir.", "pos": 1476688}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see you are rich.", "pos": 1476706}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "At your service, sir.", "pos": 1476728}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where can I enquire about you?", "pos": 1476752}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "At the agency for servants. Madame Quinson, besides, can answer your enquiries. Everybody in Paris knows me.", "pos": 1476785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is enough. I shall give you thirty sous a day; you must find your own clothes: you will sleep where you like, and you must be here at seven o’clock every morning.", "pos": 1476896}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "Excellent, I made it myself yesterday.", "pos": 1478089}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yesterday! I do not want it.", "pos": 1478130}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "The milk is very good.", "pos": 1478161}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Milk! I never drink any. Make me a cup of fresh coffee without milk.", "pos": 1478186}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "Without milk! Well, sir, we never make coffee but in the afternoon. Would you like a good bavaroise, or a decanter of orgeat?", "pos": 1478257}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, give me the orgeat.", "pos": 1478385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I find that beverage delicious, and make up my mind to have it daily for my breakfast. I enquire from the waiter whether there is any news; he answers that the dauphine has been delivered of a prince. An abbé, seated at a table close by, says to him,--", "pos": 1478411}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are mad, she has given birth to a princess.", "pos": 1478664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have just returned from Versailles, and the dauphine has not been delivered either of a prince or of a princess.", "pos": 1478756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "These persons are watching the meridian; everyone holds his watch in his hand in order to regulate it exactly at noon.", "pos": 1480102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is there not a meridian everywhere?", "pos": 1480223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but the meridian of the Palais-Royal is the most exact.", "pos": 1480261}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you laugh?", "pos": 1480342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because it is impossible for all meridians not to be the same. That is true ‘badauderie’.", "pos": 1480362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the matter here?", "pos": 1480749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, indeed, you are going to laugh. All these honest persons are waiting their turn to get their snuff-boxes filled.", "pos": 1480776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is there no other dealer in snuff?", "pos": 1480896}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is sold everywhere, but for the last three weeks nobody will use any snuff but that sold at the ‘Civet Cat.’", "pos": 1480933}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is it better than anywhere else?", "pos": 1481047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps it is not as good, but since it has been brought into fashion by the Duchesse de Chartres, nobody will have any other.", "pos": 1481082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how did she manage to render it so fashionable?", "pos": 1481211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Simply by stopping her carriage two or three times before the shop to have her snuff-box filled, and by saying aloud to the young girl who handed back the box that her snuff was the very best in Paris. The ‘badauds’, who never fail to congregate near the carriage of princes, no matter if they have seen them a hundred times, or if they know them to be as ugly as monkeys, repeated the words of the duchess everywhere, and that was enough to send here all the snuff-takers of the capital in a hurry. This woman will make a fortune, for she sells at least one hundred crowns’ worth of snuff every day.", "pos": 1481265}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very likely the duchess has no idea of the good she has done.", "pos": 1481868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite the reverse, for it was a cunning artifice on her part. The duchess, feeling interested in the newly-married young woman, and wishing to serve her in a delicate manner, thought of that expedient which has met with complete success. You cannot imagine how kind Parisians are. You are now in the only country in the world where wit can make a fortune by selling either a genuine or a false article: in the first case, it receives the welcome of intelligent and talented people, and in the second, fools are always ready to reward it, for silliness is truly a characteristic of the people here, and, however wonderful it may appear, silliness is the daughter of wit. Therefore it is not a paradox to say that the French would be wiser if they were less witty.", "pos": 1481932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The gods worshipped here although no altars are raised for them--are Novelty and Fashion. Let a man run, and everybody will run after him. The crowd will not stop, unless the man is proved to be mad; but to prove it is indeed a difficult task, because we have a crowd of men who, mad from their birth, are still considered wise.", "pos": 1482696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The snuff of the ‘Civet Cat’ is but one example of the facility with which the crowd can be attracted to one particular spot. The king was one day hunting, and found himself at the Neuilly Bridge; being thirsty, he wanted a glass of ratafia. He stopped at the door of a drinking-booth, and by the most lucky chance the poor keeper of the place happened to have a bottle of that liquor. The king, after he had drunk a small glass, fancied a second one, and said that he had never tasted such delicious ratafia in his life. That was enough to give the ratafia of the good man of Neuilly the reputation of being the best in Europe: the king had said so. The consequence was that the most brilliant society frequented the tavern of the delighted publican, who is now a very wealthy man, and has built on the very spot a splendid house on which can be read the following rather comic motto: ‘Ex liquidis solidum,’ which certainly came out of the head of one of the forty immortals. Which gods must the worthy tavern-keeper worship? Silliness, frivolity, and mirth.", "pos": 1483026}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It seems to me, that such approval, such ratification of the opinion expressed by the king, the princes of the blood, etc., is rather a proof of the affection felt for them by the nation, for the French carry that affection to such an extent that they believe them infallible.", "pos": 1484088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is certain that everything here causes foreigners to believe that the French people adore the king, but all thinking men here know well enough that there is more show than reality in that adoration, and the court has no confidence in it. When the king comes to Paris, everybody calls out, ‘Vive le Roi!’ because some idle fellow begins, or because some policeman has given the signal from the midst of the crowd, but it is really a cry which has no importance, a cry given out of cheerfulness, sometimes out of fear, and which the king himself does not accept as gospel. He does not feel comfortable in Paris, and he prefers being in Versailles, surrounded by twenty-five thousand men who protect him against the fury of that same people of Paris, who, if ever they became wiser, might very well one day call out, ‘Death to the King!’ instead of, ‘Long life to the King!’ Louis XIV. was well aware of it, and several councillors of the upper chamber lost their lives for having advised the assembling of the states-general in order to find some remedy for the misfortunes of the country. France never had any love for any kings, with the exception of St. Louis, of Louis XII, and of the great and good Henry IV.; and even in the last case the love of the nation was not sufficient to defend the king against the dagger of the Jesuits, an accursed race, the enemy of nations as well as of kings. The present king, who is weak and entirely led by his ministers, said candidly at the time he was just recovering from illness, ‘I am surprised at the rejoicings of the people in consequence of my health being restored, for I cannot imagine why they should love me so dearly.’ Many kings might repeat the same words, at least if love is to be measured according to the amount of good actually done. That candid remark of Louis XV. has been highly praised, but some philosopher of the court ought to have informed him that he was so much loved because he had been surnamed ‘le bien aime’.", "pos": 1484380}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Surname or nickname; but are there any philosophers at the court of France?", "pos": 1486368}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for philosophers and courtiers are as widely different as light and darkness; but there are some men of intelligence who champ the bit from motives of ambition and interest.", "pos": 1486446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, sir! am I fortunate enough to see you? For eight years you have charmed me, for eight years I have longed to know you. Listen, I beg of you.", "pos": 1487007}
{"speaker": "Crebillon", "text": "For the first day, sir, I think that what you have done gives great hopes of you, and without any doubt you will make rapid progress. You tell your story well, and you speak French in such a way as to be perfectly understood; yet all you say is only Italian dressed in French. That is a novelty which causes you to be listened to with interest, and which captivates the attention of your audience; I must even add that your Franco-Italian language is just the thing to enlist in your favour the sympathy of those who listen to you, because it is singular, new, and because you are in a country where everybody worships those two divinities--novelty and singularity. Nevertheless, you must begin to-morrow and apply yourself in good earnest, in order to acquire a thorough knowledge of our language, for the same persons who warmly applaud you now, will, in two or three months, laugh at you.", "pos": 1488010}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe it, sir, and that is what I fear; therefore the principal object of my visit here is to devote myself entirely to the study of the French language. But, sir, how shall I find a teacher? I am a very unpleasant pupil, always asking questions, curious, troublesome, insatiable, and even supposing that I could meet with the teacher I require, I am afraid I am not rich enough to pay him.", "pos": 1488904}
{"speaker": "Crebillon", "text": "For fifty years, sir, I have been looking out for a pupil such as you have just described yourself, and I would willingly pay you myself if you would come to my house and receive my lessons. I reside in the Marais, Rue de Douze Portes. I have the best Italian poets. I will make you translate them into French, and you need not be afraid of my finding you insatiable.", "pos": 1489301}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Come again next week; we have had no time to examine your manuscript.", "pos": 1491035}
{"speaker": "Crebillon", "text": "These eight verses are good and regular, the thought is fine and truly poetical, the style is perfect, and yet the stanza is bad.", "pos": 1491776}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1491908}
{"speaker": "Crebillon", "text": "I do not know. I cannot tell you what is wanting. Imagine that you see a man handsome, well made, amiable, witty-in fact, perfect, according to your most severe judgment. A woman comes in, sees him, looks at him, and goes away telling you that the man does not please her. ‘But what fault do you find in him, madam?’ ‘None, only he does not please me.’ You look again at the man, you examine him a second time, and you find that, in order to give him a heavenly voice, he has been deprived of that which constitutes a man, and you are compelled to acknowledge that a spontaneous feeling has stood the woman in good stead.", "pos": 1491918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is that fat sow?", "pos": 1494983}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is the wife of this fat pig.", "pos": 1495006}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! I beg your pardon a thousand times!", "pos": 1495041}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "Sir! Sir!", "pos": 1495823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not go away without being guilty of impoliteness, and I went up to their box. Then, with a serious countenance and with great affability, he begged my pardon for having laughed so much, and very graciously invited me to come to his house and sup with them that same evening. I thanked him politely, saying that I had a previous engagement. But he renewed his entreaties, and his wife pressing me in the most engaging manner I told them, in order to prove that I was not trying to elude their invitation, that I was expected to sup at Silvia’s house.", "pos": 1495834}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "In that case I am certain, of obtaining your release if you do not object. Allow me to go myself to Silvia.", "pos": 1496393}
{"speaker": "Madame du Boccage", "text": "It is singular, that we cannot have a ‘De profundis’ for a man who makes us sing the ‘Te Deum’ so often.", "pos": 1498060}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Le Fel", "text": "I adore them,", "pos": 1498457}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They deserve adoration for their beauty, although they have all a different cast of countenance.", "pos": 1498489}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Le Fel", "text": "No wonder! The eldest is the son of the Duke d’Anneci, the second of Count d’Egmont, and the youngest is the offspring of Maison-Rouge, who has just married the Romainville.", "pos": 1498602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! pray excuse me, I thought you were the mother of the three.", "pos": 1498778}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Le Fel", "text": "You were not mistaken, I am their mother.", "pos": 1498844}
{"speaker": "one of her companions", "text": "Very likely you did not sleep well last night.", "pos": 1500314}
{"speaker": "Agnes", "text": "Oh! it is not that. I think I am in the family-way.", "pos": 1500363}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should never have supposed that you were married, madam.", "pos": 1500542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They express the same ideas as the panegyric of the Marechal de Saxe, but I confess that your prose pleases me a great deal more.", "pos": 1502091}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "My prose would not have pleased you so much, if it had not been at first composed in blank verse.", "pos": 1502223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you take very great trouble for nothing.", "pos": 1502323}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "No trouble at all, for I have not the slightest difficulty in writing that sort of poetry. I write it as easily as prose.", "pos": 1502371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think that your prose is better when you compose it from your own poetry?", "pos": 1502495}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "No doubt of it, it is much better, and I also secure the advantage that my prose is not full of half verses which flow from the pen of the writer without his being aware of it.", "pos": 1502578}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is that a fault?", "pos": 1502757}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "A great one and not to be forgiven. Prose intermixed with occasional verses is worse than prosaic poetry.", "pos": 1502776}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is it true that the verses which, like parasites, steal into a funeral oration, must be sadly out of place?", "pos": 1502884}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "Certainly. Take the example of Tacitus, who begins his history of Rome by these words: ‘Urbem Romam a principio reges habuere’. They form a very poor Latin hexameter, which the great historian certainly never made on purpose, and which he never remarked when he revised his work, for there is no doubt that, if he had observed it, he would have altered that sentence. Are not such verses considered a blemish in Italian prose?", "pos": 1502994}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Decidedly. But I must say that a great many poor writers have purposely inserted such verses into their prose, believing that they would make it more euphonious. Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature. But I suppose you are the only writer who takes so much pains.", "pos": 1503423}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "The only one? Certainly not. All the authors who can compose blank verses very easily, as I can, employ them when they intend to make a fair copy of their prose. Ask Crebillon, the Abby de Voisenon, La Harpe, anyone you like, and they will all tell you the same thing. Voltaire was the first to have recourse to that art in the small pieces in which his prose is truly charming. For instance, the epistle to Madame du Chatelet, which is magnificent. Read it, and if you find a single hemistich in it I will confess myself in the wrong.", "pos": 1503728}
{"speaker": "Crebillon", "text": "Fatu was right, but he added that he had never practised that art himself.", "pos": 1504353}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "It is the inimitable Dupres.", "pos": 1506543}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "We applaud the grace of Dupres and, the divine harmony of his movements. He is now sixty years of age, and those who saw him forty years ago say that he is always the same.", "pos": 1507118}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Has he never danced in a different style?", "pos": 1507293}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "He could not have danced in a better one, for his style is perfect, and what can you want above perfection?", "pos": 1507343}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing, unless it be a relative perfection.", "pos": 1507453}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "But here it is absolute. Dupres always does the same thing, and everyday we fancy we see it for the first time. Such is the power of the good and beautiful, of the true and sublime, which speak to the soul. His dance is true harmony, the real dance, of which you have no idea in Italy.", "pos": 1507500}
{"speaker": "everyone round me", "text": "Look! look! he is developing himself!", "pos": 1508120}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "This is, the famous Camargo. I congratulate you, my friend, upon having arrived in Paris in time to see her, for she has accomplished her twelfth lustre. She is the first artist, who has dared to spring and jump on a French stage. None ventured upon doing it before her, and, what is more extraordinary, she does not wear any drawers.", "pos": 1508498}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg your pardon, but I saw....", "pos": 1508918}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "What? Nothing but her skin which, to speak the truth, is not made of lilies and roses.", "pos": 1508953}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Camargo, does not please me. I like Dupres much better. But if you never saw her thighs, how do you know that she does not wear silk tights?", "pos": 1509042}
{"speaker": "elderly admirer of Camargo", "text": "Oh! that is one of those things which can easily be ascertained. I see you are a foreigner, sir.", "pos": 1509458}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right.", "pos": 1509557}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How pretty she is!", "pos": 1511840}
{"speaker": "Le Vasseur", "text": "Yes, charming. She is the daughter of the actor who plays the confidant. She is very pleasant in company, and is an actress of good promise.", "pos": 1511869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be very happy to make her acquaintance.", "pos": 1512035}
{"speaker": "Le Vasseur", "text": "Oh! well; that is not difficult. Her father and mother are very worthy people, and they will be delighted if you ask them to invite you to supper. They will not disturb you; they will go to bed early, and will let you talk with their daughter as long as you please. You are in France, sir; here we know the value of life, and try to make the best of it. We love pleasure, and esteem ourselves fortunate when we can find the opportunity of enjoying life.", "pos": 1512086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is truly charming, madam; but how could I be so bold as to invite myself to supper with worthy persons whom I do not know, and who have not the slightest knowledge of me?", "pos": 1512542}
{"speaker": "Le Vasseur", "text": "Oh, dear me! What are you saying? We know everybody. You see how I treat you myself. After the performance, I shall be happy to introduce you, and the acquaintance will be made at once.", "pos": 1512720}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I certainly must ask you to do me that honour, but another time.", "pos": 1512908}
{"speaker": "Le Vasseur", "text": "Whenever you like.", "pos": 1512975}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are M. Carlin’s children.", "pos": 1513722}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "That may be, sir, but you take care of them, and as they go by your name, of course they will acknowledge you as their father.", "pos": 1513755}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I should be so legally; but M. Carlin is too honest a man not to assume the care of his children whenever I may wish to get rid of them. He is well aware that they belong to him, and my wife would be the first to complain if he ever denied it.", "pos": 1513884}
{"speaker": "Prince of Monaco", "text": "Ah! I am very glad to see you, for I have promised the Duchess of Rufe to present you to her, and we can go to her immediately.", "pos": 1516183}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Rufe", "text": "Ah! this is a good-looking man! Prince, it is very amiable on your part to bring him to me. Come and sit near me, my fine fellow!", "pos": 1516916}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Rufe", "text": "Let me see, my fine cock, if you have a fine . . . Well, well! What a baby you are! are you such a novice?", "pos": 1517693}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, madam; but....", "pos": 1517893}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Rufe", "text": "But what?", "pos": 1517914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have....", "pos": 1517926}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Rufe", "text": "Oh, the villain! what was I going to expose myself to!", "pos": 1517939}
{"speaker": "Coraline", "text": "To-morrow, the prince goes to Versailles, and he will not return until the day after; we will go together to the warren to hunt ferrets, and have no doubt we shall come back to Paris pleased with one another.", "pos": 1518792}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is right.", "pos": 1519015}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Wurtemburg", "text": "Stop! Stop!", "pos": 1519224}
{"speaker": "Coraline", "text": "I have some important business with this prince; go to the warren alone, my dear friend, enjoy the hunt, and come to me to-morrow.", "pos": 1519535}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "I wish with all my heart that the same thing might happen to me; for you are certain of possessing our beautiful Coraline the very first time you are with her.", "pos": 1520420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would not have her, for now I despise her heartily.", "pos": 1520582}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "Your contempt ought to have come sooner. But, now that is too late to discuss the matter, I offer you, as a compensation, a dinner at the Hotel du Roule.", "pos": 1520638}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Most decidedly yes; it is an excellent idea. Let us go.", "pos": 1520794}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "To Chaillot.", "pos": 1521823}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "I understand, your honour.", "pos": 1521838}
{"speaker": "Madame Paris", "text": "Go, gentlemen, enjoy the fresh air with perfect security in every way; my house is the temple of peace and of good health.", "pos": 1523001}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "We will have a double dose, and of course pay double.", "pos": 1523616}
{"speaker": "Madame la gouvernante", "text": "You are quite welcome, gentlemen.", "pos": 1523672}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "Indeed! this is too much of a good thing, madam. Let us go up for the third time, make a third choice, and pass the whole night here.", "pos": 1523911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A delightful idea which I accept with all my heart.", "pos": 1524049}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "Does Madame Paris approve our plan?", "pos": 1524103}
{"speaker": "Madame Paris", "text": "I could not have devised a better one, gentlemen; it is a masterpiece.", "pos": 1524141}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From Venice.", "pos": 1528899}
{"speaker": "Marechal de Richelieu", "text": "I have been there, and have laughed heartily at the recitative in your operas.", "pos": 1528914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe you, sir, and I feel certain that no one ever thought of objecting to your laughing.", "pos": 1528995}
{"speaker": "Madame de Pompadour", "text": "What do you mean by down there?", "pos": 1529210}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I mean Venice. Venice, madam, is not down there, but up there.", "pos": 1529244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That one, sir.", "pos": 1530181}
{"speaker": "M. de Richelieu", "text": "But she has ugly legs.", "pos": 1530198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are not seen, sir; besides, whenever I examine the beauty of a woman, la premiere chose que j’ecarte, ce sont les jambes", "pos": 1530223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is,", "pos": 1531324}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame de Brionne, more remarkable by her virtue even than by her beauty. Not only is there no scandalous story told about her, but she has never given any opportunity to scandal-mongers of inventing any adventure of which she was the heroine.", "pos": 1531365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps her adventures are not known.", "pos": 1531611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, monsieur! at the court everything is known.", "pos": 1531651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are coming from the apartment of the queen who is going to dine, and the reason why they walk so badly is that their shoes have heels six inches high, which compel them to walk on their toes and with bent knees in order to avoid falling on their faces.", "pos": 1532093}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But why do they not wear lower heels?", "pos": 1532353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is the fashion.", "pos": 1532393}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a stupid fashion!", "pos": 1532414}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For whom is this table?", "pos": 1533595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For the queen. Her majesty is now coming in.", "pos": 1533621}
{"speaker": "Queen of France", "text": "Monsieur de Lowendal!", "pos": 1534443}
{"speaker": "Monsieur de Lowendal", "text": "Your majesty?", "pos": 1534552}
{"speaker": "Queen of France", "text": "I believe this is a fricassee of chickens.", "pos": 1534568}
{"speaker": "Monsieur de Lowendal", "text": "I am of the same opinion, madam.", "pos": 1534613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame Querini in Fontainebleau?", "pos": 1535944}
{"speaker": "Madame Querini", "text": "You here? It reminds me of Queen Elizabeth saying, 'Pauper ubique facet.'", "pos": 1535979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An excellent comparison, madam.", "pos": 1536056}
{"speaker": "Madame Querini", "text": "I am only joking, my dear friend; I am here to see the king, who does not know me; but to-morrow the ambassador will present me to his majesty.", "pos": 1536090}
{"speaker": "Louis XV.", "text": "We have handsomer women here.", "pos": 1536602}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "I was not aware of your marriage.", "pos": 1537326}
{"speaker": "Juliette", "text": "Yet it took place more than two years since,", "pos": 1537362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know it for a fact,", "pos": 1537424}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for, two years ago, the lady was introduced as Madame Querini and with the title of excellency by General Spada to all the nobility in Cesena, where I was at that time.", "pos": 1537468}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "I have no doubt of it, for Querini has himself written to me on the subject.", "pos": 1537639}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nobody knows it, and it is even rumoured that the heir of the house of Querini is on the point of marrying a daughter of the Grimani family; but I shall certainly send the news to Venice.", "pos": 1538049}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "What news?", "pos": 1538239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That Juliette is truly Madame Querini, since your excellency will present her as such to Louis XV.", "pos": 1538252}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Who told you so?", "pos": 1538353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She did.", "pos": 1538372}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Perhaps she has altered her mind. Then I can guess, why Juliette does not wish to be presented to the king.", "pos": 1538383}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "Sir, what a question! You are unbearable. Never utter that dreadful word.", "pos": 1541857}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are wrong in getting angry; it is the proper word.", "pos": 1541988}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "A very dirty word, sir, but enough about it. Will you have some breakfast?", "pos": 1542045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I thank you. I have taken a 'cafe' and two 'Savoyards'.", "pos": 1542122}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "Dear me! What a ferocious breakfast! Pray, explain yourself.", "pos": 1542184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I say that I have drunk a cafe and eaten two Savoyards soaked in it, and that is what I do every morning.", "pos": 1542247}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "You are stupid, my good friend. A cafe is the establishment in which coffee is sold, and you ought to say that you have drunk 'use tasse de cafe'", "pos": 1542355}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good indeed! Do you drink the cup? In Italy we say a 'caffs', and we are not foolish enough to suppose that it means the coffee-house.", "pos": 1542503}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "He will have the best of it! And the two 'Savoyards', how did you swallow them?", "pos": 1542640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Soaked in my coffee, for they were not larger than these on your table.", "pos": 1542722}
{"speaker": "Madame Preodot", "text": "And you call these 'Savoyards'? Say biscuits.", "pos": 1542796}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In Italy, we call them 'Savoyards' because they were first invented in Savoy; and it is not my fault if you imagined that I had swallowed two of the porters to be found at the corner of the streets--big fellows whom you call in Paris Savoyards, although very often they have never been in Savoy.", "pos": 1542844}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "‘Signore, sono in cantata di vi Vader in bona salute’.", "pos": 1543621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thank you, mademoiselle; but to translate 'I am enchanted', you must say 'ho pacer', and for to see you, you must say 'di vedervi'.", "pos": 1543677}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I thought, sir, that the 'vi' was to be placed before.", "pos": 1543813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, mademoiselle, we always put it behind.", "pos": 1543870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 1544673}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how is your wife?", "pos": 1544708}
{"speaker": "Gentleman", "text": "You do her great honour, sir.", "pos": 1544728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pray tell me, sir, what her honour has to do with her health?", "pos": 1544760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you hurt yourself, sir?", "pos": 1545006}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Oh, many thanks, sir, au contraire.", "pos": 1545036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why au contraire! The deuce! It has done you good? Then begin again, sir.", "pos": 1545074}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Indeed, sir, you are Italian? Upon my word, you present yourself so gracefully that I would have betted you were French.", "pos": 1545444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, when I saw you, I was near making the same mistake; I would have betted you were Italian.", "pos": 1545589}
{"speaker": "Marquise", "text": "It is truly an antique?", "pos": 1546058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The stone, madam, undoubtedly.", "pos": 1546084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go and see it!", "pos": 1546339}
{"speaker": "Marquise", "text": "Are you the rhinoceros, sir?", "pos": 1547032}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "Go in, madam, go in.", "pos": 1547063}
{"speaker": "fine councillor", "text": "During the last month, the Place de Greve has seen the hanging of seven men, among whom there were five Italians. An extraordinary circumstance.", "pos": 1548374}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing extraordinary in that, honest men generally contrive to be hung far away from their native country; and as a proof of it, sixty Frenchmen have been hung in the course of last year between Naples, Rome, and Venice. Five times twelve are sixty; so you see that it is only a fair exchange.", "pos": 1548533}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "Ah! the nasty hussies!", "pos": 1557813}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the matter, madam?", "pos": 1557859}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "The riddle is clear enough, sir; these sheets are spoiled.", "pos": 1557888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry, my dear madam, but change them, and the evil will be remedied at once.", "pos": 1557949}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "Let them come again, and see if I don’t take care of them!", "pos": 1558092}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry, but I cannot help it.", "pos": 1558637}
{"speaker": "Mimi", "text": "We ought to think of something.", "pos": 1558695}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, do so.", "pos": 1558729}
{"speaker": "Mimi", "text": "What can I think of? Well, come what will; the best thing I can do is not to think of it.", "pos": 1558744}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "Then why did you come here and get my daughter with child?", "pos": 1559451}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can assure you that I did not mean to do so. Besides, how do you know that I am the father of the child?", "pos": 1559512}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "Mimi says so, and she is certain of it.", "pos": 1559621}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate her; but I warn you, madam, that I am ready to swear that I have not any certainty about it.", "pos": 1559663}
{"speaker": "Madame Quinson", "text": "What then?", "pos": 1559773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then nothing. If she is pregnant, she will be confined. Monsieur le Commissaire, I beg of you to write word by word the answer which I am going to give you.", "pos": 1559786}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 1560356}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have caused no injury whatever to Mimi, the plaintiff’s daughter, and I refer you to the girl herself, who has always had as much friendship for me as I have had for her.", "pos": 1560369}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "But she declares that she is pregnant from your doings.", "pos": 1560544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That may be, but it is not certain.", "pos": 1560602}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "She says it is certain, and she swears that she has never known any other man.", "pos": 1560640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it is so, she is unfortunate; for in such a question a man cannot trust any woman but his own wife.", "pos": 1560721}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "What did you give her in order to seduce her?", "pos": 1560826}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing; for very far from having seduced her, she has seduced me, and we agreed perfectly in one moment; a pretty woman does not find it very hard to seduce me.", "pos": 1560874}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "Was she a virgin?", "pos": 1561038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never felt any curiosity about it either before or after; therefore, sir, I do not know.", "pos": 1561058}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "Her mother claims reparation, and the law is against you.", "pos": 1561151}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can give no reparation to the mother; and as for the law I will obey it when it has been explained to me, and when I am convinced that I have been guilty against it.", "pos": 1561211}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "You are already convinced. Do you imagine that a man who gets an honest girl with child in a house of which he is an inmate does not transgress the laws of society?", "pos": 1561381}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I admit that to be the case when the mother is deceived; but when that same mother sends her daughter to the room of a young man, are we not right in supposing that she is disposed to accept peacefully all the accidents which may result from such conduct?", "pos": 1561548}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "She sent her daughter to your room only to wait on you.", "pos": 1561806}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And she has waited on me as I have waited on her if she sends her to my room this evening, and if it is agreeable to Mimi, I will certainly serve her as well as I can; but I will have nothing to do with her against her will or out of my room, the rent of which I have always paid punctually.", "pos": 1561864}
{"speaker": "commissary", "text": "You may say what you like, but you must pay the fine.", "pos": 1562158}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will say what I believe to be just, and I will pay nothing; for there can be no fine where there is no law transgressed. If I am sentenced to pay I shall appeal even to the last jurisdiction and until I obtain justice, for believe me, sir, I know that I am not such an awkward and cowardly fellow as to refuse my caresses to a pretty woman who pleases me, and comes to provoke them in my own room, especially when I feel myself certain of the mother’s agreement.", "pos": 1562214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did not know, that you were a musician.", "pos": 1563378}
{"speaker": "Mimi", "text": "I am a musician about as much as all my companions, not one of whom knows a note of music. The girls at the opera are not much more clever, and in spite of that, with a good voice and some taste, one can sing delightfully.", "pos": 1563439}
{"speaker": "Abbé de Voisenon", "text": "The king is yawning, because he must come to the parliament to-morrow to hold a bed of justice.", "pos": 1565268}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why is it called a bed of justice?", "pos": 1565381}
{"speaker": "Abbé de Voisenon", "text": "I do not know, unless it is because justice is asleep during the proceedings.", "pos": 1565418}
{"speaker": "Fontenelle", "text": "Confess, sir, that you have kept me waiting a very long time.", "pos": 1565960}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was at the Theatre Francais last night, and saw Athalie.", "pos": 1566413}
{"speaker": "Fontenelle", "text": "It is the masterpiece of Racine; Voltaire, has been wrong in accusing me of having criticized that tragedy, and in attributing to me an epigram, the author of which has never been known, and which ends with two very poor lines: Pour avoir fait pis qu’Esther. Comment diable as-to pu faire", "pos": 1566484}
{"speaker": "Vesian", "text": "I beg you to excuse me, sir, if I receive you in such a state.", "pos": 1569517}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have to ask your pardon myself. I only come to offer you my services, as a countryman and as a neighbour. I am going to my room, mademoiselle, and I will come back when you send for me; my room is next door to your own.", "pos": 1569599}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must in the course of the day find a less expensive lodging, for I only possess six francs.", "pos": 1570843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. I intend to call with my brother upon the secretary of war, and I hope he will take pity on me.", "pos": 1571178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not one person, sir; you are the first man in France to whom I have exposed my situation.", "pos": 1571313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, sir! how grateful I would be!", "pos": 1571556}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not mention it. Give me your papers, I will see what is to be done with them. Do not relate your history to anyone, and do not say one word about your position. You had better remain at this hotel. Here are two Louis which I will lend you until you are in a position to return them to me.", "pos": 1571592}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are now in a city,", "pos": 1573286}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Vesian", "text": "M. de Narbonne, whom I thought an honest man, because I wanted him to be such, came to sit by me where you had left me at the theatre; he told me that my face had interested him, and he asked me who I was. I told him what I had told you. You had promised to think of me, but Narbonne told me that he did not want your assistance, as he could act by himself. I believed him, and I have been the dupe of my confidence in him; he has deceived me; he is a villain.", "pos": 1583030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me all, my dear Vesian, unburden your heart freely, and do not think yourself guilty towards me; in reality I have been wrong more than you. Your heart would not now be a prey to sorrow if I had not been so imprudent as to leave you alone at the theatre.", "pos": 1583638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas, sir! do not say so; ought I to reproach you because you thought me so virtuous? Well, in a few words, the monster promised to shew me every care, every attention, on condition of my giving him an undeniable, proof of my affection and confidence--namely, to take a lodging without my brother in the house of a woman whom he represented as respectable. He insisted upon my brother not living with me, saying that evil-minded persons might suppose him to be my lover. I allowed myself to be persuaded. Unhappy creature! How could I give way without consulting you? He told me that the respectable woman to whom he would take me would accompany me to Versailles, and that he would send my brother there so that we should be both presented to the war secretary. After our first supper he told me that he would come and fetch me in a hackney coach the next morning. He presented me with two louis and a gold watch, and I thought I could accept those presents from a young nobleman who shewed so much interest in me. The woman to whom he introduced me did not seem to me as respectable as he had represented her to be. I have passed one week with her without his doing anything to benefit my position. He would come, go out, return as he pleased, telling me every day that it would be the morrow, and when the morrow came there was always some impediment. At last, at seven o’clock this morning, the woman told me that the count was obliged to go into the country, that a hackney coach would bring me back to his hotel, and that he would come and see me on his return. Then, affecting an air of sadness, she told me that I must give her back the watch because the count had forgotten to pay the watchmaker for it. I handed it to her immediately without saying a word, and wrapping the little I possessed in my handkerchief I came back here, where I arrived half an hour since.", "pos": 1583900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you hope to see him on his return from the country?", "pos": 1585778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To see him again! Oh, Lord! why have I ever seen him?", "pos": 1585835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, my dear young friend, what you must do now is not only to forget the unworthy count and his criminal conduct towards you, but also the fault of which you have been guilty. What is done cannot be undone, and the past is beyond remedy; but compose yourself, and recall the air of cheerfulness which shone on your countenance a week ago. Then I could read on your face honesty, candour, good faith, and the noble assurance which arouses sentiment in those who can appreciate its charm. You must let all those feelings shine again on your features; for they alone can interest honest people, and you require the general sympathy more than ever. My friendship is of little importance to you, but you may rely upon it all the more because I fancy that you have now a claim upon it which you had not a week ago: Be quite certain, I beg, that I will not abandon you until your position is properly settled. I cannot at present tell you more; but be sure that I will think of you.", "pos": 1586906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, my friend! if you promise to think of me, I ask for no more. Oh! unhappy creature that I am; there is not a soul in the world who thinks of me.", "pos": 1587886}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are, you particularly engaged in any way to-day?", "pos": 1588974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my dear.", "pos": 1589025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, be good enough to take me somewhere out of Paris; to some place where I can breathe the fresh air freely; I shall then recover that appearance which you think I must have to interest in my favour those who will see me; and if I can enjoy a quiet sleep throughout the next night I feel I shall be happy again.", "pos": 1589040}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am grateful to you for your confidence in me. We will go out as soon as I am dressed. Your brother will return in the mean time.", "pos": 1589363}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, never mind my brother!", "pos": 1589496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His presence is, on the contrary, of great importance. Recollect, my dear Vesian, you must make Narbonne ashamed of his own conduct. You must consider that if he should happen to hear that, on the very day he abandoned you, you went into the country alone with me, he would triumph, and would certainly say that he has only treated you as you deserved. But if you go with your brother and me your countryman, you give no occasion for slander.", "pos": 1589525}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I blush not to have made that remark myself. We will wait for my brother’s return.", "pos": 1589970}
{"speaker": "Baletti", "text": "I will get Lani to take you for the ballet at the opera.", "pos": 1591136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, you must begin your lessons tomorrow. Mdlle. Vesian stops at my hotel.", "pos": 1591205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But can an opera dancer be extemporized like a minister of state? I can dance the minuet, and my ear is good enough to enable me to go through a quadrille; but with the exception of that I cannot dance one step.", "pos": 1591362}
{"speaker": "Baletti", "text": "Most of the ballet girls know no more than you do.", "pos": 1591576}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how much must I ask from M. Lani? I do not think I can expect much.", "pos": 1591646}
{"speaker": "Baletti", "text": "Nothing. The ballet girls are not paid.", "pos": 1591720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then where is the advantage for me? how shall I live?", "pos": 1591762}
{"speaker": "Baletti", "text": "Do not think of that. Such as you are, you will soon find ten wealthy noblemen who will dispute amongst themselves for the honour of making up for the absence of salary. You have only to make a good choice, and I am certain that it will not be long before we see you covered with diamonds.", "pos": 1591843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now I understand you. You suppose some great lord will keep me?", "pos": 1592135}
{"speaker": "Baletti", "text": "Precisely; and that will be much better than a pension of four hundred francs, which you would, perhaps, not obtain without making the same sacrifice.", "pos": 1592201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would not be the ‘femme de chambre’ even of the queen.", "pos": 1592595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And ‘figurante’ at the opera?", "pos": 1592654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Much rather.", "pos": 1592686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are smiling?", "pos": 1592701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, for it is enough to make me laugh. I the mistress of a rich nobleman, who will cover me with diamonds! Well, I mean to choose the oldest.", "pos": 1592720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite right, my dear; only do not make him jealous.", "pos": 1592865}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise you to be faithful to him. But shall he find a situation for my brother? However, until I am at the opera, until I have met with my elderly lover, who will give me the means to support myself?", "pos": 1592919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I, my dear girl, my friend Baletti, and all my friends, without other interest than the pleasure of serving you, but with the hope that you will live quietly, and that we shall contribute to your happiness. Are you satisfied?", "pos": 1593124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so; I have promised myself to be guided entirely by your advice, and I entreat you to remain always my best friend.", "pos": 1593352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let me get up, for I want to speak to you.", "pos": 1595345}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not disturb yourself; we can talk all the same, and I think you much prettier as you are.", "pos": 1595402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very glad of it.", "pos": 1595497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have you got to tell me?", "pos": 1595521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing, except to speak of the profession I am going to adopt. I am going to practice virtue in order to find a man who loves it only to destroy it.", "pos": 1595553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite true; but almost everything is like that in this life. Man always refers everything to himself, and everyone is a tyrant in his own way. I am pleased to see you becoming a philosopher.", "pos": 1595705}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can one become a philosopher?", "pos": 1595898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By thinking.", "pos": 1595934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Must one think a long while?", "pos": 1595949}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Throughout life.", "pos": 1595980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then it is never over?", "pos": 1595999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never; but one improves as much as possible, and obtains the sum of happiness which one is susceptible of enjoying.", "pos": 1596024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how can that happiness be felt?", "pos": 1596142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By all the pleasure which the philosopher can procure when he is conscious of having obtained them by his own exertions, and especially by getting rid of the many prejudices which make of the majority of men a troop of grown-up children.", "pos": 1596180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is pleasure? What is meant by prejudices?", "pos": 1596420}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pleasure is the actual enjoyment of our senses; it is a complete satisfaction given to all our natural and sensual appetites; and, when our worn-out senses want repose, either to have breathing time, or to recover strength, pleasure comes from the imagination, which finds enjoyment in thinking of the happiness afforded by rest. The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.", "pos": 1596469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you say that it is done by getting rid of prejudices? Then tell me what prejudices are, and what must be done to get rid of them.", "pos": 1596930}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your question, my dear girl, is not an easy one to answer, for moral philosophy does not know a more important one, or a more difficult one to decide; it is a lesson which lasts throughout life. I will tell you in a few words that we call prejudice every so-called duty for the existence of which we find no reason in nature.", "pos": 1597066}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then nature must be the philosopher’s principal study?", "pos": 1597394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed it is; the most learned of philosophers is the one who commits the fewest errors.", "pos": 1597451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What philosopher, in your opinion, has committed the smallest quantity of errors?", "pos": 1597542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Socrates.", "pos": 1597626}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yet he was in error sometimes?", "pos": 1597638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, in metaphysics.", "pos": 1597671}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! never mind that, for I think he could very well manage without that study.", "pos": 1597694}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are mistaken; morals are only the metaphysics of physics; nature is everything, and I give you leave to consider as a madman whoever tells you that he has made a new discovery in metaphysics. But if I went on, my dear, I might appear rather obscure to you. Proceed slowly, think; let your maxims be the consequence of just reasoning, and keep your happiness in view; in the end you must be happy.", "pos": 1597775}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I prefer the lesson you have just taught me to the one which M. Baletti will give me to-morrow; for I have an idea that it will weary me, and now I am much interested.", "pos": 1598178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How do you know that you are interested?", "pos": 1598348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I wish you not to leave me.", "pos": 1598391}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Truly, my dear Vesian, never has a philosopher described sympathy better than you have just done. How happy I feel! How is it that I wish to prove it by kissing you?", "pos": 1598429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No doubt because, to be happy, the soul must agree with the senses.", "pos": 1598597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed, my divine Vesian? Your intelligence is charming.", "pos": 1598667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is your work, dear friend; and I am so grateful to you that I share your desires.", "pos": 1598726}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is there to prevent us from satisfying such natural desires? Let us embrace one another tenderly.", "pos": 1598813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you call this a bed, my child?", "pos": 1601128}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "I have no other, sir.", "pos": 1601164}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I do not want it, and you shall not have the crown.", "pos": 1601188}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "Did you intend undressing yourself?", "pos": 1601247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course.", "pos": 1601285}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "What an idea! There are no sheets.", "pos": 1601298}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you sleep with your clothes on?", "pos": 1601335}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "Oh, no!", "pos": 1601372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, go to bed as usual, and you shall have the crown.", "pos": 1601382}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1601446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want to see you undressed.", "pos": 1601453}
{"speaker": "Morphi's sister", "text": "But you won’t do anything to me?", "pos": 1601484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not the slightest thing.", "pos": 1601519}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "I have never seen a better likeness. What are you laughing at?", "pos": 1606638}
{"speaker": "O-Morphi", "text": "I laugh because you and a crown of six francs are as like as two peas. That depends upon my sister,", "pos": 1606977}
{"speaker": "O-Morphi's sister", "text": "Miserable wretch! who taught you to address me that question?", "pos": 1609884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That painter,", "pos": 1612251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "has already painted more than one hundred portraits, and they are all perfect likenesses.", "pos": 1612277}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the portraits are all admirable likenesses.", "pos": 1612734}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not believe it, or if they are then there must be cheating somewhere.", "pos": 1612784}
{"speaker": "Silvia", "text": "Sir, could you paint the likeness of my daughter without seeing her?", "pos": 1613227}
{"speaker": "Painter", "text": "Yes, madam, if you are certain of giving me an exact description of the expression of her features.", "pos": 1613327}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Sir, I have had the honour of meeting you at the supper-table of M. Samson, the painter.", "pos": 1614766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! yes; I beg you to excuse me, sir, I did not at first recollect you.", "pos": 1614857}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "It is natural, for your eyes are always on Mdlle. Samson.", "pos": 1614931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very likely, but you must admit that she is a charming creature.", "pos": 1614991}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "I have no difficulty whatever in agreeing with you; to my misery, I know it but too well.", "pos": 1615058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are in love with her?", "pos": 1615150}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Alas, yes! and I say, again, to my misery.", "pos": 1615178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To your misery? But why, do not you gain her love?", "pos": 1615223}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "That is the very thing I have been striving for since last year, and I was beginning to have some hope when your arrival has reduced me to despair.", "pos": 1615276}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have reduced you to despair?", "pos": 1615426}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 1615459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very sorry, but I cannot help it.", "pos": 1615471}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "You could easily help it; and, if you would allow me, I could suggest to you the way in which you could greatly oblige me.", "pos": 1615512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Speak candidly.", "pos": 1615637}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "You might never put your foot in the house again.", "pos": 1615655}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a rather singular proposal, but I agree that it is truly the only thing I can do if I have a real wish to oblige you. Do you think, however, that in that case you would succeed in gaining her affection?", "pos": 1615707}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Then it will be my business to succeed. Do not go there again, and I will take care of the rest.", "pos": 1615920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I might render you that very great service; but you must confess that you must have a singular opinion of me to suppose that I am a man to do such a thing.", "pos": 1616019}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Yes, sir, I admit that it may appear singular; but I take you for a man of great sense and sound intellect, and after considering the subject deeply I have thought that you would put yourself in my place; that you would not wish to make me miserable, or to expose your own life for a young girl who can have inspired you with but a passing fancy, whilst my only wish is to secure the happiness or the misery of my life, whichever it may prove, by uniting her existence with mine.", "pos": 1616177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But suppose that I should intend, like you, to ask her in marriage?", "pos": 1616658}
{"speaker": "Garnier", "text": "Then we should both be worthy of pity, and one of us would have ceased to exist before the other obtained her, for as long as I shall live Mdlle. Samson shall not be the wife of another.", "pos": 1616728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What would you think of me, sir,", "pos": 1617873}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if I consented to give up my visits to Mdlle. Samson?", "pos": 1617948}
{"speaker": "Garnier", "text": "I would think that you had pity on a miserable man, and I say that in that case you will ever find me ready to shed the last drop of my blood to prove my deep gratitude.", "pos": 1618004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 1618176}
{"speaker": "Garnier", "text": "My name is Garnier, I am the only son of M. Garnier, wine merchant in the Rue de Seine.", "pos": 1618191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, M. Garnier, I will never again call on Mdlle. Samson. Let us be friends.", "pos": 1618281}
{"speaker": "Garnier", "text": "Until death. Farewell, sir.", "pos": 1618362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Adieu, be happy!", "pos": 1618392}
{"speaker": "Patu", "text": "I would have acted as you have done, but I would not have acted like Garnier.", "pos": 1618525}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Madam, you must be kind enough to divide the questions, for the cabalistic oracle never answers two questions at the same time. Well, then, prepare the questions yourself.", "pos": 1619870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your highness will excuse me, but every word must be written with your own hand. Recollect, madam, that you will address yourself to a superior intelligence knowing all your secrets", "pos": 1620046}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Sir, I wish to be certain that no one shall ever know what I have just written.", "pos": 1620369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your highness may rely on my honour.", "pos": 1620451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only require three hours to complete my task,", "pos": 1620668}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I wish your highness to feel no anxiety. If you have any other engagement you can leave me here alone, provided I am not disturbed by anybody. When it is completed, I will put it all in a sealed envelope; I only want your highness to tell me to whom I must deliver the parcel.", "pos": 1620741}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Either to me or to Madame de Polignac, if you know her.", "pos": 1621024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, madam, I have the honour to know her.", "pos": 1621082}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Short and sweet,", "pos": 1621697}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your highness may be certain that I shall never have any more important business than to attend to your wishes.", "pos": 1623249}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Very well; I do not intend to go out, and we can work.", "pos": 1623363}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Have you any objection to seeing one of your friends who is as delicate as discreet? See. M. Casanova has taught me the cabalistic science. Well, we must convince him. What shall I ask?", "pos": 1626156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Anything your highness chooses.", "pos": 1626692}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Tell me why this pomatum has no longer any effect Ah, sir! what an answer!", "pos": 1626817}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps it is not the right one; but that will sometimes happen, madam.", "pos": 1627354}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Not the right one, sir? It is divine! Here it is: That pomatum has no effect upon the skin of a woman who has been a mother.", "pos": 1627428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not see anything extraordinary in that answer, madam.", "pos": 1627555}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Very likely, sir, but it is because you do not know that the pomatum in question was given to me five years ago by the Abbé de Brosses; it cured me at that time, but it was ten months before the birth of the Duke de Montpensier. I would give anything in the world to be thoroughly acquainted with that sublime cabalistic science.", "pos": 1627616}
{"speaker": "M. de Melfort", "text": "What! is it the pomatum the history of which I know?", "pos": 1627948}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "Precisely.", "pos": 1628021}
{"speaker": "M. de Melfort", "text": "It is astonishing.", "pos": 1628034}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "I wish to ask one more question concerning a woman the name of whom I would rather not give.", "pos": 1628055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Say the woman whom I have in my thoughts.", "pos": 1628150}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "What disease is that woman suffering from?", "pos": 1628224}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She wants to deceive her husband.", "pos": 1628349}
{"speaker": "M. de Melfort", "text": "The duchess, pretty as you see her now, had her face so fearfully covered with pimples that the duke, thoroughly disgusted, had not the courage to come near her to enjoy his rights as a husband, and the poor princess was pining with useless longing to become a mother. The Abbé de Brosses cured her with that pomatum, and her beautiful face having entirely recovered it original bloom she made her appearance at the Theatre Francais, in the queen’s box. The Duke de Chartres, not knowing that his wife had gone to the theatre, where she went but very seldom, was in the king’s box. He did not recognize the duchess, but thinking her very handsome he enquired who she was, and when he was told he would not believe it; he left the royal box, went to his wife, complimented her, and announced his visit for the very same night. The result of that visit was, nine months afterwards, the birth of the Duke of Montpensier, who is now five years old and enjoys excellent health. During the whole of her pregnancy the duchess kept her face smooth and blooming, but immediately after her delivery the pimples reappeared, and the pomatum remained without any effect. The duchess begs your acceptance of this portrait, and, in case you would like to have it set she wishes you to make use of this for that purpose.", "pos": 1628720}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "How is that? everyone in Paris believes her to be suffering from a cancer, and she has consultation upon consultation. Yet I have faith in the oracle.", "pos": 1631892}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he accepted your wages?", "pos": 1632378}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "No; he seemed surprised; you are aware that he ought to know the truth. If you wish to earn that sum. I will tell him all about it.", "pos": 1632431}
{"speaker": "Duchess de Chartres", "text": "I am very sorry, for I am longing to see a king.", "pos": 1633698}
{"speaker": "Two persons", "text": "That’s the work of a beginner.", "pos": 1634462}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, my small specimen of humanity, you would require to jump on a chair to reach my throat. I will cut your ears.", "pos": 1636358}
{"speaker": "small man", "text": "Sacre bleu, monsieur!", "pos": 1636485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No vulgar passion, my dear sir; follow me; you shall soon be satisfied.", "pos": 1636509}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Talvis", "text": "I am the Chevalier de Talvis. You have insulted an honest woman who is under my protection; unsheath!", "pos": 1636746}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You lie, you rascally mannikin! acknowledge it, or I thrust my sword through your miserable body.", "pos": 1637065}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Talvis", "text": "You will not do it, for I am wounded; but I insist upon having my revenge, and we will leave the decision of this to competent judges.", "pos": 1637165}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Miserable wrangler, wretched fighter, if you are not satisfied, I will cut off your ears!", "pos": 1637302}
{"speaker": "Fabris", "text": "You will go this evening, with a friend of mine, and you will catch the coach.", "pos": 1642607}
{"speaker": "Metastasio", "text": "Ditemi il vero, si puo air meglio’?", "pos": 1644860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Which of your operas, do you like best?", "pos": 1645547}
{"speaker": "Metastasio", "text": "'Attilio Regolo; ma questo non vuol gia dire che sia il megliore'.", "pos": 1645604}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All your works have been translated in Paris into French prose, but the publisher was ruined, for it is not possible to read them, and it proves the elevation and the power of your poetry.", "pos": 1645672}
{"speaker": "Metastasio", "text": "Several years ago, another foolish publisher ruined himself by a translation into French prose of the splendid poetry of Ariosto. I laugh at those who maintain that poetry can be translated into prose.", "pos": 1645863}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am of your opinion.", "pos": 1646067}
{"speaker": "Metastasio", "text": "And you are right. The French, entertain the very strange belief that it is possible to adapt poetry to music already composed. You might just as well say to a sculptor, ‘Here is a piece of marble, make a Venus, and let her expression be shewn before the features are chiselled.’", "pos": 1646091}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "One can ignore pride, for dignity wears the same garb. Avarice is fearful, it is true; but one might be mistaken about it, because it is often very like economy. As for anger, it is a murderous disease in its excess, but murder is punishable with death. Gluttony is sometimes nothing but epicurism, and religion does not forbid that sin; for in good company it is held a valuable quality; besides, it blends itself with appetite, and so much the worse for those who die of indigestion. Envy is a low passion which no one ever avows; to punish it in any other way than by its own corroding venom, I would have to torture everybody at Court; and weariness is the punishment of sloth. But lust is a different thing altogether; my chaste soul could not forgive such a sin, and I declare open war against it. My subjects are at liberty to think women handsome as much as they please; women may do all in their power to appear beautiful; people may entertain each other as they like, because I cannot forbid conversation; but they shall not gratify desires on which the preservation of the human race depends, unless it is in the holy state of legal marriage. Therefore, all the miserable creatures who live by the barter of their caresses and of the charms given to them by nature shall be sent to Temeswar. I am aware that in Rome people are very indulgent on that point, and that, in order to prevent another greater crime (which is not prevented), every cardinal has one or more mistresses, but in Rome the climate requires certain concessions which are not necessary here, where the bottle and the pipe replace all pleasures. (She might have added, and the table, for the Austrians are known to be terrible eaters.) I will have no indulgence either for domestic disorders, for the moment I hear that a wife is unfaithful to her husband, I will have her locked up, in spite of all, in spite of the generally received opinion that the husband is the real judge and master of his wife; that privilege cannot be granted in my kingdom where husbands are by far too indifferent on that subject. Fanatic husbands may complain as much as they please that I dishonour them by punishing their wives; they are dishonoured already by the fact of the woman’s infidelity.", "pos": 1649045}
{"speaker": "Maria Teresa", "text": "But, madam, dishonour rises in reality only from the fact of infidelity being made public; besides, you might be deceived, although you are empress. I know that, but that is no business of yours, and I do not grant you the right of contradicting me.", "pos": 1651321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And why, if you please?", "pos": 1654406}
{"speaker": "Scoundrel", "text": "Because, on your left, there is a woman who can see you.", "pos": 1654432}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, may I ask why you are laughing?", "pos": 1655904}
{"speaker": "Baron Vais", "text": "It makes me laugh to see that you do not recognize me.", "pos": 1655968}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have some idea that I have seen you somewhere, but I could not say where or when I had that honour.", "pos": 1656025}
{"speaker": "Baron Vais", "text": "Nine years ago, by the orders of the Prince de Lobkowitz, I escorted you to the Gate of Rimini.", "pos": 1656129}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are Baron Vais.", "pos": 1656227}
{"speaker": "Baron Vais", "text": "Precisely.", "pos": 1656249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must be something,", "pos": 1657040}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and you cannot be less than baron. You must confess yourself to be at least that, if you wish to be received anywhere in Vienna.", "pos": 1657077}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I will be a baron, since it is of no importance.", "pos": 1657208}
{"speaker": "Baroness", "text": "If you are fond of cards, come in the evening.", "pos": 1657460}
{"speaker": "Abbé Grosse-Tete", "text": "What do you see, on the countenance of that prince?", "pos": 1660556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Self-conceit and suicide.", "pos": 1660633}
{"speaker": "Joseph II.", "text": "I despise men who purchase nobility.", "pos": 1661453}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your majesty is right, but what are we to think of those who sell it?", "pos": 1661492}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, no!", "pos": 1665326}
{"speaker": "Poor man", "text": "Sir, I am starving.", "pos": 1667415}
{"speaker": "M. de Maisonrouge", "text": "Eh! what are you complaining of? I wish I was in your place, you rogue!", "pos": 1667437}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise to give it to you, but I never leave one pleasure for another, we shall see one another again.", "pos": 1669153}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Talvis", "text": "That is enough. Will you do me the honour to introduce me to these ladies?", "pos": 1669274}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very willingly, but not in the street.", "pos": 1669351}
{"speaker": "Talvis", "text": "One can attend it, without being presented, and that is why we intend to go, for I am not known to anybody here.", "pos": 1669771}
{"speaker": "Talvis", "text": "Willingly, my lord, the whole of the bank upon this card.", "pos": 1670642}
{"speaker": "Prince-Bishop", "text": "Very well. Sir, if you had lost, how would you have managed to pay me?", "pos": 1670717}
{"speaker": "Talvis", "text": "My lord, that is my business.", "pos": 1671062}
{"speaker": "Prince-Bishop", "text": "You are more lucky than wise.", "pos": 1671094}
{"speaker": "Talvis", "text": "Most likely, my lord; but that is my business.", "pos": 1671126}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will give you my bill.", "pos": 1671450}
{"speaker": "Talvis", "text": "Nothing of the sort.", "pos": 1671477}
{"speaker": "FOGLIAZZI", "text": "Sir, having made a useless search for my portrait after you left, and not being in the habit of receiving thieves in my apartment, I feel satisfied that it must be in your possession. I request you to deliver it to the person who will hand you this letter.", "pos": 1674832}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "Love has most likely made a thief of you but I congratulate you, for your passion cannot be a very ardent one.", "pos": 1675384}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can you judge of that?", "pos": 1675497}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "From the readiness with which you give up this portrait.", "pos": 1675526}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would not have given it up so easily to anybody else.", "pos": 1675585}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "I thank you; and as a compensation I beg you to accept my friendship.", "pos": 1675643}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I place it in my estimation infinitely above the portrait, and even above the original. May I ask you to forward my answer?", "pos": 1675715}
{"speaker": "M. Grimani", "text": "I promise you to send it. Here is some paper, write your letter; you need not seal it.", "pos": 1675841}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In getting rid of the portrait, Casanova experiences a satisfaction by far superior to that which he felt when, owing to a stupid fancy, he was foolish enough to put it in his pocket.", "pos": 1675959}
{"speaker": "Masked Woman", "text": "To punish you for not knowing me again after having saved my life. I should like it, if I had a safe gondola.", "pos": 1679426}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you mean to be cruel, pray say so candidly.", "pos": 1681164}
{"speaker": "Masked Woman", "text": "I must ask you to tell me what sort of a woman you take me for?", "pos": 1681224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For a very charming one, whether a princess or a maid of low degree. Therefore, I hope that you will give me, this very day, some marks of your kindness, or I must part with you immediately after dinner.", "pos": 1681290}
{"speaker": "Masked Woman", "text": "You will do as you please; but I trust that after dinner you will have changed your opinion and your language, for your way of speaking is not pleasant. It seems to me that, before venturing upon such an explanation, it is necessary to know one another. Do you not think so?", "pos": 1681496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I do; but I am afraid of being deceived.", "pos": 1681773}
{"speaker": "Masked Woman", "text": "How very strange! And that fear makes you begin by what ought to be the end?", "pos": 1681821}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I only beg to-day for one encouraging word. Give it to me and I will at once be modest, obedient and discreet.", "pos": 1681900}
{"speaker": "Masked Woman", "text": "Pray calm yourself.", "pos": 1682013}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "You shall hear from me to-morrow.", "pos": 1683136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where, and how?", "pos": 1683172}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "Never mind that. My name is P---- C----. My father is rich, and enjoys great consideration at the exchange; but we are not on friendly terms at present. I reside in St. Mark’s Square. The lady you saw with me was a Mdlle. O----; she is the wife of the broker C----, and her sister married the patrician P---- M----. But Madame C---- is at variance with her husband on my account, as she is the cause of my quarrel with my father. I wear this uniform in virtue of a captaincy in the Austrian service, but I have never served in reality. I have the contract for the supply of oxen to the City of Venice, and I get the cattle from Styria and Hungary. This contract gives me a net profit of ten thousand florins a year; but an unforeseen embarrassment, which I must remedy; a fraudulent bankruptcy, and some extraordinary expenditure, place me for the present in monetary difficulties. Four years ago I heard a great deal about you, and wished very much to make your acquaintance; I firmly believe that it was through the interference of Heaven that we became acquainted the day before yesterday. I have no hesitation in claiming from you an important service which will unite us by the ties of the warmest friendship. Come to my assistance without running any risk yourself; back these three bills of exchange. You need not be afraid of having to pay them, for I will leave in your hands these three other bills which fall due before the first. Besides, I will give you a mortgage upon the proceeds of my contract during the whole year, so that, should I fail to take up these bills, you could seize my cattle in Trieste, which is the only road through which they can come.", "pos": 1683190}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "Sir having recognised in you a man of great intelligence, I felt certain that you would at once see the advantages of my offer, and that you would not raise any objection.", "pos": 1685807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must see your mistake by this time, and most likely you will take me for a fool now you see that I should believe myself a dupe if I accepted.", "pos": 1686018}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "If you make up your mind to sign the three bills of exchange. I will take you as a partner in my contract.", "pos": 1687333}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "She would be a good match for you, for she will have a dowry of ten thousand ducats. If you will call on me to-morrow, we will take coffee with my mother and sister.", "pos": 1693486}
{"speaker": "Count Bonafede", "text": "I do not blush, in begging from you one sequin which will keep us alive for five or six days. I can neither support her in those feelings, nor reward her for them.", "pos": 1695002}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you have not any lover?", "pos": 1697248}
{"speaker": "Count Bonafede's daughter", "text": "What? a lover! Where could I find a man courageous enough to be my lover in such a house as this? Am I a woman to sell myself to the first comer for the sum of thirty sous? There is not a man in Venice who would think me worth more than that, seeing me in such a place as this. Besides, I was not born for prostitution.", "pos": 1697279}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But does your sister know that you intend me to join you?", "pos": 1698303}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "She considers it a great pleasure.", "pos": 1698363}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does your mother know it?", "pos": 1698400}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "No; but when she knows it she will not be angry, for she has a great esteem for you.", "pos": 1698428}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case I will try to find a private box.", "pos": 1698515}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "Very well; wait for us at such a place.", "pos": 1698564}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Speak to me, you only look at me without uttering a single word. You have sacrificed yourself for me, because my brother would have taken you with him to his lady-love, who, to judge from what he says, must be as beautiful as an angel.", "pos": 1700640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have seen that lady.", "pos": 1700898}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I suppose she is very witty.", "pos": 1700923}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She may be so; but I have no opportunity of knowing, for I have never visited her, and I do not intend ever to call upon her. Do not therefore imagine, beautiful C---- C----, that I have made the slightest sacrifice for your sake.", "pos": 1700954}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I was afraid you had, because as you did not speak I thought you were sad.", "pos": 1701187}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I do not speak to you it is because I am too deeply moved by your angelic confidence in me.", "pos": 1701264}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I am very glad it is so; but how could I not trust you? I feel much more free, much more confident with you than with my brother himself. My mother says it is impossible to be mistaken, and that you are certainly an honest man. Besides, you are not married; that is the first thing I asked my brother. Do you recollect telling me that you envied the fate of the man who would have me for his wife? Well, at that very moment I was thinking that your wife would be the happiest woman in Venice.", "pos": 1701361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With such conformity of feelings, we would, lovely C----, be perfectly happy, if we could be united for ever. But I am old enough to be your father.", "pos": 1702244}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "You my father? You are joking! Do you know that I am fourteen?", "pos": 1702405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know that I am twenty-eight?", "pos": 1702470}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Well, where can you see a man of your age having a daughter of mine? If my father were like you, he would certainly never frighten me; I could not keep anything from him.", "pos": 1702508}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "What a kiss! Come, come, a good lover’s kiss!", "pos": 1703650}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Do not press him; I am not so happy as to please him.", "pos": 1703823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! what! beautiful C----, you do not condescend to ascribe my reserve to the feeling which you have inspired me with? You suppose that you do not please me? If a kiss is all that is needed to prove the contrary to you, oh! receive it now with all the sentiment that is burning in my heart!", "pos": 1703956}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "You have convinced me, but, because you have undeceived me, you must not punish me.", "pos": 1704795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I adore your sister, but do you think that your father will be willing to give her to me?", "pos": 1705603}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I think not; but he is old. In the mean time, love one another. My mother has given her permission to go to the opera this evening with us.", "pos": 1705712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, my dear friend, we must go.", "pos": 1705854}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I find myself under the necessity of claiming a slight service at your hands.", "pos": 1705895}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dispose of me.", "pos": 1705975}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "There is some excellent Cyprus wine to be sold very cheap, and I can obtain a cask of it against my bill at six months. I am certain of selling it again immediately with a good profit; but the merchant requires a guarantee, and he is disposed to accept yours, if you will give it. Will you be kind enough to endorse my note of hand?", "pos": 1705992}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 1706327}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No, let us rather go to the Zuecca Garden.", "pos": 1707366}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 1707427}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whoever loses the race,", "pos": 1708728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "shall have to do whatever the winner asks.", "pos": 1708762}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Agreed!", "pos": 1708807}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you trembling for?", "pos": 1710207}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only for joy at having found the ring; you had concealed it so well! But you owe me a revenge, and this time you shall not beat me.", "pos": 1710248}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "We shall see.", "pos": 1710382}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Then you did not hurt yourself?", "pos": 1711127}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for I fell purposely.", "pos": 1711161}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Purposely? Oh, to deceive me! I would never have believed you capable of that. It is not fair to win by fraud; therefore I have not lost the race.", "pos": 1711189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! yes, you have, for I reached the goal before you.", "pos": 1711338}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Trick for trick; confess that you tried to deceive me at the start.", "pos": 1711394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But that is fair, and your trick is a very different thing.", "pos": 1711464}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Yet it has given me the victory, and", "pos": 1711526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vincasi per fortund o per ingano, Il vincer sempre fu laudabil cosa", "pos": 1711564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have often heard those words from my brother, but never from my father. Well, never mind, I have lost. Give your judgment now, I will obey.", "pos": 1711637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wait a little. Let me see. Ah! my sentence is that you shall exchange your garters for mine.", "pos": 1711781}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Exchange our garters! But you have seen mine, they are ugly and worth nothing.", "pos": 1711876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind. Twice every day I shall think of the person I love, and as nearly as possible at the same hours you will have to think of me.", "pos": 1711957}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "It is a very pretty idea, and I like it. Now I forgive you for having deceived me. Here are my ugly garters! Ah! my dear deceiver, how beautiful yours are! What a handsome present! How they will please my mother! They must be a present which you have just received, for they are quite new.", "pos": 1712097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, they have not been given to me. I bought them for you, and I have been racking my brain to find how I could make you accept them. Love suggested to me the idea of making them the prize of the race. You may now imagine my sorrow when I saw that you would win. Vexation inspired me with a deceitful stratagem which arose from a feeling you had caused yourself, and which turned entirely to your honour, for you must admit that you would have shewn a very hard heart if you had not come to my assistance.", "pos": 1712389}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "And I feel certain that you would not have had recourse to that stratagem, if you could have guessed how deeply it would pain me.", "pos": 1712897}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you then feel much interest in me?", "pos": 1713029}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I would do anything in the world to convince you of it. I like my pretty garters exceedingly; I will never have another pair, and I promise you that my brother shall not steal them from me.", "pos": 1713069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can you suppose him capable of such an action?", "pos": 1713261}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Oh! certainly, especially if the fastenings are in gold.", "pos": 1713310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, they are in gold; but let him believe that they are in gilt brass.", "pos": 1713369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you teach me how to fasten my beautiful garters?", "pos": 1713443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course I will.", "pos": 1713499}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Even if I had to give up, the pleasure of seeing your angelic sister, I have taken the firm resolution of not keeping company with you; but I candidly warn you that I will do everything in my power to prevent her from going out with you, and from being the victim of some infamous bargain in your hands.", "pos": 1722116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In the hope of securing that happiness, madam. I shall get a friend to speak to your husband as soon as I shall have secured a position giving me sufficient means to keep her comfortably, and to assure her happiness.", "pos": 1722964}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I will give you my key, and you can bring back my sister here as soon as you have supper together wherever you like.", "pos": 1724602}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Did you see, what my brother did to Madame C---- when she placed herself astride on his knees? I only saw it in the looking-glass, but I could guess what it was.", "pos": 1725860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Were you not afraid of my treating you in the same manner?", "pos": 1726042}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No, I can assure you. How could I possibly fear such a thing, knowing how much you love me? You would have humiliated me so deeply that I should no longer have loved you. We will wait until we are married, will we not, dear? You cannot realize the extent of the joy I felt when I heard you speak to my mother as you did! We will love each other for ever. But will you explain to me, dearest, the meaning of the words embroidered upon my garters?", "pos": 1726103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is there any motto upon them? I was not aware of it.", "pos": 1726551}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Oh, yes! it is in French; pray read it.", "pos": 1726606}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "En voyant chaque jour le bijou de ma belle,", "pos": 1726856}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vous lui direz qu’Amour veut qu’il lui soit fidele.", "pos": 1726900}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Now. I shall not dare to shew my garters to anybody, and I am very sorry for it. Tell me what you are thinking of?", "pos": 1727250}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am thinking that those lucky garters have a privilege which perhaps I shall never enjoy. How I wish myself in their place: I may die of that wish, and die miserable.", "pos": 1727424}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No, dearest, for I am in the same position as you, and I am certain to live. Besides, we can hasten our marriage. As far as I am concerned, I am ready to become your wife to-morrow if you wish it. We are both free, and my father cannot refuse his consent.", "pos": 1727594}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, for he would be bound to consent for the sake of his honour. But I wish to give him a mark of my respect by asking for your hand, and after that everything will soon be ready. It might be in a week or ten days.", "pos": 1727852}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "So soon? You will see that my father will say that I am too young.", "pos": 1728080}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps he is right.", "pos": 1728149}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No; I am young, but not too young, and I am certain that I can be your wife.", "pos": 1728172}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, my best beloved! do you feel certain of my love? Do you think me capable of deceiving you? Are you sure that you will never repent being my wife?", "pos": 1728377}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "More than certain, darling; for you could not wish to make me unhappy.", "pos": 1728544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, then, let our marriage take place now. Let God alone receive our mutual pledges; we cannot have a better witness, for He knows the purity of our intentions. Let us mutually engage our faith, let us unite our destinies and be happy. We will afterwards legalize our tender love with your father’s consent and with the ceremonies of the Church; in the mean time be mine, entirely mine.", "pos": 1728617}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Dispose of me, dearest. I promise to God, I promise to you that, from this very moment and for ever, I will be your faithful wife; I will say the same to my father, to the priest who will bless our union--in fact, to everybody.", "pos": 1729008}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I take the same oath towards you, darling, and I can assure you that we are now truly married. Come to my arms! Oh, dearest, complete my felicity!", "pos": 1729238}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Oh, dear! am I indeed so near happiness!", "pos": 1729387}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Is there by any chance a law to prevent the husband from undressing himself?", "pos": 1730603}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, darling angel, no; and even if there were such a barbarous law, I would not submit to it.", "pos": 1730714}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Oh! dearest, what a difference between you and my pillow!", "pos": 1731143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your pillow, darling? You are laughing; what do you mean?", "pos": 1731203}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Oh! it is nothing but a childish fancy; I am afraid you will be angry.", "pos": 1731263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Angry! How could I be angry with you, my love, in the happiest moment of my life?", "pos": 1731336}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Well, for several days past, I could not go to sleep without holding my pillow in my arms; I caressed it, I called it my dear husband; I fancied it was you, and when a delightful enjoyment had left me without movement, I would go to sleep, and in the morning find my pillow still between my arms.", "pos": 1731420}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Have you never been to the opera? Never, because it is too dear for people in our position. My daughter has such a wish to go, that, God forgive me for saying it! she would give herself, I truly believe, to the man who would take her there once.", "pos": 1732330}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "That would be paying very dear for it. Dearest, we could make her happy at less cost, for that hurts very much.", "pos": 1732580}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was thinking of it, my love. Here is the key of the box, you can make them a present of it.", "pos": 1732727}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Here is the key of a box at the St. Moses Theatre, it costs two sequins; go instead of us, and tell your daughter to keep her rose-bud for something better.", "pos": 1732823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To enable you to amuse yourself, my good woman; take these two sequins. Let your daughter enjoy herself well.", "pos": 1733009}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "She is going this minute with her lover. He is waiting for her; but I will not let her go alone with him, for he is not to be trusted; I am going with them.", "pos": 1733456}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is right, my good woman; but when you come back this evening, let the gondola wait for us; it will take us to Venice.", "pos": 1733634}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "What! Do you mean to remain here until we return?", "pos": 1733759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, for this is our wedding-day.", "pos": 1733811}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "To-day? God bless you!", "pos": 1733847}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "I am certain of it, for I never lose sight of thee. Go and get some water in this basin, and bring it here. This charming bride must be in need of it.", "pos": 1734396}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I am certain that you have slept with my sister, and I am very glad of it. She does not confess as much, but her confession is not necessary. I will bring her to you to-day.", "pos": 1736897}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will oblige me, for I adore her, and I will get a friend of mine to ask her in marriage from your father in such a manner that he will not be able to refuse.", "pos": 1737073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish it may be so, but I doubt it. In the mean time, I find myself compelled to beg another service from your kindness. I can obtain, against a note of hand payable in six months, a ring of the value of two hundred sequins, and I am certain to sell it again this very day for the same amount. That sum is very necessary to me just now, but the jeweller, who knows you, will not let me have it without your security. Will you oblige me in this instance? I know that you lost a great deal last night; if you want some money I will give you one hundred sequins, which you will return when the note of hand falls due.", "pos": 1737236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am ready,", "pos": 1737950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to sign the note of hand, but you are wrong in abusing my love for your sister in such a manner.", "pos": 1737979}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I entreat you, darling, to refuse all the demands of my brother in future; he is, unfortunately, in such difficulties that he would at the end drag you down to the abyss into which he must fall Oh, my best beloved! do all in your power to render me pregnant; for in that case my father could no longer refuse his consent to my marriage, under the pretext of my being too young.", "pos": 1739748}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I was certain, that you were here, and here I am in spite of all my mother could say. You must be starving. My brother has not put in an appearance through the whole of this day. Let us go quickly to our garden, for I am very hungry too, and love will console us for all we have suffered today.", "pos": 1742367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The question at issue,", "pos": 1745889}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is how to give me a respectable position, and to guarantee a dowry of ten thousand ducats which the young lady would bring me.", "pos": 1745940}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "You have nothing to fear, my father has arrived in excellent health, and everyone in the house is fast asleep.", "pos": 1749165}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Except Love,", "pos": 1749296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "which is now inviting us to enjoy ourselves. Love will protect us, dearest, and to-morrow your father will receive a letter from my worthy protector.", "pos": 1749323}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "My father thinks of me now as if I were nothing but a child; but his eyes are going to be opened respecting me; he will examine my conduct, and God knows what will happen! Now, we are happy, even more than we were during our visits to Zuecca, for we can see each other every night without restraint. But what will my father do when he hears that I have a lover?", "pos": 1749566}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What can he do? If he refuses me your hand, I will carry you off, and the patriarch would certainly marry us. We shall be one another’s for life", "pos": 1749930}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "It is my most ardent wish, and to realize it I am ready to do anything; but, dearest, I know my father.", "pos": 1750077}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Are you the person to whom it is addressed?", "pos": 1755520}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Before I can write all I have to say, I must be sure of my messenger. I am boarding in a convent, and am very well treated, and I enjoy excellent health in spite of the anxiety of my mind. The superior has been instructed to forbid me all visitors and correspondence. I am, however, already certain of being able to write to you, notwithstanding these very strict orders. I entertain no doubt of your good faith, my beloved husband, and I feel sure that you will never doubt a heart which is wholly yours. Trust to me for the execution of whatever you may wish me to do, for I am yours and only yours. Answer only a few words until we are quite certain of our messenger. Muran, June 12th.", "pos": 1755898}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Ah, sir! if I could not read, it would be a great misfortune for me. There are seven women appointed for the service of the nuns of Muran. One of us comes in turn to Venice once a week; I come every Wednesday, and this day week I shall be able to bring you an answer to the letter which, if you like, you can write now.", "pos": 1757011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you can take charge of the letters entrusted to you by the nuns?", "pos": 1757333}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "That is not supposed to be one of our duties but the faithful delivery of letters being the most important of the commissions committed to our care, we should not be trusted if we could not read the address of the letters placed in our hands. The nuns wanted to be sure that we shall not give to Peter the letter addressed to Paul. The good mothers are always afraid of our being guilty of such blunders. Therefore I shall be here again, without fail, this day week at the same hour, but please to order your servant to wake you in case you should be asleep, for our time is measured as if it were gold. Above all, rely entirely upon my discretion as long as you employ me; for if I did not know how to keep a silent tongue in my head I should lose my bread, and then what would become of me--a widow with four children, a boy eight years old, and three pretty girls, the eldest of whom is only sixteen? You can see them when you come to Muran. I live near the church, on the garden side, and I am always at home when I am not engaged in the service of the nuns, who are always sending me on one commission or another. The young lady--I do not know her name yet, for she has only been one week with us--gave me this letter, but so cleverly! Oh! she must be as witty as she is pretty, for three nuns who were there were completely bamboozled. She gave it to me with this other letter for myself, which I likewise leave in your hands. Poor child! she tells me to be discreet! She need not be afraid. Write to her, I entreat you, sir, that she can trust me, and answer boldly. I would not tell you to act in the same manner with all the other messengers of the convent, although I believe them to be honest--and God forbid I should speak ill of my fellow-creature--but they are all ignorant, you see; and it is certain that they babble, at least, with their confessors, if with nobody else. As for me, thank God! I know very well that I need not confess anything but my sins, and surely to carry a letter from a Christian woman to her brother in Christ is not a sin. Besides, my confessor is a good old monk, quite deaf, I believe, for the worthy man never answers me; but that is his business, not mine!", "pos": 1757405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Burn all my letters, darling, and recollect that you must go to confession often, but without implicating our love. Share with me all your sorrows, which interest me even more than your joys.", "pos": 1761316}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "God Himself, my good woman, prompts me to have confidence in you rather than in anybody else. Take this letter to Venice, and should the person to whom it is addressed not be in the city, bring it back to me. You must deliver it to that person himself, and if you find him you will most likely have an answer, which you must give me, but only when you are certain that nobody can see you.", "pos": 1762100}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "I am certain that you are in no hurry.", "pos": 1763544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, but I am starving.", "pos": 1763585}
{"speaker": "The Oracle", "text": "I asked Casanova’s opinion, and as I find it opposed to the proposal made by De la Haye, I do not wish to hear any more about it.", "pos": 1764457}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "My dear friend, why did you dissuade M. Dandolo from doing what I had insinuated to him?", "pos": 1765548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What had you insinuated to him?", "pos": 1765664}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "You know well enough.", "pos": 1765698}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I knew it, I would not ask you", "pos": 1765722}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "M. Dandolo himself told me that you had advised him against it.", "pos": 1765758}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Advised against, that may be, but certainly not dissuaded, for if he had been persuaded in his own mind he would not have asked my advice.", "pos": 1765824}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "As you please; but may I enquire your reasons?", "pos": 1765965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me first what your proposal was.", "pos": 1766014}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "Has he not told you?", "pos": 1766054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps he has; but if you wish to know my reasons, I must hear the whole affair from your own lips, because M. Dandolo spoke to me under a promise of secrecy.", "pos": 1766077}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "Of what good is all this reserve?", "pos": 1766239}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Everyone has his own principles and his own way of thinking: I have a sufficiently good opinion of you to believe that you would act exactly as I do, for I have heard you say that in all secret matters one ought to guard against surprise.", "pos": 1766275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am incapable of taking such an advantage of a friend; but as a general rule your maxim is a right one; I like prudence. I will tell you the whole affair. You are aware that Madame Tripolo has been left a widow, and that M. Dandolo is courting her assiduously, after having done the same for fourteen years during the life of the husband. The lady, who is still young, beautiful and lovely, and also is very respectable, wishes to become his wife. It is to me that she has confided her wishes, and as I saw nothing that was not praiseworthy, either in a temporal or in a spiritual point of view, in that union, for after all we are all men, I took the affair in hand with real pleasure. I fancied even that M. Dandolo felt some inclination for that marriage when he told me that he would give me his decision this morning. I am not astonished at his having asked your advice in such an important affair, for a prudent man is right in asking the opinion of a wise friend before taking a decisive step; but I must tell you candidly that I am astonished at your disapproval of such a marriage. Pray excuse me if, in order to improve by the information, I ask why your opinion is exactly the reverse of mine.", "pos": 1766516}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That being my opinion,", "pos": 1768051}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you must admit that as a true friend I was right in advising him against your proposal. Do you recollect having told me that you never married for the very same reason? Do you recollect your strong arguments in favour of celibacy while we were at Parma? Consider also, I beg, that every man has a certain small stock of selfishness, and that I may be allowed to have mine when I think that if M. Dandolo took a wife the influence of that wife would of course have some weight, and that the more she gained in influence over him the more I should lose. So you see it would not be natural for me to advise him to take a step which would ultimately prove very detrimental to my interests. If you can prove that my reasons are either trifling or sophistical, speak openly: I will tell M. Dandolo that my mind has changed; Madame Tripolo will become his wife when we return to Venice. But let me warn you that thorough conviction can alone move me.", "pos": 1768085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not believe myself clever enough to convince you. I shall write to Madame Tripolo that she must apply to you.", "pos": 1769031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not write anything of the sort to that lady, or she will think that you are laughing at her. Do you suppose her foolish enough to expect that I will give way to her wishes? She knows that I do not like her.", "pos": 1769148}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can she possibly know that?", "pos": 1769360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She must have remarked that I have never cared to accompany M. Dandolo to her house. Learn from me once for all, that as long as I live with my three friends they shall have no wife but me. You may get married as soon as you please; I promise not to throw any obstacle in your way; but if you wish to remain on friendly terms with me give up all idea of leading my three friends astray.", "pos": 1769394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are very caustic this morning.", "pos": 1769783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I lost all my money last night.", "pos": 1769820}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I have chosen a bad time. Farewell.", "pos": 1769853}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "If you will put three hundred sequins in my bank, you shall be my partner. I have three hundred sequins myself, but that is not enough because the punters play high. Come and dine at my house, and you will make their acquaintance. We can play next Friday as there will be no opera, and you may rely upon our winning plenty of gold, for a certain Gilenspetz, a Swede, may lose twenty thousand sequins.", "pos": 1771228}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "When we are alone, she kisses me so tenderly that you would be jealous if she were not a woman.", "pos": 1780183}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "At all events. I hope to find myself in a few months in a position which will scandalize the convent if they are obstinately bent upon keeping me here.", "pos": 1780899}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If that is the case, you shall accompany me yourself.", "pos": 1782817}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "I shall be delighted if all those reports are false; but you have no one to blame but yourself, for your hurried departure gave sufficient cause for all sorts of surmises.", "pos": 1786355}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And for slander.", "pos": 1786529}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "That may be; but people want to know everything, and they invent when they cannot guess the truth.", "pos": 1786548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And evil-minded fools lose no time in repeating those inventions everywhere.", "pos": 1786649}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "But there can be no doubt that you wanted to kill the postillion. Is that a calumny likewise?", "pos": 1786728}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The greatest of all. Do you think that a good shot can miss a man when he is firing in his very face, unless he does it purposely?", "pos": 1786824}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "It seems difficult; but at all events it is certain that the horse is dead, and you must pay for it.", "pos": 1786957}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sir, not even if the horse belonged to you, for the postillion preceded me. You know a great many things; do you happen to know the posting regulations? Besides, I was in a great hurry because I had promised a pretty woman to breakfast with her, and such engagements, as you are well aware, cannot be broken.", "pos": 1787060}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I am certain, that my sister is in a convent, and I shall be able to tell you the name of it when I return to Venice.", "pos": 1789510}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will oblige me,", "pos": 1789641}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "I have sold, my privileged contract for three years for a sum of fifteen thousand florins, and the man with whom I have made the bargain took me out of prison by giving security for me, and advanced me six thousand florins in four letters of exchange. I intend to buy six thousand florins worth of silk goods from the looms of Vicenza, and to give in payment to the merchants these letters of exchange. I am certain of selling those goods rapidly with a profit of ten per cent. Come with us to Vicenza; I will give you some of my goods to the amount of two hundred sequins, and thus you will find yourself covered for the guarantee which you have been kind enough to give to the jeweller for the ring. We shall complete the transaction within twenty-four hours.", "pos": 1789881}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I do not go with him, he will sell the goods at a loss of twenty-five per cent., and I shall get nothing.", "pos": 1791011}
{"speaker": "Madame C----", "text": "I have loved you, for eighteen years; the first time that I saw you we were in Padua, and we were then only nine years old.", "pos": 1791998}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Captain P---- C----, gave the names, profession, etc., of your party.", "pos": 1796395}
{"speaker": "P---- C----", "text": "It is not true, it is not true!", "pos": 1796827}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Captain P---- C----,", "pos": 1797003}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Begone, madam, or, in my rage, I might forget the respect due to your sex.", "pos": 1797749}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I daresay, count, that you believe this woman to be my wife.", "pos": 1798439}
{"speaker": "Count Velo", "text": "That is a fact known to everybody in the city.", "pos": 1798512}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Damnation! And you have believed such a thing, knowing that I occupy this room alone, and seeing me leave the ball-room and the supper-table yesterday alone, leaving her with you all!", "pos": 1798561}
{"speaker": "Count Velo", "text": "Some husbands are blessed with such easy dispositions!", "pos": 1798747}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not think I look like one of that species, and you are not a judge of men of honour, let us go out, and I undertake to prove it to you.", "pos": 1798804}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, madam! Have you not letters of exchange to the amount of six thousand florins, or the goods bought with them?", "pos": 1799599}
{"speaker": "Madame C----", "text": "The goods are no longer here; they have all been taken away, because the letters of exchange, which you saw, and which we considered as good as cash, only made the merchants laugh; they have sent for everything. Oh! who could have supposed it?", "pos": 1799717}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The scoundrel! He knew it well enough, and that is why he was so anxious to bring me here. Well, it is right that I should pay the penalty of my own folly.", "pos": 1799963}
{"speaker": "C---- C----'s mother", "text": "I intend, to go and kiss my dear child next Sunday, and I shall of course speak of you with her, for I know well enough that she will be delighted to have news of you; but to my great regret I am not at liberty to tell you where she is.", "pos": 1802229}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not wish you to tell me, my good mother, but allow me to send her this ring by you. It is the picture of her patroness, and I wish you to entreat her to wear it always on her finger; tell her to look at the image during her daily prayers, for without that protection she can never become my wife. Tell her that, on my side, I address every day a credo to St. James.", "pos": 1802480}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I am constantly kissing you, even when some of the nuns are looking at me, for whenever they come near me I have only to let the top part of the ring fall back and my dear patroness takes care to conceal everything. All the nuns are highly pleased with my devotion and with the confidence I have in the protection of my blessed patroness, whom they think very much like me in the face.", "pos": 1803697}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "My mother, praised your piety very highly; she is delighted with your feelings of devotion. Never mention again, I beg, the name of my unworthy brother. I am in constant fear, of their pressing the invisible blue spot by chance. What would become of me, if my patroness, jumping up, discovered to their eyes a face--very divine, it is true, but which is not at all like that of a saint? Tell me, what could I do in such a case?", "pos": 1804883}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "My dearest, a misfortune has befallen me last evening, and it makes me very miserable because I must keep it a secret from everyone in the convent. I am suffering from a very severe loss of blood, and I do not know what to do, having but very little linen. Laura tells me I shall require a great deal of it if the flow of blood continues. I can take no one into my confidence but you, and I entreat you to send me as much linen as you can. You see that I have been compelled to make a confidante of Laura, who is the only person allowed to enter my room at all times. If I should die, my dear husband, everybody in the convent would, of course, know the cause of my death; but I think of you, and I shudder. What will you do in your grief? Ah, darling love! what a pity!", "pos": 1810064}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! what do I care! Provided she lives, let the whole world know that she is my wife!", "pos": 1812723}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "Our dear patient, smiled as she was reading your letter, and she said that, with you so near her, she was certain not to die. When the nuns are at their dinner. I will go back to the convent with as much linen as I can conceal about me, and in the mean time I am going to wash all this.", "pos": 1812985}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has she had any visitors?", "pos": 1813395}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "Oh, yes! all the convent; but no one has any suspicion of the truth.", "pos": 1813423}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But in such hot weather as this she can have only a very light blanket over her, and her visitors must remark the great bulk of the napkins.", "pos": 1813494}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "There is no fear of that, because she is sitting up in her bed.", "pos": 1813637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What does she eat?", "pos": 1813703}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "Nothing, for she must not eat.", "pos": 1813724}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I have not strength enough to write to you, my darling; I am getting weaker and weaker; I am losing all my blood, and I am afraid there is no remedy. I abandon myself to the will of God, and I thank Him for having saved me from dishonour. Do not make yourself unhappy. My only consolation is to know that you are near me. Alas! if I could see you but for one moment I would die happy.", "pos": 1814442}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! she is no more!", "pos": 1815796}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "She is still breathing, sir; but I fear she will not outlive this day, for she is worn out. She can hardly open her eyes, and her pulse is scarcely to be felt.", "pos": 1815818}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Laura, this is not bad news; provided the flooding has ceased entirely, all that is necessary is to give her some light food.", "pos": 1816062}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "A physician has been sent for. He will prescribe whatever is right, but to tell you the truth I have not much hope.", "pos": 1816200}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only give me the assurance that she is still alive.", "pos": 1816318}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "Yes, she is, I assure you; but you understand very well that she will not tell the truth to the doctor, and God knows what he will order. I whispered to her not to take anything, and she understood me.", "pos": 1816372}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are the best of women. Yes, if she does not die from weakness before to-morrow, she is saved; nature and love will have been her doctors.", "pos": 1816576}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "May God hear you! I shall be back by twelve.", "pos": 1816720}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not before?", "pos": 1816767}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "Because her room will be full of people.", "pos": 1816785}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "He has ordered some restoratives and a small quantity of light broth; if she can sleep, he answers for her life. He has likewise desired her to have someone to watch her at night, and she immediately pointed her finger at me, as if she wished me to undertake that office. Now, I promise you never to leave her either night or day, except to bring you news.", "pos": 1818036}
{"speaker": "A nun", "text": "A nun, who for the last two months and a half has seen you every Sunday in the church of her convent, wishes to become acquainted with you. A pamphlet which you have lost, and which chance has thrown into her hands, makes her believe that you speak French; but, if you like it better, you can answer in Italian, because what she wants above all is a clear and precise answer. She does not invite you to call for her at the parlour of the convent, because, before you place yourself under the necessity of speaking to her, she wishes you to see her, and for that purpose she will name a lady whom you can accompany to the parlour. That lady shall not know you and need not therefore introduce you, in case you should not wish to be known. Should you not approve of that way to become acquainted, the nun will appoint a certain casino in Muran, in which you will find her alone, in the evening, any night you may choose. You will then be at liberty either to sup with her, or to retire after an interview of a quarter of an hour, if you have any other engagements. Would you rather offer her a supper in Venice? Name the night, the hour, the place of appointment, and you will see her come out of a gondola. Only be careful to be there alone, masked and with a lantern. I feel certain that you will answer me, and that you will guess how impatiently I am waiting for your letter. I entreat you, therefore, to give it to-morrow to the same woman through whom you will receive mine! you will find her one hour before noon in the church of St. Cancian, near the first altar on the right. Recollect that, if I did not suppose you endowed with a noble soul and a high mind, I could never have resolved on taking a step which might give you an unfavorable opinion of my character", "pos": 1825542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I answer in French, madam, in the hope that my letter will have the clearness and the precision of which you give me the example in yours. The subject is highly interesting and of the highest importance, considering all the circumstances. As I must answer without knowing the person to whom I am writing, you must feel, madam, that, unless I should possess a large dose of vanity, I must fear some mystification, and my honour requires that I should keep on my guard. If it is true that the person who has penned that letter is a respectable woman, who renders me justice in supposing me endowed with feeling as noble as her own, she will find, I trust, that I could not answer in any other way than I am doing now. If you have judged me worthy, madam, of the honour which you do me by offering me your acquaintance, although your good opinion can have been formed only from my personal appearance, I feel it my duty to obey you, even if the result be to undeceive you by proving that I had unwittingly led you into a mistaken appreciation of my person. Of the three proposals which you so kindly made in your letter, I dare not accept any but the first, with the restriction suggested by your penetrating mind. I will accompany to the parlour of your convent a lady who shall not know who I am, and, consequently, shall have no occasion to introduce me. Do not judge too severely, madam, the specious reasons which compel me not to give you my name, and receive my word of honour that I shall learn yours only to render you homage. If you choose to speak to me, I will answer with the most profound respect. Permit me to hope that you will come to the parlour alone. I may mention that I am a Venetian, and perfectly free. The only reason which prevents me from choosing one of the two other arrangements proposed by you, either of which would have suited me better because they greatly honour me, is, allow me to repeat it, a fear of being the victim of a mystification; but these modes of meeting will not be lost when you know me and when I have seen you. I entreat you to have faith in my honour, and to measure my patience by your own. Tomorrow, at the same place and at the same hour, I shall be anxiously expecting your answer.", "pos": 1828579}
{"speaker": "A nun", "text": "I believe, sir, that I have not been mistaken in anything. Like you, I detest untruth when it can lead to important consequences, but I think it a mere trifle when it can do no injury to anyone. Of my three proposals you have chosen the one which does the greatest honour to your intelligence, and, respecting the reasons which induce you to keep your incognito, I have written the enclosed to the Countess of S----, which I request you to read. Be kind enough to seal it before delivery of it to her. You may call upon her whenever convenient to yourself. She will name her own hour, and you will accompany her here in her gondola. The countess will not ask you any questions, and you need not give her any explanation. There will be no presentation; but as you will be made acquainted with my name, you can afterwards call on me here, masked, whenever you please, and by using the name of the countess. In that way we shall become acquainted without the necessity of disturbing you, or of your losing at night some hours which may be precious to you. I have instructed my servant to wait for your answer in case you should be known to the countess and object to her. If you approve of the choice I have made of her, tell the messenger that there is no answer. I beg of you, my dear friend, to pay me a visit when you are at leisure, and to let the masked gentleman-bearer of this note know the hour, so that he can accompany you. He will be punctual. Farewell. You will much oblige your friend.", "pos": 1831236}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "M---- M---- is beautiful and very witty.", "pos": 1838359}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have seen her beauty, and I believe in her wit.", "pos": 1838402}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "She did not address one word to you.", "pos": 1838454}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I had refused to be introduced to her, and she punished me by pretending not to know that I was present.", "pos": 1838493}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "Adieu, sir!", "pos": 1838745}
{"speaker": "Countess Coronini", "text": "What is incomprehensible, is the caprice that she took suddenly to become a nun, being handsome, rich, free, well-educated, full of wit, and, to my knowledge, a Free-thinker. She took the veil without any reason, physical or moral; it was a mere caprice.", "pos": 1842448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you believe her to be happy, madam?", "pos": 1842717}
{"speaker": "Countess Coronini", "text": "Yes, unless she has repented her decision, or if she does not repent it some day. But if ever she does, I think she will be wise enough never to say so to anyone.", "pos": 1842758}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Most likely she will not be engaged another time,", "pos": 1845997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I defy her to catch me in the snare again. I mean to shew her that I only laugh at her uncivil behaviour.", "pos": 1846067}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can assure you, madam, that it was owing only to forgetfulness that I did not return your two letters which you will find enclosed. I have never thought of belying my own nature by taking a cowardly revenge upon you, and I forgive you most willingly the two giddy acts of which you have been guilty, whether they were committed thoughtlessly or because you wanted to enjoy a joke at my expense. Nevertheless, you will allow me to advise you not to treat any other man in the same way, for you might meet with one endowed with less delicacy. I know your name, I know who you are, but you need not be anxious; it is exactly as if I did not know it. You may, perhaps, care but little for my discretion, but if it should be so I should greatly pity you.", "pos": 1848639}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may be aware that I shall not shew myself again at your church; but let me assure you that it is not a sacrifice on my part, and that I can attend mass anywhere else. Yet I must tell you why I shall abstain from frequenting the church of your convent. It is very natural for me to suppose that to the two thoughtless acts of which you have been guilty, you have added another not less serious, namely, that of having boasted of your exploits with the other nuns, and I do not want to be the butt of your jokes in cell or parlour. Do not think me too ridiculous if, in spite of being five or six years older than you, I have not thrown off all feelings of self-respect, or trodden under my feet all reserve and propriety; in one word, if I have kept some prejudices, there are a few which in my opinion ought never to be forgotten. Do not disdain, madam, the lesson which I take the liberty to teach you, as I receive in the kindest spirit the one which you have given me, most likely only for the sake of fun, but by which I promise you to profit as long as I live.", "pos": 1849392}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you faithfully carry the message to Muran?", "pos": 1851694}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "Ah, sir! God be praised! I am very happy to see you again, for I have an important communication to make to you. I took your letter, delivered it according to your instructions, and I went away as soon as it was in the hands of the attendant, although she requested me to wait. When I returned from Muran I did not see you, but that did not matter. On the following day, one of my companions, who happened to be at the gate of the convent when I delivered your letter, came early in the morning to tell me to go to Muran, because the attendant wanted particularly to speak to me. I went there, and after waiting for a few minutes I was shewn into the parlour, where I was kept for more than an hour by a nun as beautiful as the light of day, who asked me a thousand questions for the purpose of ascertaining, if not who you are, at least where I should be likely to find you. You know that I could not give her any satisfactory information. She then left the parlour, ordering me to wait, and at the end of two hours she came back with a letter which she entrusted to my hands, telling me that, if I succeeded in finding you out and in bringing her an answer, she would give me two sequins. In the mean time I was to call at the convent every day, shew her the letter, and receive forty sons every time. Until now I have earned twenty crowns, but I am afraid the lady will get tired of it, and you can make me earn two sequins by answering a line.", "pos": 1851743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the letter?", "pos": 1853193}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "In my room under lock and key, for I am always afraid of losing it.", "pos": 1853216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then how can I answer?", "pos": 1853286}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "If you will wait for me here, you shall have the letter in less than a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 1853311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will not wait, because I do not care about the letter. But tell me how you could flatter the nun with the hope of finding me out? You are a rogue, for it is not likely that she would have trusted you with the letter if you had not promised her to find me.", "pos": 1853404}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "I am not a rogue, for I have done faithfully what you told me; but it is true that I gave her a description of your coat, your buckles, and your figure, and I can assure you that for the last ten days I have examined all the masks who are about your size, but in vain. Now I recognize your buckles, but I do not think you have the same coat. Alas, sir! it will not cost you much to write only one line. Be kind enough to wait for me in the coffee-house close by.", "pos": 1853664}
{"speaker": "S.", "text": "The mask who accompanied me back to my house would not, I believe, have uttered a single word, if I had not told him that the charms of your witty mind were even more bewitching than those of your person;", "pos": 1855113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have seen the one, and I believe in the other.", "pos": 1855339}
{"speaker": "S.", "text": "I added that I did not understand why you had not spoken to him, and he said, with a smile, ‘I refused to be presented to her, and she punished me for it by not appearing to know that I was present.’ These few words were all our dialogue. I intended to send you this note this morning, but found it impossible. Adieu.", "pos": 1855389}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Owing to an excusable weakness, feeling curious to know what you would say about me to the countess after you had seen me, I took an opportunity of asking her to let me know all you said to her on the following day at latest, for I foresaw that you would pay me a visit in the afternoon. Her letter, which I enclose, and which I beg you to read, did not reach me till half an hour after you had left the convent. This was the first fatality.", "pos": 1855962}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not having received that letter when you called, I had not the courage to see you. This absurd weakness on my part was the second fatality, but the weakness you will; I hope; forgive. I gave orders to the lay-sister to tell you that I was ill for the whole day; a very legitimate excuse; whether true or false, for it was an officious untruth, the correction of which, was to be found in the words: for the whole day. You had already left the convent, and I could not possibly send anyone to run after you, when the old fool informed me of her having told you that I was engaged.", "pos": 1856406}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This was the third fatality.", "pos": 1856987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You cannot imagine what I had a mind to do and to say to that foolish sister; but here one must say or do nothing; one must be patient and dissemble, thanking God when mistakes are the result of ignorance and not of wickedness--a very common thing in convents. I foresaw at once, at least partly; what would happen; and what has actually, happened; for no reasonable being could, I believe, have foreseen it all. I guessed that, thinking yourself the victim of a joke, you would be incensed, and I felt miserable, for I did not see any way of letting you know the truth before the following Sunday. My heart longed ardently for that day. Could I possibly imagine that you would take a resolution not to come again to our church! I tried to be patient until that Sunday; but when I found myself disappointed in my hope, my misery became unbearable, and it will cause my death if you refuse to listen to my justification. Your letter has made me completely unhappy, and I shall not resist my despair if you persist in the cruel resolve expressed by your unfeeling letter. You have considered yourself trifled with; that is all you can say; but will this letter convince you of your error? And even believing yourself deceived in the most scandalous manner, you must admit that to write such an awful letter you must have supposed me an abominable wretch--a monster, such as a woman of noble birth and of refined education cannot possibly be. I enclose the two letters you sent back to me, with the idea of allaying my fears which you cruelly supposed very different to what they are in reality. I am a better physiognomist than you, and you must be quite certain that I have not acted thoughtlessly, for I never thought you capable, I will not say of crime, but even of an indelicate action. You must have read on my features the signs only of giddy impudence, and that is not my nature. You may be the cause of my death, you will certainly make me miserable for the remainder of my life, if you do not justify yourself; on my side I think the justification is complete.", "pos": 1857017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope that, even if you feel no interest in my life, you will think that you are bound in honour to come and speak to me. Come yourself to recall all you have written; it is your duty, and I deserve it. If you do not realize the fatal effect produced upon me by your letter, I must indeed pity you, in spite of my misery, for it proves that you have not the slightest knowledge of the human heart. But I feel certain that you will come back, provided the man to whom I trust this letter contrives to find you. Adieu! I expect life or death from you.", "pos": 1859087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go down again and wait,", "pos": 1859960}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I plead guilty, madam; I cannot possibly justify myself, and I am perfectly convinced of your innocence. I should be disconsolate if I did not hope to obtain pardon, and you will not refuse to forgive me if you are kind enough to recollect the cause of my guilt. I saw you; I was dazzled, and I could not realize a happiness which seemed to me a dream; I thought myself the prey of one of those delightful illusions which vanish when we wake up. The doubt under which I was labouring could not be cleared up for twenty-four hours, and how could I express my feverish impatience as I was longing for that happy moment! It came at last! and my heart, throbbing with desire and hope, was flying towards you while I was in the parlour counting the minutes! Yet an hour passed almost rapidly, and not unnaturally, considering my impatience and the deep impression I felt at the idea of seeing you. But then, precisely at the very moment when I believed myself certain that I was going to gaze upon the beloved features which had been in one interview indelibly engraved upon my heart, I saw the most disagreeable face appear, and a creature announced that you were engaged for the whole day, and without giving me time to utter one word she disappeared! You may imagine my astonishment and... the rest. The lightning would not have produced upon me a more rapid, a more terrible effect! If you had sent me a line by that sister--a line from your hand--I would have gone away, if not pleased, at least submissive and resigned.", "pos": 1860227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But that was a fourth fatality which you have forgotten to add to your delightful and witty justification. Thinking myself scoffed at, my self-love rebelled, and indignation for the moment silenced love. Shame overwhelmed me! I thought that everybody could read on my face all the horror in my heart, and I saw in you, under the outward appearance of an angel, nothing but a fearful daughter of the Prince of Darkness. My mind was thoroughly upset, and at the end of eleven days I lost the small portion of good sense that was left in me--at least I must suppose so, as it is then that I wrote to you the letter of which you have so good a right to complain, and which at that time seemed to me a masterpiece of moderation.", "pos": 1861749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I hope it is all over now, and this very day at eleven o’clock you will see me at your feet--tender, submissive and repentant. You will forgive me, divine woman, or I will myself avenge you for the insult I have hurled at you. The only thing which I dare to ask from you as a great favour is to burn my first letter, and never to mention it again. I sent it only after I had written four, which I destroyed one after the other: you may therefore imagine the state of my heart.", "pos": 1862474}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have given orders to my messenger to go to your convent at once, so that my letter can be delivered to you as soon as you wake in the morning. He would never have discovered me, if my good angel had not made me go up to him at the door of the opera-house. But I shall not require his services any more; do not answer me, and receive all the devotion of a heart which adores you.", "pos": 1862956}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Our acquaintance, has begun with a violent storm; let us hope that we shall now enjoy it long in perfect and lasting calm. This is the first time that we speak to one another, but what has occurred must be enough to give us a thorough knowledge of each other. I trust that our intimacy will be as tender as sincere, and that we shall know how to have a mutual indulgence for our faults.", "pos": 1864426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can such an angel as you have any?", "pos": 1864827}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Ah, my friend! who is without them?", "pos": 1864864}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When shall I have the happiness of convincing you of my devotion with complete freedom and in all the joy of my heart?", "pos": 1864902}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "We will take supper together at my casino whenever you please, provided you give me notice two days beforehand; or I will go and sup with you in Venice, if it will not disturb your arrangements.", "pos": 1865023}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would only increase my happiness. I think it right to tell you that I am in very easy circumstances, and that, far from fearing expense, I delight in it: all I possess belongs to the woman I love.", "pos": 1865220}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That confidence, my dear friend, is very agreeable to me, the more so that I have likewise to tell you that I am very rich, and that I could not refuse anything to my lover.", "pos": 1865422}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you must have a lover?", "pos": 1865598}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Yes; it is through him that I am rich, and he is entirely my master. I never conceal anything from him. The day after to-morrow, when I am alone with you, I will tell you more.", "pos": 1865627}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I hope that your lover....", "pos": 1865806}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Will not be there? Certainly not. Have you a mistress?", "pos": 1865839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had one, but, alas! she has been taken from me by violent means, and for the last six months I have led a life of complete celibacy.", "pos": 1865896}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you love her still?", "pos": 1866033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot think of her without loving her. She has almost as great charms, as great beauty, as you have; but I foresee that you will make me forget her.", "pos": 1866058}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "If your happiness with her was complete, I pity you. She has been violently taken from you, and you shun society in order to feed your sorrow. I have guessed right, have I not? But if I happen to take possession of her place in your heart, no one, my sweet friend, shall turn me out of it.", "pos": 1866212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what will your lover say?", "pos": 1866504}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He will be delighted to see me happy with such a lover as you. It is in his nature.", "pos": 1866536}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What an admirable nature! Such heroism is quite beyond me!", "pos": 1866622}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "What sort of a life do you lead in Venice?", "pos": 1866683}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I live at the theatres, in society, in the casinos, where I fight against fortune sometimes with good sometimes with bad success.", "pos": 1866728}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you visit the foreign ambassadors?", "pos": 1866860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, because I am too much acquainted with the nobility; but I know them all.", "pos": 1866900}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "How can you know them if you do not see them?", "pos": 1866979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have known them abroad. In Parma the Duke de Montalegre, the Spanish ambassador; in Vienna I knew Count Rosemberg; in Paris, about two years ago, the French ambassador.", "pos": 1867027}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "It is near twelve o’clock, my dear friend; it is time for us to part. Come at the same hour the day after tomorrow, and I will give you all the instructions which you will require to enable you to come and sup with me.", "pos": 1867200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alone?", "pos": 1867421}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Of course.", "pos": 1867430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I venture to ask you for a pledge? The happiness which you promise me is so immense!", "pos": 1867443}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "What pledge do you want?", "pos": 1867534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To see you standing before that small window in the grating with permission for me to occupy the same place as Madame de S----.", "pos": 1867561}
{"speaker": "Horace", "text": "Nec metuam quid de me judicet heres, Quod non plura datis inveniet.", "pos": 1873661}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Good heavens! are you ill?", "pos": 1874184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, but I may well look so, for the expectation of happiness wears me out. I have lost sleep and appetite, and if my felicity were to be deferred my life would be the forfeit.", "pos": 1874230}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "There shall be no delay, dearest; but how impatient you are! Let us sit down. Here is the key of my casino. You will find some persons in it, because we must be served; but nobody will speak to you, and you need not speak to anyone. You must be masked, and you must not go there till two hours after sunset; mind, not before. Then go up the stairs opposite the street-door, and at the top of those stairs you will see, by the light of a lamp, a green door which you will open to enter the apartment which you will find lighted. You will find me in the second room, and in case I should not be there you will wait for me a few minutes; you may rely upon my being punctual. You can take off your mask in that room, and make yourself comfortable; you will find some books and a good fire. I always leave the convent with it, but I have at the casino a complete wardrobe to transform myself into an elegant woman of the world, and even to disguise myself.", "pos": 1874408}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope you will do me the favour to remain in the dress of a nun.", "pos": 1875575}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Why so, I beg?", "pos": 1875643}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I love to see you in that dress.", "pos": 1875660}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Ah! ah! I understand. You fancy that my head is shaved, and you are afraid. But comfort yourself, dear friend, my wig is so beautifully made that it defies detection; it is nature itself.", "pos": 1875695}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, dear! what are you saying? The very name of wig is awful. But no, you may be certain that I will find you lovely under all circumstances. I only entreat you not to put on that cruel wig in my presence. Do I offend you? Forgive me; I am very sorry to have mentioned that subject. Are you sure that no one can see you leave the convent?", "pos": 1875885}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You will be sure of it yourself when you have gone round the island and seen the small door on the shore. I have the key of a room opening on the shore, and I have every confidence in the sister who serves me.", "pos": 1876226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And the gondola?", "pos": 1876438}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "My lover himself answers for the fidelity of the gondoliers.", "pos": 1876457}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What a man that lover is! I fancy he must be an old man.", "pos": 1876520}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You are mistaken; if he were old, I should be ashamed. He is not forty, and he has everything necessary to be loved--beauty, wit, sweet temper, and noble behaviour.", "pos": 1876579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And he forgives your amorous caprices?", "pos": 1876746}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "What do you mean by caprices? A year ago he obtained possession of me, and before him I had never belonged to a man; you are the first who inspired me with a fancy. When I confessed it to him he was rather surprised, then he laughed, and read me a short lecture upon the risk I was running in trusting a man who might prove indiscreet. He wanted me to know at least who you were before going any further, but it was too late. I answered for your discretion, and of course I made him laugh by my being so positively the guarantee of a man whom I did not know.", "pos": 1876787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When did you confide in him?", "pos": 1877348}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "The day before yesterday, and without concealing anything from him. I have shewn him my letters and yours; he thinks you are a Frenchman, although you represent yourself as a Venetian. He is very curious to know who you are, but you need not be afraid; I promise you faithfully never to take any steps to find it out myself.", "pos": 1877379}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I promise you likewise not to try to find out who is this wonderful man as wonderful as you are yourself. I am very miserable when I think of the sorrow I have caused you.", "pos": 1877706}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do not mention that subject any more; when I consider the matter, I see that only a conceited man would have acted differently.", "pos": 1877884}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "My friend, I have an appetite which promises to do honour to the supper; are you able to keep me good company?", "pos": 1879751}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, yes, I can; and afterwards you shall judge whether I am able to sacrifice to Love as well as to Comus.", "pos": 1879864}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Let time, dearest, satisfy our mutual curiosity. I have the same,", "pos": 1880916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is a very scarce perfume, and very expensive.", "pos": 1881322}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Yes; in fact it cannot be bought.", "pos": 1881383}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very true; the inventor of that essence wears a crown; it is the King of France; his majesty made a pound of it, which cost him thirty thousand crowns.", "pos": 1881419}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Mine was a gift presented to my lover, and he gave it to me.", "pos": 1881573}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madame de Pompadour sent a small phial of it to M. de Mocenigo, the Venetian ambassador in Paris, through M. de B----, now French ambassador here.", "pos": 1881636}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you know him?", "pos": 1881785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have had the honour to dine with him on the very day he came to take leave of the ambassador by whom I had been invited. M. de B---- is a man whom fortune has smiled upon, but he has captivated it by his merit; he is not less distinguished by his talents than by his birth; he is, I believe, Count de Lyon. I recollect that he was nicknamed ‘Belle Babet,’ on account of his handsome face. There is a small collection of poetry written by him which does him great honour. Cruel darling, have you promised me happiness only to make me suffer the tortures of Tantalus? If you will not give way to love, at least obey the laws of nature after such a delicious supper, go to bed.", "pos": 1881804}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Are you sleepy?", "pos": 1882696}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course I am not; but it is late enough to go to bed. Allow me to undress you; I will remain by your bedside, or even go away if you wish it.", "pos": 1882714}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "If you were to leave me, you would grieve me.", "pos": 1882860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My grief would be as great as yours, believe me, but if I remain what shall we do?", "pos": 1882908}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "We can lie down in our clothes on this sofa.", "pos": 1882993}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With our clothes! Well, let it be so; I will let you sleep, if you wish it; but you must forgive me if I do not sleep myself; for to sleep near you and without undressing would be impossible.", "pos": 1883040}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Wait a little.", "pos": 1883234}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1884915}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Let us get up, dearest; it is time for me to return to the convent.", "pos": 1884950}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dress yourself, and let me have the pleasure of seeing you in the garb of a saint, since you are going away a virgin.", "pos": 1885020}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Be satisfied for this time, dearest, and learn from me how to practice abstinence; we shall be happier another time. When I have gone, if you have nothing to hurry you, you can rest here.", "pos": 1885140}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I expect to see you the day after to-morrow, so as to hear from you which night I am to meet you in Venice; and then, my beloved lover, you shall be happy and I too. Farewell.", "pos": 1885883}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I am going to give you, my best beloved, a specimen of my way of thinking; and I trust that, far from lowering me in your estimation, you will judge me, in spite of my youth, capable of keeping a secret and worthy of being your wife. Certain that your heart is mine, I do not blame you for having made a mystery of certain things, and not being jealous of what can divert your mind and help you to bear patiently our cruel separation, I can only delight in whatever procures you some pleasure. Listen now. Yesterday, as I was going along one of the halls, I dropped a tooth-pick which I held in my hand, and to get it again, I was compelled to displace a stool which happened to be in front of a crack in the partition. I have already become as curious as a nun--a fault very natural to idle people--I placed my eye against the small opening, and whom did I see? You in person, my darling, conversing in the most lively manner with my charming friend, Sister M---- M----. It would be difficult for you to imagine my surprise and joy. But those two feelings gave way soon to the fear of being seen and of exciting the curiosity of some inquisitive nun. I quickly replaced the stool, and I went away. Tell me all, dearest friend, you will make me happy. How could I cherish you with all my soul, and not be anxious to know the history of your adventure? Tell me if she knows you, and how you have made her acquaintance. She is my best friend, the one of whom I have spoken so often to you in my letters, without thinking it necessary to tell you her name. She is the friend who teaches me French, and has lent me books which gave me a great deal of information on a matter generally little known to women. If it had not been for her, the cause of the accident which has been so near costing me my life, would have been discovered. She gave me sheets and linen immediately; to her I owe my honour; but she has necessarily learned in that way that I have a lover, as I know that she has one; but neither of us has shewn any anxiety to know the secrets of the other. Sister M---- M---- is a rare woman. I feel certain, dearest, that you love one another; it cannot be otherwise since you are acquainted; but as I am not jealous of that affection, I deserve that you should tell me all. I pity you both, however; for all you may do will, I fear, only irritate your passion. Everyone in the convent thinks that you are ill, and I am longing to see you. Come, at least, once. Adieu!", "pos": 1886304}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "The abbess, told me how glad she was to see you, and that she was certain to find out who you are.", "pos": 1891422}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have resolved not to attend your church any more.", "pos": 1891699}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "That will be a great deprivation to me, but in our common interest I can but approve your resolution. It is already repaired, and there is no longer any fear in that quarter. I heard of it from a young boarder whom I love dearly, and who is much attached to me. I am not curious to know her name, and she has never mentioned it to me.", "pos": 1891753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now, darling angel, tell me whether my happiness will be postponed.", "pos": 1892169}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Yes, but only for twenty-four hours; the new professed sister has invited me to supper in her room, and you must understand I cannot invent any plausible excuse for refusing her invitation.", "pos": 1892239}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would not, then, tell her in confidence the very legitimate obstacle which makes me wish that the new sisters never take supper?", "pos": 1892431}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Certainly not: we never trust anyone so far in a convent. Besides, dearest, such an invitation cannot be declined unless I wish to gain a most bitter enemy.", "pos": 1892566}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Could you not say that you are ill?", "pos": 1892725}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Yes; but then the visits!", "pos": 1892763}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I understand; if you should refuse, the escape might be suspected.", "pos": 1892791}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "The escape! impossible; here no one admits the possibility of breaking out of the convent.", "pos": 1892860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you are the only one able to perform that miracle?", "pos": 1892953}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "You may be sure of that; but, as is always the case, it is gold which performs that miracle.", "pos": 1893011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And many others, perhaps.", "pos": 1893106}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Oh! the time has gone by for them! But tell me, my love, where will you wait for me to-morrow, two hours after the setting of the sun?", "pos": 1893134}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Could I not wait for you at your casino?", "pos": 1893271}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "No, because my lover will take me himself to Venice.", "pos": 1893314}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your lover?", "pos": 1893369}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Yes, himself.", "pos": 1893383}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is not possible.", "pos": 1893399}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Yet it is true.", "pos": 1893421}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can wait for you in St. John and St. Paul’s Square behind the pedestal of the statue of Bartholomew of Bergamo.", "pos": 1893439}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I have never seen either the square or the statue except in engravings; it is enough, however, and I will not fail. Nothing but very stormy weather could prevent me from coming to a rendezvous for which my heart is panting.", "pos": 1893555}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if the weather were bad?", "pos": 1893781}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Then, dearest, there would be nothing lost; and you would come here again in order to appoint another day.", "pos": 1893812}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "I shall not fail; sir, another time, to execute your commands.", "pos": 1897352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let the supper be served.", "pos": 1897417}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Your honour ordered it for two.", "pos": 1897445}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, for two; and, this time, be present during my supper, so that I can tell you which dishes I find good or bad.", "pos": 1897479}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All I see, my divine angel, is not worthy of you; yet I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration for the wonderful, I might almost say adorable, being who wants to convince you that you are truly his mistress.", "pos": 1901438}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That is what he said when I asked him to bring me to Venice, and to leave me. Amuse yourself, and I hope that the man whom you are going to make happy will convince you that he is worthy of it.", "pos": 1901654}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is indeed an extraordinary man, and I do not think there is another like him. Such a lover is a unique being; and I feel that I could not be like him, as deeply as I fear to be unworthy of a happiness which dazzles me.", "pos": 1901863}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Allow me to leave you, and to take off these clothes alone.", "pos": 1902087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do anything you please. No, adorable woman, you are not made for a mortal, and I do not believe that you will ever be mine. At the very moment of possessing you some miracle will wrest you from my arms. Your divine spouse, perhaps, jealous of a simple mortal, will annihilate all my hope. It is possible that in a few minutes I shall no longer exist.", "pos": 1902149}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Are you mad, dearest? I am yours this very instant, if you wish it.", "pos": 1902941}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! if I wish it! Although fasting, come! Love and happiness will be my food!", "pos": 1903011}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Wait until after supper.", "pos": 1903947}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do not be anxious, dearest. You will be able to tell your lover that no one saw you.", "pos": 1904006}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He will appreciate your delicate attention, and that will prove to him that you are not a novice in the art of love. But it is evident that I am not the only one who enjoys with you the delights of this charming residence.", "pos": 1904143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are wrong, believe me: you are the first woman I have seen here. You are not, adorable creature, my first love, but you shall be the last.", "pos": 1904368}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I shall be happy if you are faithful. My lover is constant, kind, gentle and amiable; yet my heart has ever been fancy-free with him.", "pos": 1904513}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then his own heart must be the same; for if his love was of the same nature as mine you would never have made me happy.", "pos": 1904649}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He loves me as I love you; do you believe in my love for you?", "pos": 1904771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I want to believe in it; but you would not allow me to....", "pos": 1904835}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do not say any more; for I feel that I could forgive you in anything, provided you told me all. The joy I experience at this moment is caused more by the hope I have of gratifying your desires than by the idea that I am going to pass a delightful night with you. It will be the first in my life.", "pos": 1904901}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Have you never passed such a night with your lover?", "pos": 1905199}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Several; but friendship, compliance, and gratitude, perhaps, were then the only contributors to our pleasures; the most essential--love--was never present. In spite of that, my lover is like you; his wit is lively, very much the same as yours, and, as far as his features are concerned, he is very handsome; yet it is not you. I believe him more wealthy than you, although this casino almost convinces me that I am mistaken, but what does love care for riches? Do not imagine that I consider you endowed with less merit than he, because you confess yourself incapable of his heroism in allowing me to enjoy another love. Quite the contrary; I know that you would not love me as you do, if you told me that you could be as indulgent as he is for one of my caprices.", "pos": 1905259}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will he be curious to hear the particulars of this night?", "pos": 1906026}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Most likely he will think that he will please me by asking what has taken place, and I will tell him everything, except such particulars as might humiliate him.", "pos": 1906086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Recollect that we have only seven hours before us, and that we should be very foolish to waste them in this room.", "pos": 1906419}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You reason better than Socrates, and your eloquence has convinced me. Come!", "pos": 1906535}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is he,", "pos": 1908898}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "My friend, came yesterday in order to bid farewell to me until the Christmas holidays. He is going to Padua, but everything has been arranged so that we can sup at his casino whenever we wish.", "pos": 1909273}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not in Venice?", "pos": 1909486}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He has begged me not to go there during his absence. He is wise and prudent; I could not refuse his request.", "pos": 1909507}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are quite right. When shall we sup together?", "pos": 1909618}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Next Sunday, if you like.", "pos": 1909669}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I like is not the right expression, for I always like. On Sunday, then, I will go to the casino towards nightfall, and wait for you with a book. Have you told your friend that you were not very uncomfortable in my small palace?", "pos": 1909697}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He knows all about it, but, dearest, he is afraid of one thing--he fears a certain fatal plumpness....", "pos": 1909930}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On my life, I never thought of that! But, my darling, do you not run the same risk with him?", "pos": 1910035}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "No, it is impossible.", "pos": 1910130}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand you. Then we must be very prudent for the future. I believe that, nine days before Christmas, the mask is no longer allowed, and then I shall have to go to your casino by water, otherwise, I might easily be recognized by the same spy who has already followed me once.", "pos": 1910154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now that we know each other, and that you entertain no doubt, I trust, of my devoted love, I wish to ease my conscience and to venture all. Learn then, dearest, that on the last day of the year, my friend will be at the casino, which he will leave only the next morning. You will not see him, but he will see us. As you are supposed not to know anything about it, you must feel that you will have to be natural in everything, otherwise, he might guess that I have betrayed the secret. It is especially in your conversation that you must be careful. My friend possesses every virtue except the theological one called faith, and on that subject you can say anything you like. You will be at liberty to talk literature, travels, politics, anything you please, and you need not refrain from anecdotes. In fact you are certain of his approbation.", "pos": 1923682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, dearest, I have only this to say. Do you feel disposed to allow yourself to be seen by another man while you are abandoning yourself to the sweet voluptuousness of your senses? That doubt causes all my anxiety, and I entreat from you an answer, yes or no. Do you understand how painful the doubt is for me? I expect not to close my eyes throughout the night, and I shall not rest until I have your decision. In case you should object to shew your tenderness in the presence of a third person, I will take whatever determination love may suggest to me. But I hope you will consent, and even if you were not to perform the character of an ardent lover in a masterly manner, it would not be of any consequence. I will let my friend believe that your love has not reached its apogee", "pos": 1924525}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You wish me, heavenly creature, to answer you yes or no, and I, full of love for you, want my answer to reach you before noon, so that you may dine in perfect peace.", "pos": 1925752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will spend the last night of the year with you, and I can assure you that the friend, to whom we will give a spectacle worthy of Paphos and Amathos, shall see or hear nothing likely to make him suppose that I am acquainted with his secret. You may be certain that I will play my part not as a novice but as a master. If it is man’s duty to be always the slave of his reason; if, as long as he has control over himself, he ought not to act without taking it for his guide, I cannot understand why a man should be ashamed to shew himself to a friend at the very moment that he is most favoured by love and nature.", "pos": 1925919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yet I confess that you would have been wrong if you had confided the secret to me the first time, and that most likely I should then have refused to grant you that mark of my compliance, not because I loved you less then than I do now, but there are such strange tastes in nature that I might have imagined that your lover’s ruling taste was to enjoy the sight of an ardent and frantic couple in the midst of amorous connection, and in that case, conceiving an unfavourable opinion of you, vexation might have frozen the love you had just sent through my being. Now, however, the case is very different. I know all I possess in you, and, from all you have told me of your lover, I am well disposed towards him, and I believe him to be my friend. If a feeling of modesty does not deter you from shewing yourself tender, loving, and full of amorous ardour with me in his presence, how could I be ashamed, when, on the contrary, I ought to feel proud of myself? I have no reason to blush at having made a conquest of you, or at shewing myself in those moments during which I prove the liberality with which nature has bestowed upon me the shape and the strength which assure such immense enjoyment to me, besides the certainty that I can make the woman I love share it with me. I am aware that, owing to a feeling which is called natural, but which is perhaps only the result of civilization and the effect of the prejudices inherent in youth, most men object to any witness in those moments, but those who cannot give any good reasons for their repugnance must have in their nature something of the cat. At the same time, they might have some excellent reasons, without their thinking themselves bound to give them, except to the woman, who is easily deceived. I excuse with all my heart those who know that they would only excite the pity of the witnesses, but we both have no fear of that sort. All you have told me of your friend proves that he will enjoy our pleasures. But do you know what will be the result of it? The intensity of our ardour will excite his own, and he will throw himself at my feet, begging and entreating me to give up to him the only object likely to calm his amorous excitement. What could I do in that case? Give you up? I could hardly refuse to do so with good grace, but I would go away, for I could not remain a quiet spectator.", "pos": 1926534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, my darling love; all will be well, I have no doubt. Prepare yourself for the athletic contest, and rely upon the fortunate being who adores you.", "pos": 1928894}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "My friend is not yet at his post, but the moment he is there I will give you a wink.", "pos": 1930350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the mysterious closet?", "pos": 1930455}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "There it is. Look at the back of this sofa against the wall. All those flowers in relief have a hole in the centre which communicates with the closet behind that wall. There is a bed, a table, and everything necessary to a person who wants to spend the night in amusing himself by looking at what is going on in this room. I will shew it to you whenever you like.", "pos": 1930489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was it arranged by your lover’s orders?", "pos": 1930855}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "No, for he could not foresee that he would use it.", "pos": 1930897}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand that he may find great pleasure in such a sight, but being unable to possess you at the very moment nature will make you most necessary to him, what will he do?", "pos": 1930950}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "That is his business. Besides, he is at liberty to go away when he has had enough of it, or to sleep if he has a mind to, but if you play your part naturally he will not feel any weariness.", "pos": 1931126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will be most natural, but I must be more polite.", "pos": 1931318}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "No, no politeness, I beg, for if you are polite, goodbye to nature. Where have you ever seen, I should like to know, two lovers, excited by all the fury of love, think of politeness?", "pos": 1931371}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, darling, but I must be more delicate.", "pos": 1931556}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Very well, delicacy can do no harm, but no more than usual. Your letter greatly pleased me, you have treated the subject like a man of experience.", "pos": 1931611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That taste,", "pos": 1932451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "proves him to be a Frenchman.", "pos": 1932473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The more I look at you, beloved angel, the more I think you worthy of my adoration.", "pos": 1932611}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "But are you not certain that you do not worship a cruel divinity?", "pos": 1932697}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and therefore I do not offer my sacrifices to appease you, but to excite you. You shall feel all through the night the ardour of my devotion.", "pos": 1932765}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "You will not find me insensible to your offerings.", "pos": 1932914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would begin them at once, but I think that, in order to insure their efficiency, we ought to have supper first. I have taken nothing to-day but a cup of chocolate and a salad of whites of eggs dressed with oil from Lucca and Marseilles vinegar.", "pos": 1932967}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "But, dearest, it is folly! you must be ill?", "pos": 1933216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I am just now, but I shall be all right when I have distilled the whites of eggs, one by one, into your amorous soul.", "pos": 1933262}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "I did not think you required any such stimulants.", "pos": 1933387}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who could want any with you? But I have a rational fear, for if I happened to prime without being able to fire, I would blow my brains out.", "pos": 1933439}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "My dear browny, it would certainly be a misfortune, but there would be no occasion to be in despair on that account.", "pos": 1933581}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You think that I would only have to prime again.", "pos": 1933700}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Of course. They are a present from my friend.", "pos": 1933751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a magnificent present, has he given you the snuffers likewise?", "pos": 1934161}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "No", "pos": 1934232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a proof that your friend is a great nobleman.", "pos": 1934237}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1934291}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because great lords have no idea of snuffing the candle.", "pos": 1934301}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Our candles have wicks which never require that operation.", "pos": 1934360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good! Tell me who has taught you French.", "pos": 1934421}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Old La Forest. I have been his pupil for six years. He has also taught me to write poetry, but you know a great many words which I never heard from him, such as ‘a gogo, frustratoire, rater, dorloter’. Who taught you these words?", "pos": 1934464}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The good company in Paris, and women particularly.", "pos": 1934696}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Wait here. I am going to change my dress. I shall be back in one minute.", "pos": 1935099}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Control your ardour a few moments, here is the altar, and in a few minutes the victim will be in your arms. You will see, how far the delicacy and the kind attention of my friend can extend. I am going to pay you in your own coin.", "pos": 1936047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sans rien oter au plaisir amoureux, L’objet de ton larcin sert a combier nos voeux. A l’abri du danger, mon ame satisfaite Savoure en surete parfaite; Et si tu veux jauer avec securite, Rends-moi mon doux ami, ces dons de l’amitie.", "pos": 1936813}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "He has remarked, that perhaps I do not confess anything to him because I did not examine my conscience sufficiently, and I answered him that I had nothing to say, but that if he liked I would commit a few sins for the purpose of having something to tell him in confession.", "pos": 1940981}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That which will, I hope, render this present dear to you is the portrait of a woman who adores you. Our friend had two of them, but the great friendship he entertains towards you has given him the happy idea of disposing of one in your favour. This box contains two portraits of me, which are to be seen in two different ways: if you take off the bottom part, of the case in its length, you will see me as a nun; and if you press on the corner, the top will open and expose me to your sight in a state of nature. It is not possible, dearest, that a woman can ever have loved you as I do. Our friend excites my passion by the flattering opinion that he entertains of you. I cannot decide whether I am more fortunate in my friend or in my lover, for I could not imagine any being superior to either one or the other.", "pos": 1944640}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I take you for my partner. Our stakes are not high enough to interest this gentleman; let us go.", "pos": 1948094}
{"speaker": "M. Mocenigo", "text": "Your mask is too exacting.", "pos": 1948769}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Yes, but be prudent, for our friend pretends that you might die on the spot. He says that the liquor distilled by us women does not come from the brain, as is the case with men, and that the generating parts of woman have no contact with her intellect. The consequence of it, he says, is that the child is not the offspring of the mother as far as the brain, the seat of reason, is concerned, but of the father, and it seems to me very true. In that important act the woman has scarcely the amount of reason that she is in need of, and she cannot have any left to enable her to give a dose to the being she is generating. Your friend is a very learned man. But do you know that such a way of arguing opens my eyes singularly? It is evident that, if that system be true, women ought to be forgiven for all the follies which they commit on account of love, whilst man is inexcusable, and I should be in despair if I happened to place you in a position to become a mother. I shall know before long, and if it should be the case so much the better. My mind is made up, and my decision taken. To abandon my destiny entirely to you both. I am quite certain that neither one nor the other would let me remain at the convent. It would be a fatal event which would decide our future destinies. I would carry you off, and take you to England to marry you. My friend thinks that a physician might be bought, who, under the pretext of some disease of his own invention, would prescribe to me to go somewhere to drink the waters--a permission which the bishop might grant. At the watering-place I would get cured, and come back here, but I would much rather unite our destinies for ever. Tell me, dearest, could you manage to live anywhere as comfortably as you do here? Alas! my love, no, but with you how could I be unhappy? But we will resume that subject whenever it may be necessary. Let us go to bed. Yes. If I have a son my friend wishes to act towards him as a father. Would he believe himself to be the father? You might both of you believe it, but some likeness would soon enlighten me as to which of you two was the true father. Yes. If, for instance, the child composed poetry, then you would suppose that he was the son of your friend. How do you know that my friend can write poetry? Admit that he is the author of the six lines which you wrote in answer to mine. I cannot possibly admit such a falsehood, because, good or bad, they were of my own making, and so as to leave you no doubt let me convince you of it at once. Oh, never mind! I believe you, and let us go to bed, or Love will call out the god of Parnassus. Let him do it, but take this pencil and write; I am Apollo, you may be Love. Je ne me battrai pas; je te cede la place. Si Venus est ma soeur, L’Amour est de ma race. Je sais faire des vers. Un instant de perdu N’offense pas L’Amour, si je l’ai convaincu. It is on my knees that I entreat your pardon, my heavenly friend, but how could I expect so much talent in a young daughter of Venice, only twenty-two years of age, and, above all, brought up in a convent? I have a most insatiate desire to prove myself more and more worthy of you. Did you think I was prudent at the gaming-table? Prudent enough to make the most intrepid banker tremble. I do not always play so well, but I had taken you as a partner, and I felt I could set fortune at defiance. Why would you not play? Because I had lost four thousand sequins last week and I was without money, but I shall play to-morrow, and fortune will smile upon me. In the mean time, here is a small book which I have brought from your boudoir: the postures of Pietro Aretino; I want to try some of them. The thought is worthy of you, but some of these positions could not be executed, and others are insipid. True, but I have chosen four very interesting ones.", "pos": 1950096}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Ah! how truly happy I am, my beloved husband! You love Sister M---- M----, my dear friend. She has a locket as big as a ring, and she cannot have received it from anyone but you. I am certain that your dear likeness is to be found under the Annunciation. I recognized the style of the artist, and it is certainly the same who painted the locket and my ring. I am satisfied that Sister M---- M---- has received that present from you. I am so pleased to know all that I would not run the risk of grieving her by telling her that I knew her secret, but my dear friend, either more open or more curious, has not imitated my reserve. She told me that she had no doubt of my St. Catherine concealing the portrait of my lover. Unable to say anything better, I told her that the ring was in reality a gift from my lover, but that I had no idea of his portrait being concealed inside of it. ‘If it is as you say,’ observed M---- M----, ‘and if you have no objection, I will try to find out the secret, and afterwards I will let you know mine.’ Being quite certain that she would not discover it, I gave her my ring, saying that, if she could find out the secret, I should be very much pleased. Just as that moment my aunt paid me a visit, and I left my ring in the hands of M---- M----, who returned it to me after dinner, assuring me that, although she had not been able to find out the secret, she was certain there was one. I promise you that she shall never hear anything about it from me, because if she saw your portrait, she would guess everything, and then I should have to tell her who you are. I am sorry to be compelled to conceal anything from her, but I am very glad you love one another. I pity you both, however, with all my heart, because I know that you are obliged to make love through a grating in that horrid parlour. How I wish, dearest, I could give you my place! I would make two persons happy at the same time! Adieu!", "pos": 1955526}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I breathe again! it could not be anyone but you, my heart felt it. You seemed surprised when you saw me, dearest; did you not know that I was waiting for you?", "pos": 1966663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had not the faintest idea of it.", "pos": 1966824}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "If you are angry, I regret it deeply, but I am innocent.", "pos": 1966861}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My adored friend, come to my arms, and never suppose that I can be angry with you. I am delighted to see you; you are always my dear wife: but I entreat you to clear up a cruel doubt, for you could never have betrayed my secret.", "pos": 1966920}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I! I would never have been guilty of such a thing, even if death had stared me in the face.", "pos": 1967151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, how did you come here? How did your friend contrive to discover everything? No one but you could tell her that I am your husband. Laura perhaps....’", "pos": 1967245}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No, Laura is faithful, dearest, and I cannot guess how it was.", "pos": 1967401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could you be persuaded to assume that disguise, and to come here? You can leave the convent, and you have never apprised me of that important circumstance.", "pos": 1967466}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Can you suppose that I would not have told you all about it, if I had ever left the convent, even once? I came out of it two hours ago, for the first time, and I was induced to take that step in the simplest, the most natural manner.", "pos": 1967632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me all about it, my love. I feel extremely curious.", "pos": 1967868}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I am glad of it, and I would conceal nothing from you. You know how dearly M---- M---- and I love each other. No intimacy could be more tender than ours; you can judge of it by what I told you in my letters. Well, two days ago, my dear friend begged the abbess and my aunt to allow me to sleep in her room in the place of the lay-sister, who, having a very bad cold, had carried her cough to the infirmary. The permission was granted, and you cannot imagine our pleasure in seeing ourselves at liberty, for the first time, to sleep in the same bed. To-day, shortly after you had left the parlour, where you so much amused us, without our discovering that the delightful Pierrot was our friend, my dear M---- M---- retired to her room and I followed her. The moment we were alone she told me that she wanted me to render her a service from which depended our happiness. I need not tell you how readily I answered that she had only to name it. Then she opened a drawer, and much to my surprise she dressed me in this costume. She was laughing; and I did the same without suspecting the end of the joke. When she saw me entirely metamorphosed into a nun, she told me that she was going to trust me with a great secret, but that she entertained no fear of my discretion. ‘Let me tell you, dearest friend,’ she said to me, ‘that I was on the point of going out of the convent, to return only tomorrow morning. I have, however, just decided that you shall go instead. You have nothing to fear and you do not require any instructions, because I know that you will meet with no difficulty. In an hour, a lay-sister will come here, I will speak a few words apart to her, and she will tell you to follow her. You will go out with her through the small gate and across the garden as far as the room leading out to the low shore. There you will get into the gondola, and say to the gondolier these words: ‘To the casino.’ You will reach it in five minutes; you will step out and enter a small apartment, where you will find a good fire; you will be alone, and you will wait.’ ‘For whom? I enquired. ‘For nobody. You need not know any more: you may only be certain that nothing unpleasant will happen to you; trust me for that. You will sup at the casino, and sleep, if you like, without being disturbed. Do not ask any questions, for I cannot answer them. Such is, my dear husband, the whole truth. Tell me now what I could do after that speech of my friend, and after she had received my promise to do whatever she wished. Do not distrust what I tell you, for my lips cannot utter a falsehood. I laughed, and not expecting anything else but an agreeable adventure, I followed the lay-sister and soon found myself here. After a tedious hour of expectation, Pierrot made his appearance. Be quite certain that the very moment I saw you my heart knew who it was, but a minute after I felt as if the lightning had struck me when I saw you step back, for I saw clearly enough that you did not expect to find me. Your gloomy silence frightened me, and I would never have dared to be the first in breaking it; the more so that, in spite of the feelings of my heart, I might have been mistaken. The dress of Pierrot might conceal some other man, but certainly no one that I could have seen in this place without horror. Recollect that for the last eight months I have been deprived of the happiness of kissing you, and now that you must be certain of my innocence, allow me to congratulate you upon knowing this casino. You are happy, and I congratulate you with all my heart. M---- M---- is, after me, the only woman worthy of your love, the only one with whom I could consent to share it. I used to pity you, but I do so no longer, and your happiness makes me happy. Kiss me now. Let me tell you, dearest friend, that I was on the point of going out of the convent, to return only tomorrow morning. I have, however, just decided that you shall go instead. You have nothing to fear and you do not require any instructions, because I know that you will meet with no difficulty. In an hour, a lay-sister will come here, I will speak a few words apart to her, and she will tell you to follow her. You will go out with her through the small gate and across the garden as far as the room leading out to the low shore. There you will get into the gondola, and say to the gondolier these words: ‘To the casino.’ You will reach it in five minutes; you will step out and enter a small apartment, where you will find a good fire; you will be alone, and you will wait. For whom? For nobody. You need not know any more: you may only be certain that nothing unpleasant will happen to you; trust me for that. You will sup at the casino, and sleep, if you like, without being disturbed. Do not ask any questions, for I cannot answer them. Such is, my dear husband, the whole truth. Tell me now what I could do after that speech of my friend, and after she had received my promise to do whatever she wished. Do not distrust what I tell you, for my lips cannot utter a falsehood. I laughed, and not expecting anything else but an agreeable adventure, I followed the lay-sister and soon found myself here. After a tedious hour of expectation, Pierrot made his appearance. Be quite certain that the very moment I saw you my heart knew who it was, but a minute after I felt as if the lightning had struck me when I saw you step back, for I saw clearly enough that you did not expect to find me. Your gloomy silence frightened me, and I would never have dared to be the first in breaking it; the more so that, in spite of the feelings of my heart, I might have been mistaken. The dress of Pierrot might conceal some other man, but certainly no one that I could have seen in this place without horror. Recollect that for the last eight months I have been deprived of the happiness of kissing you, and now that you must be certain of my innocence, allow me to congratulate you upon knowing this casino. You are happy, and I congratulate you with all my heart. M---- M---- is, after me, the only woman worthy of your love, the only one with whom I could consent to share it. I used to pity you, but I do so no longer, and your happiness makes me happy. Kiss me now.", "pos": 1967927}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I am not of your opinion. My dear M---- M---- has evidently contrived, somehow or other, to discover that, before you were acquainted with her, you were my lover. She thought very likely that you still loved me, and she imagined, for I know her well, that she could not give us a greater proof of her love than by procuring us, without forewarning us, that which two lovers fond of each other must wish for so ardently. She wished to make us happy, and I cannot be angry with her for it.", "pos": 1972286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right to think so, dearest, but my position is very different from yours. You have not another lover; you could not have another; but I being free and unable to see you, have not found it possible to resist the charms of M---- M----. I love her madly; she knows it, and, intelligent as she is, she must have meant to shew her contempt for me by doing what she has done. I candidly confess that I feel hurt in the highest degree. If she loved me as I love her, she never could have sent you here instead of coming herself.", "pos": 1972799}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I do not think so, my beloved friend. Her soul is as noble as her heart is generous; and just in the same manner that I am not sorry to know that you love one another and that you make each other happy, as this beautiful casino proves to me, she does not regret our love, and she is, on the contrary, delighted to shew us that she approves of it. Most likely she meant to prove that she loved you for your own sake, that your happiness makes her happy, and that she is not jealous of her best friend being her rival. To convince you that you ought not to be angry with her for having discovered our secret, she proves, by sending me here in her place, that she is pleased to see your heart divided between her and me. You know very well that she loves me, and that I am often either her wife or her husband, and as you do not object to my being your rival and making her often as happy as I can, she does not want you either to suppose that her love is like hatred, for the love of a jealous heart is very much like it.", "pos": 1973331}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You plead the cause of your friend with the eloquence of an angel, but, dear little wife, you do not see the affair in its proper light. You have intelligence and a pure soul, but you have not my experience. M---- M----’s love for me has been nothing but a passing fancy, and she knows that I am not such an idiot as to be deceived by all this affair. I am miserable, and it is her doing.", "pos": 1974352}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Then I should be right if I complained of her also, because she makes me feel that she is the mistress of my lover, and she shews me that, after seducing him from me, she gives him back to me without difficulty. Then she wishes me to understand that she despises also my tender affection for her, since she places me in a position to shew that affection for another person.", "pos": 1974743}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now, dearest, you speak without reason, for the relations between you two are of an entirely different nature. Your mutual love is nothing but trifling nonsense, mere illusion of the senses. The pleasures which you enjoy together are not exclusive. To become jealous of one another it would be necessary that one of you two should feel a similar affection for another woman but M---- M---- could no more be angry at your having a lover than you could be so yourself if she had one; provided, however, that the lover should not belong to the other", "pos": 1975119}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "But that is precisely our case, and you are mistaken. We are not angry at your loving us both equally. Have I not written to you that I would most willingly give you my place near M---- M----? Then you must believe that I despise you likewise?", "pos": 1975668}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My darling, that wish of yours to give me up your place, when you did not know that I was happy with M---- M----, arose from your friendship rather than from your love, and for the present I must be glad to see that your friendship is stronger than your love, but I have every reason to be sorry when M---- M---- feels the same. I love her without any possibility of marrying her. Do you understand me, dearest? As for you, knowing that you must be my wife, I am certain of our love, which practice will animate with new life. It is not the same with M---- M----; that love cannot spring up again into existence. Is it not humiliating for me to have inspired her with nothing but a passing fancy? I understand your adoration for her very well. She has initiated you into all her mysteries, and you owe her eternal friendship and everlasting gratitude.", "pos": 1975914}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "My dear M---- M---- expects to see me full of joy and gratitude for the generous present she thought she was making me by giving me this night, but what shall I tell her?", "pos": 1977990}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The whole truth. Do not keep from her a single word of our conversation, as far as your memory will serve you, and tell her especially that she has made me miserable for a long time.", "pos": 1978163}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "No, for I should cause her too great a sorrow; she loves you dearly, and cherishes the locket which contains your likeness. I mean, on the contrary, to do all I can to bring peace between you two, and I must succeed before long, because my friend is not guilty of any wrong, and you only feel some spite, although with no cause. I will send you my letter by Laura, unless you promise me to go and fetch it yourself at her house.", "pos": 1978348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your letters will always be dear to me, but, mark my words, M---- M---- will not enter into any explanation. She will believe you in everything, except in one.", "pos": 1978779}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I suppose you mean our passing a whole night together as innocently as if we were brother and sister. If she knows you as well as I do, she will indeed think it most wonderful.", "pos": 1978941}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case, you may tell her the contrary, if you like.", "pos": 1979120}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Nothing of the sort. I hate falsehoods, and I will certainly never utter one in such a case as this; it would be very wrong. I do not love you less on that account, my darling, although, during this long night, you have not condescended to give me the slightest proof of your love.", "pos": 1979180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Believe me, dearest, I am sick from unhappiness. I love you with my whole soul, but I am in such a situation that....", "pos": 1979464}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "What! you are weeping, my love! Oh! I entreat you, spare my heart! I am so sorry to have told you such a thing, but I can assure you I never meant to make you unhappy. I am sure that in a quarter of an hour M---- M---- will be crying likewise.", "pos": 1979584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is knocking?", "pos": 1981982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 1982053}
{"speaker": "Gondoliers", "text": "I had not to deal with a couple of cowards, and that I had no occasion to be afraid.", "pos": 1983401}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "The particulars which you have read, or which you are going to read, in the letter of my friend, will cause you, I hope, to forget the fault which I have committed so innocently, for I trusted, on the contrary, that you would be very happy. I saw all and heard all, and you would not have gone away without the key if I had not, most unfortunately, fallen asleep an hour before your departure. Take back the key and come to the casino to-morrow night, since Heaven has saved you from the storm. Your love may, perhaps, give you the right to complain, but not to ill-treat a woman who certainly has not given you any mark of contempt.", "pos": 1986402}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "I entreat you, dear husband, not to send back this key, unless you have become the most cruel of men, unless you find pleasure in tormenting two women who, love you ardently, and who love you for yourself only. Knowing your excellent heart, I trust you will go to the casino to-morrow evening and make it up with M---- M----, who cannot go there to-night. You will see that you are in the wrong, dearest, and that, far from despising you, my dear friend loves you only. In the mean time, let me tell you what you are not acquainted with, and what you must be anxious to know.", "pos": 1987169}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Immediately after you had gone away in that fearful storm which caused me such anguish, and just as I was preparing to return to the convent, I was much surprised to see standing before me my dear M---- M----, who from some hiding-place had heard all you had said. She had several times been on the point of shewing herself, but she had always been prevented by the fear of coming out of season, and thus stopping a reconciliation which she thought was inevitable between two fond lovers. Unfortunately, sleep had conquered her before your departure, and she only woke when the alarum struck, too late to detain you, for you had rushed with the haste of a man who is flying from some terrible danger. As soon as I saw her, I gave her the key, although I did not know what it meant, and my friend, heaving a deep sigh, told me that she would explain everything as soon as we were safe in her room. We left the casino in a dreadful storm, trembling for your safety, and not thinking of our own danger. As soon as we were in the convent I resumed my usual costume, and M---- M---- went to bed. I took a seat near her, and this is what she told me. ‘When you left your ring in my hands to go to your aunt, who had sent for you, I examined it with so much attention that at last I suspected the small blue spot to be connected with the secret spring; I took a pin, succeeded in removing the top part, and I cannot express the joy I felt when I saw that we both loved the same man, but no more can I give you an idea of my sorrow when I thought that I was encroaching upon your rights. Delighted, however, with my discovery, I immediately conceived a plan which would procure you the pleasure of supping with him. I closed the ring again and returned it to you, telling you at the same time that I had not been able to discover anything. I was then truly the happiest of women. Knowing your heart, knowing that you were aware of the love of your lover for me, since I had innocently shewed you his portrait, and happy in the idea that you were not jealous of me, I would have despised myself if I had entertained any feelings different from your own, the more so that your rights over him were by far stronger than mine. As for the mysterious manner in which you always kept from me the name of your husband, I easily guessed that you were only obeying his orders, and I admired your noble sentiments and the goodness of your heart. In my opinion your lover was afraid of losing us both, if we found out that neither the one nor the other of us possessed his whole heart. I could not express my deep sorrow when I thought that, after you had seen me in possession of his portrait, you continued to act in the same manner towards me, although you could not any longer hope to be the sole object of his love. Then I had but one idea; to prove to both of you that M---- M---- is worthy of your affection, of your friendship, of your esteem. I was indeed thoroughly happy when I thought that the felicity of our trio would be increased a hundredfold, for is it not an unbearable misery to keep a secret from the being we adore? I made you take my place, and I thought that proceeding a masterpiece. You allowed me to dress you as a nun, and with a compliance which proves your confidence in me you went to my casino without knowing where you were going. As soon as you had landed, the gondola came back, and I went to a place well known to our friend from which, without being seen, I could follow all your movements and hear everything you said. I was the author of the play; it was natural that I should witness it, the more so that I felt certain of seeing and hearing nothing that would not be very agreeable to me. I reached the casino a quarter of an hour after you, and I cannot tell you my delightful surprise when I saw that dear Pierrot who had amused us so much, and whom we had not recognized. But I was fated to feel no other pleasure than that of his appearance. Fear, surprise, and anxiety overwhelmed me at once when I saw the effect produced upon him by the disappointment of his expectation, and I felt unhappy. Our lover took the thing wrongly, and he went away in despair; he loves me still, but if he thinks of me it is only to try to forget me. Alas! he will succeed but too soon! By sending back that key he proves that he will never again go to the casino. Fatal night! When my only wish was to minister to the happiness of three persons, how is it that the very reverse of my wish has occurred? It will kill me, dear friend, unless you contrive to make him understand reason, for I feel that without him I cannot live. You must have the means of writing to him, you know him, you know his name. In the name of all goodness, send back this key to him with a letter to persuade him to come to the casino to-morrow or on the following day, if it is only to speak to me; and I hope to convince him of my love and my innocence. Rest to-day, dearest, but to-morrow write to him, tell him the whole truth; take pity on your poor friend, and forgive her for loving your lover. I shall write a few lines myself; you will enclose them in your letter. It is my fault if he no longer loves you; you ought to hate me, and yet you are generous enough to love me. I adore you; I have seen his tears, I have seen how well his soul can love; I know him now. I could not have believed that men were able to love so much. I have passed a terrible night. Do not think I am angry, dear friend, because you confided to him that we love one another like two lovers; it does not displease me, and with him it was no indiscretion, because his mind is as free of prejudices as his heart is good.’", "pos": 1987745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tears were choking her. I tried to console her, and I most willingly promised her to write to you. She never closed her eyes throughout that day, but I slept soundly for four hours.", "pos": 1993432}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Ah! the poor Pierrot! tell us all about him, dear aunt. I am very glad he was saved. Who is he? Do you know?", "pos": 1994466}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Oh! yes, everything is known, for he was taken home by our gondoliers. One of them has just told me that Pierrot, having spent the night at the Briati ball, did not find any gondola to return to Venice, and that our gondoliers took him for a sequin. One of the men fell into the sea, but then the brave Pierrot, throwing handfuls of silver upon the ‘Zenia’ pitched the ‘felce’ over board, and the wind having less hold they reached Venice safely through the Beggars’ Canal. This morning the lucky gondoliers divided thirty philippes which they found in the gondola, and they have been fortunate enough to pick up their ‘felce’. Pierrot will remember Muran and the ball at Briati. The man says that he is the son of M. de Bragadin, the procurator’s brother. He was taken to the palace of that nobleman nearly dead from cold, for he was dressed in light calico, and had no cloak.", "pos": 1994592}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "It might be so, but his name does not shew my lover to be the bastard of that nobleman, and still less his legitimate child, for M. de Bragadin was never married.", "pos": 1995717}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I should be very sorry, if he were his son.", "pos": 1995899}
{"speaker": "Narrator (male)", "text": "I gave C---- C---- the key of your casino, to be returned to you, my own charming friend, because I believed myself trifled with and despised, of malice aforethought, by the woman I worship. In my error I thought myself unworthy of presenting myself before your eyes, and, in spite of love, horror made me shudder. Such was the effect produced upon me by an act which would have appeared to me admirable, if my self-love had not blinded me and upset my reason. But, dearest, to admire it it would have been necessary for my mind to be as noble as yours, and I have proved how far it is from being so. I am inferior to you in all things, except in passionate love, and I will prove it to you at our next meeting, when I will beg on my knees a generous pardon. Believe me, beloved creature, if I wish ardently to recover my health, it is only to have it in my power to prove by my love a thousand times increased, how ashamed I am of my errors. My painful lumbago has alone prevented me from answering your short note yesterday, to express to you my regrets, and the love which has been enhanced in me by your generosity, alas! so badly rewarded. I can assure you that in the lagunes, with death staring me in the face, I regretted no one but you, nothing but having outraged you. But in the fearful danger then threatening me I only saw a punishment from Heaven. If I had not cruelly sent back to you the key of the casino, I should most likely have returned there, and should have avoided the sorrow as well as the physical pains which I am now suffering as an expiation. I thank you a thousand times for having recalled me to myself, and you may be certain that for the future I will keep better control over myself; nothing shall make me doubt your love. But, darling, what do you say of C---- C----? Is she not an incarnate angel who can be compared to no one but you? You love us both equally. I am the only one weak and faulty, and you make me ashamed of myself. Yet I feel that I would give my life for her as well as for you. I feel curious about one thing, but I cannot trust it to paper. You will satisfy that curiosity the first time I shall be able to go to the casino before two days at the earliest. I will let you know two days beforehand. In the mean time, I entreat you to think a little of me, and to be certain of my devoted love. Adieu.", "pos": 1998031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The next morning Laura found me sitting up in bed, and in a fair way to recover my health. I requested her to tell C---- C---- that I felt much better, and I gave her the letter I had written. She had brought me one from my dear little wife, in which I found enclosed a note from M---- M----. Those two letter were full of tender expressions of love, anxiety for my health, and ardent prayers for my recovery.", "pos": 2000388}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Let me know, I entreat you, when we are likely to meet again, either at Muran or in Venice, as you please. Be quite certain that whenever we meet we shall be alone and without a witness.", "pos": 2001121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two days afterwards, on the 4th of February, 1754, I had the supreme felicity of finding myself again alone with my beloved mistress. She wore the dress of a nun. As we both felt guilty, the moment we saw each other, by a spontaneous movement, we fell both on our knees, folded in each other’s arms. We had both ill-treated Love; she had treated him like a child, I had adored him after the fashion of a Jansenist. But where could we have found the proper language for the excuses we had to address to each other for the mutual forgiveness we had to entreat and to grant? Kisses--that mute, yet expressive language, that delicate, voluptuous contact which sends sentiment coursing rapidly through the veins, which expresses at the same time the feeling of the heart and the impressions of the mind--that language was the only one we had recourse to, and without having uttered one syllable, dear reader, oh, how well we agreed!", "pos": 2002839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Both overwhelmed with emotion, longing to give one another some proofs of the sincerity of our reconciliation and of the ardent fire which was consuming us, we rose without unclasping our arms, and falling (a most amorous group!) on the nearest sofa, we remained there until the heaving of a deep sigh which we would not have stopped, even if we had known that it was to be the last!", "pos": 2003767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thus was completed our happy reconciliation, and the calm infused into the soul by contentment, burst into a hearty laugh when we noticed that I had kept on my cloak and my mask. After we had enjoyed our mirth, I unmasked myself, and I asked her whether it was quite true that no one had witnessed our reconciliation.", "pos": 2004151}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Come,", "pos": 2004527}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Now. I am going to satisfy the curiosity which you were prudent enough not to trust to paper.", "pos": 2005170}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you cannot guess....", "pos": 2005286}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Silence, dearest! Love would not be of divine origin did he not possess the faculty of divination. He knows all, and here is the proof. Do you not wish to know whether my friend was with me during the fatal night which has cost me so many tears?", "pos": 2005313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have guessed rightly.", "pos": 2005561}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Well, then, he was with me, and you must not be angry, for you then completed your conquest of him. He admired your character, your love, your sentiments, your honesty. He could not help expressing his astonishment at the rectitude of my instinct, or his approval of the passion I felt for you. It was he who consoled me in the morning assuring me that you would certainly come back to me as soon as you knew my real feelings, the loyalty of my intentions and my good faith.", "pos": 2005589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you must often have fallen asleep, for unless excited by some powerful interest, it is impossible to pass eight hours in darkness and in silence.", "pos": 2006066}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "We were moved by the deepest interest: besides, we were in darkness only when we kept these holes open. The plank was on during our supper, and we were listening in religious silence to your slightest whisper. The interest which kept my friend awake was perhaps greater than mine. He told me that he never had had before a better opportunity of studying the human heart, and that you must have passed the most painful night. He truly pitied you. We were delighted with C---- C----, for it is indeed wonderful that a young girl of fifteen should reason as she did to justify my conduct, without any other weapons but those given her by nature and truth; she must have the soul of an angel. If you ever marry her, you will have the most heavenly wife. I shall of course feel miserable if I lose her, but your happiness will make amends for all. Do you know, dearest, that I cannot understand how you could fall in love with me after having known her, any more than I can conceive how she does not hate me ever since she has discovered that I have robbed her of your heart. My dear C---- C---- has truly something divine in her disposition. Do you know why she confided to you her barren loves with me? Because, as she told me herself, she wished to ease her conscience, thinking that she was in some measure unfaithful to you.", "pos": 2006218}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does she think herself bound to be entirely faithful to me, with the knowledge she has now of my own unfaithfulness?", "pos": 2007545}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "She is particularly delicate and conscientious, and though she believes herself truly your wife, she does not think that she has any right to control your actions, but she believes herself bound to give you an account of all she does.", "pos": 2007664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Noble girl!", "pos": 2007901}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "The pains of the body do not fatten a man,", "pos": 2008071}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and the sufferings of the mind emaciate him. But we have suffered sufficiently, and we must be wise enough never to recall anything which can be painful to us.", "pos": 2008124}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You are quite right, my love; the instants that man is compelled to give up to misfortune or to suffering are as many moments stolen from his life, but he doubles his existence when he has the talent of multiplying his pleasures, no matter of what nature they may be. The Pierrot in the parlour of the convent seemed to me taller and thinner than you. If chance had not made you take the convent gondola, if you had not had the strange idea of assuming the disguise of Pierrot, I should not have known who you were, for my friends in the convent would not have been interested in you. I was delighted when I heard that you were not a patrician, as I feared, because, had you been one, I might in time have run some great danger.", "pos": 2008286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot conceive,", "pos": 2009342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "what danger you might run on account of my being a patrician.", "pos": 2009371}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "My darling, I cannot speak to you openly, unless you give me your word to do what I am going to ask you.", "pos": 2009435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How could I hesitate, my love, in doing anything to please you, provided my honour is not implicated? Have we not now everything in common? Speak, idol of my heart, tell me your reasons, and rely upon my love; it is the guarantee of my ready compliance in everything that can give you pleasure.", "pos": 2009542}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Very well. I want you to give a supper in your casino to me and my friend, who is dying to make your acquaintance.", "pos": 2009839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I foresee that after supper you will leave me to go with him.", "pos": 2009956}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You must feel that propriety compels me to do so.", "pos": 2010024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your friend already knows, I suppose, who I am?", "pos": 2010076}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I thought it was right to tell him, because if I had not told him he could not have entertained the hope of supping with you, and especially at your house.", "pos": 2010126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand. I guess your friend is one of the foreign ambassadors.", "pos": 2010284}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Precisely.", "pos": 2010355}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But may I hope that he will so far honour me as to throw up his incognito?", "pos": 2010368}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That is understood. I shall introduce him to you according to accepted forms, telling his name and his political position.", "pos": 2010445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then it is all for the best, darling. How could you suppose that I would have any difficulty in procuring you that pleasure, when on the contrary, nothing could please me more myself? Name the day, and be quite certain that I shall anxiously look for it.", "pos": 2010570}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I should have been sure of your compliance, if you had not given me cause to doubt it.", "pos": 2010827}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a home-thrust, but I deserve it.", "pos": 2010916}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "And I hope it will not make you angry. Now I am happy. Our friend is M. de Bernis, the French ambassador. He will come masked, and as soon as he shews his features I shall present him to you. Recollect that you must treat him as my lover, but you must not appear to know that he is aware of our intimacy.", "pos": 2010957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand that very well, and you shall have every reason to be pleased with my urbanity. The idea of that supper is delightful to me, and I hope that the reality will be as agreeable. You were quite right, my love, to dread my being a patrician, for in that case the State-Inquisitors, who very often think of nothing but of making a show of their zeal, would not have failed to meddle with us, and the mere idea of the possible consequences makes me shudder. I under The Leads--you dishonoured--the abbess--the convent! Good God! Yes, if you had told me what you thought, I would have given you my name, and I could have done so all the more easily that my reserve was only caused by the fear of being known, and of C---- C---- being taken to another convent by her father. But can you appoint a day for the supper? I long to have it all arranged.", "pos": 2011264}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "To-day is the fourth; well, then, in four days.", "pos": 2012119}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will be the eighth?", "pos": 2012169}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Exactly so. We will go to your casino after the second ballet. Give me all necessary particulars to enable us to find the house without enquiring from anyone.", "pos": 2012196}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you play, when there was no need of it, when you were in want of nothing, when you had all the money you could wish to satisfy your fancies?", "pos": 2014117}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "I had an ardent wish, sir, to renew acquaintance with you, since I heard from madame that we had known each other in Paris.", "pos": 2015079}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had the honour,", "pos": 2015494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to dine with your excellency at M. de Mocenigo’s house, but you talked all the time with Marshal Keith, the Prussian ambassador, and I was not fortunate enough to attract your attention. As you were on the point of leaving Paris to return to Venice, you went away almost immediately after dinner, and I have never had the honour of seeing you since that time.", "pos": 2015523}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "Now I recollect you, and I remember asking whether you were not the secretary of the embassy. But from this day we shall not forget each other again, for the mysteries which unite us are of a nature likely to establish a lasting intimacy between us.", "pos": 2015885}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That would be running too great a risk, but if you approve of it. I can make you sup with her at my casino, for we sleep in the same room.", "pos": 2017846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is impossible, madam, to add anything to the pleasure of your society, yet I confess I should be pleased if you could contrive to do us that great favour.", "pos": 2018125}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Well, I will think of it.", "pos": 2018285}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "But, if I am to be one of the party, I think it would be right to apprize the young lady of it.", "pos": 2018313}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "It is not necessary, for I will write to her to agree to whatever madam may propose to her. I will do so to-morrow.", "pos": 2018438}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I could not sleep soundly, my love, if I did not ease my conscience of an unpleasant weight. Perhaps you did not approve of the ‘partie carree’ with our young friend, and you may not have objected out of mere politeness. Tell me the truth, dearest, for, should you not look forward to that meeting with pleasure, I can contrive to undo it without implicating you in any way; trust me for that. If, however, you have no objection to the party, it will take place as agreed. Believe me, I love your soul more than your heart--I mean than your person. Adieu.", "pos": 2019337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I expected your letter, my best beloved, and you cannot doubt it, because, as you know me thoroughly, you must be aware that I know you as well. Yes, I know your mind, and I know what idea you must entertain of mine, because I have exposed to you all my weakness and irritability by my sophisms. I do penance for it, dearest, when I think that having raised your suspicions your tenderness for me must have been weakened. Forget my visions, I beg, and be quite certain that for the future my soul will be in unison with yours. The supper must take place, it will be a pleasure for me, but let me confess that in accepting it I have shewn myself more grateful than polite. C---- C---- is a novice, and I am not sorry to give her an opportunity of seeing the world. In what school could she learn better than yours? Therefore I recommend her to you, and you will please me much by continuing to shew your care and friendship towards her, and by increasing, if possible, the sum of your goodness. I fear that you may entice her to take the veil, and if she did I would never console myself. Your friend has quite captivated me; he is a superior man, and truly charming.", "pos": 2020074}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That might have been the case, but of what good would it have been to me?", "pos": 2023386}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "But I do not expect, to be allowed to keep this embassy very long. Be kind enough to let that remain between us. I do not wish to make M---- M---- unhappy.", "pos": 2024014}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "You must belong to me.", "pos": 2024700}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good evening, my two divinities, where is our charming Frenchman?", "pos": 2030421}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He has not arrived yet, but he will doubtless soon be here.", "pos": 2030489}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "A courier, who arrived two hours ago, prevents my being happy to-night, for I am compelled to pass it in answering the dispatches I have received. I trust that you will forgive and pity me. May I hope that you will kindly grant me on Friday the pleasure of which I am so unfortunately deprived to-day? Let me know your answer by to-morrow. I wish ardently, in that case, to find you with the same guests, to whom I beg you will present my affectionate compliments.", "pos": 2031353}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Well, it is not his fault. We will sup without him. Will you come on Friday?", "pos": 2031832}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, with the greatest pleasure. But what is the matter with you, dear C---- C----? You look sad.", "pos": 2031931}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Sad, no, unless it should be for the sake of my friend, for I have never seen a more polite and more obliging gentleman.", "pos": 2032031}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, dear, I am glad he has rendered you so sensible.", "pos": 2032154}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "What do you mean? Could anyone be insensible to his merit?", "pos": 2032216}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Better still, but I agree with you. Only tell me if you love him?", "pos": 2032277}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "Well, even if I loved him, do you think I would go and tell him? Besides, I am certain that he loves my friend.", "pos": 2032345}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you wish me to have a fire lighted in the alcove?", "pos": 2032866}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would oblige me, for the bed being large we can all three sleep comfortably in it. Your bosom, must have become perfect during the last nine months.", "pos": 2032952}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "It is like mine, would you like to see for yourself?", "pos": 2033587}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Will you, darling, represent that group with me?", "pos": 2034265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I go, that night will pass with perfect decency, but I shall prove myself very ridiculous, jealous, ungrateful, and even wanting in common politeness: if I remain absent, C---- C---- is lost, at least, in my estimation, for I feel that my love will no longer exist, and then good-bye to all idea of a marriage with her. But, sir, we have not had a special courier for the last two months. What? Did not a special cabinet messenger arrive here last night?", "pos": 2037806}
{"speaker": "Gate-keeper", "text": "Then he must have come in through the garret window or down the chimney, for, on the word of an honest man, none entered through the gate.", "pos": 2038723}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But the ambassador worked all night?", "pos": 2038863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be, sir, but not here, for his excellency dined with the Spanish ambassador, and did not return till very late.", "pos": 2038902}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "We were very sorry, dearest friend, when we heard that we should not have the happiness of seeing you. My dear M---- M----’s friend came shortly afterwards, and when he read your note he likewise expressed his deep regret. We expected to have a very dull supper, but the witty sayings of that gentleman enlivened us and you cannot imagine of what follies we were guilty after partaking of some champagne punch. Our friend had become as gay as ourselves, and we spent the night in trios, not very fatiguing, but very pleasant. I can assure you that that man deserves to be loved, but he must acknowledge himself inferior to you in everything. Believe me, dearest, I shall ever love you, and you must for ever remain the master of my heart.", "pos": 2039970}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I am certain, my own beloved, that you told a story out of pure politeness, but you had guessed that I expected you to do so. You have made our friend a splendid present in exchange for the one he made you when he did not object to his M---- M---- bestowing her heart upon you. You possess that heart entirely, dearest, and you would possess it under all circumstances, but how sweet it is to flavour the pleasures of love with the charms of friendship! I was sorry not to see you, but I knew that if you had come we would not have had much enjoyment; for our friend, notwithstanding all his wit, is not exempt from some natural prejudices. As for C---- C----, her mind is now quite as free of them as our own, and I am glad she owes it to me. You must feel thankful to me for having completed her education, and for rendering her in every way worthy of you. I wish you had been hiding in the closet, where I am certain you would have spent some delightful hours. On Wednesday next I shall be yours, and all alone with you in your casino in Venice; let me know whether you will be at the usual hour near the statue of the hero Colleoni. In case you should be prevented, name any other day.", "pos": 2040848}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "George Dandin, tu las voulu!", "pos": 2042296}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "No theatre to-night, let us go to the ‘ridotto’, to lose or double our money.", "pos": 2043243}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Now that we need not fear thieves, let us go to our supper.", "pos": 2043923}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "I may tell you confidentially, that I believe I shall scarcely be able to return, but she must not be told, as she would be in despair. Do not grieve thus, sweetheart, go I must, but my return is a matter of equal certainty when I have finished the important business which summons me to Vienna. You will still have the casino, but, dearest, both friendship and prudence make me advise you not to come here in my absence, for after I have left Venice I cannot depend upon the faith of the gondoliers in my service, and I suspect our friend here cannot flatter himself on his ability to get reliable ones. I may also tell you that I have strong reasons for suspecting that our intercourse is known to the State Inquisitors, who conceal their knowledge for political reasons, but I fancy the secret would soon come to light when I am no longer here, and when the nun who connives at your departure from the convent knows that it is no longer for me that you leave it. The only people whom I would trust are the housekeeper and his wife. I shall order them, before I go, to look upon our friend here as myself, and you can make your arrangements with them. I trust all will go well till my return, if you will only behave discreetly. I will write to you under cover of the housekeeper, his wife will give you my letters as before, and in the same way you may reply. I must needs go, dearest one, but my heart is with you, and I leave you, till my return, in the hands of a friend, whom I rejoice to have known. He loves you, he has a heart and knowledge of the world, and he will not let you make any mistakes. I am going, to work in concert with the Austrian cabinet on a treaty which will be the talk of Europe. I entreat you to write to me unreservedly, and as a friend, and if you love our common mistress, have a care for her honour, and above all have the strength of mind to resist all projects which are certain to involve you in misfortune, and which will be equally fatal to both. You know what happened to Madame de Riva, a nun in the convent of St.----. She had to disappear after it became known that she was with child, and M. de Frulai, my predecessor, went mad, and died shortly after. J. J. Rousseau told me that he died of poison, but he is a visionary who sees the black side of everything. For my part, I believe that he died of grief at not being able to do anything for the unfortunate woman, who afterwards procured a dispensation from her vows from the Pope, and having got married is now living at Padua without any position in society. Let the prudent and loyal friend master the lover: go and see M---- M---- sometimes in the parlour of the convent, but not here, or the boatmen will betray you. The knowledge which we both have that the girls are in a satisfactory condition is a great alleviation to my distress, but you must confess that you have been very imprudent. You have risked a terrible misfortune; consider the position you would have been in, for I am sure you would not have abandoned her. She had an idea that the danger might be overcome by means of drugs but I convinced her that she was mistaken. In God’s name, be discreet in the future, and write to me fully, for I shall always be interested in her fate, both from duty and sentiment.", "pos": 2052178}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "He is gone, and he leaves me to your care. Fatal being, whom perchance I shall see no more, whom I thought I loved but as a friend, now you are lost to me I see my mistake. Before I knew him I was not happy, but neither was I unhappy as I now am.", "pos": 2058155}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Nevertheless, this will not prevent my coming alone when I have any matter of importance to communicate to you. Promise me, sweetheart, to sup and sleep at the casino at least once a week, and write me a note each time by the housekeeper’s wife.", "pos": 2059268}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I am assured, of the good faith of the gardener’s sister. I can go out and come in without fear of being seen, for the little door leading to the convent is not overlooked by any window--indeed it is thought to be walled up. Nobody can see me crossing the garden to the little stream, which is considered unnavigable. All we want is a one-oared gondola, and I cannot believe that with the help of money you will be unable to find a boatman on whom we may rely.", "pos": 2060049}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Listen. I will be the boatman myself. I will come to the quay, pass by the little door, and you shall lead me to your room where I will pass the whole night with you, and the day, too, if you think you can hide me.", "pos": 2060656}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "That plan, makes me shudder. I tremble at the danger to which you might be exposed. No, I should be too unfortunate if I were to be the cause of your misfortune, but, as you can row, come in the boat, let me know the time as closely as possible; the trusty woman will be on the watch, and I will not keep you four minutes waiting. I will get into the boat, we will go to our beloved casino, and then we shall be happy without fearing anything.", "pos": 2060883}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will think it over", "pos": 2061341}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ma tiranno del mar Libecchio resta. Let us set out forthwith, for if the gale gets stronger I shall not be able to double the island.", "pos": 2064802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Help! I will give two sequins!", "pos": 2066643}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Go and sleep in the casino.", "pos": 2067269}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who will take me to Venice for eighty sous?", "pos": 2076080}
{"speaker": "Boatman", "text": "I. I", "pos": 2076126}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are too drunk to take me, lend me your boat, and I will give it you back to-morrow.", "pos": 2076325}
{"speaker": "Boatman", "text": "I don’t know you.", "pos": 2076415}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will deposit ten sequins, but your boat is not worth that. Who will be your surety?", "pos": 2076435}
{"speaker": "Laura", "text": "I know of a good room, with meals provided, you will be quite comfortable and will get it cheaply, and if you like to pay in advance, you need not even say who you are. The old man to whom the house belongs lives on the ground floor; he will give you all the keys and if you like you need see no one.", "pos": 2082611}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sure, of your goodwill, but I must talk to your mother. I must be alone, as I have to write all day, and I shall not take anything till the evening. You must never forget to deliver messages, for if you had waited any longer before bringing me this letter, it might have had the most serious consequences. Follow me,", "pos": 2084076}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall dine at noon, Tonine, take care to get what is necessary in good time.", "pos": 2086150}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "Sir, I prepared yesterday’s supper myself, and if you like I can cook all your meals.", "pos": 2086241}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am satisfied with your abilities, go on, and here is a sequin for expenses.", "pos": 2086329}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "I still have a hundred and twenty sous remaining from the one you gave me yesterday, and that will be enough.", "pos": 2086409}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, they are for yourself, and I shall give you as much every day.", "pos": 2086521}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In the morning. I will tell Laura to get me something less seducing;", "pos": 2087726}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have, four thousand sequins and her diamonds, which are worth six thousand; we should, therefore, have a sufficient sum to enable us to live honourably in any part of Europe.", "pos": 2089987}
{"speaker": "C---- C----", "text": "my mistress, after hearing my letter read, had fallen into a kind of convulsion, and, becoming delirious, she talked incessantly in French for three whole hours in a fashion which would have made all the nuns take to their heels, if they had understood her.", "pos": 2090235}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "she was sure to get well if I promised to keep to my word, and to carry her off as soon as her health would allow.", "pos": 2090675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "if I lived she might be sure my promise would be fulfilled.", "pos": 2090815}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "she believed herself out of danger, and that by taking care she hoped to be able to leave her room after Easter.", "pos": 2091389}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should not leave Muran till I had the pleasure of seeing her at the grating, where, without hurrying ourselves, we could plan the execution of our scheme.", "pos": 2091517}
{"speaker": "M. Dandolo", "text": "What! you without a cloak!", "pos": 2093821}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, for having gone out with my mask on I forgot to bring one.", "pos": 2093867}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "You have got so thin, that uncharitable people will be rather hard on you.", "pos": 2094238}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I trust they will not say that I have been passing my time with the Jesuits.", "pos": 2094326}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "You are sarcastic. They may say, perhaps, that you have passed your time in a hot-house under the influence of Mercury.", "pos": 2094405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t be afraid, sir, for to escape this hasty judgment I shall go back this evening.", "pos": 2094527}
{"speaker": "De la Haye", "text": "No, no, I am quite sure you will not.", "pos": 2094615}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Believe me, sir, that I deem your opinion of too much consequence not to be governed by it.", "pos": 2094655}
{"speaker": "Righelini", "text": "he had been longing to tell Murray of my re-appearance, and of the falsity of all the reports about me.", "pos": 2094973}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will go to sup with him, and I will return after supper.", "pos": 2095078}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "That’s of no consequence,", "pos": 2096562}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "provided you are covered. I only want you, my dear, to dry my hair. For shame! Come, take your smock between your teeth and then I shall see no more.", "pos": 2096598}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "Well, shall I go and dress myself and then do your hair?", "pos": 2097760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, come and sit on my knee, and cover my eyes with your hands.", "pos": 2097831}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "What a wonder! You are not in a hurry to read that letter! Faithless man, why did you not let me cure you six weeks ago. How lucky I am; thanks to the rain! I do not blame you, dear, but love me as you love her who writes to you every day, and I shall be satisfied.", "pos": 2098825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know who she is?", "pos": 2099109}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "She lives in a boarding-house, and is as beautiful as an angel; but she is there, and I am here. You are my master, and I will be your servant as long as you like. on the contrary it was time for me to get up for dinner, for she wanted to give me a dainty meal cooked in the Venetian manner.", "pos": 2099135}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is the cook?", "pos": 2099636}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "I am, and I have been using all my skill on it since five, when I got up.", "pos": 2099663}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What time is it now, then?", "pos": 2099739}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "Past one.", "pos": 2099768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "one or two nuns might be had for money, but that it could happen very rarely on account of the difficulties in most convents. As for the nun of Muran, justly famous for her beauty, if she be M---- M----, nun of the convent..., I not only disbelieve that Murray ever had her, but I am sure she was never the French ambassador’s mistress. If he knew her it could only have been at the grating, where I really cannot say what happens.", "pos": 2103925}
{"speaker": "Righelini", "text": "the English ambassador was a man of his word, and that he had the story from his own lips. If Mr. Murray, had not told it me under the seal of secrecy I would make him tell it you himself. I shall be obliged if you will take care that he never knows I told you of it.", "pos": 2104434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may rely on my discretion.", "pos": 2104721}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Between friends, you can get yourself the enjoyment of those charms, if you are willing to sacrifice a sum of money--not too much, either, but you must have the key.", "pos": 2105080}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think you have it?", "pos": 2105259}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "No, I am sure; and had less trouble than you might suppose.", "pos": 2105287}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you are sure; I congratulate you, and doubt no more. I envy your fortune, for I don’t believe a more perfect beauty could be found in all the convents of Venice.", "pos": 2105349}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "There you are wrong. Mother M---- M----, at---- in Muran, is certainly handsomer.", "pos": 2105516}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have heard her talked of and I have seen her once, but I do not think it possible that she can be procured for money.", "pos": 2105600}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "I think so, and when I think I mostly have good reasons.", "pos": 2105722}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You surprise me; but all the same I don’t mind betting you are deceived.", "pos": 2105802}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "You would lose. As you have only seen her once, I suppose you would not recognize her portrait?", "pos": 2105877}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should, indeed, as her face left a strong impression on my mind.", "pos": 2105975}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Wait a minute.", "pos": 2106044}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "These, are rare charms, with which you have doubtless a near acquaintance? Yes, and if you recognize any of them be discreet.", "pos": 2106241}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "You need not be afraid. Here are three I recognize, and this looks like M---- M----; but confess that you may have been deceived--at least, that you did not have her in the convent or here, for there are women like her.", "pos": 2106380}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you think I have been deceived? I have had her here in her religious habit, and I have spent a whole night with her; and it was to her individually that I sent a purse containing five hundred sequins. I gave fifty to the good procurer.", "pos": 2106602}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "You have, I suppose, visited her in the parlour, after having her here?", "pos": 2106847}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, never, as she was afraid her titular lover might hear of it. You know that was the French ambassador.", "pos": 2106921}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "But she only saw him in the parlour.", "pos": 2107029}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She used to go to his house in secular dress whenever he wanted her. I was told that by the man who brought her here.", "pos": 2107068}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Have you had her several times?", "pos": 2107188}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only once and that was enough, but I can have her whenever I like for a hundred sequins.", "pos": 2107222}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "All that may be the truth, but I would wager five hundred sequins that you have been deceived.", "pos": 2107313}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You shall have your answer in three days.", "pos": 2107410}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "I have won; for a hundred sequins I can have the fair nun!", "pos": 2108435}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas! there go my five hundred sequins.", "pos": 2108495}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "No, not five hundred, my dear fellow, for I should be ashamed to win so much of you, but the hundred she would cost me. If I win, you shall pay for my pleasure, and if I lose I shall give her nothing.", "pos": 2108547}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How is the problem to be solved?", "pos": 2108750}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "My Mercury tells me that we must wait for a day when masks are worn. He is endeavouring at present to find out a way to convince both of us; for otherwise neither you nor I would feel compelled to pay the wager, and if I really have M. M. my honour would not allow me to let her suspect that I had betrayed the secret.", "pos": 2108785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, that would be an unpardonable crime. Hear my plan, which will satisfy us both; for after it has been carried out each of us will be sure that he has fairly won or fairly lost. As soon as you have possessed yourself of the real or pretended nun, leave her on some pretext, and meet me in a place to be agreed upon. We will then go together to the convent, and I will ask for M. M.", "pos": 2109106}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Will seeing her and speaking to her convince you that the woman you have left at home is a mere impostor?", "pos": 2109492}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perfectly, and I shall pay my wager with the greatest willingness. I may say the same. If, when I summon M. M. to the parlour, the lay-sister tells us she is ill or busy, we will go, and the wager will be yours; you will sup with the fair, and I will go elsewhere.", "pos": 2109600}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "So be it; but since all this will be at nighttime, it is possible that when you ask for her, the sister will tell you that no one can be seen at such an hour.", "pos": 2109869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I shall lose.", "pos": 2110030}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "You are quite sure, then, that if she be in the convent she will come down?", "pos": 2110051}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s my business. I repeat, if you don’t speak to her, I shall hold myself to have lost a hundred sequins, or a thousand if you like.", "pos": 2110129}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "One can’t speak plainer than that, my dear fellow, and I thank you beforehand.", "pos": 2110267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The only thing I ask you is to come sharp to time; and not to come too late for a convent.", "pos": 2110348}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Will an hour after sunset suit you?", "pos": 2110441}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Admirably.", "pos": 2110479}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "I shall also make it my business to compel my masked mistress to stop where she is, even though it be M. M. herself.", "pos": 2110492}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Some won’t have long to wait, if you will take her to a casino which I myself possess at Muran, and where I secretly keep a girl of whom I am amorous. I will take care that she shall not be there on the appointed day, and I will give you the key of the casino. I shall also see that you find a delicate cold supper ready.", "pos": 2110611}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "That is admirable, but I must be able to point out the place to my Mercury.", "pos": 2110935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True! I will give you a supper to-morrow, the greatest secrecy to be observed between us. We will go to my casino in a gondola, and after supper we will go out by the street door; thus you will know the way by land and water. You will only have to tell the procurer the name of the canal and of the house, and on the day fixed you shall have the key. You will only find there an old man who lives on the ground floor, and he will see neither those who go out nor those who come in. My sweetheart will see nothing and will not be seen; and all, trust me, will turn out well.", "pos": 2111013}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "I begin to think that I have lost my bet, but it matters not, I can gaily encounter either loss or gain.", "pos": 2111589}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Tell me what I am to do, sweetheart, and be sure I will refuse nothing which may be in my power.", "pos": 2115230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be here this evening an hour after sunset, and ask for you at this grating; come. I shall be with another man, to whom I beg of you to say a few words of politeness; you can then leave us. Let us find some pretext to justify the unseasonable hour.", "pos": 2115341}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I will do what you ask, but you cannot imagine how troublesome it is in a convent, for at six o’clock the parlours are shut up and the keys are taken to the abbess’ room. However, as you only want me for five minutes, I will tell the abbess that I am expecting a letter from my brother, and that it can be sent to me on this evening only. You must give me a letter that the nun who will be with me may be able to say that I have not been guilty of deception.", "pos": 2115599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will not come alone, then?", "pos": 2116060}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I should not dare even to ask for such a privilege.", "pos": 2116093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but try to come with some old nun who is short-sighted.", "pos": 2116147}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I will keep the light in the background.", "pos": 2116216}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pray do not do so, my beloved; on the contrary, place it so that you may be distinctly seen.", "pos": 2116259}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "All this is very strange, but I have promised passive obedience, and I will come down with two lights. May I hope that you will explain this riddle to me at your next interview?", "pos": 2116354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By to-morrow, at latest, you shall know the whole story.", "pos": 2116534}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "My curiosity will prevent me from sleeping.", "pos": 2116593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not so, dear heart; sleep peacefully, and be sure of my gratitude.", "pos": 2116639}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is the nun there?", "pos": 2117501}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Yes, my dear fellow. We will go, if you like, to the parlour; but you will find that we shall be told she is ill or engaged. If you like, the bet shall be off.", "pos": 2117556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "God forbid, my dear fellow! I cling to that hundred ducats. Let us be gone.", "pos": 2117718}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I shall, perhaps, make you lose the first act of the opera,", "pos": 2118571}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "The pleasure of seeing you, madam, is worth all the operas in the world.", "pos": 2118643}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You are English, I think?", "pos": 2118718}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Yes, madam.", "pos": 2118746}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "The English are now the greatest people in the world, because they are free and powerful. Gentlemen, I wish you a very good evening.", "pos": 2118760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, are you convinced now that you have been cheated?", "pos": 2119198}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Be quiet, we have time enough to talk about that. Let us go upstairs.", "pos": 2119266}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shall I come?", "pos": 2119338}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Do. What do you think I could do by myself for four hours with that creature who is waiting for me? We will amuse ourselves with her.", "pos": 2119354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Had we not better turn her out?", "pos": 2119490}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "No; her master is coming for her at two o’clock in the morning. She would go and warn him, and he would escape my vengeance. We will throw them both out of the window.", "pos": 2119524}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be moderate, for M---- M---- s honour depends on the secrecy we observe. Let us go upstairs. We shall have some fun. I should like to see the hussy.", "pos": 2119694}
{"speaker": "False Nun", "text": "I don’t know you, who are you?", "pos": 2120252}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are in my house, and don’t know who I am?", "pos": 2120297}
{"speaker": "False Nun", "text": "I am in your house because I have been betrayed. I did not think that I should have to do with a scoundrel. Put me in prison!", "pos": 2120345}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Will you hold your tongue, and keep quiet till Capsucefalo comes, or go to prison?", "pos": 2121153}
{"speaker": "False Nun", "text": "If I keep quiet what will become of me?", "pos": 2121261}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "I promise to let you go.", "pos": 2121303}
{"speaker": "False Nun", "text": "With him?", "pos": 2121330}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Perhaps.", "pos": 2121342}
{"speaker": "False Nun", "text": "Very well, then, I will keep quiet.", "pos": 2121353}
{"speaker": "Mr. Murray", "text": "Have you got any more weapons?", "pos": 2121391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did you make this nice acquaintance?", "pos": 2122890}
{"speaker": "Murray", "text": "Six months ago, while standing at the convent gate with Mr. Smith, our consul, in whose company I had been to see some ceremony or other, I remarked to him, as we were talking over some nuns we had noticed, ‘I would gladly give five hundred sequins for a few hours of Sister M---- M----’s company.’", "pos": 2122956}
{"speaker": "Capsucefalo", "text": "I have just been speaking to her, and on my mentioning your name she said she had noticed you with Mr. Smith, and vowed she would sup with you more for love than money. I, am the only man she trusts, and I take her to the French ambassador’s casino in Venice whenever she wants to go there. You need not be afraid of being cheated, as you will give the money to her personally when you have possessed yourself of her.", "pos": 2123648}
{"speaker": "Innocente", "text": "they were allowed to keep their hair under their caps,", "pos": 2124619}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know me?", "pos": 2128387}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, but I have often seen you passing under my window. I live at St. Roch, near the bridge.", "pos": 2128413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t believe,", "pos": 2129254}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that you have shewn so much interest without being in love with the divine nun.", "pos": 2129282}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would gladly give a hundred guineas a month,", "pos": 2129491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to have the privilege of visiting her at the grating.", "pos": 2129549}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here is our friend,", "pos": 2129795}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "be discreet, and you will see that he will make a full confession.", "pos": 2129825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, you are here; you know, of course, that the secret must be kept?", "pos": 2130121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Home.", "pos": 2130346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think you may be mistaken, as it is very possible that when you leave this place you will both of you be provided with a bed in prison.", "pos": 2130354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I am not afraid of that happening; the thing would make too much noise, and the laugh would not be on your side. Come,", "pos": 2130494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "put on your cloak and let us be off.", "pos": 2130640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will hold it as a pledge for that sum,", "pos": 2131123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, nun procurer!", "pos": 2131428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be sure,", "pos": 2131648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that the guilty parties shall be punished without anyone’s knowing the reason", "pos": 2131668}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You know, do you, that I have a young servant?", "pos": 2133246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and a pretty one, too. She is Laura’s daughter, and if you love her I am very glad, and so is C---- C----. I hope you will let me have a sight of her. C---- C---- has seen her before.", "pos": 2133295}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "You wish to leave me, then,", "pos": 2139640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I love you, dearest, and what I propose ought to convince you of my love.", "pos": 2139690}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "Not so; I cannot serve two masters.", "pos": 2139766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will only serve your new lover, sweetheart. I beg of you to reflect that you will have a fine dowry, on the strength of which you may marry well; and that however much I love you I cannot possibly make so good a provision for you.", "pos": 2139804}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "Leave me to-day for tears and reflection, and come to supper with me to-morrow. I think your English friend is a very pretty man, and when he speaks in the Venetian dialect it makes me die with laughter. If my mother agrees, I might, perhaps, force myself to love him. Supposing we did not agree we could part at the end of a year, and I should be the richer by an income of two hundred crowns.", "pos": 2140041}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am charmed with the sense of your arguments; speak about it to your mother.", "pos": 2140492}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "I daren’t, sweetheart; this kind of thing is too delicate to be discussed between a mother and her daughter speak to her yourself.", "pos": 2140572}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will, indeed.", "pos": 2140705}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "for, now that you have no longer any attraction at Muran, I shall see you less than ever.", "pos": 2141963}
{"speaker": "Tonine", "text": "I will see him, but as his friend he shall have nothing more from me.", "pos": 2143005}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure, for a garden is a rarity in Venice.", "pos": 2146089}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "I can see some at the top, and I will gather them if you will hold me the ladder.", "pos": 2146392}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, climb away; I will hold it quite firmly. My dear Barberine, what do you think I can see?", "pos": 2146494}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "What you have often seen with my sister.", "pos": 2146762}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s true! but you are prettier than she is.", "pos": 2146805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you give me what I have caught, dearest?", "pos": 2147421}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "My mother is going to Muran to-morrow, and she will stay there all the day; if you come, there is nothing I will refuse you.", "pos": 2147469}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, you used to like to perform the mysterious sacrifice of Love without a veil.", "pos": 2148811}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "It was not I but Ancilla who liked it, and as I preferred pleasing her to pleasing myself, I gave in to her taste without any difficulty.", "pos": 2148905}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted with your answer, as I confess it would cost me something to be the witness of your exploits with Tonine.", "pos": 2149045}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "My mother will not be back till the evening, and my brother will take his dinner at the school. Here is a fowl, a ham, some cheese, and two bottles of Scopolo wine. We will take our mess whenever you like.", "pos": 2149798}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You astonish me, sweetheart, for how did you manage to get such a good dinner?", "pos": 2150006}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "We owe it to my mother, so to her be the praise.", "pos": 2150087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have told her, then, what we are going to do?", "pos": 2150138}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "No, not I, for I know nothing about it; but I told her you were coming to see me, and at the same time I gave her the ten sequins.", "pos": 2150190}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what did your mother say?", "pos": 2150323}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "She said she wouldn’t be sorry if you were to love me as you loved my sister.", "pos": 2150355}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I love you better, though I love her well.", "pos": 2150435}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "You love her? Why have you left her, then?", "pos": 2150480}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have not left her, for we supped together yesterday evening; but we no longer live together as lovers, that is all. I have yielded her up to a rich friend of mine, who has made her fortune.", "pos": 2150525}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "That is well, though I don’t understand much about these affairs. I hope you will tell Tonine that I have taken her place, and I should be very pleased if you would let her know that you are quite sure you are my first lover.", "pos": 2150719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And supposing the news vexes her?", "pos": 2150947}
{"speaker": "Barberine", "text": "So much the better. Will you do it for me? it’s the first favour I have asked of you.", "pos": 2150983}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise to do so.", "pos": 2151071}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is pretty, but the sculptor should give her some colour.", "pos": 2152931}
{"speaker": "Righelini", "text": "Her pallor, will not astonish you when I tell you she has just been blooded for the hundred and fourth time. I want to send her to the country, where pure and wholesome air, and, above all, more exercise, will do her more good than all the drugs in the world.", "pos": 2153094}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But my dear doctor, can’t you make your own prescription?", "pos": 2153846}
{"speaker": "Righelini", "text": "That would be too risky a game, for I might find myself compelled to marry her, and I hate marriage like the devil.", "pos": 2153916}
{"speaker": "A young lady", "text": "I am, the statue you saw this morning. We do not light the candles in the evening for fear of attracting the gnats, but when you want to go to bed we will shut the door and go away. I beg to introduce you to my younger sister, my mother has gone to bed.", "pos": 2155002}
{"speaker": "younger sister", "text": "Very well, for her pale complexion is not an illness, and she only suffers when her breath fails her. She has a very good appetite, and sleeps as well as I do.", "pos": 2156561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Whom do I hear playing the violin?", "pos": 2156735}
{"speaker": "younger sister", "text": "It’s the dancing master giving my sister a lesson.", "pos": 2156772}
{"speaker": "dancing master", "text": "The signorina would find it too tiring,", "pos": 2157231}
{"speaker": "dancing sister", "text": "In future, my dear master. I will only dance like that, for I think the rapid motion will do me good.", "pos": 2157455}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "They have just been burying a nun who died of consumption the day before yesterday in the odour of sanctity. She was called ‘Maria Concetta.’ She knew you, and told C---- C---- your name when you used to come to mass on feast days. C---- C---- begged her to be discreet, but the nun told her that you were a dangerous man, whose presence should be shunned by a young girl. C---- C---- told me all this after the mask of Pierrot.", "pos": 2160215}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What was this saint’s name when she was in the world?", "pos": 2160646}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Martha.", "pos": 2160702}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know her.", "pos": 2160712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How old is he?", "pos": 2163542}
{"speaker": "hostess's daughter", "text": "He is over fifty.", "pos": 2163559}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he a married man?", "pos": 2163579}
{"speaker": "hostess's daughter", "text": "Yes, his name is Count S----. He is as fond of me as a father would be, and his affection has continued the same since my childhood. Even his wife comes to see me sometimes, and to ask me to dinner. Next autumn I am going into the country with her, and I hope the fresh air will do me good. My god-father knows you are staying with us and is satisfied. He does not know you, but if you like you can make his acquaintance.", "pos": 2163602}
{"speaker": "hostess's daughter", "text": "My god-father, is in possession of all the necessary documents for withdrawing from the house of Persico our family fortune, which amounts to forty thousand crowns. A quarter of this sum belongs to me, and my mother has promised my sister and myself to share her dowry between us.", "pos": 2164793}
{"speaker": "hostess's daughter", "text": "Alas! whom shall I love, not knowing whether I shall be loved in return? Let me alone, 'tis perchance the cause of my illness.", "pos": 2168671}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sweetheart, that cannot be.", "pos": 2169184}
{"speaker": "hostess's daughter", "text": "Do you go to bed, the fresh air is doing me good, and I want to enjoy it a little longer.", "pos": 2170391}
{"speaker": "Antony Mocenigo", "text": "I had conspired to seduce his nephew.", "pos": 2173750}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I feel remorse for nothing and I am therefore guilty of nothing, and the innocent have nothing to fear.", "pos": 2175978}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear count, your daughter has just told me that you were out.", "pos": 2178376}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "I myself told her to do so, as I have some business with these gentlemen, which, however, can wait for another day.", "pos": 2178453}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your father, would have surprised me, and it is easy to guess what he would have done with the two sbirri who were with him. The plot is clear, and I have only escaped from it by the happiest of chances.", "pos": 2179513}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "Messer-Grande, has entered my house forcibly, accompanied by a band of sbirri. He turned everything upside down, on the pretext that he was in search of a portmanteau full of salt--a highly contraband article. He said he knew that a portmanteau had been landed there the evening before, which was quite true; but it belonged to Count S----, and only contained linen and clothes. Messer-Grande, after inspecting it, went out without saying a word.", "pos": 2184199}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "The portmanteau, was a mere pretext; it was you they wanted and thought to find. Since your good genius has made them miss you, look out for yourself; perhaps by to-morrow it may be too late. I have been a State Inquisitor for eight months, and I know the way in which the arrests ordered by the court are carried out. They would not break open a door to look for a box of salt. Indeed, it is possible that they knew you were out, and sought to warn you to escape in this manner. Take my advice, my dear son, and set out directly for Fusina, and thence as quickly as you can make your way to Florence, where you can remain till I write to you that you may return with safety. If you have no money I will give you a hundred sequins for present expenses. Believe me that prudence bids you go. The high court, may deem you guilty of crimes real or imaginary; but in any case it will give you no account of the accusations against you. Ask your oracle if you shall follow my advice or not.", "pos": 2186490}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If secrecy, is of the essence of the Court, you cannot possibly judge, after my escape, whether I have done so rightly or wrongly. The same reasons, which, according to your excellence, bid me go, would forbid my return. Must I then say good-bye for ever to my country, and all that is dear to me?", "pos": 2187977}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For Heaven’s sake! spare me the harrowing sight of your tears.", "pos": 2188923}
{"speaker": "M. de Bragadin", "text": "Perhaps I may be fated never to see you again, but ‘Fata viam invenient’.", "pos": 2189159}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "yes, I am Casanova. On whose authority do you order me to do this?", "pos": 2190088}
{"speaker": "Messer-Grande", "text": "By the authority of the Tribunal.", "pos": 2190281}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Take them,", "pos": 2190737}
{"speaker": "Dominic Cavalli", "text": "E quello, mettetelo in deposito.", "pos": 2195946}
{"speaker": "the gaoler", "text": "I see, sir, that you wish to know what that is for, and as it happens I can satisfy your curiosity. When their excellencies give orders that anyone is to be strangled, he is made to sit down on a stool, the back turned to this collar, and his head is so placed that the collar goes round one half of the neck. A silk band, which goes round the other half, passes through this hole, and the two ends are connected with the axle of a wheel which is turned by someone until the prisoner gives up the ghost, for the confessor, God be thanked! never leaves him till he is dead.", "pos": 2197065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All this sounds very ingenious, and I should think that it is you who have the honour of turning the wheel. I haven’t thought anything about it yet,", "pos": 2197640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This, is the body of some strangled wretch, and they would thus warn me of the fate which is in store for me.", "pos": 2202745}
{"speaker": "my gaoler", "text": "Have you had time yet to think about what you will take to eat?", "pos": 2205495}
{"speaker": "the gaoler", "text": "for if you flatter yourself that you are only here for a night, you are very much mistaken.", "pos": 2206039}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then bring me whatever you think necessary.", "pos": 2206144}
{"speaker": "the gaoler", "text": "Where shall I go for it? Here is a pencil and paper; write it down. Scratch out, scratch out books, paper, pens, looking-glass and razors, for all that is forbidden fruit here, and then give me some money to get your dinner.", "pos": 2206190}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "Tell me what you would like for to-morrow, for I can only come here once a day at sunrise. The Lord High Secretary has told me to inform you that he will send you some suitable books, but those you wish for are forbidden.", "pos": 2207345}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Thank him for his kindness in putting me by myself.", "pos": 2207580}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "I will do so, but you make a mistake in jesting thus.", "pos": 2207634}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t jest at all, for I think truly that it is much better to be alone than to mingle with the scoundrels who are doubtless here.", "pos": 2207690}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "What, sir! scoundrels? Not at all, not at all. They are only respectable people here, who, for reasons known to their excellencies alone, have to be sequestered from society. You have been put by yourself as an additional punishment, and you want me to thank the secretary on that account?", "pos": 2207825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was not aware of that.", "pos": 2208117}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, then, did that saintly lunatic produce that masterpiece which but for M. Cavalli I should never have known.", "pos": 2214773}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "Where can I get some?", "pos": 2215842}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nowhere. Get me the Leyden Gazette twice a week.", "pos": 2215866}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "I can’t do that, because it is not allowed by the authorities.", "pos": 2216263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 2217838}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "That can’t be, sir, as you have eaten nothing. You are ill, and you will experience the generosity of the Tribunal who will provide you, without fee or charge, with a physician, surgeon, and all necessary medicines.", "pos": 2217851}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "If we want to get well, we must not be melancholy.", "pos": 2219296}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Write me the prescription, and take it to the only apothecary who can make it up. M. Cavalli is the bad doctor who exhibited ‘The Heart of Jesus,’ and ‘The Mystical City.’", "pos": 2219360}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Those two preparations are quite capable of having brought on the fever and the haemorrhoids. I will not forsake you I have obtained leave, for you to move into the garret where the heat is less, and the air better than here.", "pos": 2219534}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I decline the favour, as I abominate the rats, which you know nothing about, and which would certainly get into my bed.", "pos": 2220085}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "What a pity! I told M. Cavalli that he had almost killed you with his books, and he has commissioned me to take them back, and to give you Boethius; and here it is.", "pos": 2220207}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am much obliged to you. I like it better than Seneca, and I am sure it will do me good.", "pos": 2220374}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "I am leaving you a very necessary instrument, and some barley water for you to refresh yourself with.", "pos": 2220466}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can they leave me here to the mercy of their successors, to whom they cannot leave any evidence capable of condemning me?", "pos": 2222896}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another, O my God! but stronger.", "pos": 2226506}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 2232018}
{"speaker": "Maggiorin", "text": "I am Maggiorin, of Vicenza. My father, who was a coachman, kept me at school till I was eleven, by which time I had learnt to read and write; I was afterwards apprenticed to a barber, where I learnt my business thoroughly. After that I became valet to the Count of X--. I had been in the service of the nobleman for two years when his daughter came from the convent. It was my duty to do her hair, and by degrees I fell in love with her, and inspired her with a reciprocal passion. After having sworn a thousand times to exist only for one another, we gave ourselves up to the task of shewing each other marks of our affection, the result of which was that the state of the young countess discovered all. An old and devoted servant was the first to find out our connection and the condition of my mistress, and she told her that she felt in duty bound to tell her father, but my sweetheart succeeded in making her promise to be silent, saying that in the course of the week she herself would tell him through her confessor. She informed me of all this, and instead of going to confession we prepared for flight. She had laid hands on a good sum of money and some diamonds which had belonged to her mother, and we were to set out for Milan to-night. But to-day the count called me after dinner, and giving me a letter, he told me to start at once and to deliver it with my own hand to the person to whom it was addressed at Venice. He spoke to me so kindly and quietly that I had not the slightest suspicion of the fate in store for me. I went to get my cloak, said good-bye to my little wife, telling her that I should soon return. Seeing deeper below the surface than I, and perchance having a presentiment of my misfortune, she was sick at heart. I came here in hot haste, and took care to deliver the fatal letter. They made me wait for an answer, and in the mean time I went to an inn; but as I came out I was arrested and put in the guard-room, where I was kept till they brought me here. I suppose, sir, I might consider the young countess as my wife?", "pos": 2232041}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make a mistake.", "pos": 2234101}
{"speaker": "Maggiorin", "text": "But nature----", "pos": 2234123}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nature, when a man listens to her and nothing else, takes him from one folly to another, till she puts him under the Leads.", "pos": 2234141}
{"speaker": "Maggiorin", "text": "I am under the Leads, then, am I?", "pos": 2234267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As I am.", "pos": 2234303}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "I believe you will often have visitors, as the other six cells have each two prisoners, who are not likely to be sent to the Fours. They send to the Fours all sorts of people after they have been sentenced, though they know nothing of that. The prisoners whom I have charge of under the Leads are like yourself, persons of note, and are only guilty of deeds of which the inquisitive must know nothing. If you knew, sir, what sort of people shared your fate, you would be astonished, It’s true that you are called a man of parts; but you will pardon me.... You know that all men of parts are treated well here. You take me, I see. Fifty sous a day, that’s something. They give three livres to a citizen, four to a gentleman, and eight to a foreign count. I ought to know, I think, as everything goes through my hands. I’m no thief, nor traitor, nor greedy, nor malicious, nor brutal, as all my predecessors were, and when I have drunk a pint over and above I am all the better for it. If my father had sent me to school I should have learnt to read and write, and I might be Messer-Grande to-day, but that’s not my fault. M. Andre Diedo has a high opinion of me. My wife, who cooks for you every day, and is only twenty-four, goes to see him when she will, and he will have her come in without ceremony, even if he be in bed, and that’s more than he’ll do for a senator. I promise you you will be always having the new-comers in your cell, but never for any length of time, for as soon as the secretary has got what he wants to know from them, he sends them to their place--to the Fours, to some fort, or to the Levant; and if they be foreigners they are sent across the frontier, for our Government does not hold itself master of the subjects of other princes, if they be not in its service. The clemency of the Court is beyond compare; there’s not another in the world that treats its prisoners so well. They say it’s cruel to disallow writing and visitors; but that’s foolish, for what are writing and company but waste of time? You will tell me that you have nothing to do, but we can’t say as much.", "pos": 2239358}
{"speaker": "Squaldo Nobili", "text": "I have no money.", "pos": 2243149}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "What! a moneyed man like you have no money?", "pos": 2243168}
{"speaker": "Squaldo Nobili", "text": "I haven’t a sou.", "pos": 2243214}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "Very good; in that case I will get you some army biscuit and water, according to instructions.", "pos": 2243233}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t sigh, sir, you shall share my dinner. But I think you have made a great mistake in coming here without money.", "pos": 2243565}
{"speaker": "Squaldo Nobili", "text": "I have some, but it does not do to let those harpies know of it.", "pos": 2243683}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And so you condemn yourself to bread and water. Truly a wise proceeding! Do you know the reason of your imprisonment?", "pos": 2243750}
{"speaker": "Squaldo Nobili", "text": "Yes, sir, and I will endeavour in a few words to inform you of it. My name is Squaldo Nobili. My father was a countryman who had me taught reading and writing, and at his death left me his cottage and the small patch of ground belonging to it. I lived in Friuli, about a day’s journey from the Marshes of Udine. As a torrent called Corno often damaged my little property, I determined to sell it and to set up in Venice, which I did ten years ago. I brought with me eight thousand livres in fair sequins, and knowing that in this happy commonwealth all men enjoyed the blessings of liberty, I believed that by utilizing my capital I might make a little income, and I began to lend money, on security. Relying on my thrift, my judgment, and my, knowledge of the world, I chose this business in preference to all others. I rented a small house in the neighbourhood of the Royal Canal, and having furnished it I lived there in comfort by myself; and in the course of two years I found I had made a profit of ten thousand livres, though I had expended two thousand on household expenses as I wished to live in comfort. In this fashion I saw myself in a fair way of making a respectable fortune in time; but one, day, having lent a Jew two sequins upon some books, I found one amongst them called ‘La Sagesse,’ by Charron. It was then I found out how good a thing it is to be able to read, for this book, which you, sir, may not have read, contains all that a man need know--purging him of all the prejudices of his childhood. With Charron good-bye to hell and all the empty terrors of a future life; one’s eyes are opened, one knows the way to bliss, one becomes wise indeed. Do you, sir, get this book, and pay no heed to those foolish persons who would tell you this treasure is not to be approached.", "pos": 2243870}
{"speaker": "Squaldo Nobili", "text": "Set free by Charron from any scruples I still might have, and from those false ideas so hard to rid one’s self of, I pushed my business in such sort, that at the end of six years I could lay my hand on ten thousand sequins. There is no need for you to be astonished at that, as in this wealthy city gambling, debauchery, and idleness set all the world awry and in continual need of money; so do the wise gather what the fool drops. Three years ago a certain Count Seriman came and asked me to take from him five hundred sequins, to put them in my business, and to give him half profits. All he asked for was an obligation in which I promised to return him the whole sum on demand. At the end of a year I sent him seventy-five sequins, which made fifteen per cent. on his money; he gave me a receipt for it, but was ill pleased. He was wrong, for I was in no need of money, and had not used his for business purposes. At the end of the second year, out of pure generosity, I sent him the same amount; but we came to a quarrel and he demanded the return of the five hundred sequins. ‘Certainly,’ I said, ‘but I must deduct the hundred and fifty you have already received.’ Enraged at this he served me with a writ for the payment of the whole sum. A clever lawyer undertook my defence and was able to gain me two years. Three months ago I was spoken to as to an agreement, and I refused to hear of it, but fearing violence I went to the Abbé Justiniani, the Spanish ambassador’s secretary, and for a small sum he let me a house in the precincts of the Embassy, where one is safe from surprises. I was quite willing to let Count Seriman have his money, but I claimed a reduction of a hundred sequins on account of the costs of the lawsuit. A week ago the lawyers on both sides came to me. I shewed them a purse of two hundred and fifty sequins, and told them they might take it, but not a penny more. They went away without saying a word, both wearing an ill-pleased air, of which I took no notice. Three days ago the Abbé Justiniani told me that the ambassador had thought fit to give permission to the State Inquisitors to send their men at once to my house to make search therein. I thought the thing impossible under the shelter of a foreign ambassador, and instead of taking the usual precautions, I waited the approach of the men-at-arms, only putting my money in a place of safety. At daybreak Messer-Grande came to the house, and asked me for three hundred and fifty sequins, and on my telling him that I hadn’t a farthing he seized me, and here I am.", "pos": 2246186}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am grateful for the kindness of the Tribunal and the goodness of M. de Bragadin.", "pos": 2250586}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "I will make them water the floor,", "pos": 2255280}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would be worse, Lawrence, for the damp might cause a plethora.", "pos": 2255325}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get me a doctor.", "pos": 2256092}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "But what the doctor says is worth considering, and I shall tell them all about it, for I look upon them as my children.", "pos": 2256994}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never mind the danger, buy me the ointment, or rather get me the sulphur, as I have some butter by me, and I can make it up myself. Have you any matches? Give me a few.", "pos": 2259705}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When?", "pos": 2262281}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "This evening. You heard when I asked for my bed he told me that we would talk about that to-morrow. That means plainly that I shall have no need of it. And do you think it likely that a man like me would be left without anything to eat?", "pos": 2262289}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That was my experience.", "pos": 2262528}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "Possibly, but between ourselves our cases are somewhat different; and without going any farther into that question, the Inquisitors have made a mistake in arresting me, and they will be in some trouble, I am certain, as to how to atone for doing so.", "pos": 2262554}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They will possibly give you a pension. A man of your importance has to be conciliated.", "pos": 2262806}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "True, there’s not a broker on the exchange more useful than myself, and the five sages have often profited by the advice I have given them. My detention is a curious incident, which, perchance, will be of service to you.", "pos": 2262895}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Indeed. How, may I ask?", "pos": 2263118}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "I will get you out of here in a month’s time. I know to whom to speak and what way to do it.", "pos": 2263144}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I reckon on you, then.", "pos": 2263239}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "You may do so.", "pos": 2263264}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "It’s true, that he agreed to give me fifty per cent., but you must consider that if he died before his father I should lose all.", "pos": 2264396}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want? waking me up with a start like this.", "pos": 2266271}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "My dear fellow, I can’t sleep a wink. Have compassion on me and let us have a little talk.", "pos": 2266338}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You scoundrel! You act thus and you dare to call yourself my friend! I know your lack of sleep torments you, but if you again deprive me of the only blessing I enjoy I will arise and strangle you.", "pos": 2266431}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "Forgive me, for mercy’s sake! and be sure that I will not trouble you again.", "pos": 2266676}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "So, gentlemen, if you have any complaints to make of me make them. Dress yourselves fully, as is customary.", "pos": 2267968}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "My presentiment, is of the same kind as I have had before, and I have never been deceived.", "pos": 2268324}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you, but don’t reckon without your host.", "pos": 2268428}
{"speaker": "the Jesuit", "text": "Do you pray to God?", "pos": 2270062}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From the morning unto the evening, and from the evening unto the morning, for, placed as I am, all that I feel--my anxiety, my grief, all the wanderings of my mind--can be but a prayer in the eyes of the Divine Wisdom which alone sees my heart.", "pos": 2270093}
{"speaker": "the Jesuit", "text": "Since it is from us, that you learnt what you know of religion, practise it in our fashion, pray like us, and know that you will only come out of this place on the day of the saint whose name you bear.", "pos": 2270561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But which is it? It cannot be St. James of Compostella, whose name I bear, for it was on the feast-day of that saint that Messer-Grande burst open my door.", "pos": 2271455}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "Truly, sir, I pity you, for the air here is as hot as a furnace. Get up, and thank God for giving you such good company. Come in, my lord, come in,", "pos": 2277251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where am I? My God! where have I been put? What heat! What a stench! With whom am I?", "pos": 2277668}
{"speaker": "Abbé and Count Fenarolo", "text": "Ah! it’s Casanova.", "pos": 2278660}
{"speaker": "Abbé and Count Fenarolo", "text": "You are very fortunate in being able to pay your court to so sweet a lady. At present the personage I represent makes the fairest land in the world no better for me than a galley. Tell the lady, I beseech you, that the laws which now prevent me speaking to her will be without force at Venice, where I shall go next year, and then I shall declare war against her.", "pos": 2281676}
{"speaker": "Madame Ruzzini", "text": "Tell him, that I accept his declaration of war, and that we shall see who will wage it best.", "pos": 2282161}
{"speaker": "Abbé and Count Fenarolo", "text": "I can’t think, that they will leave me here for a week.", "pos": 2283148}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "I give you joy, sir, for the good news I am bringing you.", "pos": 2288560}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wait till I put on my clothes.", "pos": 2288893}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "It’s of no consequence, as you only have to walk from this abominable cell to another, well lighted and quite fresh, with two windows whence you can see half Venice, and you can stand upright too.", "pos": 2288926}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me the vinegar,", "pos": 2289179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and go and tell the secretary that I thank the Court for this favour, and entreat it to leave me where I am.", "pos": 2289210}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "You make me laugh, sir. Have you gone mad? They would take you from hell to put you in heaven, and you would refuse to stir? Come, come, the Court must be obeyed, pray rise, sir. I will give you my arm, and will have your clothes and your books brought for you.", "pos": 2289321}
{"speaker": "Beguelin", "text": "Dum vita superest, bene est", "pos": 2294597}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did not know what he was talking about. Do your duty, but let no one touch me.", "pos": 2295544}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "You won’t tell me, then, where are the instruments with which you made the hole. It’s of no matter, as we shall find a way to make you speak.", "pos": 2295903}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it be true that I have made a hole at all, I shall say that you gave me the tools, and that I have returned them to you.", "pos": 2296047}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That way, will lead me out of this place of torments.", "pos": 2297641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you received orders, to kill me with hunger and heat?", "pos": 2298307}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "You have already told me, sir, that I myself furnished you with the tools to make that enormous hole, and I will ask no more about it; but would you kindly tell me where you got the materials to make a lamp? I myself furnished you with the tools to make that enormous hole, and I will ask no more about it; but would you kindly tell me where you got the materials to make a lamp?", "pos": 2300468}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From you.", "pos": 2300678}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "Well, for the moment, sir, I’m dashed, for I did not think that wit meant impudence.", "pos": 2300690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not telling you any lies. You it was who with your own hands gave me all the requisites--oil, flint, and matches; the rest I had by me.", "pos": 2300777}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "You are right; but can you shew me as simply that I gave you the tools to make that hole?", "pos": 2300920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, for you are the only person who has given me anything.", "pos": 2301012}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "Lord have mercy upon me! what do I hear? Tell me, then, how I gave you a hatchet?", "pos": 2301080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will tell you the whole story and I will speak the truth, but only in the presence of the secretary.", "pos": 2301164}
{"speaker": "Lawrence", "text": "I don’t wish to know any more, and I believe everything you say. I only ask you to say nothing about it, as I am a poor man with a family to provide for.", "pos": 2301269}
{"speaker": "the guard", "text": "In another day. Casanova would have escaped, and Lawrence would have swung, for though he pretended great astonishment when he saw the hole, there can be no doubt that he and no other provided the tools.", "pos": 2307760}
{"speaker": "my correspondent", "text": "Nicolas has told me, that M. de Bragadin has promised him a thousand sequins if he will aid you to make your escape but that Lawrence, who knows of it, hopes to get the money without risking his neck, his plan being to obtain your liberty by means of the influence of his wife with M. Diedo. None of the guards dare to speak of what happened for fear Lawrence might get himself out of the difficulty, and take his revenge by having them dismissed.", "pos": 2307988}
{"speaker": "the monk", "text": "it is of no use to break one’s head against a stone wall.", "pos": 2312790}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here your task will end and mine will begin, and I will undertake to set both you and Count Asquin at liberty. I know that, reverend father, but we are not going to escape by the doors. My plan is complete, and I will guarantee its success. All I ask of you is to carry out my directions, and to make no difficulties. Do you busy yourself to find out some way of getting my bar without the knowledge of the gaoler. In the meanwhile, make him get you about forty pictures of saints, large enough to cover all the walls of your cell. Lawrence will suspect nothing, and they will do to conceal the opening you are to make in the ceiling. To do this will be the work of some days, and of mornings Lawrence will not see what you have done the day before, as you will have covered it up with one of the pictures. If you ask me why I do not undertake the work myself, I can only say that the gaoler suspects me, and the objection will doubtless seem to you a weighty one.", "pos": 2313618}
{"speaker": "the monk", "text": "Lawrence, had often talked about your cloak, and Count Asquin would arouse no suspicion by asking to see it in order to buy one of the same kind. All you have to do is to send it folded up. Lawrence would never dream of unfolding it.", "pos": 2315620}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. I will send it him with the macaroni; but get me the largest dish you have, as I wish to do the thing on a grand scale.", "pos": 2317299}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "though, we shall only make our position worse than it is now.", "pos": 2320161}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "The final touch, will only take a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 2321650}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Court, can do what seems good to it.", "pos": 2322869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 2323545}
{"speaker": "Soradaci", "text": "You will pardon me, sir, but I am looking for some statue of the Holy Virgin, for I am a Christian; if there were even a small crucifix it would be something, for I have never been in so much need of the protection of St. Francis d’Assisi, whose name I bear, though all unworthy. I am, a devotee of the Holy Rosary,", "pos": 2323565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My aim and my only aim has always been the glory of God, and of the holy Republic of Venice, and that its laws may be exactly obeyed. Always lending an attentive ear to the plots of the wicked, whose end is to deceive, to deprive their prince of his just dues, and to conspire secretly, I have over and again unveiled their secret plans, and have not failed to report to Messer-Grande all I know. It is true that I am always paid, but the money has never given me so much pleasure as the thought that I have been able to serve the blessed St. Mark. I have always despised those who think there is something dishonourable in the business of a spy. The word sounds ill only to the ill-affected; for a spy is a lover of the state, the scourge of the guilty, and faithful subject of his prince. When I have been put to the test, the feeling of friendship, which might count for something with other men, has never had the slightest influence over me, and still less the sentiment which is called gratitude. I have often, in order to worm out a secret, sworn to be as silent as the grave, and have never failed to reveal it. Indeed, I am able to do so with full confidence, as my director who is a good Jesuit has told me that I may lawfully reveal such secrets, not only because my intention was to do so, but because, when the safety of the state is at stake, there is no such thing as a binding oath. I must confess that in my zeal I have betrayed my own father, and that in me the promptings of our weak nature have been quite mortified. Three weeks ago I observed that there was a kind of cabal between four or five notables of the town of Isola, where I live. I knew them to be disaffected to the Government on account of certain contraband articles which had been confiscated. The first chaplain--a subject of Austria by birth--was in the plot. They gathered together of evenings in an inn, in a room where there was a bed; there they drank and talked, and afterwards went their ways. As I was determined to discover the conspiracy, I was brave enough to hide under the bed on a day on which I was sure I would not be seen. Towards the evening my gentlemen came, and began to talk; amongst other things, they said that the town of Isola was not within the jurisdiction of St. Mark, but rather in the principality of Trieste, as it could not possibly be considered to form part of the Venetian territory. The chaplain said to the chief of the plot, a man named Pietro Paolo, that if he and the others would sign a document to that effect, he himself would go to the imperial ambassador, and that the Empress would not only take possession of the island, but would reward them for what they had done. They all professed themselves ready to go on, and the chaplain promised to bring the document the next day, and afterwards to take it to the ambassadors.", "pos": 2324785}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I determined to frustrate this detestable project, although one of the conspirators was my gossip--a spiritual relationship which gave him a greater claim on me than if he had been my own brother.", "pos": 2327641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That done,", "pos": 2328451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you will no longer meddle in the matter.", "pos": 2328489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for,", "pos": 2331110}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if he had come into mine, he would not have found me there, and we should possibly have shared a cell in The Wells as a reward for our endeavours.", "pos": 2331126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I reckon upon your friendship and your courage. Here are two letters I want you to deliver when you recover your liberty. My happiness depends on your loyality, but you must hide the letters, as they were found upon you we should both of us be undone. You must swear by the crucifix and these holy pictures not to betray me.", "pos": 2331931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am ready, dear master, to swear to anything you like, and I owe you too much to betray you.", "pos": 2332258}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On this precision,", "pos": 2337366}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "our liberty depends and if you observe it all will be well.", "pos": 2337396}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be seated and take this soup, and afterwards I will tell you of your good fortune, for know that the Virgin of the Rosary appeared to me at day-break, and bids me pardon you. Thou shalt not die but live, and shalt come out of this place with me. The grief I experienced at your dreadful treason made me pass a sleepless night, as the letters might condemn me to spend here the remnant of my days. My only consolation, I confess, was the certainty that you would die here also before my eyes within three days. Full of this thought not worthy of a Christian (for God bids us forgive our enemies) my weariness made me sleep, and in my sleep I had a vision. I saw that Holy Virgin, Mother of God, whose likeness you behold--I saw her before me, and opening her lips she spoke thus:", "pos": 2341617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Soradaci is a devotee of my Holy Rosary. I protect him, and I will that you forgive him, and then the curse he has drawn on himself will cease. In return for your generosity, I will order one of my angels to take the form of man, to come down from heaven, to break open the roof of your prison, and set you free within five or six days. The angel will begin his task this day at two o’clock precisely, and he will work till half an hour before sunset, since he must ascend again into heaven while the daylight lasts. When you come out of this place, take Soradaci with you, and have a care for him if he will renounce his business of spying. Tell him all.", "pos": 2342583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With these words the Holy Virgin vanished out of my sight, and I awoke.", "pos": 2343241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am certain that he will begin at two o’clock, that we shall hear him at his work, and that he will depart at the hour named by the Holy Virgin.", "pos": 2343754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may have dreamt it all.", "pos": 2343902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay, not so. Will you swear to me to spy no more?", "pos": 2343932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can put off taking it, till the angel enters to set me free; but if you do not then renounce by an oath the infamous trade which has brought you here, and which will end by bringing you to the gallows, I shall leave you in the cell, for so the Mother of God commands, and if you do not obey you will lose her protection.", "pos": 2344143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lo! the angel cometh!", "pos": 2345297}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Prostrate thyself, for the angel departeth.", "pos": 2346309}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will take you into my service, and you shall have all that you need without being obliged to pursue the hazardous trade of a spy.", "pos": 2347131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall we not be able to remain at Venice?", "pos": 2347265}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly not. The angel will take us to a land which does not belong to St. Mark. Will you swear to me that you will spy no more? And if you swear, will you become a perjurer a second time?", "pos": 2347309}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I take the oath, I will surely keep it, of that there can be no doubt; but you must confess that if I had not perjured myself you would never have received such favour at the hands of the Virgin. My broken faith is the cause of your bliss. You ought, therefore, to love me and to be content with my treason.", "pos": 2347502}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dost love Judas who betrayed Jesus Christ?", "pos": 2347815}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 2347860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You perceive, then, that one detests the traitor and at the same time adores the Divine Providence, which knows how to bring good out of evil. Up to the present time you have done wickedly. You have offended God and the Virgin His Mother, and I will not receive your oath till you have expiated your sins.", "pos": 2347866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What sin have I done?", "pos": 2348174}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have sinned by pride, Soradaci, in thinking that I was under an obligation to you for betraying me and giving my letters to the secretary.", "pos": 2348198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How shall I expiate this sin?", "pos": 2348343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thus. To-morrow, when Lawrence comes, you must lie on your bed, your face towards the wall, and without the slightest motion or a single glance at Lawrence. If he address you, you must answer, without looking at him, that you could not sleep, and need rest. Do you promise me entirely to do this thing?", "pos": 2348375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do whatsoever you tell me.", "pos": 2348680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quick, then, take your oath before this holy picture.", "pos": 2348716}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise, Holy Mother of God, that when Lawrence comes I will not look at him, nor stir from my bed.", "pos": 2348772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I, Most Holy Virgin, swear by the bowels of your Divine Son that if I see Soradici move in the least or look towards Lawrence, I will throw myself straightway upon him and strangle him without mercy, to your honour and glory.", "pos": 2348876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The ways of God are inscrutable; and since the messenger of Heaven works not as an angel (for then a slight single blow would be enough), he works like a man, whose form he has doubtless taken, as we are not worthy to look upon his celestial body. And, furthermore, I foresee that the angel, to punish us for your evil thought, which has offended the Holy Virgin, will not come to-day. Wretch, your thoughts are not those of an honest, pious, and religious man, but those of a sinner who thinks he has to do with Messer-Grande and his myrmidons.", "pos": 2351072}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He will bring a pair of scissors with him, and you will have to cut the angel’s beard and mine.", "pos": 2352631}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has the angel a beard?", "pos": 2352739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you shall see it for yourself. Afterwards we will get out of the cell and proceed to break the roof of the palace, whence we shall descend into St. Mark’s Place and set out for Germany.", "pos": 2352764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your work is ended and mine begun,", "pos": 2353337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only ask to go forward, till I find death or freedom.", "pos": 2354199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you intend, to pierce the roof and to descend from thence, I see no prospect of success, unless you have wings; and I at all events have not the courage to accompany you. I will remain here, and pray to God on your behalf.", "pos": 2354282}
{"speaker": "Count Asquin", "text": "The incline of the roof covered with lead plates, will render it impossible for you to walk, indeed you will scarcely be able to stand on your feet. It is true that the roof has seven or eight windows, but they are all barred with iron, and you could not keep your footing near them since they are far from the sides. Your ropes are useless, as you will find nothing whereon to fasten them; and even if you did, a man descending from such a height cannot reach the ground by himself. One of you will therefore have to lower the two others one at a time as one lowers a bucket or a bundle of wood, and he who does so will have to stay behind and go back to his cell. Which of you three has a vocation for this dangerous work of charity? And supposing that one of you is heroic enough to do so, can you tell me on which side you are going to descend? Not by the side towards the palace, for you would be seen; not by the church, as you would find yourselves still shut up, and as to the court side you surely would not think of it, for you would fall into the hands of the ‘arsenalotti’ who are always going their rounds there. You have only the canal side left, and where is your gondola to take you off? Not having any such thing, you will be obliged to throw yourself in and escape by swimming towards St. Appollonia, which you will reach in a wretched condition, not knowing where to turn to next. You must remember that the leads are slippery, and that if you were to fall into the canal, considering the height of the fall and the shallowness of the water, you would most certainly be killed if you could swim like sharks. You would be crushed to death, for three or four feet of water are not sufficient to counteract the effect of a fall from such a height. In short, the best fate you can expect is to find yourselves on the ground with broken arms and legs.", "pos": 2360759}
{"speaker": "Jacques Casanova", "text": "I shall profit by your wise counsels, and be very prudent, but my trust in God and in my own strength will carry me through all difficulties. All I ask, is that the fog be not made of oil. Put your cloak in a packet with some of the rope which must be divided equally between us.", "pos": 2363292}
{"speaker": "Soradaci", "text": "I should be sure, to fall over into the canal, and I should not be of any use to you. Ah! leave me here, and all the night I will pray to St. Francis for you. You can kill me or save me alive; but of this I am determined, never to follow you.", "pos": 2364180}
{"speaker": "Jacques Casanova", "text": "You are right, you may stop here on the condition that you will pray to St. Francis; and that you go forthwith and fetch my books, which I wish to leave to the count. You may be sure, that you will never see me here again. The books will cover your expenditure of two sequins. As to this rascal, I am delighted, as he cannot muster sufficient courage to come with me. He would be in the way, and the fellow is not worthy of sharing with Father Balbi and myself the honours of so brave a flight.", "pos": 2364495}
{"speaker": "Count Asquin", "text": "That’s true, provided that he does not congratulate himself to-morrow.", "pos": 2365179}
{"speaker": "Jacques Casanova", "text": "I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. Our lords of state are bound to do all in their power to keep a prisoner under the Leads, and on the other hand the prisoner, who is fortunately not on parole, is bound also to make his escape. Their right to act thus is founded on justice, while the prisoner follows the voice of nature; and since they have not asked him whether he will be put in prison, so he ought not to ask them leave to escape. Jacques Casanova, writing in the bitterness of his heart, knows that he may have the ill luck to be recaptured before he succeeds in leaving the Venetian territory and escaping to a friendly state; but if so, he appeals to the humanity of the judges not to add to the misery of the condition from which, yielding to the voice of nature, he is endeavouring to escape. He begs them, if he be taken, to return him whatever may be in his cell, but if he succeed he gives the whole to Francis Soradaci, who is still a captive for want of courage to escape, not like me preferring liberty to life. Casanova entreats their excellencies not to refuse the poor wretch this gift. Dated an hour before midnight, in the cell of Count Asquin, on October 31st, 1756.", "pos": 2365698}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "A bad omen, our task is but begun and here am I deprived of shirt, hat, and a precious manuscript, containing a curious account of the festivals of the palace.", "pos": 2369958}
{"speaker": "Jacques Casanova", "text": "They ought rather, to warn you to be prudent, and to remind you that God is certainly watching over us, for if your hat had fallen to the left instead of to the right, we should have been undone; as in that case it would have fallen into the palace court, where it would have caught the attention of the guards, and have let them know that there was someone on the roof; and in a few minutes we should have been retaken.", "pos": 2370467}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What did you think had become of me?", "pos": 2375033}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "I thought you must have fallen over.", "pos": 2375072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And you can find no better way than abuse to express the joy you ought to feel at seeing me again?", "pos": 2375111}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "What have you been doing all this time?", "pos": 2375212}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Follow me, and you shall see.", "pos": 2375254}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "You let me down, and when I have got to the bottom you will have plenty of time to think how you are going to follow me.", "pos": 2375906}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is not a prison, there ought, therefore, be some easy exit from it.", "pos": 2383854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My work is done, the rest must be left to God and fortune. Abbia chi regge il ciel cura del resto, O la fortuna se non tocca a lui. I do not know whether those who sweep out the palace will come here to-day, which is All Saints’ Day, or tomorrow, All Souls’ Day. If anyone comes, I shall run out as soon as the door opens, and do you follow after me; but if nobody comes, I do not budge a step, and if I die of hunger so much the worse for me.", "pos": 2388077}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "To the church! to the church!", "pos": 2391482}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why didn’t you go by yourself?", "pos": 2391877}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I did not, like to abandon you. I did not like to lose the comfort of your company.", "pos": 2391918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I want to go to Fusina; be quick and, call another gondolier.", "pos": 2392419}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When do you think we shall get to Mestre?", "pos": 2393100}
{"speaker": "waterman", "text": "But you told me to go to Fusina.", "pos": 2393144}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must be mad; I said Mestre.", "pos": 2393179}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bravely spoken, and now for Mestre, ho!", "pos": 2393756}
{"speaker": "master boatman", "text": "We shall be there in three quarters of an hour, as the wind and tide are in our favour.", "pos": 2393808}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get up,", "pos": 2395563}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "She’s charming,", "pos": 2396266}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want any, and do you make haste!", "pos": 2396413}
{"speaker": "Balbi Tommasi", "text": "I am delighted to see you here. I suppose you have just escaped. How did you do it?", "pos": 2396831}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have not escaped, but have been set at liberty.", "pos": 2396917}
{"speaker": "Balbi Tommasi", "text": "No, no, that’s not possible, as I was at M. Grimani’s yesterday evening, and I should have heard of it.", "pos": 2396969}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We must make for Borgo di Valsugano, it is the first town beyond the borders of the Republic. We shall be as safe there as if we were in London, and we can take our ease for awhile; but to get there we must go carefully to work, and the first thing we must do is to separate. You must go by Mantello Woods, and I by the mountains; you by the easiest and shortest way, and I by the longest and most difficult; you with money and I without a penny. I will make you a present of my cloak, which you must exchange for a great coat and a hat, and everybody will take you for a countryman, as you are luckily rather like one in the face. Take these seventeen livres, which is all that remains to me of the two sequins Count Asquin gave me. You will reach Borgo by the day after to-morrow, and I shall be twenty-four hours later. Wait for me in the first inn on the left-hand side of the street, and be sure I shall come in due season. I require a good night’s rest in a good bed; and Providence will get me one somewhere, but I must sleep without fear of being disturbed, and in your company that would be out of the question. I am certain that we are being sought for on all sides, and that our descriptions have been so correctly given that if we went into any inn together we should be certain to be arrested. You see the state I am in, and my urgent necessity for a ten hours’ rest. Farewell, then, do you go that way and I will take this, and I will find somewhere near here a rest for the sole of my foot.", "pos": 2400849}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I have been expecting you to say as much, and for answer I will remind you of the promise you gave me when I let myself be persuaded to break into your cell. You promised me that we should always keep company; and so don’t flatter yourself that I shall leave you, your fate and mine are linked together. We shall be able to get a good refuge for our money, we won’t go to the inns, and no one will arrest us.", "pos": 2402357}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are determined, are you, not to follow the good advice I have given you?", "pos": 2402789}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I am.", "pos": 2402868}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall see about that. since I am about to bury you here, alive or dead; and if you prove the stronger, you will bury me. You can escape if you wish to, as I shall not pursue you.", "pos": 2402876}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I will do what you want,", "pos": 2403867}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the name of this village, my friend?", "pos": 2404737}
{"speaker": "shepherd", "text": "Valde Piadene, signor,", "pos": 2404791}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry, to hear that my gossip is not in, though at the same time I am delighted to make the acquaintance of his charming wife.", "pos": 2406474}
{"speaker": "wife of the chief of the sbirri", "text": "Your gossip? You will be M. Vetturi, then? My husband told me that you had kindly promised to be the god-father of our next child. I am delighted to know you, but my husband will be very vexed to have been away:", "pos": 2406618}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope he will soon return, as I wanted to ask him for a night’s lodging. I dare not go anywhere in the state you see me.", "pos": 2406831}
{"speaker": "wife of the chief of the sbirri", "text": "You shall have the best bed in the house, and I will get you a good supper. My husband when he comes back will thank your excellence for doing us so much honour. He went away with all his people an hour ago, and I don’t expect him back for three or four days.", "pos": 2406955}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why is he away for such a long time, my dear madam?", "pos": 2407217}
{"speaker": "wife of the chief of the sbirri", "text": "You have not heard, then, that two prisoners have escaped from The Leads? One is a noble and the other a private individual named Casanova. My husband has received a letter from Messer-Grande ordering him to make a search for them; if he find them he will take them back to Venice, and if not he will return here, but he will be on the look-out for three days at least.", "pos": 2407271}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry for this accident, my dear madam, but I should not like to put you out, and indeed I should be glad to lie down immediately.", "pos": 2407643}
{"speaker": "wife of the chief of the sbirri", "text": "You shall do so, and my mother shall attend to your wants. But what is the matter with your knees?", "pos": 2407781}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I fell down whilst hunting on the mountains, and gave myself some severe wounds, and am much weakened by loss of blood.", "pos": 2407882}
{"speaker": "wife of the chief of the sbirri", "text": "Oh! my poor gentleman, my poor gentleman! But my mother will cure you.", "pos": 2408004}
{"speaker": "mother of the sbirri chief's wife", "text": "son", "pos": 2408627}
{"speaker": "M. Marc Antoine Grimani", "text": "What are you doing here, Casanova, and what has become of your friend?", "pos": 2412022}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have given him what little money I had for him to escape by another road, whilst I, without a penny in my pocket, am endeavouring to reach a place of safety by this way. If your excellence would kindly give me some help, it would speed my journey for me.", "pos": 2412095}
{"speaker": "M. Marc Antoine Grimani", "text": "I can’t give you anything, but you will find recluses on your way who won’t let you die of hunger. But tell me how you contrived to pierce the roof of The Leads.", "pos": 2412354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The story is an interesting one, but it would take up too much time, and in the meanwhile the recluses might eat up the food which is to keep me from dying of hunger.", "pos": 2412518}
{"speaker": "stockbroker", "text": "You asked me for sixty.", "pos": 2415509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, that was when I was asking a loan of you as a friend; but since I owe the money to force, I require six only, and I will give you no note of hand. You shall be repaid at Venice, where I shall write of the pass to which you forced me, you cowardly wretch!", "pos": 2415535}
{"speaker": "stockbroker", "text": "I beg your pardon! take the sixty sequins, I entreat you.", "pos": 2415797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, no more. I am going on my way, and I advise you not to hinder me, lest in my despair I come back and burn your house about your ears.", "pos": 2415857}
{"speaker": "Balbi", "text": "Without me you would never have escaped", "pos": 2418315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What miracle is that, reverend father?", "pos": 2420632}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "The empress, the widow of Charles VII, whose body is still exposed to the public gaze, has warm feet, although she is dead.", "pos": 2420681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps something keeps them warm.", "pos": 2420807}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "You can assure yourself personally of the truth of this wonderful circumstance.", "pos": 2420844}
{"speaker": "Madame Riviere", "text": "I need not trouble myself any more about the monk, as she was sure that the dean would take care of him, and even make it all right at Venice.", "pos": 2422304}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "is not gentleman enough to offer to give me anything.", "pos": 2423413}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want at Paris?", "pos": 2426766}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "What do you want yourself?", "pos": 2426795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To put my talents to account.", "pos": 2426824}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "So do I.", "pos": 2426856}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, then, you don’t require me, and can fly on your own wings. The people who are taking me to Paris would probably not care for me if I had you for a companion.", "pos": 2426867}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "You promised not to abandon me.", "pos": 2427033}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can a man who leaves another well provided for and an assured future be said to abandon him?", "pos": 2427067}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "Well provided! I have not got a penny.", "pos": 2427162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want with money? You have a good table, a good lodging, clothes, linen, attendance, and so forth. And if you want pocket-money, why don’t you ask your brethren the monks?", "pos": 2427203}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "Ask monks for money? They take it, but they don’t give it.", "pos": 2427388}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ask your friends, then.", "pos": 2427449}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I have no friends.", "pos": 2427475}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are to be pitied, but the reason probably is that you have never been a friend to anyone. You ought to say masses, that is a good way of getting money.", "pos": 2427496}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "I am unknown.", "pos": 2427654}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must wait, then, till you are known, and then you can make up for lost time.", "pos": 2427670}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "Your suggestions are idle; you will surely give me a few sequins.", "pos": 2427753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t spare any.", "pos": 2427821}
{"speaker": "Father Balbi", "text": "Wait for the dean. He will be back to-morrow. You can talk to him and persuade him to lend me some money. You can tell him that I will pay it back.", "pos": 2427842}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot wait, for I am setting out on my journey directly, and were he here this moment I should not have the face to tell him to lend you money after all his generous treatment of you, and when he or anyone can see that you have all you need.", "pos": 2427992}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "strike while the iron’s hot.", "pos": 2432894}
{"speaker": "mob", "text": "The king is assassinated!", "pos": 2433491}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "The king is wounded, and he has been taken to his room. The assassin, whom nobody knows, is under arrest. M. de la Martiniere is being looked for everywhere.", "pos": 2434266}
{"speaker": "Silvia's family", "text": "The king has been assassinated.", "pos": 2435462}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all; he is able to go to the Trianon, or the Parc-aux-cerfs, if he likes. M. de la Martiniere has bled him, and found him to be in no danger. The assassin has been arrested, and the wretched man will be burnt, drawn with red-hot pincers, and quartered.", "pos": 2435496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will be reserved,", "pos": 2438400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in what I say and what I do, and thus I shall get a reputation for discretion which will bring its reward.", "pos": 2438430}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "C--C---- often comes to see me, but I grieve to say she is not happy with her husband.", "pos": 2441770}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "You can present yourself, my dear Casanova, to the Duc de Choiseul, and M. de Boulogne, the comptroller. You will be well received, and with a little wit you ought to be able to make good use of the letter. He himself will give you the cue, and you will see that he who listens obtains. Try to invent some useful plan for the royal exchequer; don’t let it be complicated or chimerical, and if you don’t write it out at too great length I will give you my opinion on it.", "pos": 2443189}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "Tell me how you succeeded.", "pos": 2444751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord, it would be too long a story; it would take me at least two hours, and your grace seems busy.", "pos": 2444780}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "Tell me briefly about it.", "pos": 2444885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "However much I speak to the point, I shall take two hours.", "pos": 2444913}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "You can keep the details for another time.", "pos": 2444974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The story is devoid of interest without the details", "pos": 2445019}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "Well, well, you can tell me the whole story in brief, without losing much of the interest.", "pos": 2445073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; after that I can say no more. I must tell your lordship, then, that, the State Inquisitors shut me up under the Leads; that after fifteen months and five days of imprisonment I succeeded in piercing the roof; that after many difficulties I reached the chancery by a window, and broke open the door; afterwards I got to St. Mark’s Place, whence, taking a gondola which bore me to the mainland, I arrived at Paris, and have had the honour to pay my duty to your lordship.", "pos": 2445166}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "But.... what are The Leads?", "pos": 2445649}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord, I should take a quarter of an hour, at least, to explain.", "pos": 2445679}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "How did you pierce the roof?", "pos": 2445748}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not tell your lordship in less than half an hour.", "pos": 2445779}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "Why were you shut up?", "pos": 2445839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be a long tale, my lord.", "pos": 2445863}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "I think you are right. The interest of the story lies chiefly in the details.", "pos": 2445899}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I took the liberty of saying as much to your grace.", "pos": 2445979}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "Well, I must go to Versailles, but I shall be delighted if you will come and see me sometimes. In the meanwhile, M. Casanova, think what I can do for you.", "pos": 2446033}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "Give me your views; either on paper or ‘viva voce’. You will find me willing to learn and ready to grasp your ideas. Here is M. Paris du Vernai, who wants twenty millions for his military school; and he wishes to get this sum without a charge on the state or emptying the treasury.", "pos": 2447039}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "It is God alone, sir, who has the creative power. I am not a god, but for all that I have now and then created but the times have changed.", "pos": 2447347}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everything,", "pos": 2447511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is more difficult than it used to be; but in spite of difficulties I have a plan which would give the king the interest of a hundred millions.", "pos": 2447533}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "What expense would there be to the Crown?", "pos": 2447678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Merely the cost of receiving.", "pos": 2447722}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "The nation, then, would furnish the sum in question?", "pos": 2447754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Undoubtedly, but voluntarily.", "pos": 2447809}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "I know what you are thinking of.", "pos": 2447841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You astonish me, sir, as I have told nobody of my plan.", "pos": 2447876}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "If you have no other engagement, do me the honour of dining with me to-morrow, and I will tell you what your project is. It is a good one, but surrounded, I believe, with insuperable difficulties. Nevertheless, we will talk it over and see what can be done. Will you come?", "pos": 2447934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do myself that honour.", "pos": 2448209}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "Very good, I will expect you at Plaisance.", "pos": 2448241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If he thinks he is going to pump me,", "pos": 2449070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he will find himself mistaken. When he tells me what the plan is, it will rest with me to say he has guessed it or he is wrong as the inspiration of the moment suggests. If the question lies within my comprehension I may, perhaps, be able to suggest something new; and if I understand nothing I will wrap myself up in a mysterious silence, which sometimes produces a good effect. At all events, I will not repulse Fortune when she appears to be favourable to me.", "pos": 2449117}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "That, I think, M. Casanova, is your plan.", "pos": 2452253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess, sir, that is exactly my idea.", "pos": 2452492}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "You have been anticipated, then; the project is by M. de Calsabigi here.", "pos": 2452535}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted, not at being anticipated, but to find that we think alike; but may I ask you why you have not carried out the plan?", "pos": 2452610}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "Several very plausible reasons have been given against it, which have had no decisive answers.", "pos": 2452744}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can only conceive one reason against it,", "pos": 2452841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "perhaps the king would not allow his subjects to gamble.", "pos": 2452902}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "Never mind that, the king will let his subjects gamble as much as they like: the question is, will they gamble?", "pos": 2452961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wonder how anyone can have any doubt on that score, as the winners are certain of being paid.", "pos": 2453075}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "Let us grant, then, that they will gamble: how is the money to be found?", "pos": 2453173}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is the money to be found? The simplest thing in the world. All you want is a decree in council authorizing you to draw on the treasury. All I want is for the nation to believe that the king can afford to pay a hundred millions.", "pos": 2453248}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "A hundred millions!", "pos": 2453482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, a hundred millions, sir. We must dazzle people.", "pos": 2453504}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "But if France is to believe that the Crown can afford to pay a hundred millions, it must believe that the Crown can afford to lose a hundred millions, and who is going to believe that? Do you?", "pos": 2453559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To be sure I do, for the Crown, before it could lose a hundred millions, would have received at least a hundred and fifty millions, and so there need be no anxiety on that score.", "pos": 2453754}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "I am not the only person who has doubts on the subject. You must grant the possibility of the Crown losing an enormous sum at the first drawing?", "pos": 2453935}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, sir, but between possibility and reality is all the region of the infinite. Indeed, I may say that it would be a great piece of good fortune if the Crown were to lose largely on the first drawing.", "pos": 2454082}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "A piece of bad fortune, you mean, surely?", "pos": 2454292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A bad fortune to be desired. You know that all the insurance companies are rich. I will undertake to prove before all the mathematicians in Europe that the king is bound to gain one in five in this lottery. That is the secret. You will confess that the reason ought to yield to a mathematical proof?", "pos": 2454336}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "Yes, of course; but how is it that the Castelletto cannot guarantee the Crown a certain gain?", "pos": 2454638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Neither the Castelletto nor anybody in the world can guarantee absolutely that the king shall always win. What guarantees us against any suspicion of sharp practice is the drawing once a month, as then the public is sure that the holder of the lottery may lose.", "pos": 2454734}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "Will you be good enough to express your sentiments on the subject before the council?", "pos": 2454998}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do so with much pleasure.", "pos": 2455086}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "You will answer all objections?", "pos": 2455121}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think I can promise as much.", "pos": 2455154}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "Will you give me your plan?", "pos": 2455187}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not before it is accepted, and I am guaranteed a reasonable profit.", "pos": 2455217}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "But your plan may possibly be the same as the one before us.", "pos": 2455287}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think not. I see M. de Calsabigi for the first time, and as he has not shewn me his scheme, and I have not communicated mine to him, it is improbable, not to say impossible, that we should agree in all respects. Besides, in my plan I clearly shew how much profit the Crown ought to get per annum.", "pos": 2455350}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "It might, therefore, be formed by a company who would pay the Crown a fixed sum?", "pos": 2455651}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think not.", "pos": 2455734}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "Why?", "pos": 2455749}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For this reason. The only thing which would make the lottery pay, would be an irresistible current of public opinion in its favour. I should not care to have anything to do with it in the service of a company, who, thinking to increase their profits, might extend their operations--a course which would entail certain loss.", "pos": 2455756}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "I don’t see how.", "pos": 2456082}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In a thousand ways which I will explain to you another time, and which I am sure you can guess for yourself. In short, if I am to have any voice in the matter, it must be a Government lottery or nothing.", "pos": 2456101}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "M. de Calsabigi thinks so, too.", "pos": 2456307}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, but not at all surprised; for, thinking on the same lines, we are bound to arrive at the same results.", "pos": 2456341}
{"speaker": "Interlocutor", "text": "Have you anybody ready for the Castelletto?", "pos": 2456473}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall only want intelligent machines, of whom there are plenty in France.", "pos": 2456519}
{"speaker": "M. Calsabigi", "text": "he should like to have some further conversation with me", "pos": 2456796}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should esteem it as an honour to be numbered amongst his friends. if I had not called on him it was only because I did not wish to be troublesome.", "pos": 2456907}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "my decisive way of speaking had made a great impression, and he was certain that if I cared to make interest with the comptroller we could set up the lottery and make a large profit.", "pos": 2457338}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think so, too, but the financiers will make a much larger profit, and yet they do not seem anxious about it. They have not communicated with me, but it is their look-out, as I shall not make it my chief aim.", "pos": 2457522}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "You will undoubtedly hear something about it today, for I know for a fact that M. de Boulogne has spoken of you to M. de Courteuil.", "pos": 2457744}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but I assure you I did not ask him to do so.", "pos": 2457878}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "You can force Du Vernai himself to accept the lottery, and your fortune is made if you are not too rich already to care about such matters.", "pos": 2458503}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nobody is ever rich enough to despise good fortune, especially when it is not due to favour.", "pos": 2458656}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "Very true. We have been doing our utmost for two years to get the plan accepted, and have met with nothing beyond foolish objections which you have crushed to pieces. Nevertheless, our plans must be very similar. Believe me it will be best for us to work in concert, for by yourself you would find insuperable difficulties in the working, and you will find no ‘intelligent machines’ in Paris. My brother will do all the work, and you will be able to reap the advantages at your ease.", "pos": 2458751}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you, then, not the inventor of the scheme which has been shewn me?", "pos": 2459237}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "No, it is the work of my brother.", "pos": 2459310}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shall I have the pleasure or seeing him?", "pos": 2459346}
{"speaker": "M. de Calsabigi", "text": "Certainly. His body is feeble, but his mind is in all its vigour. We shall see him directly.", "pos": 2459389}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a believer, then, in final causes? I think you are right, but still I believe you would have scratched yourself if God had forgotten to give you any nails.", "pos": 2460259}
{"speaker": "Calsabigi's brother", "text": "If you think you can do without me. I must compliment you on your abilities; but I think you will find yourself mistaken, for if you have no practical knowledge of the matter and no business men to help you, your theories will not carry you far. What will you do after you have obtained the decree? When you speak before the council, if you take my advice, you will fix a date after which you are not to be held responsible--that is to say, after which you will have nothing more to do with it. Unless you do so, you will be certain to encounter trifling and procrastination which will defer your plan to the Greek Kalends. On the other hand, I can assure you that M. du Vernai would be very glad to see us join hands.", "pos": 2461079}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "he would bet that but for him I should never have discovered my talent for finance. M. de Boulogne tells me you astonished M. du Vernai, who is generally esteemed one of the acutest men in France. If you will take my advice, Casanova, you will keep up that acquaintance and pay him assiduous court. I may tell you that the lottery is certain to be established, that it will be your doing, and that you ought to make something considerable out of it. As soon as the king goes out to hunt, be at hand in the private apartments, and I will seize a favourable moment for introducing you to the famous marquise. Afterwards go to the Office for Foreign Affairs, and introduce yourself in my name to the Abbé de la Ville. He is the chief official there, and will give you a good reception.", "pos": 2462941}
{"speaker": "Madame de Pompadour", "text": "Do you go, to see your ambassador?", "pos": 2464258}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shew my respect to him, madam, by keeping away.", "pos": 2464307}
{"speaker": "Madame de Pompadour", "text": "I hope you mean to settle in France.", "pos": 2464359}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It would be my dearest wish to do so, madam, but I stand in need of patronage, and I know that in France patronage is only given to men of talent, which is for me a discouraging circumstance.", "pos": 2464398}
{"speaker": "Madame de Pompadour", "text": "On the contrary, I think you have reason to be hopeful, as you have some good friends. I myself shall be delighted if I can be of any assistance to you.", "pos": 2464592}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I was there writing a letter, and I could hear all the obliging things the abbé said to you. May I ask, sir, how you obtained access to him?", "pos": 2465517}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you really wish to know, I may be able to tell you.", "pos": 2465671}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "It is pure curiosity on my part.", "pos": 2465728}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, then, I will say nothing, from pure prudence.", "pos": 2465763}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I beg your pardon.", "pos": 2465817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, with pleasure.", "pos": 2465838}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, and I will go to M. de Boulogne’s every day, and get you appointed chief administrator as soon as I know what I have got for myself.", "pos": 2468581}
{"speaker": "M. du Vernai", "text": "I have played similar strokes myself, and have mostly succeeded; and as for the other receivers they are at perfect liberty to follow M. Casanova’s example, and it all tends to increase the repute of an institution which we owe to him and to you.", "pos": 2471344}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The French,", "pos": 2473176}
{"speaker": "Francis", "text": "have rejected me once, and I am far from bearing them ill-will on that account, for I would reject myself now if I were what I was then; but with their love of genius I reckon on a better reception this time.", "pos": 2473199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And now, that you may be at your ease with me, I should like to know in what manner I can be of service to you?", "pos": 2475061}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I have need of your friendship, perhaps of your purse, but at any rate of your protection.", "pos": 2475175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have my friendship and my protection already, and my purse is at your service.", "pos": 2475268}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "A year ago the Supreme Council of my country entrusted me with an employment dangerous to one of my years. I was made, with some other young gentlemen of my own age, a keeper of the Mont de Piete. The pleasures of the carnival having put us to a good deal of expense, we were short of money, and borrowed from the till hoping to be able to make up the money before balancing-day, but hoping all in vain. The fathers of my two companions, richer than mine, paid the sums they had taken, and I, not being able to pay, took the part of escaping by flight from the shame and the punishment I should have undergone. Madame Manzoni advised me to throw myself on your mercy, and she gave me a little box which you shall have to-day. I only got to Paris yesterday, and have only two louis, a little linen, and the clothes on my back. I am twenty-five, have an iron constitution, and a determination to do all in my power to make an honest living; but I can do nothing. I have not cultivated any one talent in a manner to make use of it now. I can play on the flute, but only as an amateur. I only know my own language, and I have no taste for literature. So what can you make of me? I must add that I have not a single expectation, least of all from my father, for to save the honour of the family he will be obliged to sell my portion of the estate, to which I shall have to bid an eternal farewell.", "pos": 2475405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Begin,", "pos": 2477092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "by bringing your small belongings to the room next to mine, and get your meals there. I will pay for everything while I am looking out for something which may do for you.", "pos": 2477102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will talk of business to-morrow, for as I never dine here I rarely if ever come home till late, and I do not expect to have the honour of seeing you again today. Leave me for the present, as I have got some work to do; and if you go out to walk, beware of bad company, and whatever you do keep your own counsel. You are fond of gaming, I suppose?", "pos": 2477281}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I hate it, as it has been the cause of half my troubles.", "pos": 2477633}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And the other half, I’ll wager, was caused by women.", "pos": 2477692}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "You have guessed aright--oh, those women!", "pos": 2477747}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, don’t be angry with them, but make them pay for the ill they have done you.", "pos": 2477791}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I will, with the greatest pleasure, if I can.", "pos": 2477875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you are not too particular in your goods, you will find Paris rich in such commodities.", "pos": 2477923}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "What do you mean by particular? I would never be a prince’s pathic.", "pos": 2478016}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no, I was not thinking of that. I mean by ‘particular’ a man who cannot be affectionate unless he is in love. The man who . . . .", "pos": 2478086}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I see what you mean, and I can lay no claim to such a character. Any hag with golden eyes will always find me as affectionate as a Celadon.", "pos": 2478222}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well said! I shall soon be able to arrange matters for you.", "pos": 2478364}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I hope you will.", "pos": 2478426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you going to the ambassador’s?", "pos": 2478445}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Good God!--no! What should I do when I got there? Tell him my story? He might make things unpleasant for me.", "pos": 2478482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not without your going to see him, but I expect he is not concerning himself with your case.", "pos": 2478593}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "That’s all I ask him.", "pos": 2478688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everybody, my dear count, is in mourning in Paris, so go to my tailor’s and get yourself a black suit. Tell him you come from me, and say you want it by tomorrow. Good bye.", "pos": 2478712}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "They are quick, you see, at Paris. It would have taken a week at Trevisa.", "pos": 2479213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Trevisa, my dear fellow, is not Paris.", "pos": 2479289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2479746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I have tickets left for several thousands more.", "pos": 2479761}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "Very good, then I will invest a thousand crowns in it.", "pos": 2479815}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whenever you please. If you call at my office you can choose the numbers.", "pos": 2479872}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "No, I don’t think I’ll trouble to do so; give me any numbers just as they come.", "pos": 2479948}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; here is the list you can choose from.", "pos": 2480030}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "Why so? I can’t do business that way, as I only dispose of my tickets for cash.", "pos": 2480205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you may be certain that you will have the money to-morrow.", "pos": 2480287}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "I am quite sure I should, but you ought to be certain that you will have the tickets to-morrow. They are registered at my office, and I can dispose of them in no other manner.", "pos": 2480352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me some which are not registered.", "pos": 2480530}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "Impossible; I could not do it.", "pos": 2480571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 2480604}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "Because if they proved to be winning numbers I should have to pay out of my own pocket an honour I do not desire.", "pos": 2480615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I think you might run the risk.", "pos": 2480731}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Coste", "text": "I think not, if I wish to remain an honest man, at all events.", "pos": 2480771}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does M. du Vernai take me for a fool or a knave? As I am neither, I shall complain to M. de Boulogne.", "pos": 2482348}
{"speaker": "Calsabigi", "text": "You will be wrong; he merely wanted to warn you and not offend you.", "pos": 2482452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You offend me very much yourself, sir, in talking to me in that fashion; and you may make up your mind that no one shall talk to me thus a second time.", "pos": 2482522}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have been sleeping out, have you, master profligate?", "pos": 2483431}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Yes, I was so charmed with the she-pope that I kept her company all the night.", "pos": 2483490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You were not afraid of being in the way?", "pos": 2483571}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "On the contrary, I think she was thoroughly satisfied with my conversation.", "pos": 2483614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As far as I can see, you had to bring into play all your powers of eloquence.", "pos": 2483692}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "She is so well pleased with my fluency that she has begged me to accept a room in her house, and to allow her to introduce me as a cousin to M. le Noir, who, I suppose, is her lover.", "pos": 2483772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will be a trio, then; and how do you think you will get on together?", "pos": 2483957}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "That’s her business. She says this gentleman will give me a good situation in the Inland Revenue.", "pos": 2484032}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you accepted her offer?", "pos": 2484132}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I did not refuse it, but I told her that I could do nothing without your advice. She entreated me to get you to come to dinner with her on Sunday.", "pos": 2484163}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be happy to go.", "pos": 2484312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What has gained my friend so fine a title, madam?", "pos": 2484517}
{"speaker": "Madame Lambertini", "text": "His erotic achievements. He is lord of an honour of which little is known in France, and I am desirous of being the lady.", "pos": 2484569}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I commend you for so noble an ambition.", "pos": 2484693}
{"speaker": "Madame Lambertini", "text": "M. le Noir will drop in after dinner, and I am dying to introduce Count ‘Sixtimes’ to him.", "pos": 2485004}
{"speaker": "Elderly Woman", "text": "I can’t believe it,", "pos": 2485735}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Would you like to try?", "pos": 2485831}
{"speaker": "Pope's Niece", "text": "He knows nothing about cards, but that’s no matter, he will learn, and I will undertake to instruct him.", "pos": 2486714}
{"speaker": "Elderly Woman", "text": "I should have some difficulty in getting her niece to talk about anything. I hope I would be lenient with her as she had only just left a convent.", "pos": 2487069}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "He is a nobleman, and a fellow-countryman of mine, whom an affair of honour has banished from his country.", "pos": 2487576}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He speaks a curious dialect.", "pos": 2487685}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Yes, but the fact is that French is very little spoken in Italy; he will soon pick it up in Paris, and then he will be laughed at no longer. I am sorry to have brought him here, for in less than twenty-four hours he was spoiled.", "pos": 2487716}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How spoiled?", "pos": 2487947}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I daren’t tell you as, perhaps, your aunt would not like it.", "pos": 2487962}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t think I should tell her, but, perhaps, I should not have asked.", "pos": 2488025}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Oh, yes! you should; and as you wish to know I will make no mystery of it. Madame Lambertini took a fancy to him; they passed the night together, and in token of the satisfaction he gave her she has given him the ridiculous nickname of ‘Count Sixtimes.’ That’s all. I am vexed about it, as my friend was no profligate. But what has ‘Sixtimes’ got to do with sleeping with Madame Lambertini?", "pos": 2488099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear young lady, the explanation is perfectly simple: my friend in a single night did what a husband often takes six weeks to do.", "pos": 2488960}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "And you think me silly enough to tell my aunt of what we have been talking? Don’t believe it.", "pos": 2489095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But there’s another thing I am sorry about.", "pos": 2489191}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You shall tell me what that is directly.", "pos": 2489237}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, what else is it that you are sorry about?", "pos": 2489540}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I tell you, do you think?", "pos": 2489635}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have said so much already, that I don’t think you need have any scruples in telling me the rest.", "pos": 2489667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good: you must know, then, that this very day and in my presence he---- -her.", "pos": 2489770}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If that displeased you, you must be jealous.", "pos": 2489855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly, but the fact is that I was humbled by a circumstance I dare not tell you.", "pos": 2489902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think you are laughing at me with your ‘dare not tell you.’", "pos": 2489988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God forbid, mademoiselle! I will confess, then, that I was humbled because Madame Lambertini made me see that my friend was taller than myself by two inches.", "pos": 2490052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then she imposed on you, for you are taller than your friend.", "pos": 2490212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not speaking of that kind of tallness, but another; you know what I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous.", "pos": 2490276}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monstrous! then what have you to be sorry about? Isn’t it better not to be monstrous?", "pos": 2490398}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; but in the article we are discussing, some women, unlike you, prefer monstrosity.", "pos": 2490486}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think that’s absurd of them, or rather mad; or perhaps, I have not sufficiently clear ideas on the subject to imagine what size it would be to be called monstrous; and I think it is odd that such a thing should humble you.", "pos": 2490581}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You would not have thought it of me, to see me?", "pos": 2490808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly not, for when I came into the room I thought you looked a well-proportioned man, but if you are not I am sorry for you.", "pos": 2490858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I won’t leave you in doubt on the subject; look for yourself, and tell me what you think.", "pos": 2490990}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, it’s you who are the monster! I declare you make me feel quite afraid.", "pos": 2491082}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Get you gone, little silly, you are bringing me bad luck! Besides, it is bad manners to leave the gentleman who so kindly offered to keep you company all by himself.", "pos": 2492055}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "If my aunt knew, what you had done to me, she would not have accused me of bad manners.", "pos": 2492286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t tell you how sorry I am. I want you to have some evidence of my repentance, but all that I can do is to go. Will you be offended if I do?", "pos": 2492388}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "If you leave me, my aunt will call me a dreadful stupid, and will say that I have tired you out.", "pos": 2492536}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like me to stay, then?", "pos": 2492635}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You can’t go.", "pos": 2492670}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Had you no idea what I shewed you was like till just now?", "pos": 2492686}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "My ideas on the subject were inaccurate. My aunt only took me out of the convent a month ago, and I had been there since I was seven.", "pos": 2492746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How old are you now?", "pos": 2492882}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Seventeen. They tried to make me take the veil, but not having any relish for the fooleries of the cloister I refused.", "pos": 2492905}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you vexed with me?", "pos": 2493026}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I ought to be very angry with you, but I know it was my fault, so I will only ask you to be discreet.", "pos": 2493051}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t be afraid, if I were indiscreet I should be the first to suffer.", "pos": 2493155}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You have given me a lesson which will come in useful. Stop! stop! or I will go away.", "pos": 2493228}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, keep quiet; it’s done now.", "pos": 2493315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 2493493}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The most pleasant of substances, which renovates the world.", "pos": 2493509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you are an excellent master. Your pupils make rapid progress, and you give your lessons with such a learned air.", "pos": 2493571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now don’t be angry with me for what has happened. I should never have dared to go so far if your beauty had not inspired me.", "pos": 2493692}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Am I to take that speech as a declaration of love?", "pos": 2493819}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, it is bold, sweetheart, but it is sincere. If it were not, I should be unworthy both of you and of myself.", "pos": 2493872}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can I believe you?", "pos": 2493986}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, with all your heart. But tell me if I may hope for your love?", "pos": 2494007}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t know. All I know at present is that I ought to hate you, for in the space of a quarter of an hour you have taught me what I thought I should never know till I was married.", "pos": 2494076}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you sorry?", "pos": 2494258}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I ought to be, although I feel that I have nothing more to learn on a matter which I never dared to think about. But how is it that you have got so quiet?", "pos": 2494275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because we are talking reasonably and after the rapture love requires some repose. But look at this!", "pos": 2494432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! again? Is that the rest of the lesson?", "pos": 2494535}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is the natural result of it.", "pos": 2494582}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is it that you don’t frighten me now?", "pos": 2494616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The soldier gets used to fire.", "pos": 2494660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see our fire is going out.", "pos": 2494693}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Believe me,", "pos": 2495372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that if I make anyone happy it will be my husband, to whom I have given my hand and heart.", "pos": 2495396}
{"speaker": "M. le Noir", "text": "Madam, you have sovereign power in your house, and I shall be delighted to see the count in your society.", "pos": 2496542}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Madame, my aunt, my late mother’s sister, is a devotee, fond of gaming, rich, stingy, and unjust. She does not like me, and not having succeeded in persuading me to take the veil, she wants to marry me to a wealthy Dunkirk merchant, whom I do not know, but (mark this) whom she does not know any more than I do. The matrimonial agent has praised him very much, and very naturally, as a man must praise his own goods. This gentleman is satisfied with an income of twelve hundred francs per annum, but he promises to leave me in his will no less than a hundred and fifty thousand francs. You must know that by my mother’s will my aunt is obliged to pay me on my wedding day twenty-five thousand crowns. If what has taken place between us has not made me contemptible in your sight, I offer you my hand and heart with sixty-five thousand francs, and as much more on my aunt’s death. Don’t send me any answer, as I don’t know how or by whom to receive your letter. You can answer me in your own person next Sunday at Madame Lambertini’s. You will thus have four days whereon to consider this most important question. I do not exactly know whether I love you, but I am quite sure that I prefer you to any other man. I know that each of us has still to gain the other’s esteem, but I am sure you would make my life a happy one, and that I should be a faithful wife. If you think that the happiness I seek can add to your own, I must warn you that you will need the aid of a lawyer, as my aunt is miserly, and will stick at trifles. If you decide in the affirmative you must find a convent for me to take refuge in before I commit myself to anything, as otherwise I should be exposed to the harsh treatment I wish to avoid. If, on the other hand, my proposal does not meet your views, I have one favour to ask by granting which you will earn my everlasting gratitude. This is that you will endeavour to see me no more, and will take care not to be present in any company in which you think I am to be found. Thus you will help me to forget you, and this is the least you can do for me. You may guess that I shall never be happy till I have become your wife or have forgotten you. Farewell! I reckon upon seeing you on Sunday.", "pos": 2498048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you are in cash, old fellow; I congratulate you.", "pos": 2502209}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "It’s a grievous piece of luck to me, for the money is stolen, and I am sorry I have got it though I was an accomplice in the theft.", "pos": 2502266}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! the money is stolen?", "pos": 2502400}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Yes, sharping is done here, and I have been taught to help. I share in their ill-gotten gains because I have not the strength of mind to refuse. My landlady and two or three women of the same sort pluck the pigeons. The business does not suit me, and I am thinking of leaving it. Sooner or later I shall kill or be killed, and either event will be the death of me, so I am thinking of leaving this cutthroat place as soon as possible.", "pos": 2502429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I advise you--nay, I bid you do so by all means, and I should think you had better be gone to-day than to-morrow.", "pos": 2502866}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I don’t want to do anything suddenly, as M. le Noir is a gentleman and my friend, and he thinks me a cousin to this wretched woman. As he knows nothing of the infamous trade she carries on, he would suspect something, and perhaps would leave her after learning the reason of my departure. I shall find some excuse or other in the course of the next five or six days, and then I will make haste and return to you.", "pos": 2502982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sixtimes,", "pos": 2503600}
{"speaker": "Lambertini", "text": "I am too good a monarch to ask too much of my vassals.", "pos": 2503741}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "My niece is a virtuous and sweet-tempered girl, sir, but she is utterly devoid either of intelligence or piety.", "pos": 2504426}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Never mind the intelligence, but I was never found wanting in piety at the convent.", "pos": 2504540}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "I dare say the nuns are of the jesuitical party.", "pos": 2504644}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "What has that got to do with it, aunt?", "pos": 2504695}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Very much, child; the Jesuits and their adherents are well known to have no vital religion. But let us talk of something else. All that I want you to do is to know how to please your future husband.", "pos": 2504736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is mademoiselle about to marry, then?", "pos": 2504937}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Her intended will probably arrive at the beginning of next month.", "pos": 2504977}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he a lawyer?", "pos": 2505045}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "No, sir; he is a well-to-do merchant.", "pos": 2505063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. le Noir told me that your niece was the daughter of a councillor, and I did not imagine that you would sanction her marrying beneath her.", "pos": 2505103}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "There will be no question of such a thing in this instance, sir; and, after all, what is marrying beneath one? My niece’s intended is an honest, and therefore a noble, man, and I am sure it will be her fault if she does not lead a life of perfect happiness with him.", "pos": 2505246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so, supposing she loves him.", "pos": 2505515}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Oh! love and all that kind of thing will come in good time, you know.", "pos": 2505552}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Your letter, dearest, has made me the happiest of men. You have displayed in it such intelligence and such admirable characteristics as would win you the fervent adoration of every man of good sense. I only want one man’s love. I will be content with the esteem of the rest. My angel, I will make you my wife, and I shall bless till my latest breath the lucky audacity to which I owe my being chosen before other men who would not have refused your hand, even without the fifty thousand crowns, which are nothing in comparison with your beauty and your wit. I am very glad you like me so much. Could I do otherwise? And now that you know my heart, do nothing hastily, but trust in me. You will not forget how I am placed. I will bear it in mind. Let me have time to take a house, to furnish it and to put myself in a position in which I shall be worthy of your hand. You must remember that I am only in furnished apartments; that you are well connected, and that I should not like to be regarded as a fortune-hunter. You know that my intended husband will soon arrive? Yes, I will take care of that. When he does come, you know, matters will be pushed on rapidly. Not too rapidly for me to be able to set you free in twenty-four hours, and without letting your aunt know that the blow comes from me. You may rest assured, dearest, that the minister for foreign affairs, on being assured that you wish to marry me, and me only, will get you an inviolable asylum in the best convent in Paris. He will also retain counsel on your behalf, and if your mother’s will is properly drawn out your aunt will soon be obliged to hand over your dowry, and to give security for the rest of the property. Do not trouble yourself about the matter, but let the Dunkirk merchant come when he likes. At all hazards, you may reckon upon me, and you may be sure you will not be in your aunt’s house on the day fixed for the wedding. I confide in you entirely, but for goodness’ sake say no more on a circumstance which wounds my sense of modesty. You said that I offered you marriage because you took liberties with me? Was I wrong? Yes, partly, at all events; and you ought to know that if I had not good reasons I should have done a very foolish thing in offering to marry you, but I may as well tell you that, liberties or no liberties, I should always have liked you better than anyone.", "pos": 2506608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir,", "pos": 2509868}
{"speaker": "gamester", "text": "this book treats of a lottery in which all the calculations are made in the fairest manner possible. It contains twelve hundred leaves, two hundred being winning leaves, while the rest are blanks. Anyone who wants to play has only to pay a crown, and then to put a pin’s point at random between two leaves of the closed book. The book is then opened at the place where the pin is, and if the leaf is blank the player loses; but if, on the other hand, the leaf bears a number, he is given the corresponding ticket, and an article of the value indicated on the ticket is then handed to him. Please to observe, sir, that the lowest prize is twelve francs, and there are some numbers worth as much as six hundred francs, and even one to the value of twelve hundred. We have been playing for an hour, and have lost several costly articles, and madam, has won a ring worth six louis, but as she preferred cash, she continued playing and lost the money she had gained.", "pos": 2509902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2510902}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "and these gentlemen have won everybody’s money with their accursed game; which proves it is all a mere cheat.", "pos": 2510919}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "It proves they are rogues,", "pos": 2511036}
{"speaker": "gamester", "text": "But gentlemen, in that case the receivers of the Government lottery are rogues too", "pos": 2511079}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All lotteries,", "pos": 2511310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "are advantageous to the holders, but the king is at the head of the Government lottery, and I am the principal receiver, in which character I shall proceed to confiscate this casket, and give you the choice of the following alternatives: You can, if you like, return to the persons present the money you have unlawfully won from them, whereupon I will let you go with your box. If you refuse to do so, I shall send for a policeman, who will take you to prison, and to-morrow you will be tried by M. Berier, to whom I shall take this book in the morning. We shall soon see whether we are rogues as well as they.", "pos": 2511335}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "You might have given them back their book,", "pos": 2512951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you, ladies, might have let them keep their money.", "pos": 2513013}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "But they cheated us of it.", "pos": 2513070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did they? Well, their cheating was done with the book, and I have done them a kindness by taking it from them.", "pos": 2513099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What were you doing behind Madame--?", "pos": 2517672}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I am sure you saw nothing, or anybody else either.", "pos": 2517719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, because when I saw the beginning of your manoeuvres, and guessed what was coming, I stood in such a way that neither the Lambertini or the pretty niece could see you. I can guess what your goal was, and I must say I admire your hearty appetite. But your wretched victim appears to be rather angry.", "pos": 2517772}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Oh! my dear fellow, that’s all the affectation of an old maid. She may pretend to be put out, but as she kept quiet the whole time I am certain she would be glad to begin all over again.", "pos": 2518076}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think so, too, in her heart of hearts; but her pride might suggest that you had been lacking in respect, and the suggestion would be by no means groundless.", "pos": 2518265}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Respect, you say; but must one not always be lacking in respect to women when one wants to come to the point?", "pos": 2518426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so, but there’s a distinction between what lovers may do when they are together, and what is proper in the presence of a mixed company.", "pos": 2518538}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Yes, but I snatched four distinct favours from her, without the least opposition; had I not therefore good reasons for taking her consent for granted?", "pos": 2518682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You reason well, but you see she is out of humour with you. She wants to speak to me to-morrow, and I have no doubt that you will be the subject of our conversation.", "pos": 2518835}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Possibly, but still I should think she would not speak to you of the comic piece of business; it would be very silly of her.", "pos": 2519003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why so? You don’t know these pious women. They are brought up by Jesuits, who often give them some good lessons on the subject, and they are delighted to confess to a third party; and these confessions with a seasoning of tears gives them in their own eyes quite a halo of saintliness.", "pos": 2519130}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Well, let her tell you if she likes. We shall see what comes of it.", "pos": 2519418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly she may demand satisfaction; in which case I shall be glad to do my best for her.", "pos": 2519488}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "You make me laugh! I can’t imagine what sort of satisfaction she could claim, unless she wants to punish me by the ‘Lex talionis’, which would be hardly practicable without a repetition of the original offence. If she had not liked the game, all she had to do was to give me a push which would have sent me backwards.", "pos": 2519581}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but that would have let us know what you had been trying to do.", "pos": 2519901}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Well, if it comes to that, the slightest movement would have rendered the whole process null and void; but as it was she stood in the proper position as quiet as a lamb; nothing could be easier.", "pos": 2519972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s an amusing business altogether. But did you notice that the Lambertini was angry with you, too? She, perhaps, saw what you were doing, and felt hurt.", "pos": 2520169}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Oh! she has got another cause of complaint against me. We have fallen out, and I am leaving her this evening.", "pos": 2520326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Really?", "pos": 2520438}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Yes, I will tell you all about it. Yesterday evening, a young fellow in the Inland Revenue who had been seduced to sup with us by a hussy of Genoa, after losing forty louis, threw, the cards in the face of my landlady and called her a thief. On the impulse of the moment I took a candle and put it out on his face. I might have destroyed one of his eyes, but I fortunately hit him on the cheek. He immediately ran for his sword, mine was ready, and if the Genoese had not thrown herself between us murder might have been committed. When the poor wretch saw his cheek in the glass, he became so furious that nothing short of the return of all his money would appease him. They gave it him back, in spite of my advice, for in doing so they admitted, tacitly at all events, that it had been won by cheating. This caused a sharp dispute between the Lambertini and myself after he had gone. She said we should have kept the forty louis, and nothing would have happened except for my interference, that it was her and not me whom the young man had insulted. The Genoese added that if we had kept cool we should have had the plucking of him, but that God alone knew what he would do now with the mark of the burn on his face. Tired of the talk of these infamous women, I was about to leave them, but my landlady began to ride the high horse, and went so far as to call me a beggar. If M. le Noir had not come in just then, she would have had a bad time of it, as my stick was already in my hand. As soon as they saw him they told me to hold my tongue, but my blood was up; and turning towards the worthy man I told him that his mistress had called me a beggar, that she was a common prostitute, that I was not her cousin, nor in any way related to her, and that I should leave her that very day. As soon as I had come to the end of this short and swift discourse, I went out and shut myself up in my room. In the course of the next two hours I shall go and fetch my linen, and I hope to breakfast with you to-morrow.", "pos": 2520448}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You will be surprised, sir, at what I am going to tell you, for I have determined to bring before you a complaint of an unheard-of character. The case is really of the most delicate nature, and I am impelled to make a confidant of you by the impression you made on me when I first saw you. I consider you to be a man of discretion, of honour, and above all a moral man; in short, I believe you have experienced religion, and if I am making a mistake it will be a pity, for though I have been insulted I don’t lack means of avenging myself, and as you are his friend you will be sorry for him.", "pos": 2523397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is Tiretta the guilty party, madam?", "pos": 2523992}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "The same.", "pos": 2524030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what is his crime?", "pos": 2524042}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "He is a villain; he has insulted me in the most monstrous manner.", "pos": 2524067}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should not have thought him capable of doing so.", "pos": 2524135}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I daresay not, but then you are a moral man.", "pos": 2524188}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But what was the nature of his offence? You may confide in my secrecy.", "pos": 2524235}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I really couldn’t tell you, it’s quite out of the question; but I trust you will be able to guess it. Yesterday, during the execution of the wretched Damien, he strongly abused the position in which he found himself behind me.", "pos": 2524308}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see; I understand what you mean; you need say no more. You have cause for anger, and he is to blame for acting in such a manner. But allow me to say that the case is not unexampled or even uncommon, and I think you might make some allowance for the strength of love, the close quarters, and above all for the youth and passion of the sinner. Moreover, the offence is one which may be expiated in a number of ways, provided the parties come to an agreement. Tiretta is young and a perfect gentleman, he is handsome and at bottom a good fellow; could not a marriage be arranged? If marriage should not meet your views, we might try a lasting friendship, in which he could shew his repentance and prove himself deserving of pardon. Remember, madam, that Tiretta is only a man, and therefore subject to all the weaknesses of our poor human nature; and even you have your share of the blame.", "pos": 2524537}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I, sir?", "pos": 2525562}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Involuntarily, madam, involuntarily; not you but your charms led him astray. Nevertheless, without this incentive the circumstance would never have taken place, and I think you should consider your beauty as a mitigation of the offence.", "pos": 2525572}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You plead your cause well, sir, but I will do you justice and confess that all your remarks have been characterized by much Christian feeling. However, you are reasoning on false premises; you are ignorant of his real crime, yet how should you guess it?", "pos": 2525811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He can’t have stolen her purse, as I don’t think him capable of such an action; and if I did I’d blow his brains out.", "pos": 2526167}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You are thinking of a deed which one might possibly succeed in reconciling with reason, and in making amends for; but the crime of which that brute has been guilty I dare scarcely imagine, as it is almost enough to drive me mad.", "pos": 2526372}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good heavens! you can’t mean it? This is dreadful; do I hear you aright?", "pos": 2526603}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "Yes. You are moved, I see, but such are the circumstances of the case. Pardon my tears, which flow from anger and the shame with which I am covered.", "pos": 2526678}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and from outraged religion, too.", "pos": 2526829}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "Certainly, certainly. That is the chief source of my grief, and I should have mentioned it if I had not feared you were not so strongly attached to religion as myself.", "pos": 2526869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nobody, God be praised! could be more strongly attached to religion than I, and nothing can ever unloose the ties which bind me to it.", "pos": 2527039}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You will be grieved, then, to hear that I am destined to suffer eternal punishment, for I must and will be avenged.", "pos": 2527176}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not so, madam, perish the thought, as I could not become your accomplice in such a design, and if you will not abandon it at least say nothing to me on the subject. I will promise you to tell him nothing, although as he lives with me the sacred laws of hospitality oblige me to give him due warning.", "pos": 2527294}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I thought he lived with the Lambertini", "pos": 2527596}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He left her yesterday. The connection between them was a criminal one, and I have drawn him back from the brink of the precipice.", "pos": 2527637}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You don’t mean to say so!", "pos": 2527769}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, upon my word of honour.", "pos": 2527797}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "You astonish one. This is very edifying. I don’t wish the young man’s death, but you must confess he owes me some reparation.", "pos": 2527828}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He does indeed. A charming Frenchwoman is not to be handled in the Italian manner without signal amends, but I can think of nothing at all commensurate with the offence. There is only one plan, which I will endeavour to carry out if you will agree to it.", "pos": 2527956}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 2528213}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will put the guilty party in your power without his knowing what is to happen, and I will leave you alone, so that you can wreak all your wrath upon him, provided you will allow me to be, unknown to him, in the next room, as I shall regard myself as responsible for his safety.", "pos": 2528229}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I consent. You will stay in this room, and he must be left in the other where I shall receive you, but take care he has no suspicion of your presence.", "pos": 2528511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He shan’t dream of it. He will not even know where I am taking him, for he must not think that I have been informed of his misdoings. As soon as we be there, and the conversation becomes general, I shall leave the room, pretending to be going away.", "pos": 2528664}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "When will you bring him? I long to cover him with confusion. I will make him tremble. I am curious to hear how he will justify himself for such an offence.", "pos": 2528915}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t say, but I think and hope that your presence will make him eloquent, as I should like to see your differences adjusted.", "pos": 2529073}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "What! she has had the courage to tell you all?", "pos": 2530286}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You don’t deny the fact, then?", "pos": 2530346}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "If she says it is so, I don’t think I can give her the lie, but I am ready to swear that I don’t know how the land lay. In the position I was in it was impossible for me to say where I took up my dwelling. However, I will quiet her indignation, as I shall come to the point quickly, and not let her wait.", "pos": 2530379}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will ruin the business if you don’t take care; be as long as you can; she will like that best, and it will be to your interest. Don’t hurry yourself, and never mind me, as I am sure to get on all right while you are changing anger into a softer passion. Remember not to know that I am in the house, and if you only stay with her a short time (which I don’t think will be the case) take a coach and be off. You know the least a pious woman like her can do will be to provide me with fire and company. Don’t forget that she is well-born like yourself. These women of quality are, no doubt, as immoral as any other women, since they are constructed of the same material, but they like to have their pride flattered by certain attentions. She is rich, a devote, and, what is more, inclined to pleasure; strive to gain her friendship ‘faciem ad faciem’, as the King of Prussia says. You may, perhaps, make your fortune. If she asks you why you have left the Pope’s niece, take care not to tell her the reason. She will be pleased with your discretion. In short, do your best to expiate the enormity of your offence.", "pos": 2530686}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I have only to speak the truth. I went in in the dark.", "pos": 2531805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s an odd reason, but it may seem convincing to a Frenchwoman.", "pos": 2531862}
{"speaker": "distressed devotee", "text": "I never take supper, but if you had forewarned me of your visit I should have got something for you.", "pos": 2532533}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I am more than a quarter of an hour, don’t wait. Take a coach home and we shall see each other to-morrow.", "pos": 2532809}
{"speaker": "sweetheart", "text": "I think I must be dreaming, but my aunt has charged me not to leave you alone, and to tell her woman not to come upstairs unless she rings the bell. Your friend is with her, and she told me to speak low as he is not to know that you are here. What does it all mean?", "pos": 2533109}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are curious, are you?", "pos": 2533389}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess I am in this instance, for all this mystery seems designed to excite curiosity.", "pos": 2533417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest, you shall know all; but how cold it is.", "pos": 2533509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My aunt has told me to make a good fire, she has become liberal or rather lavish all of a sudden; look at the wax candles.", "pos": 2533560}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s a new thing, is it?", "pos": 2533685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, quite new.", "pos": 2533714}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest,", "pos": 2534615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very true, for if she did not like it she had only to change her position.", "pos": 2534977}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not so much as that; she need only have kept the door shut.", "pos": 2535054}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There, sweetheart, you are wrong, for a properly-made man only asks you to keep still and he will overcome all obstacles. Moreover, I don’t expect that your aunt’s door is so well shut as yours.", "pos": 2535116}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe that I could defy all the Tirettas in the world.", "pos": 2535313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There’s another thing I don’t understand, and that is how my blessed aunt came to tell you all about it; for if she had any sense she might have known that it would only make you laugh. And what satisfaction does she expect to get from a brute like that, who possibly thinks the affair a matter of no consequence. I should think he would do the same to any woman who occupied the same position as my aunt.", "pos": 2535373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, for he told me he went in like a blind man, not knowing where he was going.", "pos": 2535781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your friend is a queer fellow, and if other men are like him I am sure I should have no feeling but contempt for them.", "pos": 2535874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has told me nothing about the satisfaction she is thinking of, and which she possibly feels quite sure of attaining; but I think I can guess what it will be namely, a formal declaration of love; and I suppose he will expiate his crime by becoming her lover, and doubtless this will be their wedding night.", "pos": 2535995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The affair is getting amusing. I can’t believe it. My dear aunt is too anxious about her salvation; and how do you imagine the young man can ever fall in love with her, or play the part with such a face as hers before his eyes. Have you ever seen a countenance as disgusting as my aunt’s? Her skin is covered with pimples, her eyes distil humours, and her teeth and breath are enough to discourage any man. She’s hideous.", "pos": 2536307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All that is nothing to a young spark of twenty-five; one is always ready for an assault at that age; not like me who only feel myself a man in presence of charms like yours, of which I long to be the lawful possessor.", "pos": 2536731}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will find me the most affectionate of wives, and I feel quite sure that I shall have your heart in such good keeping that I shall never be afraid of losing it.", "pos": 2536951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can only give you,", "pos": 2537367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bring them quick, then; I am fainting with hunger.", "pos": 2537491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t you want to know what your aunt has been doing the last two hours with M. Sixtimes?", "pos": 2538024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are playing, perhaps; but there is a small hole in the wall, and I will look and see. I can only see the two candles, and the wicks are an inch long.", "pos": 2538116}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Didn’t I say so? Give me a coverlet and I will sleep on the sofa here, and do you go to bed. But let me look at it first.", "pos": 2538273}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your bed is too small for you, dear heart.", "pos": 2538499}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, not at all! I am very comfortable", "pos": 2538544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a beautiful wife I shall have! Nay, don’t move, let me look at you so.", "pos": 2538629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sweetheart, I cannot resist, but you will not love me afterwards.", "pos": 2538909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will always love you.", "pos": 2538977}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I grieve to leave you without having rendered to your beauty the greatest homage which it deserves so well. Give me a coverlet, dearest, that I may go away from you, for I should die here between love and cold if you made me abstain.", "pos": 2539793}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Lie where I have been, sweetheart. I will get up and rekindle the fire.", "pos": 2540132}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Still asleep, M. Casanova?", "pos": 2540739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! good morning, madam, good morning. And what has become of my friend?", "pos": 2540768}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "He has become mine, I have forgiven him.", "pos": 2540843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has he done to be worthy of so generous a pardon?", "pos": 2540886}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "He proved to me that he made a mistake.", "pos": 2540943}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it; where is he?", "pos": 2540985}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "He has gone home, where you will find him; but don’t say anything about your spending the night here, or he will think it was spent with my niece. I am very much obliged to you for what you have done, and I have only to ask you to be discreet.", "pos": 2541027}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can count on me entirely, for I am grateful to you for having forgiven my friend.", "pos": 2541273}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Who would not do so? The dear young man is something more than mortal. If you knew how he loved me! I am grateful to him, and I have taken him to board for a year; he will be well lodged, well fed, and so on.", "pos": 2541361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What a delightful plan! You have arranged the terms, I suppose.", "pos": 2541572}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "All that will be settled in a friendly way, and we shall not need to have recourse to arbitration. We shall set out to-day for Villette, where I have a nice little house; for you know that it is necessary, at first, to act in such a way as to give no opportunity to slanderers. My lover will have all he wants, and whenever you, sir, honour us with your presence you will find a pretty room and a good bed at your disposal. All I am sorry for is that you will find it tedious; my poor niece is so dull.", "pos": 2541638}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, your niece is delightful; she gave me yesterday evening an excellent supper and kept me company till three o’clock this morning.", "pos": 2542143}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Really? I can’t make it out how she gave you anything, as there was nothing in the house.", "pos": 2542281}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "At any rate, madam, she gave me an excellent supper, of which there are no remains, and after keeping me company she went to bed, and I have had a good night on this comfortable sofa.", "pos": 2542373}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I am glad that you, like myself, were pleased with everything, but I did not think my niece so clever.", "pos": 2542559}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is very clever, madam--in my eyes, at all events.", "pos": 2542664}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Oh, sir! you are a judge of wit, let us go and see her. She has locked her door. Come open the door, why have you shut yourself up, you little prude? what are you afraid of. My Casanova is incapable of hurting you. There she is, and she is not so bad looking after all, but it is a pity she is so stupid. You were very right to give this gentleman a supper. I am much obliged to you for doing so. I have been playing all night, and when one is playing one only thinks of the game. I have determined on taking young Tiretta to board with us. He is an excellent and clever young man, and I am sure he will learn to speak French before long. Get dressed, my dear, as we must begin to pack. We shall set out this afternoon for Villette, and shall spend there the whole of the spring. There is no need, you know, to say anything about this to my sister.", "pos": 2542720}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "I, aunt? Certainly not. Did I ever tell her anything on the other occasions?", "pos": 2543736}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Other occasions! You see what a silly girl it is. Do you mean by ‘other occasions,’ that I have been circumstanced like this before?", "pos": 2543815}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "No, aunt. I only meant to say that I had never told her anything of what you did.", "pos": 2543950}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "That’s right, my dear, but you must learn to express yourself properly. We dine at two, and I hope to have the pleasure of M. Casanova’s company at dinner; we will start immediately after the meal. Tiretta promised to bring his small portmanteau with him, and it will go with our luggage.", "pos": 2544034}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well. I find you have got a place. Tell me all about it.", "pos": 2544502}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "My dear fellow, I have sold myself for a year. My pay is to be twenty-five louis a month, a good table, good lodging, etc., etc.", "pos": 2544582}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you.", "pos": 2544713}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Do you think it is worth the trouble?", "pos": 2544735}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There’s no rose without a thorn. She told me you were something more than mortal.", "pos": 2544775}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I worked hard all night to prove it to her; but I am quite sure your time was better employed than mine.", "pos": 2544859}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I slept like a king. Dress yourself, as I am coming to dinner, and I want to see you set out for Villette. I shall come and see you there now and then, as your sweetheart has told me that a room shall be set apart for my convenience.", "pos": 2544966}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "She believes, that we do not know he sleeps with her.", "pos": 2550095}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Believes, or pretends to believe.", "pos": 2550163}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Possibly. She rang for me at eleven o’clock this morning and told me to go and ask him what kind of night he had passed. I did so, but seeing his bed had not been slept in I asked him if he had not been to sleep.", "pos": 2550199}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "No. I have been writing all night, but please don’t say anything about it to your aunt: I promised with all my heart to be as silent as the grave.", "pos": 2550414}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does he make sheep’s eyes at you?", "pos": 2550575}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "No, but if he did it would be all the same. Though he is not over sharp he knows, I think, what I think of him.", "pos": 2550611}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why have you such a poor opinion of him?", "pos": 2550725}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Why? My aunt pays him. I think selling one’s self is a dreadful idea.", "pos": 2550768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you pay me.", "pos": 2550840}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Yes, but in the same coin as you give me.", "pos": 2550858}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t like it much, but as it costs me nothing I am not absolutely wretched.", "pos": 2551208}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "But her face!", "pos": 2551289}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t look at it, and there’s one thing I like about her--she is so clean.", "pos": 2551305}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Does she take good care of you?", "pos": 2551384}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "O yes, she is full of feeling for me. This morning she refused the greeting I offered her.", "pos": 2551418}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I am sure, that my refusal will pain you, but your health is so dear to me that I feel bound to look after it. I shall see no more of that foolish priest, for after telling me that I was lost both in this world and the next he threatened to abandon me, and I took him at his word.", "pos": 2551510}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "Am I to let myself be robbed, then?", "pos": 2553554}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, you have a free choice in the matter; nobody will make you play.", "pos": 2553592}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "I certainly will not pay him that hundred louis.", "pos": 2553664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I advise you to do so, and to do so before you are asked.", "pos": 2553715}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "You have a knack of persuading one to do what you will, even though one be disposed to take no notice of your advice.", "pos": 2553775}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s because I speak from heart and head at once, and have some experience in these affairs as well.", "pos": 2553895}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "You are in love with the niece,", "pos": 2554727}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you think so?", "pos": 2554770}
{"speaker": "Tiretta", "text": "By the mystery you make about her; but love betrays itself even by its silence.", "pos": 2554793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a knowing fellow, Tiretta. I will come to dinner, but don’t say a word to anybody.", "pos": 2554875}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your intended, would have pronounced you charming without all that.", "pos": 2555733}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "My aunt doesn’t think so", "pos": 2555813}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have not seen him yet?", "pos": 2555840}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "No, but I should like to, although I trust with your help never to become his wife.", "pos": 2555869}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Won’t you, my dear?", "pos": 2557193}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Yes, aunt, I shall be very glad to see the gentleman again.", "pos": 2557215}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Well, what do you think of your husband?", "pos": 2557381}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Allow me to put off my answer till to-morrow; but be good enough, when we are at table, to draw me into the conversation, for it is very possible that my face has not repelled him, but so far he knows nothing of my mental powers; possibly my want of wit may destroy any slight impression my face may have made.", "pos": 2557441}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Yes, I am afraid you will begin to talk nonsense, and make him lose the good opinion he seems to have formed of you.", "pos": 2557754}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "It is not right to deceive anybody. If he is disabused of his fictitious ideas by the appearance of the truth, so much the better for him; and so much the worse for both of us, if we decide on marrying without the slightest knowledge of each other’s habits and ways of thought.", "pos": 2557873}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "What do you think of him?", "pos": 2558153}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I think he is rather nice-looking, and his manners are kind and polite; but let us wait till to-morrow. Perhaps he will have nothing more to say to me; I am so stupid.", "pos": 2558181}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "I know very well that you think yourself very clever, and that’s where your fault lies; it’s your self-conceit which makes you stupid, although M. Casanova takes you for a wit.", "pos": 2558353}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Perhaps he may know what he is talking about.", "pos": 2558532}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "My poor dear, he is only laughing at you.", "pos": 2558580}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I have good reasons for thinking otherwise, aunt.", "pos": 2558624}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "There you go; you will never get any sense.", "pos": 2558676}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pardon me, madam, if I cannot be of your opinion. Mademoiselle is quite right in saying that I do not laugh at her. I dare to say that to-morrow she will shine in the conversation.", "pos": 2558722}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "You think so? I am glad to hear it. Now let us have a game at piquet, and I will play against you and my niece, for she must learn the game.", "pos": 2558905}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "You are astonished to see me thus, but I want to speak to you for a moment, and then I will take off my clothes. Tell me plainly whether I am to consent to this marriage or no?", "pos": 2559525}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you like him?", "pos": 2559716}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Fairly well.", "pos": 2559739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Consent, then!", "pos": 2559754}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Very good; farewell! From this moment our love ends, and our friendship begins. Get you to bed, and I will go and do the same. Farewell!", "pos": 2559771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, stay, and let our friendship begin to-morrow.", "pos": 2559910}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Not so, were my refusal to cost the lives of both of us. You know what it must cost me to speak thus, but it is my irrevocable determination. If I am to become another’s wife, I must take care to be worthy of him; perhaps I may be happy. Do not hold me, let me go. You know how well I love you.", "pos": 2559962}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "At least, let us have one final embrace.", "pos": 2560259}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Alas! no.", "pos": 2560302}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are weeping.", "pos": 2560314}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "No, I am not. In God’s name let me go.", "pos": 2560333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear heart, you go but to weep in your chamber; stay here. I will marry you.", "pos": 2560374}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Nay, no more of that.", "pos": 2560453}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "To-morrow, we are all to dine with M. Corneman, where the deed of settlement will be signed.", "pos": 2561690}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. de la Meure", "text": "Dearest, it is too late; you have decided on my destiny, and I cannot go back from my word. Come to dinner at M. Corneman’s, and be sure that in a few weeks we shall be congratulating ourselves on having won a great victory. Our love, crowned all too soon, will soon live only in our memories. I beg of you to write to me no more.", "pos": 2562920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have I the necessary talents?", "pos": 2567504}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 2567536}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have an inclination for all honest means of earning a livelihood, and as for my talents I will take your excellency’s opinion for granted.", "pos": 2567550}
{"speaker": "Galiani", "text": "Voltaire is wrong, for the Neapolitan dialect is of such a nature that it is impossible to write verses in it that are not laughable. And why should he be vexed; he who makes people laugh is sure of being beloved. The Neapolitan dialect is truly a singular one; we have it in translations of the Bible and of the Iliad, and both are comic.", "pos": 2569513}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can imagine that the Bible would be, but I should not have thought that would have been the case with the Iliad.", "pos": 2569871}
{"speaker": "Galiani", "text": "It is, nevertheless.", "pos": 2569988}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will make the attempt, and will hand you in my report on my return, and it will be for you to say if I have succeeded or not.", "pos": 2571610}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Ville", "text": "As this is a secret mission, I cannot give you a letter of commendation; I can only give you some money and wish you a pleasant journey.", "pos": 2571750}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not wish to be paid in advance--on my return you can give me what you think fit. I shall want three or four days before setting out, as I must procure some letters of introduction.", "pos": 2571889}
{"speaker": "Abbé de la Ville", "text": "Very good. Try to come back before the end of the month. I have no further instructions to give you.", "pos": 2572077}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "This was the last occasion on which I made use of his purse; I did not borrow from him at Rome fourteen years afterwards.", "pos": 2572424}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As you are on a secret mission, my dear Casanova, I cannot give you a passport. I am sorry for it, but if I did so your object would be suspected. However, you will easily be able to get one from the first gentleman of the chamber, on some pretext or other. Silvia will be more useful to you in that way than anybody else. You quite understand how discreet your behaviour must be. Above all, do not get into any trouble; for I suppose you know that, if anything happened to you, it would be of no use to talk of your mission. We should be obliged to know nothing about you, for ambassadors are the only avowed spies. Remember that you must be even more careful and reserved than they, and yet, if you wish to succeed, all this must be concealed, and you must have an air of freedom from constraint that you may inspire confidence. If, on your return, you like to shew me your report before handing it in, I will tell you what may require to be left out or added.", "pos": 2572546}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You can take her the box of china statuettes, if M. Corneman has not sent them already.", "pos": 2574354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get me the horses. I will make them open the gates.", "pos": 2578275}
{"speaker": "Sentry", "text": "Who goes there?", "pos": 2578450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Express messenger.", "pos": 2578468}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Whose messenger are you?", "pos": 2578771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nobody’s, but as I am in a hurry.", "pos": 2578798}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "That will do. We will talk the matter over tomorrow. In the meanwhile you will accept the hospitality of the guard-room.", "pos": 2578834}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, sir . . .", "pos": 2578957}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "But me no buts, if you please; leave the room.", "pos": 2578974}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Your name, sir?", "pos": 2579492}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here is my passport.", "pos": 2579510}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Would you like to see the governor?", "pos": 2579616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I should. Not so fast, sir, I am not in such a hurry now. I shall send a messenger to Paris and wait his return; for by stopping me on my journey you have violated all the rights of the subject.", "pos": 2579654}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You violated them yourself in calling yourself a messenger.", "pos": 2580197}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all; I told you that I was not one.", "pos": 2580259}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Yes, but you told your postillion that you were, and that comes to the same thing.", "pos": 2580304}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The postillion is a liar, I told him nothing of the kind.", "pos": 2580389}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Why didn’t you shew your passport?", "pos": 2580449}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why didn’t you give me time to do so? In the course of the next few days we shall see who is right.", "pos": 2580486}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Just as you please.", "pos": 2580588}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "I am sorry for what has happened, sir, and above all that you think you have good reason for complaint, inasmuch as I only did my duty, for how was I to imagine that your postillion had called you a messenger on his own responsibility.", "pos": 2581712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s all very well, sir, but your sense of duty need not have made you drive me from your room.", "pos": 2581950}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "I was in need of sleep.", "pos": 2582050}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am in the same position at the present moment, but a feeling of politeness prevents me from imitating your example.", "pos": 2582076}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "May I ask if you have ever been in the service?", "pos": 2582196}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have served by land and sea, and have left off when most people are only beginning.", "pos": 2582246}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "In that case you will be aware that the gates of a fortified town are only opened by night to the king’s messengers or to military superiors.", "pos": 2582334}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I know; but since they were opened the thing was done, and you might as well have been polite.", "pos": 2582478}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Will you not put on your clothes, and walk a short distance with me!", "pos": 2582580}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Sir--my wife, here is M. de Casanova, who has come to dinner with us.", "pos": 2583493}
{"speaker": "Governor's wife", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, sir, as otherwise I should have had no chance of forgiving you for waking me up the other night.", "pos": 2583622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I paid dearly for my fault, madam, but after the purgatory I had endured I am sure you will allow me to be happy in this paradise.", "pos": 2583748}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You’re a nice man, to think I was going to fight you. Ah! ha! I have caught you, haven’t I?", "pos": 2585553}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who told you that I was meditating a duel?", "pos": 2585658}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Confess that such was the case?", "pos": 2585703}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I protest; there is a great difference between believing and supposing; the one is positive, the other merely hypothetical. I must confess, however, that your invitation to take a walk roused my curiosity as to what was to come next, and I admire your wit. But you must believe me that I do not regard myself as caught in a trap--far from that, I am so well pleased that I feel grateful to you.", "pos": 2585737}
{"speaker": "exciseman", "text": "As you talk in that style, we will see what we can see.", "pos": 2586970}
{"speaker": "Excisemen", "text": "You can go if you like, we are not your servants.", "pos": 2588629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Without your paying either the fine or caution money,", "pos": 2589175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you will find it a hard matter to get yourself out of the difficulty.", "pos": 2589240}
{"speaker": "Attorney", "text": "There’s a whole day lost, then,", "pos": 2589869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go and hunt him up; he must have well-known resorts and friends, and we will find them out. I will give you a louis for the day’s work; will that be enough?", "pos": 2589922}
{"speaker": "Attorney", "text": "Ample.", "pos": 2590088}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "And so, sir, I may reveal to you what after all is no secret. My daughter told me yesterday evening that she was going to dine at Madame N----’s, and that the superintendent was to be there. Do you go after him now, and you will find him at table in the best society in Amiens, but. I advise you not to give your name at the door. The numerous servants will shew you the way without asking for your name. You can then speak to him whether he likes it or not, and though you don’t know him he will hear all you say. I am sorry that I cannot be present at so fine a situation.", "pos": 2590866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, you will excuse my troubling your quiet on this festive occasion with a tale of terror.", "pos": 2591817}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Since seven o’clock this morning I have been searching from door to door and from street to street for his honour the superintendent, whom I have at last been fortunate enough to find here, for I know perfectly well that he is present, and that if he have ears he hears me now. I am come to request him to order his scoundrelly myrmidons who have seized my carriage to give it up, so that I may continue my journey. If the laws bid me pay twelve hundred francs for seven ounces of snuff for my own private use, I renounce those laws and declare that I will not pay a farthing. I shall stay here and send a messenger to my ambassador, who will complain that the ‘jus gentium’ has been violated in the Ile-de-France in my person, and I will have reparation. Louis XV. is great enough to refuse to become an accomplice in this strange onslaught. And if that satisfaction which is my lawful right is not granted me, I will make the thing an affair of state, and my Republic will not revenge itself by assaulting Frenchmen for a few pinches of snuff, but will expel them all root and branch. If you want to know whom I am, read this.", "pos": 2592102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you are here to do justice, you will look upon my passport as a positive command to speed me on my way, and I bid you yourself be my surety if you are a gentleman.", "pos": 2593616}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "Does high birth go bail for breaches of the law in your country?", "pos": 2593785}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In my country men of high birth do not condescend to take dishonourable employments.", "pos": 2593852}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "No service under the king can be dishonourable.", "pos": 2593939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The hangman would say the same thing.", "pos": 2593989}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "Take care what you say.", "pos": 2594029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take care what you do. Know, sir, that I am a free man who has been grievously outraged, and know, too, that I fear no one. Throw me out of the window, if you dare.", "pos": 2594055}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "Sir, in my house there is no throwing out of windows.", "pos": 2594222}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madam, an angry man makes use of terms which his better reason disowns. I am wronged by a most cruel act of injustice, and I humbly crave your pardon for having offended you. Please to reflect that for the first time in my life I have been oppressed and insulted, and that in a kingdom where I thought myself safe from all but highway robbers. For them I have my pistols, and for the worthy superintendents I have a passport, but I find the latter useless. For the sake of seven ounces of snuff which I bought at St. Omer three weeks ago, this gentleman robs me and interrupts my journey, though the king’s majesty is my surety that no one shall interfere with me; he calls on me to pay fifty louis, he delivers me to the rage of his impudent menials and to the derision of the mob, from whom I had to rid myself by my money and the aid of this worthy man beside me. I am treated like a scoundrel, and the man who should have been my defender and deliverer slinks away and hides himself, and adds to the insults I have received. His myrmidons have turned my clothes upside down, and pitchforked my linen at the foot of the town gates, to revenge themselves on me for not giving them twenty-four sous. To-morrow the manner in which I have been treated will be known to the diplomatic bodies at Versailles and Paris, and in a few days it will be in all the newspapers. I will pay not a farthing because I owe not a farthing. Now, sir, am I to send a courier to the Duc de Gesvres?", "pos": 2594341}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "What you have got to do is to pay, and if you do not care to pay, you may do whatever you like.", "pos": 2595822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then, ladies and gentlemen, good-bye. As for you, sir, we shall meet again.", "pos": 2595920}
{"speaker": "man past middle age", "text": "Let this gentleman proceed on his journey; I will go bail for him. Do you understand me, superintendent? I will be his surety. You don’t know these Italians. I went through the whole of the last war in Italy, and I understand the national character. Besides, I think the gentleman is in the right.", "pos": 2596232}
{"speaker": "official", "text": "Very good. All you have to do is to pay a matter of thirty or forty francs at the customs’ office as the affair is already booked.", "pos": 2596532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought I told you that I would not pay a single farthing, and I tell it you again. But who are you, sir,", "pos": 2596701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "who are good enough to become surety for me without knowing me?", "pos": 2596850}
{"speaker": "de la Bretonniere", "text": "I am a commissary of musters, sir, and my name is de la Bretonniere. I live in Paris at the ‘Hotel de Saxe,’ Rue Colombien, where I shall be glad to see you after to-morrow. We will go together to M. Britard, who, after hearing your case, will discharge my bail.", "pos": 2596916}
{"speaker": "exciseman", "text": "I wonder at that since it has been left in the hands of men of your stamp; shall I find the snuff? The snuff has been confiscated, my lord.", "pos": 2597952}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry for you, then; for if it had been there I would have given you a louis.", "pos": 2598096}
{"speaker": "exciseman", "text": "I will go and look for it directly.", "pos": 2598181}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no time to wait for it. Drive on, postillion.", "pos": 2598219}
{"speaker": "Silvia's daughter", "text": "a wife, if a good one, would have been only too happy to alleviate my troubles by sharing in them,", "pos": 2600662}
{"speaker": "Silvia's mother", "text": "a woman of parts, after seeing to the safety of my baggage and my coach, would have busied herself in taking the necessary steps for setting me at liberty,", "pos": 2600790}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "My dear Casanova. I can drop you at your own door without giving myself the slightest inconvenience, though my carriage is only seated for two; however, my sweetheart can sit on our knees.", "pos": 2604487}
{"speaker": "Count de la Tour d'Auvergne", "text": "I am really very much obliged to you, my dear fellow, for a piece of politeness thoroughly Italian, of which, however, I do not feel worthy; at least, I hope it’s meant as politeness and not as a sign of contempt.", "pos": 2605279}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear count, let us forget this foolish story. You have no business to attack me, as I do not know how to defend myself.", "pos": 2607242}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Why should you defend yourself, my dear fellow. We like you all the better for it, and this humorous adventure makes us merry every evening.", "pos": 2607377}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Everybody knows it, then?", "pos": 2607520}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Of course, why not? It makes Camille choke with laughter. Come this evening; I will bring Babet, and she will amuse you as she maintains that you were not mistaken.", "pos": 2607548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is right.", "pos": 2607715}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Eh? what? You do me too much honour, and I don’t believe you; but have it as you like.", "pos": 2607731}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t do better, but I must confess when all’s said that you were not the person to whom my fevered imagination offered such ardent homage.", "pos": 2607820}
{"speaker": "Babet", "text": "villain,", "pos": 2608099}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "I haven’t got the money,", "pos": 2608550}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "but my purse and all it contains is at your service.", "pos": 2608585}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "I want a hundred louis, my dear fellow, and immediately, as I lost them at play yesterday evening at the Princess of Anhalt’s.", "pos": 2608640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I haven’t got them.", "pos": 2608769}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "The receiver of the lottery ought always to be able to put his hand on a hundred louis.", "pos": 2608795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but I can’t touch my cash-box; I have to give it up this day week.", "pos": 2608885}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "So you can; as I will repay you on Saturday. Take a hundred louis from the box, and put in my word of honour instead; don’t you think that is worth a hundred Louis?", "pos": 2608959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have nothing to say to that, wait for me a minute.", "pos": 2609126}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "I give you my word of honour.", "pos": 2609756}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your word of honour is in my box, so let’s say nothing about that. You can repay me when you like.", "pos": 2609788}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "My word of honour, my dear Casanova, is more precious to me than my life; and I will give you the hundred louis at nine o’clock to-morrow morning at a hundred paces from the cafe at the end of the Champs-Elysees. I will give you them in person, and nobody will see us. I hope you will not fail to be there, and that you will bring your sword. I shall have mine.", "pos": 2609922}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Faith, count! that’s making me pay rather dear for my jest. You certainly do me a great honour, but I would rather beg your pardon, if that would prevent this troublesome affair from going any further.", "pos": 2610286}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "No, I am more to blame than you, and the blame can only be removed by the sword’s point. Will you meet me?", "pos": 2610490}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not see how I can refuse you, although I am very much averse to the affair.", "pos": 2610598}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "I am satisfied.", "pos": 2611929}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Very good, then I will go out and buy a brush.", "pos": 2613160}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will send a servant.", "pos": 2613209}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "No, I must get it myself, as I want some drugs as well.", "pos": 2613234}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must have a little of your----, this liquid is indispensable, and it must be quite fresh.", "pos": 2613383}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "You were sure of success, then, as you did not come to see me the day after your astounding operation.", "pos": 2615897}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course I was sure, but if I had not been too busy you would have seen me, for all that.", "pos": 2616013}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "May I take a bath?", "pos": 2616106}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, don’t bathe till you feel quite well.", "pos": 2616127}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Very good. Everybody is in a state of astonishment at your feat, as I could not help telling the miracle to all my acquaintances. There are certainly some sceptics who laugh at me, but I let them talk.", "pos": 2616171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You should have kept your own counsel; you know what Paris is like. Everybody will be considering me as a master-quack.", "pos": 2616375}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Not at all, not at all. I have come to ask a favour of you.", "pos": 2616497}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 2616559}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "I have an aunt who enjoys a great reputation for her skill in the occult sciences, especially in alchemy. She is a woman of wit, very, rich, and sole mistress of her fortune; in short, knowing her will do you no harm. She longs to see you, for she pretends to know you, and says that you are not what you seem. She has entreated me to take you to dine with her, and I hope you will accept the invitation. Her name is the Marchioness d’Urfe.", "pos": 2616574}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "She has twelve people every day to dinner, and you will find yourself in the company of the best society in Paris.", "pos": 2617533}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear fellow, that’s exactly what I don’t want; for I hate to be thought a magician, which must have been the effect of the tales you have told.", "pos": 2617650}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "Oh, no! not at all; your character is well known, and you will find yourself in the society of people who have the greatest regard for you.", "pos": 2617799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you sure of that?", "pos": 2617941}
{"speaker": "Tour d’Auvergne", "text": "The Duchess de l’Oragnais told me, that, four or five years ago, you were often to be seen at the Palais Royal, and that you used to spend whole days with the Duchess d’Orleans; Madame de Bouffers, Madame de Blots, and Madame de Melfort have also talked to me about you. You are wrong not to keep up your old acquaintances. I know at least a hundred people of the first rank who are suffering from the same malady as that of which you cured me, and would give the half of their goods to be cured. I do not wish to become a public character, and that he must tell Madame d’Urfe that I would have the honour of calling on her in strict privacy only, and that she might tell me the day and hour on which I should kneel before her.", "pos": 2617965}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You do not believe, then, in steganography.", "pos": 2621286}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sir, and if you would like it, I will give you this which has been copied from the original.", "pos": 2621332}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I accept it, madam, with all the more gratitude in that I know its worth.", "pos": 2621431}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "and. I often get letters from him. If the Regent of France, had listened to me he would be alive now. He was my first friend; he gave me the name of Egeria, and he married me to M. d’Urfe.", "pos": 2622623}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You know the ingredients, I suppose?", "pos": 2624907}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; this fixed salt is a salt of urine.", "pos": 2624956}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You are right.", "pos": 2624999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I admire your sagacity, madam. You have made an analysis of the mixture with which I traced the pentacle on your nephew’s thigh, but in what way can you discover the words which give the pentacle its efficacy?", "pos": 2625016}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "In the manuscript of an adept, which I will shew you, and where you will find the very words you used.", "pos": 2625228}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I have never heard of them, madam, but I know those of Poliphilus. It is said they are the same. I don’t believe it. We shall see. If you will write the words you uttered, as you drew the pentacle on my nephew’s thigh, and if I find the same talisman with the same words around it, the identity will be proved. It will, I confess. I will write the words immediately. You see, that Poliphilus and the Count de Treves possessed the same art.", "pos": 2626279}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be convinced that it is so, if your book contains the manner of pronouncing the ineffable names. Do you know the theory of the planetary hours?", "pos": 2626951}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I think so, but they are not needed in this operation.", "pos": 2627105}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are indispensable, madam, for without them one cannot work with any certainty. I drew Solomon’s pentacle on the thigh of Count de la Tour d’Auvergne in the hour of Venus, and if I had not begun with Arael, the spirit of Venus, the operation would have had no effect.", "pos": 2627162}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I did not know that. And after Arael?", "pos": 2627436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Next comes Mercury, then the Moon, then Jupiter, and then the Sun. It is, you see, the magic cycle of Zoroaster, in which Saturn and Mars are omitted.", "pos": 2627476}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "And how would you have proceeded if you had gone to work in the hour of the Moon?", "pos": 2627629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have begun with Jupiter, passed to the Sun, then to Arael or Venus, and I should have finished at Mercury.", "pos": 2627713}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I see sir, that you are most apt in the calculation of the planetary hours.", "pos": 2627831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Without it one can do nothing in magic, as one would have no proper data; however, it is an easy matter to learn. Anyone could pick it up in a month’s time. The practical use, however, is much more difficult than the theory; this, indeed, is a complicated affair. I never leave my house without ascertaining the exact number of minutes in the day, and take care that my watch is exact to the time, for a minute more or less would make all the difference in the world.", "pos": 2627909}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Would you have the goodness to explain the theory to me.", "pos": 2628379}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will find it in Artephius and more clearly in Sandivogius.", "pos": 2628438}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I have both works, but they are in Latin.", "pos": 2628503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will make you a translation of them.", "pos": 2628547}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You are very kind; I shall be extremely obliged to you.", "pos": 2628588}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have seen such things here, madam, that I could not refuse, for reasons which I may, perhaps, tell you to-morrow.", "pos": 2628646}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Why not to-day?", "pos": 2628764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I ought to know the name of your familiar spirit before I tell you.", "pos": 2628782}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You know, then, that I have a familiar? You should have one, if it is true that you possess the powder of projection.", "pos": 2628860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have one.", "pos": 2628980}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Give me the oath of the order.", "pos": 2628994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dare not, and you know why.", "pos": 2629027}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Perhaps I shall be able to remove your fears by tomorrow.", "pos": 2629059}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "When we find this oath alluded to in the Holy Scriptures, it is indicated by the words ‘he swore to him by laying his hand on his thigh.’", "pos": 2629620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the thigh is not really what is meant; and consequently we never find any notice of a man taking this oath to a woman, as a woman has no ‘verbum’.", "pos": 2629772}
{"speaker": "Count de la Tour d'Auvergne", "text": "and I am going to take leave of you, my dear aunt, at least for a month, as I intend to shut myself up with the sick man.", "pos": 2630160}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Hang it round his neck and the eruption will come out well, and he will be perfectly cured.", "pos": 2630409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know, madam, what your bag contains, but if it have aught to do with magic, I have no confidence in its efficacy, as you have neglected to observe the planetary hour.", "pos": 2630572}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "It is an electrum, and magic and the observance of the hour have nothing to do with it.", "pos": 2630750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I beg your pardon.", "pos": 2630840}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I will introduce you to all my friends, by asking them one at a time, and you will then be able to enjoy the company of them all.", "pos": 2631021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2637959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have deciphered it, and consequently read it, and I now beg to return it you with my word of honour that I have not made a copy; in fact, I found nothing in it that I did not know before.", "pos": 2637974}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Without the key you mean, but of course you could never find out that.", "pos": 2638166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall I tell you the key?", "pos": 2638239}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Pray do so. This is too amazing. I thought myself the sole possessor of that mysterious word--for I had never written it down, laying it up in my memory--and I am sure I have never told anyone of it.", "pos": 2638267}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I did not think, that your spirit would have been able to force mine to reveal my secrets.", "pos": 2639561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There was no need to force your spirit, madam, as mine knows all things of his own power.", "pos": 2639673}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Does he know the inmost secrets of my soul?", "pos": 2639765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, and if I ask him he is forced to disclose all to me.", "pos": 2639811}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Can you ask him when you like?", "pos": 2639877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes! provided I have paper and ink. I can even ask him questions through you by telling you his name.", "pos": 2639910}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "And will you tell it me?", "pos": 2640018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can do what I say; and, to convince you, his name is Paralis. Ask him a simple question in writing, as you would ask a common mortal. Ask him, for instance, how I deciphered your manuscript, and you shall see I will compel him to answer you.", "pos": 2640045}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I know that, and what is more I know the death I shall have to die; but for all that I am ready.", "pos": 2645913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What, then, is that death, madam?", "pos": 2646012}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "It is by the same poison which killed Paracelsus.", "pos": 2646048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you think that Paracelsus obtained the hypostasis?", "pos": 2646100}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "No, but I know the reason of his not doing so.", "pos": 2646156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the reason?", "pos": 2646205}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "It is that he was neither man or woman, and a composite nature is incapable of the hypostasis, to obtain which one must be either the one or the other.", "pos": 2646227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very true, but do you know how to make the poison, and that the thing is impossible without the aid of a salamander?", "pos": 2646381}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "That may or may not be! I beseech you to enquire of the oracle whether there be anyone in Paris in possession of this potion. You see that all we want is a male child born of an immortal. This, I am advised, will be provided by you; and I do not think you will be found wanting out of a foolish pity for this poor old body of mine. Can it be done, my dear friend? I see that you have been weeping.", "pos": 2646500}
{"speaker": "M. de Bernis", "text": "As you do not require money in advance, you will be able to get as many letters of recommendation as you like.", "pos": 2649256}
{"speaker": "Comptroller-General", "text": "For my part. I will credit our ambassador with twenty millions, and if, contrary to my hopes, you do not succeed, the paper can be sent back to France.", "pos": 2649613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The margin will be a small one; however, you will hear about that from the ambassador, who will have full instructions.", "pos": 2649894}
{"speaker": "Attorney", "text": "I am a poor man, and I can do nothing for this unfortunate girl; while if I had a hundred crowns I could do everything.", "pos": 2653017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t let that stand in your way,", "pos": 2653139}
{"speaker": "Attorney", "text": "Now, sir. I will be the ruin of her husband, who shall never know where his wife is.", "pos": 2653254}
{"speaker": "Boaz", "text": "I have solved your problem, sir; come in here and I will tell you about it.", "pos": 2655926}
{"speaker": "M. Boaz", "text": "Look at this note, which I received this morning from the Mint. It informs me that an issue of four hundred thousand ducats is about to be made which will be disposed of at the current rate of gold, which is fortunately not high just now. Each ducat will fetch five florins, two stivers and three-fifths. This is the rate of exchange with Frankfort. Buy in four hundred thousand ducats; take them or send them to Frankfort, with bills of exchange on Amsterdam, and your business is done. On every ducat you will make a stiver and one-ninth, which comes to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and twenty-two of our florins. Get hold of the gold to-day, and in a week you will have your clear profit. That’s my idea.", "pos": 2656390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, will the clerks of the Mint trust me with such a sum?", "pos": 2657115}
{"speaker": "M. Boaz", "text": "Certainly not, unless you pay them in current money or in good paper.", "pos": 2657186}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear sir, I have neither money nor credit to that amount.", "pos": 2657258}
{"speaker": "M. Boaz", "text": "Then you will certainly never make twenty thousand florins in a week. By the way you talked yesterday I took you for a millionaire.", "pos": 2657321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry you were so mistaken.", "pos": 2657455}
{"speaker": "M. Boaz", "text": "I shall get one of my sons to transact the business to-day.", "pos": 2657495}
{"speaker": "M. d'Afri", "text": "because, in business, most honest and least knavish mean pretty much the same thing. If you like. I will give you a letter of introduction to M. Pels, of Amsterdam.", "pos": 2658312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am posting, sir, and, moreover, I am a foreigner.", "pos": 2661355}
{"speaker": "The Dutchman", "text": "Sir, in Holland we take no notice of posting or not posting; and if you are foreigner, as you say, you must confess that you have fewer rights than I who am in my own country.", "pos": 2661419}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But would you, mademoiselle, like to go?", "pos": 2664525}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Yes, I should like to go very well, but I cannot go by myself.", "pos": 2664568}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I might presume to offer to escort you . . . but I dare not think you would accept.", "pos": 2664633}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I should be delighted, and if you were to ask my father I am sure he would not refuse his permission.", "pos": 2664722}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you sure of that?", "pos": 2664826}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Quite sure, for otherwise he would be guilty of impoliteness, and my father would not do such a thing. But I see you don’t know the manners of the country.", "pos": 2664850}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I confess I do not.", "pos": 2665008}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Young ladies enjoy great liberty here--liberty which they lose only by marrying. Go and ask, and you will see.", "pos": 2665030}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Have you a carriage?", "pos": 2665230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 2665253}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Then I need not give orders to get mine ready. Esther!", "pos": 2665265}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Yes, father.", "pos": 2665322}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Go and dress, my dear; M. Casanova has been kind enough to offer to take you to the concert.", "pos": 2665337}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "How good of him! Thank you, papa, for letting me go.", "pos": 2665432}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "that she was a treasure of whom I was not worthy to be the keeper.", "pos": 2666713}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I know that in other countries a young girl would not be trusted alone with a gentleman, but here they teach us discretion and how to look after ourselves.", "pos": 2666781}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Happy the man who is charged with your welfare, and happier still he on whom your choice has fallen!", "pos": 2666939}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "That choice is not for me to make; ‘tis my father’s business.", "pos": 2667042}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But supposing your father’s choice is not pleasing to you, or supposing you love another?", "pos": 2667106}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "We are not allowed to love a man until we know he is to be our husband.", "pos": 2667198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you are not in love with anyone?", "pos": 2667272}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "No, and I have never felt the desire to love.", "pos": 2667312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I may kiss your hand?", "pos": 2667360}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Why should you kiss my hand?", "pos": 2667389}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "All the same, I must introduce you to her, for she may be a relation of yours. Her name is the same; that is her father over there. M. Casanova. I beg to introduce to you M. Casanova, a friend of my father’s.", "pos": 2668083}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova (other)", "text": "Really? The same name; I wish, sir, you were my friend, as we are, perhaps, related. I belong to the Naples branch.", "pos": 2668333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then we are related, though distantly, as my father came from Parma. Have you your pedigree?", "pos": 2668451}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova (other)", "text": "I ought to have such a thing, but to tell you the truth, I don’t think much of such matters. Besants d’or and such heraldic moneys are not currency in a mercantile republic.", "pos": 2668546}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pedigree-hunting is certainly a somewhat foolish pursuit; but it may nevertheless afford us a few minutes’ amusement without our making any parade of our ancestry.", "pos": 2668722}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova (other)", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 2668888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall have the honour of calling on you to-morrow, and I will bring my family-tree with me. Will you be vexed if you find the root of your family also?", "pos": 2668909}
{"speaker": "M. Casanova (other)", "text": "Not at all; I shall be delighted. I will call on you myself to-morrow. May I ask if you are a business man?", "pos": 2669065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I am a financial agent in the employ of the French ministry. I am staying with M. Pels.", "pos": 2669175}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "She goes from one town to another, singing at all the public concerts, and all she receives is what those present choose to give her on a plate which she takes round.", "pos": 2670634}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does she find that pay?", "pos": 2670803}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like some sweets, my dear?", "pos": 2672134}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Does it strike you, M. Casanova, that you and that little girl are as like each other as two peas?", "pos": 2672315}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Casanova", "text": "Yes, indeed, there is a striking likeness.", "pos": 2672445}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "These resemblances are often the work of chance. Just so, but you admit a likeness, don’t you?", "pos": 2672515}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I confess I was struck with it, though of course I cannot judge so well as you.", "pos": 2672650}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "She is too precious a treasure in my sight; if we were separated I should die. You are wrong; for if I took charge of the little girl I should see that she was well provided for. I have a son of twelve to whom I cannot give a proper education; take charge of him instead of Sophie. Where is he? He is boarding, or rather in pawn, at Rotterdam. What do you mean by in pawn? I mean that he will not be returned to me until I pay the person who has got him all my debts.", "pos": 2674446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How much do you owe?", "pos": 2674928}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Eighty florins. You have already given me sixty-two, give me four ducats more; you can then take my son, and I shall be the happiest of mothers. I will send my son to you at the Hague next week, as I think you will be there.", "pos": 2674951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my dear Thérèse; and instead of four ducats, here are twenty.", "pos": 2675178}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "We shall see each other again at the Hague.", "pos": 2675247}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Tell me, M. Casanova, who this woman is?", "pos": 2680567}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is a Venetian whose husband died recently; I knew her when I was a lad, and it was six years since I had seen her last.", "pos": 2680610}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "You were agreeably surprised, then, to see your daughter?", "pos": 2680736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you think the child is my daughter? Madame Trenti was married then.", "pos": 2680809}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "The likeness is really too strong. And how about your falling asleep yesterday when you were supping with M. Pels?", "pos": 2680886}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It was no wonder that I went asleep, as I had not closed an eye the night before.", "pos": 2681003}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I am envious of anyone who possesses the secret of getting a good sleep, for I have always to wait long hours before sleep comes to me, and when I awake, instead of being refreshed, I feel heavy and languid from fatigue.", "pos": 2681087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Try passing the night in listening to one in whom you take an interest, telling the story of her life, and I promise you that you will sleep well the night after.", "pos": 2681310}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "There is no such person for me.", "pos": 2681475}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, because you have as yet only seen fourteen summers; but afterwards there will be someone.", "pos": 2681509}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Maybe, but what I want just now is books, and the help of someone who will guide my reading.", "pos": 2681605}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would be an easy matter for anyone who knew your tastes.", "pos": 2681700}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I like history and travels, but for a book to please me it must be all true, as I lay it down at the slightest suspicion of its veracity.", "pos": 2681764}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now I think I may venture to offer my services, and if you will accept them I believe I shall be able to give satisfaction.", "pos": 2681904}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I accept your offer, and shall keep you to your word.", "pos": 2682030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You need not be afraid of my breaking it, and before I leave for the Hague I will prove that I am reliable. Nevertheless, you will continue to be my only attraction.", "pos": 2682086}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "There may be a mistake, at any rate we should ascertain the truth of the matter. M. Casanova, had you any adventures on your journey from the Hague to Amsterdam?", "pos": 2683316}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No adventure to speak of, except a meeting with a fine fellow who desired to see my carriage turn upside down into the ditch, and who I think is present now.", "pos": 2683592}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Come, come, let us put on our skates, and try the Amstel, for I am afraid that unless we go forthwith the ice will have melted.", "pos": 2684273}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I am quite sure, that you would not have come at all unless I had asked you to come and embrace me. Go away, go away and enjoy yourself at the Hague with the fair Trenti, who possesses so pretty a token of your love.", "pos": 2686394}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear Esther, I am going to the Hague to talk business with the ambassador, and for no other reason, and in six days at latest you will see me back again, as much your lover as before, and desiring nothing better than to please you.", "pos": 2686893}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I rely upon your word of honour, but mind you do not deceive me.", "pos": 2687130}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Mamma, dear, is not this fine gentleman the same we saw at Amsterdam, and who was taken for my papa because I am like him? But that cannot be, for my papa is dead.", "pos": 2690251}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "So he is, sweetheart; but I may be your dear friend, mayn’t I? Would you like to have me for a friend?", "pos": 2690429}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 2690534}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I have never given the margrave better fare, at those nice little suppers we used to take together.", "pos": 2690795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All I can say is, your system is an abominable one. You may have strangled in their infancy all the finer qualities with which nature has endowed your son, and have fairly set him on the way to become a monster instead of an angel. I don’t see how the most devoted father can possibly have any affection for a son who keeps all his emotions under lock and key. Tell me, my dear, if you feel yourself capable of shewing me that confidence which a father has a right to expect of a good son, and if you can promise to be perfectly open and unreserved towards me?", "pos": 2691767}
{"speaker": "The son", "text": "I promise that I will die rather than tell you a falsehood.", "pos": 2692463}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "That’s just like him. I have succeeded in inspiring him with the utmost horror of untruthfulness.", "pos": 2692525}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s all very well, my dear madam, but you might have pursued a still better course, and one which would have been still more conducive to his happiness.", "pos": 2692644}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 2692802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you. It was necessary to make him detest a lie; you should have rather endeavoured to make him a lover of the truth by displaying it to him in all its native beauty. This is the only way to make him lovable, and love is the sole bestower of happiness in this world.", "pos": 2692818}
{"speaker": "The son", "text": "But isn’t it the same thing not to lie and to tell the truth,", "pos": 2693098}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly not; there is a great difference--for to avoid lying you have only to hold your tongue; and do you think that comes to the same thing as speaking the truth? You must open your mind to me, my son, and tell me all your thoughts, even if you blush in the recital. I will teach you how to blush, and soon you will have nothing to fear in laying open all your thoughts and deeds. When we know each other a little longer we shall see how we agree together. You must understand that I cannot look upon you as my son until I see cause to love you, and I cannot have you call me father till you treat me as the best friend you have. You may be quite sure that I shall find a way to discover your thoughts, however cleverly you try to hide them. If I find you deceitful and suspicious I shall certainly entertain no regard for you. As soon as I have finished my business at Amsterdam we will set out for Paris. I am leaving the Hague to-morrow, and on my return I hope to find you instructed by your mother in a system of morality more consonant with my views, and more likely to lead to your happiness.", "pos": 2693233}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Why are you crying? it is silly to cry.", "pos": 2694509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like to come to Paris, too?", "pos": 2694647}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Oh, yes! But mamma must come too, as she would die without me.", "pos": 2694702}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "What would you do if I told you to go?", "pos": 2694767}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I would obey you, mamma, but how could I exist away from you?", "pos": 2694825}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "If you are really my friend, you will give me some proof of your friendship.", "pos": 2695873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what proof do you want, my dear?", "pos": 2695952}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I want you to come and sup with me to-morrow.", "pos": 2695991}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t, Sophie dear, for I have just said no to your mother, and she would be offended if I granted you what I had refused her.", "pos": 2696039}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Oh, no! she wouldn’t; it was she who told me to ask you just now.", "pos": 2696170}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "but on the condition, that you give me a plain meal, and one bottle of chambertin only, for you are not too well off.", "pos": 2697053}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I know that, but mamma says that you pay for everything.", "pos": 2697183}
{"speaker": "The burgomaster's son", "text": "I want to know, if your sword has as sharp a point as your tongue.", "pos": 2702057}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are wrong to take my jests in such bad part, however, I apologize to you.", "pos": 2702271}
{"speaker": "The burgomaster's son", "text": "No apologies; look to yourself.", "pos": 2702361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wait till to-morrow, you will be cooler then, but if you still wish it I will give you satisfaction in the midst of the billiard-room.", "pos": 2702395}
{"speaker": "The burgomaster's son", "text": "The only satisfaction you can give me is to fight; I want to kill you.", "pos": 2702532}
{"speaker": "The burgomaster's son", "text": "I’m not dead yet. I want to kill you.", "pos": 2703366}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you doing Esther, dear?", "pos": 2704924}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "An arithmetical problem.", "pos": 2704959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you like problems?", "pos": 2704986}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I am passionately fond of anything which contains difficulties and offers curious results.", "pos": 2705010}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will give you something which will please you.", "pos": 2705103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Those who know it cannot teach it to anyone.", "pos": 2706062}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "How did you learn it, then?", "pos": 2706109}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From a precious manuscript I inherited from my father.", "pos": 2706139}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Sell it me.", "pos": 2706196}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have burnt it; and I am not empowered to communicate the secret to anyone before I reach the age of fifty.", "pos": 2706210}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Why fifty?", "pos": 2706321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know; but I do know that if I communicated it to anyone before that age I should run the risk of losing it myself. The elementary spirit who is attached to the oracle would leave it.", "pos": 2706334}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "How do you know that?", "pos": 2706527}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I saw it so stated in the manuscript I have spoken of.", "pos": 2706551}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Then you are able to discover all secrets?", "pos": 2706608}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, or I should be if the replies were not sometimes too obscure to be understood.", "pos": 2706653}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "As it does not take much time, will you be kind enough to get me an answer to another question?", "pos": 2706739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure; you can command me in anything not forbidden by my familiar spirit.", "pos": 2706837}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Who loves me most in Amsterdam?", "pos": 2707296}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "She will attract any man who has sufficient sense to appreciate her.", "pos": 2709841}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You appreciate her, then?", "pos": 2709912}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I worship her. Then embrace her. I have got through all my business, and the rest of my day is at your disposal. I have known from my childhood that there is such a science as the one you profess, and I was acquainted with a Jew who by its aid made an immense fortune. He, like you, said that, under pain of losing the secret, it could only be communicated to one person, but he put off doing so so long that at last it was too late, for a high fever carried him off in a few days. I hope you will not do as the Jew did; but in the meanwhile allow me to say that if you do not draw a profit from this treasure, you do not know what it really is.", "pos": 2709940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You call this knowledge of mine a treasure, and yet you possess one far more excellent,", "pos": 2710737}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "We will discuss that again. Yes, sir, I call your science a treasure.", "pos": 2710857}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But the answers of the oracle are often very obscure.", "pos": 2710929}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Obscure! The answers my daughter received are as clear as day.", "pos": 2710985}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Apparently, she is fortunate in the way she frames her questions; for on this the reply depends.", "pos": 2711050}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "After dinner we will try if I am so fortunate--at least, if you will be so kind as to help me.", "pos": 2711149}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can refuse you nothing, as I consider father and daughter as one being.", "pos": 2711246}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Have you ever been deceived by it?", "pos": 2713720}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Often.", "pos": 2713757}
{"speaker": "Venetian woman", "text": "Nearly eighteen years,", "pos": 2717247}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I haven’t time. Do you like being at Amsterdam better than Venice?", "pos": 2717404}
{"speaker": "Venetian woman", "text": "Alas, no! for if I were in my own country I should not be following this dreadful trade.", "pos": 2717634}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How old were you when you left Venice.", "pos": 2717725}
{"speaker": "Venetian woman", "text": "I was only fourteen and lived happily with my father and mother, who now may have died of grief.", "pos": 2717766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who seduced you?", "pos": 2717865}
{"speaker": "Venetian woman", "text": "A rascally footman.", "pos": 2717884}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In what part of Venice did you live?", "pos": 2717906}
{"speaker": "Venetian woman", "text": "I did not live in Venice, but at Friuli, not far off.", "pos": 2717945}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see, my friends, that something has happened to you. If my presence is a restraint, treat me without ceremony, and bid me go.", "pos": 2721332}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "It’s not so great an ill-hap after all; I have enough money left to bear the loss patiently.", "pos": 2721462}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I may ask the question, what is the nature of your loss?", "pos": 2721557}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I have lost a green pocket-book containing a good deal of money, which if I had been wise I would have left behind, as I did not require it till to-morrow.", "pos": 2721619}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And you don’t know where you lost it?", "pos": 2721777}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "It must have been in the street, but I can’t imagine how it can have happened. It contained bills of exchange for large amounts, and of course they don’t matter, as I can stop payment of them, but there were also notes of the Bank of England for heavy sums, and they are gone, as they are payable to the bearer. Let us give thanks to God, my dear child, that it is no worse, and pray to Him to preserve to us what remains, and above all to keep us in good health. I have had much heavier losses than this, and I have been enabled not only to bear the misfortune but to make up the loss. Let us say no more about the matter.", "pos": 2721817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With all my heart,", "pos": 2723437}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "We will do as you suggest. Shall I ask where my father lost his pocket-book?", "pos": 2723466}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not? It’s a plain question: write it down.", "pos": 2723547}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "We shall find it, we shall find it, papa!", "pos": 2723783}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I hope so, too, my dear, that answer is really very consoling.", "pos": 2723827}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, there is certainly ground for hope, but the oracle will be dumb to all questions.", "pos": 2723949}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Dumb! Why?", "pos": 2724048}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was going to say it will be dumb if you do not give me as many kisses as you have given your father.", "pos": 2724060}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Oh, then I will soon make it speak! Where is the pocket-book?", "pos": 2724165}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Come, my dear Esther, let us go and test the truth of the oracle.", "pos": 2724815}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I hope to be of service to you in the matter, but as I shall often want to speak to you, you must come and live in our house, which you must look upon as your own.", "pos": 2726207}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My presence will be a restraint on you. I shall be a trouble.", "pos": 2726384}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Ask Esther.", "pos": 2726448}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Do you love me?", "pos": 2726852}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearly, and I will do all in my power to shew how well I love you, if you will love me in return.", "pos": 2726870}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "As soon as you come and live with us, you must look out for a good opportunity for asking my hand of my father. You need not be afraid he will refuse you, but the first thing for you to do is to move into our house.", "pos": 2727045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear little wife! I will come to-morrow.", "pos": 2727263}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "What is that, papa dear?", "pos": 2727673}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I have decided to take the whole risk--amounting to three hundred thousand florins--of the ship which is thought to have gone down. They will call me mad, but they themselves will be the madmen; which is what I should be if, after the proof we have had, I doubted the oracle any more.", "pos": 2727700}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear sir, you make me frightened. I have told you that I have been often deceived by the oracle.", "pos": 2727987}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "That must have been, my dear fellow, when the reply was obscure, and you did not get at the real sense of it; but in the present case there is no room, for doubt. I shall make three million florins, or, if the worst comes to the worse, my loss won’t ruin me. If the oracle does lie this time, I shall be none the less your friend.", "pos": 2728089}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear it, but as this is a matter of the utmost importance, let me consult the oracle a second time before you risk your three hundred thousand florins.", "pos": 2728657}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "In a matter of this kind neither fear nor hesitate. Your repentance would be too hard for you to bear.", "pos": 2729993}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I have insured the vessel from Madeira to the mouth of the Texel for a trifle, and so, you may count from this moment on the tenth part of the profit, which I owe entirely to you. You are now rich enough, to set up for yourself amongst us, and you are positively certain to make an enormous fortune in a short time merely by making use of your cabala. I will be your agent; let us live together, and if you like my daughter as she likes you, you can call yourself my son as soon as you please.", "pos": 2732829}
{"speaker": "Boaz", "text": "but,", "pos": 2733804}
{"speaker": "Boaz", "text": "to succeed thus you must have persuaded them that peace was on the point of being concluded.", "pos": 2738869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By no means,", "pos": 2738964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "so far from my persuading them, they are of the opposite opinion; but all the same I may tell you that peace is really imminent.", "pos": 2738991}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you like to give me that assurance in writing,", "pos": 2739122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will make you a present of fifty thousand florins’ worth of diamonds.", "pos": 2739183}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 2739257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the French ambassador is of the same opinion as myself; but I don’t think the certainty is sufficiently great as yet for you to risk your diamonds upon it.", "pos": 2739277}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know very well why,", "pos": 2740608}
{"speaker": "the minister", "text": "How long have you been in Paris?", "pos": 2742594}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have only just stepped out of my chaise.", "pos": 2742671}
{"speaker": "the minister", "text": "Then go to Versailles. You will find the Duc de Choiseul and the comptroller-general there. You have been wonderfully successful, go and get your meed of praise and come and see me afterwards. Tell the duke that Voltaire’s appointment to be a gentleman-in-ordinary to the king is ready.", "pos": 2742716}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Corneman tells me that you have been doing wonders in Holland; but I see more in the matter than he does, as I am quite certain that you have taken over the twenty millions yourself. The funds have risen, and a hundred millions at least will be in circulation in the course of the next week. You must not be offended at my shabby present, for, of course, twelve thousand francs are nothing to you. You must look upon them as a little token of friendship. I am going to tell my servants to close all the doors, for I am too glad to see you not to want to have you all to myself. I will send him myself to Viar, where my nephews are. What is his name? Where is he? I know well what this boy is, I long to see him. Why did you not alight from your journey at my house? Does the dear lad speak French? While I am arranging for his going to school you must really let him come and live with me.", "pos": 2743369}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will discuss that question on the day after tomorrow, madam.", "pos": 2744955}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Oh, how I wish the day after to-morrow was here!", "pos": 2745021}
{"speaker": "Silvia", "text": "My dear friend. I know that you have achieved a wonderful success in Holland, and I congratulate you.", "pos": 2745255}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will be with you at supper, and then we can talk at our ease.", "pos": 2745549}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "for, we have always been fond of you.", "pos": 2748766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I fancy your mother has kept her fondness for me very much to herself,", "pos": 2748819}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "We won’t say anything about that. We learnt all the circumstances of your wonderful flight from a letter of sixteen pages you wrote to M. Memmo. We trembled with joy and shuddered with fear as we read it.", "pos": 2748912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did you know I have been in Holland?", "pos": 2749148}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "M. de la Popeliniere told us about it yesterday.", "pos": 2749191}
{"speaker": "M. de la Popeliniere", "text": "My advice to you is, to get yourself naturalized before it becomes generally known that you have made half a million of money.", "pos": 2749503}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Half a million! I only wish I had!", "pos": 2749643}
{"speaker": "M. de la Popeliniere", "text": "You must have made that at the lowest calculation.", "pos": 2749680}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, I give you my assurance, that if my claim for brokerage is not allowed, the transaction will prove absolutely ruinous to me.", "pos": 2749733}
{"speaker": "M. de la Popeliniere", "text": "Ah! no doubt you are right to take that tone. Meanwhile, everyone wants to make your acquaintance, for France is deeply indebted to you. You have caused the funds to recover in a very marked degree.", "pos": 2749877}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "But everybody says that you have made two hundred thousand florins by it.", "pos": 2751756}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would not be so bad; half a million of francs would be a fair foundation on which to build a fortune; but I can assure your excellence that there is not a word of truth in the report. I defy anyone to prove it; and till some substantial proof is offered, I think I can lay claim to brokerage.", "pos": 2751832}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "True, true. Go to the comptroller-general and state your views to him.", "pos": 2752132}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "I happen to know, that you have bills of exchange to the amount of a hundred thousand crowns payable to yourself.", "pos": 2752387}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, but that money has no connection with my mission, as I can prove to you by referring you to M. d’Afri. I have in my head an infallible project for increasing the revenue by twenty millions, in a manner which will cause no irritation.", "pos": 2752514}
{"speaker": "M. de Boulogne", "text": "You don’t say so! Communicate your plan, and I promise to get you a pension of a hundred thousand francs, and letters of nobility as well, if you like to become a Frenchman.", "pos": 2752761}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will think it over.", "pos": 2752937}
{"speaker": "Marquise de Pompadour", "text": "She bowed to me as soon as she saw me, and on my approaching her she told me that I was an able financier, and that the “gentlemen below” could not appreciate my merits. She had not forgotten what I had said to her eight years before in the theatre at Fontainebleau. I replied that all good gifts were from above, whither, with her help, I hoped to attain.", "pos": 2753070}
{"speaker": "the old attorney", "text": "My niece, found herself obliged to go into a convent; and from this vantage ground she is pleading against her husband, with the aid of a barrister, who will be responsible for the costs. However, to win our case, we require the evidence of yourself, Count Tiretta, and other servants who witnessed the scene at the inn.", "pos": 2754360}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "The lady, though she was not over fond of me, received me with great politeness. we all know that diamonds have the strange power of fascination, and that they form an excellent substitute for virtue!", "pos": 2755355}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "She took the place in my heart where Esther had reigned a week before, but I freely confess that Esther yielded only because she was away. As to my attachment to Sylvia’s daughter, it was of such a nature as not to hinder me falling in love with any other woman who chanced to take my fancy. In the libertine’s heart love cannot exist without substantial food, and women who have had some experience of the world are well aware of this fact. The youthful Baletti was a beginner, and so knew nothing of these things.", "pos": 2756909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, yes, well enough for me to pay my clerks’ salaries.", "pos": 2758243}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I made him sleep with me, but I shall be obliged to deprive myself of this privilege for the future, unless he promises to be more discreet. We shall have the Comte de St. Germain, to dinner. I know he amuses you, and I like you to enjoy yourself in my house.", "pos": 2758567}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For that, madam, your presence is all I need; nevertheless, I thank you for considering me.", "pos": 2758984}
{"speaker": "Louis XV.", "text": "I melted down, small diamonds weighing twenty-four carats, and obtained this one large one weighing twelve.", "pos": 2761866}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I have come to the ball, with one of my sisters, my elder brother, and M. Farsetti. I left them to go into a box and change my domino.", "pos": 2766541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They must feel very uneasy.", "pos": 2766689}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I dare say they do, but I am not going to take pity on them till the end of the ball.", "pos": 2766719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I heard at Versailles, my dear mademoiselle, that you are going to marry M. de la Popeliniere.", "pos": 2767273}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "So they say. My mother wishes me to do so, and the old financier fancies he has got me in his talons already; but he makes a mistake, as I will never consent to such a thing.", "pos": 2767370}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is old, but he is very rich.", "pos": 2767547}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "He is very rich and very generous, for he promises me a dowry of a million if I become a widow without children; and if I had a son he would leave me all his property.", "pos": 2767581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You wouldn’t have much difficulty in complying with the second alternative.", "pos": 2767751}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I shall never have anything to do with his money, for I should never make my life miserable by a marriage with a man whom I do not love, while I do love another.", "pos": 2767829}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Another! Who is the fortunate mortal to whom you have given your heart’s treasure?", "pos": 2767993}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I do not know if my loved one is fortunate. My lover is a Venetian, and my mother knows of it; but she says that I should not be happy, that he is not worthy of me.", "pos": 2768078}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your mother is a strange woman, always crossing your affections.", "pos": 2768245}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I cannot be angry with her. She may possibly be wrong, but she certainly loves me. She would rather that I should marry M. Farsetti, who would be very glad to have me, but I detest him.", "pos": 2768312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has he made a declaration in terms?", "pos": 2768500}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "He has, and all the marks of contempt I have given him seem to have no effect.", "pos": 2768538}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He clings hard to hope; but the truth is you have fascinated him.", "pos": 2768619}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Possibly, but I do not think him susceptible of any tender or generous feeling. He is a visionary; surly, jealous, and envious in his disposition. When he heard me expressing myself about you in the manner you deserve, he had the impudence to say to my mother before my face that she ought not to receive you.", "pos": 2768687}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He deserves that I should give him a lesson in manners, but there are other ways in which he may be punished. I shall be delighted to serve you in any way I can.", "pos": 2768999}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Alas! if I could only count on your friendship I should be happy.", "pos": 2769163}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "But, it’s Friday today, and you will have to fast, though, after all, the fish is very good. Dinner is not ready yet. You had better go and see my daughter, who is still a-bed.", "pos": 2770876}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How is this, sweet lie-a-bed, not up yet?", "pos": 2771277}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Yes, I am staying in bed partly because I feel lazy, and partly because I am freer here.", "pos": 2771321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was afraid you were not quite well.", "pos": 2771412}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Nor am I. However, we will say no more about that now. I am just going to take some soup, as those who foolishly establish the institution of fasting were not polite enough to ask my opinion on the subject. It does not agree with my health, and I don’t like it, so I am not going to get up even to sit at table, though I shall thus deprive myself of your society. This fatal letter, which you called ‘The Phoenix,’ has shaped my life and may prove the cause of my death. Alas! I fell in love with this imaginary being, and feeling certain that such an one must exist I set myself to look for him. After six months I thought I had found him. I gave him my heart, I received his, we loved each other fondly. But for the last four months we have been separated, and during the whole time I have only had one letter from him. Yet I must not blame him, for I know he cannot help it. Such, is my sorry fate: I can neither hear from him nor write to him.", "pos": 2771452}
{"speaker": "Picas de la Mirandola", "text": "I have no doubt truly, ‘Astra influunt, non cogunt.’", "pos": 2776686}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I am writing this at two o’clock in the morning. I am weary and in need of rest, but a burden on my soul deprives me of sleep. The secret I am about to tell you will no longer be so grievous when I have confided in you; I shall feel eased by placing it in your breast. I am with child, and my situation drives me to despair. I was obliged to write to you because I felt I could not say it. Give me a word in reply.", "pos": 2778243}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will be with you at eleven o’clock.", "pos": 2778765}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, she can count on me. Her mishap makes her all the dearer to me. You are going out, are you? Where are you going?", "pos": 2779580}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I am going to mass at the Church of the Augustinians.", "pos": 2780087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is this a saint’s day?", "pos": 2780143}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Have you read my letter?", "pos": 2780471}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, of course; here it is, burn it yourself.", "pos": 2780498}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "No, keep it, and do so with your own hands.", "pos": 2780546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you trust in me, and I assure you I will not abuse your trust.", "pos": 2780592}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I am sure you will not. I am four months with child; I can doubt it no longer, and the thought maddens me!", "pos": 2780663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Comfort yourself, we will find some way to get over it.", "pos": 2780772}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Yes; I leave all to you. You must procure an abortion.", "pos": 2780830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never, dearest! that is a crime!", "pos": 2780887}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Alas! I know that well; but it is not a greater crime than suicide, and there lies my choice: either to destroy the wretched witness of my shame, or to poison myself. For the latter alternative I have everything ready. You are my only friend, and it is for you to decide which it shall be. Speak to me! Are you angry that I have not gone to the Chevalier Farsetti before you?", "pos": 2780922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Laying the question of crime on one side, abortion is out of our power. If the means employed are not violent they are uncertain, and if they are violent they are dangerous to the mother. I will never risk becoming your executioner; but reckon on me, I will not forsake you. Your honour is as dear to me as your life. Be calm, and henceforth think that the peril is mine, not yours. Make up your mind that I shall find some way of escape, and that there will be no need to cut short that life, to preserve which I would gladly die. And allow me to say that when I read your note I felt glad, I could not help it, that at such an emergency you chose me before all others to be your helper. You will find that your trust was not given in vain, for no one loves you as well as I, and no one is so fain to help you. Later you shall begin to take the remedies I will get for you, but I warn you to be on your guard, for this is a serious matter--one of life and death. Possibly you have already told somebody about it--your maid or one of your sisters?", "pos": 2781429}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I have not told anybody but you, not even the author of my shame. I tremble when I think what my mother would do and say if she found out my situation. I am afraid she will draw her conclusions from my shape.", "pos": 2782489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So far there is nothing to be observed in that direction, the beauty of the outline still remains intact.", "pos": 2782700}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "But every day increases its size, and for that reason we must be quick in what we do. You must find a surgeon who does not know my name and take me to him to be bled.", "pos": 2782808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will not run the risk, it might lead to the discovery of the whole affair. I will bleed you myself; it is a simple operation.", "pos": 2782977}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "How grateful I am to you! I feel as if you had already brought me from death to life. What I should like you to do would be to take me to a midwife’s. We can easily go without attracting any notice at the first ball at the opera.", "pos": 2783107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, sweetheart, but that step is not necessary, and it might lead to our betrayal.", "pos": 2783339}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "No, no, in this great town there are midwives in every quarter, and we should never be known; we might keep our masks on all the time. Do me this kindness. A midwife’s opinion is certainly worth having.", "pos": 2783425}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t doubt it for a moment, but would you tell me what are those other ways!", "pos": 2786707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should tell the lady how to destroy the foetus.", "pos": 2786799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If madame decides on taking your advice, I will bring you the money for drugs to-morrow.", "pos": 2787018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quick!", "pos": 2788310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like an omelette?", "pos": 2788396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 2788426}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Oh, I should like an omelette so much!", "pos": 2788439}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Alas!", "pos": 2789918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The emotions of love, should yield to those of honour, and your honour as well as mine require us to continue friends. What I would have done for love I will now do for devoted friendship, and for the future I will die rather than make another attempt to gain those favours of which I thought you deemed me worthy.", "pos": 2790558}
{"speaker": "Populia", "text": "Non tollo vectorem, nisi navi plena.", "pos": 2791452}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know my own character, and without undue presumption, I think I may say that I am worthy of a woman’s love. Naturally, after your convincing me that you think differently, I feel humiliated and indignant. Do you know what effect such feelings have on the heart?", "pos": 2793293}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Alas! I know too well. Their effect is to inspire one with contempt for her who gave rise to them.", "pos": 2793569}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is going too far, at least in my case. My indignation was merely succeeded by a renewed confidence in myself, and a determination to be revenged.", "pos": 2793682}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "To be revenged! In what way?", "pos": 2793835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wish to compel you to esteem me, by proving to you that I am lord of myself, and can pass by with indifference what I once so ardently desired. I do not know whether I have succeeded yet, but I may say that I can now contemplate your charms without desiring to possess them.", "pos": 2793866}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "You are making a mistake, for I never ceased to esteem you, and I esteemed you as much a week ago as I do to-day. Nor for a moment I did think you capable of leaving me to my fate as a punishment for having refused to give way to your transports, and I am glad that I read your character rightly.", "pos": 2794145}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I know of an infallible method, the aroph of Paracelsus to wit, and it is easy of application. Do you wish to know more about it?", "pos": 2797137}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This mixture, moistening several times a day the opening of the womb, weakens it to such a degree that the foetus is expelled by its own weight.", "pos": 2799544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you wish. I will give you the manuscript where all that I have said is set down plainly. I will also shew you what Boerhaeve thinks about it. The aroph, is the most powerful agent for bringing on menstruation.", "pos": 2800330}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "And that is incompatible with the state I am now in; so the aroph should procure me a secret deliverance. Do you know its composition?", "pos": 2800695}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; it is quite a simple preparation composed of certain ingredients which are well known to me, and which have to be made into a paste with butter or virgin honey. But this composition must touch the orifice of the uterus at a moment of extreme excitement.", "pos": 2800832}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "But in that case it seems to me that the person who gives the dose must be in love.", "pos": 2801099}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, unless he is a mere animal requiring only physical incentives.", "pos": 2801185}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "The method seems to me an excellent one, but I do not think I ought to make use of it.", "pos": 2801556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Two hours at most, if I succeed in procuring English saffron, which Paracelsus prefers to the Oriental saffron.", "pos": 2801700}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "I fancy I know it better than anyone,", "pos": 2802590}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "What is it good for?", "pos": 2802677}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "That is too vague a question.", "pos": 2802700}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "What does the word mean?", "pos": 2802732}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "It is an Arabic word, of which I do not know the meaning; but no doubt Paracelsus would tell us.", "pos": 2802759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The word, is neither Arabic nor Hebrew, nor, indeed, of any language at all. It is a contraction which conceals two other words.", "pos": 2802858}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "Can you tell us what they are?", "pos": 2802999}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; aro comes from aroma, and ph is the initial of philosophorum.", "pos": 2803052}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "Did you get that out of Paracelsus?", "pos": 2803127}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sir; I saw it in Boerhaave.", "pos": 2803199}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "That’s good. Boerhaave says nothing of the sort, but I like a man who quotes readily.", "pos": 2803233}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Laugh, sir, if you like, but here is the test of what I say; accept the wager if you dare. I don’t quote falsely, like persons who talk of words being Arabic.", "pos": 2803347}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "He has gone away in a rage, and I would wager anything that he will not come back again.", "pos": 2804373}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I wager he will, he will honour us with his agreeable company before to-morrow’s sun has set.", "pos": 2804483}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like me, to invite your mother and the rest of you to dine with me?", "pos": 2806810}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I shall be delighted. It will be a forbidden pleasure to me before long.", "pos": 2806900}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "come and see her early next morning, as she wanted to speak to me on matters of importance. She tells me that I must sign the contract, and that the dressmaker will soon be coming to take my measure for my wedding dress. To that I cannot consent, for a dressmaker would certainly see my situation. I will die rather than confide in my mother, or marry before I am delivered.", "pos": 2807496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is always time enough to talk about dying, when all other means have failed. I think you could easily get rid of la Popeliniere, who is a man of honour. Tell him how you are situated, and he will act without compromising you, as his own interest is sufficiently involved to make him keep the secret.", "pos": 2808105}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "But should I be much better off then? And how about my mother?", "pos": 2808423}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your mother? Oh! I will make her listen to reason.", "pos": 2808488}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "You know not what she is like. The honour of the family would oblige her to get me out of the way, but before that she would make me suffer torments to which death is preferable by far. But why have you said no more about the aroph? Is it not all a jest? It would be a very cruel one.", "pos": 2808541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, I believe it to be infallible, though I have never been a witness of its effects; but what good is it for me to speak to you? You can guess that a delicacy of feeling has made me keep silence. Confide in your lover, who is at Venice; write him a letter, and I will take care that it is given into his hands, in five or six days, by a sure messenger. If he is not well off I will give you whatever money may be needed for him to come without delay, and save your honour and life by giving you the aroph.", "pos": 2808828}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "This idea is a good one and the offer generous on your part, but it is not feasible, as you would see if you knew more about my circumstances. Do not think any more of my lover; but supposing I made up my mind to receive the aroph from another, tell me how it could be done. Even if my lover were in Paris, how could he spend an entire week with me, as he would have to? And how could he give me the dose five or six times a day for a week? You see yourself that this remedy is out of the question.", "pos": 2809350}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So you would give yourself to another, if you thought that would save your honour?", "pos": 2809851}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Certainly, if I were sure that the thing would be kept secret. But where shall I find such a person? Do you think he would be easy to find, or that I can go and look for him?", "pos": 2809936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Cruel girl, my lot is more wretched than yours.", "pos": 2810843}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "You are cruel and unjust. I see, for my part, that you love me no longer since you wish to take advantage of my cruel necessity to gain a triumph over me. This is an act of revenge not worthy of a man of feeling.", "pos": 2811268}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Since you know, dearest, that I worship you, how can you think me capable of revenging myself on you? Do you think that I can bear to hear you say that since your lover cannot help you you do not know where to look for help?", "pos": 2811562}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "But after refusing you my favours, could I ask this office of you with any decency? Have I not good reason to be afraid that as I refused to take pity on your love so you would refuse to take pity on my necessity?", "pos": 2811789}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think that a passionate lover ceases to love on account of a refusal which may be dictated by virtue? Let me tell you all I think. I confess I once thought you did not love me, but now I am sure of the contrary; and that your heart would have led you to satisfy my love, even if you had not been thus situated. I may add that you no doubt feel vexed at my having any doubts of your love.", "pos": 2812005}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "You have interpreted my feelings admirably. But how we are to be together with the necessary freedom from observation remains to be seen.", "pos": 2812402}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do not be afraid. Now I am sure of your consent, it will not be long before I contrive some plan. In the meanwhile I will go and make the aroph.", "pos": 2812542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, you have just come out of it.", "pos": 2813617}
{"speaker": "scullion", "text": "Yes, but I only went in and came out again.", "pos": 2813664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I will wait till the coast is clear.", "pos": 2813710}
{"speaker": "scullion", "text": "For goodness’ sake, sir, do not wait!", "pos": 2813754}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, you rascal! I see what is going on. Well I will say nothing about it, but I must see her.", "pos": 2813794}
{"speaker": "scullion", "text": "She won’t come out, for she heard your steps and shut herself in.", "pos": 2813890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She knows me, does she?", "pos": 2813958}
{"speaker": "scullion", "text": "Yes, and you know her.", "pos": 2813984}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All right, get along with you! I won’t say anything about it. I will give you one all to yourself, if you will tell me the story", "pos": 2814009}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "But. I should have to go through Madelaine’s room to get to the garret.", "pos": 2815582}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case, dearest, we must win the girl over.", "pos": 2815668}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Tell her my secret?", "pos": 2815720}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just so.", "pos": 2815742}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Oh, I couldn’t!", "pos": 2815753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will see to it; the golden key opens all doors.", "pos": 2815771}
{"speaker": "Madelaine", "text": "He is a sharp lad, and I think I can answer for him. However, you may leave that to me.", "pos": 2816465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s not likely, and besides, we can’t do without it, for how am I to give you the aroph in the dark?", "pos": 2818151}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Very good, we can put it out afterwards.", "pos": 2818267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You see, that I do not need rest, and I think we had better set to again.", "pos": 2819703}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is it possible, that you do not see how degrading your thanks are to me? They prove that you do not love me, or that if you love me, you think my love less strong than yours.", "pos": 2820724}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "Sweetheart, it seems to me that what we have been about is much more likely to create than to destroy, and if the aperture had not been hermetically closed we should doubtless have given the little prisoner a companion.", "pos": 2822528}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "I am delighted, to find you here, it is quite a piece of luck. I am going to hear this novel composition, and have two reserved seats. Will you do me the honour of accepting one?", "pos": 2823952}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "M. Casanova, be good enough to give me your company for an hour. I want to ask you two or three questions which can only be solved by your cabala. I hope you will oblige me, as I am, very anxious to know the answers, but we must be quick as I have an engagement to sup in Paris. M. Casanova; what is the matter with you? You are not in your usual state of equanimity, and if I am not mistaken you are dreading some dire event. Or perhaps you are on the eve of taking some important resolution? I am not inquisitive, but if I can be of any service to you at Court, make use of me, and be sure that I will do my best. If necessary, I will go to Versailles to-morrow morning. I know all the ministers. Confide in me your troubles, if I cannot lighten them I can at least share them, and be sure I will keep your counsel.", "pos": 2824653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes madam. I am indeed critically situated, may be on the verge of ruin, but your kindness has calmed my soul and made me once more acquainted with hope. You shall hear how I am placed. I am going to trust you with a secret of the most delicate description, but I can rely on your being as discreet as you are good. And if after hearing my story you deign to give me your advice, I promise to follow it and never to divulge its author.", "pos": 2826029}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "I am expected at Madame de la Marque’s, and I must go, as I am to meet the Bishop of Montrouge, to whom I want to speak, but I hope I shall eventually be able to help you. Come here the day after tomorrow, you will find me alone; above all, do nothing before you see me. Farewell.", "pos": 2827107}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "My dear sir. I have succeeded in my endeavours on your behalf, and it is now for you to keep secret my share in the matter. After I had pondered over the case of conscience you submitted to me, I went to the convent of C-- where the abbess is a friend of mine, and I entrusted her with the secret, relying on her discretion. We agreed that she should receive the young lady in her convent, and give her a good lay-sister to nurse her through her confinement. Now you will not deny, that the cloisters are of some use. Your young friend must go by herself to the convent with a letter for the abbess, which I will give her, and which she must deliver to the porter. She will then be admitted and lodged in a suitable chamber. She will receive no visitors nor any letters that have not passed through my hands. The abbess will bring her answers to me, and I will pass them on to you. You must see that her only correspondent must be yourself, and you must receive news of her welfare only through me. On your hand in writing to her you must leave the address to be filled in by me. I had to tell the abbess the lady’s name, but not yours as she did not require it. Tell your young friend all about our plans, and when she is ready come and tell me, and I will give you the letter to the abbess. Tell her to bring nothing but what is strictly necessary, above all no diamonds or trinkets of any value. You may assure her that the abbess will be friendly, will come and see her every now and then, will give her proper books--in a word, that she will be well looked after. Warn her not to confide in the laysister who will attend on her. I have no doubt she is an excellent woman, but she is a nun, and the secret might leak out. After she is safely delivered, she must go to confession and perform her Easter duties, and the abbess will give her a certificate of good behaviour; and she can then return to her mother, who will be too happy to see her to say anything more about the marriage, which, of course, she ought to give as her reason of her leaving home. My dear abbess--The young lady who will give you this letter is the same of whom we have spoken. She wishes to spend three of four months under your protection, to recover her peace of mind, to perform her devotions, and to make sure that when she returns to her mother nothing more will be said about the marriage, which is partly the cause of her temporary separation from her family.", "pos": 2828417}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. X. C. V.", "text": "I will set out, the day after to-morrow, at the hour agreed on.", "pos": 2833352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she ill?", "pos": 2835117}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I know nothing about her.", "pos": 2835139}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has she gone by herself?", "pos": 2835702}
{"speaker": "Madelaine", "text": "I know nothing at all about it, sir, but they say you know all. I beg of you to leave me.", "pos": 2835729}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam. I am your humble servant; but first of all pray be seated.", "pos": 2836749}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "I am come here, to ask you to give me my daughter if she be in your power, or to tell me where she is.", "pos": 2836952}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your daughter, madam? I know nothing about her! Do you think me capable of a crime?", "pos": 2837069}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "I do not accuse you of abducting her; I have not come here to reproach you nor to utter threats, I have only come to ask you to shew yourself my friend. Help me to get my daughter again this very day; you will give me my life. I am certain that you know all. You were her only confidant and her only friend; you passed hours with her every day; she must have told you of her secret. Pity a bereaved mother! So far no one knows of the facts; give her back to me and all shall be forgotten, and her honour saved.", "pos": 2837155}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, I feel for you acutely, but I repeat that I know nothing of your daughter. You insolent scoundrel! What do you mean by talking of me like that?", "pos": 2837668}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "Everybody is certain that you know all about it.", "pos": 2838141}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then they are impudent fools, like you. Get out of my house this instant and wait for me, I will be with you in a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 2838192}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "You ought to be more considerate towards a lover, for he would marry my daughter now, even after what she has done.", "pos": 2838528}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am aware of the fact, madam, and I have no doubt that his courtship was one of the chief reasons which made your daughter resolve to leave her home, for she hated him even more than she hated the fermier-general.", "pos": 2838658}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "She has behaved very badly, but I promise not to say anything more about marrying her. But I am sure you know all about it, as you gave her fifty louis, without which she could not have done anything.", "pos": 2838875}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nay, not so.", "pos": 2839078}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "Do not deny it, sir; here is the evidence--a small piece of your letter to her.", "pos": 2839093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope that these wretched louis will convince you that I am ready to sacrifice everything, my life if need be, to assure you of my affection. I am far from disavowing this evidence of my esteem for your daughter, but to justify myself I am obliged to tell you a fact which I should have otherwise kept secret--namely, that I furnished your daughter with this sum to enable her to pay your son’s debts, for which he thanked me in a letter which I can shew you.", "pos": 2839306}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "My son?", "pos": 2839771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your son, madam.", "pos": 2839781}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "I will make you an ample atonement for my suspicions.", "pos": 2839800}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "That’s not a likely tale,", "pos": 2840019}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I assure you, that I always urged your daughter to marry M. de la Popeliniere.", "pos": 2840226}
{"speaker": "Farsetti", "text": "How can you have the face to say that, when you talk in the letter of your affection?", "pos": 2840317}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not deny it. I loved her, and I was proud of my affection for her. This affection, of whatever sort it may have been (and that is not this gentleman’s business), was the ordinary topic of conversation between us. If she had told me that she was going to leave her home, I should either have dissuaded her or gone with her, for I loved her as I do at this moment; but I would never have given her money to go alone.", "pos": 2840422}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "My dear Casanova, if you will help me to find her I shall believe in your innocence.", "pos": 2840854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted to aid you, and I promise to commence the quest to-day.", "pos": 2840960}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "As soon as you have any news, come and tell me.", "pos": 2841039}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may trust me to do so,", "pos": 2841089}
{"speaker": "M. Chaban", "text": "Do you really want the police to discover, where the pretty Englishwoman is to be found?", "pos": 2841703}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 2841805}
{"speaker": "Madame X. C. V.", "text": "I have been more fortunate than you, and if you will come with me to the place where my daughter has gone, and will join me in persuading her to return, all will be well.", "pos": 2842104}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. I shall be most happy to accompany you.", "pos": 2842289}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "You are wrong, to neglect him.", "pos": 2846847}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the world’s upside down! Jupiter has donned the gown--the King. Venus mounts the council stair--the Pompadour. Plutus trifles with the fair--M. de Boulogne. Mercury in mail is drest--Marechal de Richelieu. Mighty Mars has turned a priest--the Duc de Clermont, abbé of St. Germain-des-pres.", "pos": 2849851}
{"speaker": "Rousseau", "text": "Your highness will fare but badly, however, I will tell them to lay another knife and fork.", "pos": 2852575}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "Who is going to dine with us? I thought we were to be alone.", "pos": 2852920}
{"speaker": "Rousseau", "text": "The third party, is my other self--a being who is neither my wife, nor my mistress, nor my servant-maid, nor my mother, nor my daughter, but yet personates all these characters at once.", "pos": 2853002}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "I daresay, my dear fellow, I daresay; but as I came to dine with you alone, I will not dine with your other self, but will leave you with all the rest of you to keep your company.", "pos": 2853207}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "which, may some day prove a thorn in his side.", "pos": 2855419}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I had, in my desk a seal with the arms of the house of Aranda, and happening to take it up I shewed it him as we shew trinkets to children to amuse them, but as soon as he saw it he burst out,", "pos": 2855575}
{"speaker": "the lad", "text": "How came you to have my arms?", "pos": 2855782}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your arms! I got this seal from the Comte d’Aranda; how can you prove that you are a scion of that race?", "pos": 2855814}
{"speaker": "the lad", "text": "Do not ask me, madam; my birth is a secret I can reveal to no one.", "pos": 2855936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you kindly inform me, how you can be so foolish as to call yourself the Comte d’Aranda?", "pos": 2857196}
{"speaker": "the young gentleman", "text": "I know it is foolish, but leave me my title; it is of service to me here and gains me respect.", "pos": 2857339}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is an imposition I cannot wink at, as it may be fraught with serious results, and may do harm to both of us. I should not have thought that at your age you would be capable of such a knavish trick. I know you did it out of stupidity, but after a certain limit stupidity becomes criminal; and I cannot see how I am to remedy your fault without disgracing you in the eyes of Madame d’Urfe.", "pos": 2857435}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "I had rather the shame of being sent back to my mother than the shame of confessing to Madame d’Urfe that I had imposed on her; and I could not bear to stay here if I had to give up my name.", "pos": 2857885}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And now tell me--and take care to tell the truth--what sort of feelings does Viar’s daughter entertain for you?", "pos": 2858288}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "I think, papa, that this is a case in which the reserve commended by yourself, as well as by mother, would be appropriate.", "pos": 2858402}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, that sort of answer tells me a good deal, but I think you are rather too knowing for your age. And you may as well observe that when you are called upon for a confession, reserve is out of place, and it’s a confession I require from you.", "pos": 2858527}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "Well, papa, Viar’s daughter is very fond of me, and she shews her love in all sorts of ways.", "pos": 2858772}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And do you love her?", "pos": 2858867}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 2858890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she much with you in the morning?", "pos": 2858901}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "She is with me the whole day.", "pos": 2858940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is present when you go to bed?", "pos": 2858972}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "Yes, she helps me to undress.", "pos": 2859009}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing else?", "pos": 2859041}
{"speaker": "The Boy", "text": "I do not care to tell you.", "pos": 2859057}
{"speaker": "My attorney", "text": "This is an evident case of libel, at least, if she can’t prove the truth of her allegations. My advice to you is to take the matter before the criminal lieutenant, who will be able to give you the satisfaction you require.", "pos": 2866526}
{"speaker": "M. de Sartine", "text": "I have asked you to call upon me in the interests of both of us, as in your position our interests are inseparable. If you are innocent of the charge which has been brought against you, you are quite right to appeal to me; but before proceedings begin, you should tell me the whole truth. I am ready to forget my position as judge, and to give you my help, but you must see yourself that to prove the other side guilty of slander, you must prove yourself innocent. What I want from you is an informal and strictly confidential declaration, for the case against you is a serious one, and of such a kind as to require all your efforts to wipe off this blot upon your honour. Your enemies will not respect your delicacy of feeling. They will press you so hard that you will either be obliged to submit to a shameful sentence, or to wound your feelings of honour in proving your innocence. You see I am confiding in you, for in certain cases honour seems so precious a thing to me that I am ready to defend it with all the power of the law. Pay me back, then, in the same coin, trust in me entirely, tell me the whole story without any reserves, and you may rely upon my good offices. All will be well if you are innocent, for I shall not be the less a judge because I am your friend; but if you are guilty I am sorry for you, for I warn you that I shall be just.", "pos": 2867404}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The midwife, is absolutely unknown to me. She is most likely an abandoned woman, who with her worthy companion wants to cheat me of my money.", "pos": 2868972}
{"speaker": "M. de Sartine", "text": "I should be delighted to think so, but admitting the fact, see how chance favours her, and makes it a most difficult thing for you to prove your innocence. The young lady disappeared three months ago. She was known to be your intimate friend, you called upon her at all hours; you spent a considerable time with her the day before she disappeared, and no one knows what has become of her; but everyone’s suspicions point at you, and paid spies are continually dogging your steps. The midwife sent me a requisition yesterday by her counsel, Vauversin. She says that the pregnant lady you brought to her house is the same whom Madame X. C. V. is searching for. She also says that you both wore black dominoes, and the police have ascertained that you were both at the ball in black dominoes on the same night as that on which the midwife says you came to her house; you are also known to have left the ball-room together. All this, it is true, does not constitute full proof of your guilt, but it makes one tremble for your innocence.", "pos": 2869127}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What cause have I to tremble?", "pos": 2870178}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "There can be no hesitation in the matter. We must make a confidant of M. de Sartine, and I will speak to him myself to-day without fail. I have concealed nothing, he knows that she is on the eve of her confinement, and that you are not the father, which speaks highly for your generosity. I told him that as soon as the confinement was over, and the young lady had recovered her health, she would return to her mother, though she would make no confession, and that the child should be well looked after. You have now nothing to fear, and can calm yourself; but as the case must go on you will be cited before the court the day after to-morrow. I advise you to see the clerk of the court on some pretext or other, and to make him accept a sum of money.", "pos": 2874645}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Either a love affair or a challenge, let’s see.", "pos": 2877211}
{"speaker": "Cartel-Bajac", "text": "I have only a word to say. We will not be overheard here. The midwife is quite sure that you are the man who brought a pregnant lady to her, but she is vexed that you are accused of making away with her. Give her a hundred louis; she will then declare to the court that she has been mistaken, and your trouble will be ended. You need not pay the money till she has made her declaration; we will take your word for it. Come with me and talk it over with Vauversin. I am sure he will persuade you to do as I suggest. I know where to find him, follow me at some distance.", "pos": 2877437}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, you go on, and I will follow.", "pos": 2878140}
{"speaker": "Vauversin", "text": "The midwife, will call on you with a witness apparently with the intention of maintaining to your face that you are her man; but she won’t be able to recognize you. She will then proceed with the witness to the court, and will declare that she has made a mistake, and the criminal lieutenant will forthwith put an end to the proceedings. You will thus be certain of gaining your case against the lady’s mother. But the midwife wants a hundred louis badly.", "pos": 2878394}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You mean that the worthy woman rates her perjury at that price. Well, never mind, I will pay the money, and you may trust to my word; but I can’t do so before she has taken oath to her mistake before the court.", "pos": 2878967}
{"speaker": "Vauversin", "text": "Very good, but you must first give me twenty-five louis to reimburse me for my costs and fees.", "pos": 2879180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you will give me a formal receipt for the money.", "pos": 2879277}
{"speaker": "Vauversin", "text": "though Madame X. C. V. was his client, he would let me know confidentially how best to put a stop to the proceedings.", "pos": 2879522}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I want to speak to M. Casanova.", "pos": 2879921}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am he.", "pos": 2879955}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Then I have made a mistake, for which I hope you will forgive me.", "pos": 2879966}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Oh, sir! you are rich, do you buy the piece and let me have enough for a dress, which will make me happy.", "pos": 2887235}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I like your simplicity, and since it will make you happy, you shall have the dress.", "pos": 2887459}
{"speaker": "Gilbert", "text": "I am going to get this little madcap married next Sunday; there will be a supper and a ball, and we shall be delighted if you will honour us with your presence. My name is Gilbert. I am comptroller of the Duc d’Elbeuf’s household.", "pos": 2887773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the same. I know you are longing to take it off. I know what love is and how impatient it makes one.", "pos": 2889404}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Gilbert", "text": "It’s very funny that everyone persists in thinking that I am in love, though I saw M. Baret for the first time only a week ago. Before then I was absolutely unconscious of his existence.", "pos": 2889521}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But why are you getting married in such a hurry without waiting till you know him better?", "pos": 2889710}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Gilbert", "text": "Because my father does everything in a hurry.", "pos": 2889802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose your husband is a very rich man?", "pos": 2889850}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Gilbert", "text": "No, but he may become rich. We are going to open a shop for silk stockings at the corner of the Rue St. Honore and the Rue des Prouveres, and I hope that you will deal with us, as we would serve you with the best.", "pos": 2889895}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall certainly do so--nay, I will be your first customer, if I have to wait at the door.", "pos": 2890111}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Gilbert", "text": "You are kind! M. Baret, this gentleman promises to be our first customer.", "pos": 2890205}
{"speaker": "M. Baret", "text": "The gentleman is very good, and I am sure he will be satisfied, as my stockings are genuine silk.", "pos": 2890335}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "I want to buy some stockings. Master and mistress are still in bed, so you had better come later on.", "pos": 2890664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I will wait here. Stop a minute, go and get me some coffee; I will drink it in the shop.", "pos": 2890784}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "I might go and get you some coffee, but I am not so silly as to leave you in the shop by yourself.", "pos": 2890912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are afraid I might steal something!", "pos": 2891013}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Well, one does hear of such things being done, and I don’t know you from Adam.", "pos": 2891055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; but I shall stay here all the same.", "pos": 2891135}
{"speaker": "Baret", "text": "Go and tell my wife to come,", "pos": 2891278}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never break my word, especially when such a charming lady is concerned!", "pos": 2891718}
{"speaker": "Baret", "text": "She wanted me to take her, but I was afraid you might be offended.", "pos": 2893787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, I should have been delighted. I think your wife a charming woman.", "pos": 2893867}
{"speaker": "Baret", "text": "You are very kind to say so; but she’s young, she’s young.", "pos": 2893947}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t think that’s any objection; and if she cares for the walk, bring her with you another time.", "pos": 2894008}
{"speaker": "Baret", "text": "We have them in all sizes, go up to my wife’s room and try some on.", "pos": 2895141}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "I will fancy I am your valet, and I will help you.", "pos": 2895418}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be charmed, M. Baret, especially if you will stay to dinner.", "pos": 2896292}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are to be congratulated on having such a kind husband; with a man like that your happiness is assured.", "pos": 2897847}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "It is easy to say happiness, but enjoying it is a different thing. My husband’s health is so delicate that I can only consider myself as his nurse; and then he contracted heavy debts to set up in business which oblige us to observe the strictest economy. We came here on foot to save the twenty-four sous. We could live on the profits of the business, if there were no debts, but as it is everything goes to pay the interest, and our sales are not large enough to cover everything.", "pos": 2897956}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you have plenty of customers, for whenever I pass I see the shop full of people.", "pos": 2898440}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "These customers you see are idlers, crackers of bad jokes, and profligates, who come and make my head ache with their jests. They have not a penny to bless themselves with, and we dare not let them out of our sight for fear of their hands wandering. If we had cared to give them credit, our shop would have been emptied long ago. I am rude to them, in the hopes that they may leave me alone, but it’s of no use. Their impudence is astonishing. When my husband is in I retreat to my room, but he is often away, and then I am obliged to put up with them. And the scarcity of money prevents us from doing much business, but we are obliged to pay our workmen all the same. As far as I can see, we shall be obliged to dismiss them, as we shall soon have to meet several bills. Next Saturday we have got to pay six hundred francs, and we have only got two hundred.", "pos": 2898527}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am surprised at your having all this worry in these early days of your marriage. I suppose your father knew about your husband’s circumstances; how about your dowry?", "pos": 2899388}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "My dowry of six thousand francs has served, most of it, to stock the shop and to pay our debts. We have goods which would pay our debts three times over; but in bad times capital sunk is capital dead.", "pos": 2899558}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry to hear all this, as if peace is not made your situation will become worse, for as you go on your needs will become greater.", "pos": 2899761}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "Yes, for when my husband is better we may have children.", "pos": 2899899}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Do you mean to say his health prevents him from making you a mother? I can’t believe it.", "pos": 2899958}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "I don’t see how I can be a mother who am still a maid; not that I care much about the matter.", "pos": 2900055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shouldn’t have believed it! How can a man not in the agony of death feel ill beside you? He must be dead.", "pos": 2900151}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "Well, he is not exactly dead, but he doesn’t shew many signs of life.", "pos": 2900261}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will help you, dearest, to meet the bill on Saturday;", "pos": 2900588}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How was I to expect a refusal like this at a moment when I thought I saw my ardours reflected in your eyes?", "pos": 2901267}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "Your eyes did not deceive you; but what would my husband say if he found me otherwise than as God has made me?", "pos": 2901377}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He can’t have left you untouched!", "pos": 2901490}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "He really has done so. You can see for yourself if you like. Can I, then, give to you what appertains to the genius of the marriage-bed.", "pos": 2901526}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, my angel; this fruit must be kept for a mouth unworthy to taste it. I pity and adore you. Come to my arms, abandon yourself to my love, and fear nothing. The fruit shall not be damaged; I will but taste the outer surface and leave no trace behind.", "pos": 2901665}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "it must be confessed that it was very pretty and that she would like it if it were not so dear.", "pos": 2903801}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "if she liked it it could not be too dear, and that I would pay.", "pos": 2903940}
{"speaker": "The girl", "text": "they would make her happy,", "pos": 2904494}
{"speaker": "shopwoman", "text": "I can let you have a cheaper pair and almost as fine,", "pos": 2904593}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "little queen, she was as fair as a May morning,", "pos": 2904873}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "She is Mdlle. de Boulainvilier, my niece.", "pos": 2904965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can you be so hard-hearted, as to refuse your charming niece a toy which would make her happy? Allow me to make her a present of them.", "pos": 2905009}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "You may have the ear-rings, as this gentleman has been kind enough to give you such a present, and you should give him a kiss by way of thanks.", "pos": 2905293}
{"speaker": "shopwoman", "text": "The ear-rings, will be only three louis.", "pos": 2905451}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "How can you be such a cheat? You told me they were only two louis.", "pos": 2905595}
{"speaker": "shopwoman", "text": "Nay, madam, I asked three.", "pos": 2905664}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "That’s a lie, and I shall not allow you to rob this gentleman. Niece, put those ear-rings down; let the shopwoman keep them. You are a cheat,", "pos": 2905693}
{"speaker": "shopwoman", "text": "And you are an old b----d. I know you well.", "pos": 2906352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When will he do that?", "pos": 2907129}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "To-morrow, if you go by the shop. Come and buy some stockings; I shall have a bad headache, and Baret will speak to you.", "pos": 2907153}
{"speaker": "Baret", "text": "She is ill in bed, she wants a little country air.", "pos": 2907420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you have not fixed for any place, I shall be happy to put you up at Little Poland. I will go and urge her to come myself; in the meanwhile, M. Baret, will you pack me up a dozen pairs of stockings? The business is done, you will soon hear of it. You shall be well looked after, but you must excuse me if I do not keep you company--I have to attend to my business. M. Baret will be able to come and sleep with you every night, and start early enough in the morning to be in time for the opening of his shop.", "pos": 2907487}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come, my dear, get up and put on a few clothes and we will take breakfast in my room.", "pos": 2909458}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "My jewel, Baret thinks, or pretends to think, that he has done his duty as a husband; but he is no hand at the business, and I am disposed to put myself in your hands, and then there will be no doubt of my condition.", "pos": 2910042}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall thus, my sweet, be doing him a service, and the service shall be well done.", "pos": 2910261}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Cupid, might have gathered the fruit that Hymen could not taste. You are seventeen, and the pear has been ripe for two years at least.", "pos": 2911389}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "Very true, but I have never had a lover.", "pos": 2911536}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never?", "pos": 2911579}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "I have been courted, but to no effect. My heart was ever silent. Possibly my father thought otherwise when I begged him, a month ago, to get me married soon.", "pos": 2911588}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very likely, but as you were not in love, why were you in such a hurry?", "pos": 2911748}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "I knew that the Duc d’Elbeuf would soon be coming to town, and that if he found me still single he would oblige me to become the wife of a man I detest, who would have me at any price.", "pos": 2911822}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is this man for whom you have such an aversion?", "pos": 2912009}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "He is one of the duke’s pets, a monster who sleeps with his master.", "pos": 2912063}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really! I did not know the duke had such tastes.", "pos": 2912133}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "Oh yes; he is eighty-four, and he thinks himself a woman; he says he must have a husband.", "pos": 2912184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is very funny. And is this aspirant to your hand a handsome man?", "pos": 2912276}
{"speaker": "The wife", "text": "I think him horrible; but everybody else thinks he is a fine man.", "pos": 2912348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For the moment. I can neither command money nor bail.", "pos": 2916751}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "Very good, then you will stay in prison. Very likely, it often happens like that; but it is rather difficult to prove.", "pos": 2916817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bring me writing materials, and have a trusty messenger at my disposal.", "pos": 2917053}
{"speaker": "Barrister", "text": "All you have to do, is to deposit half the sum demanded which I will give to the clerk of the court, and in a short time I can promise a decision in your favour and the restoration of your money.", "pos": 2918910}
{"speaker": "Gaoler", "text": "Sir, you are a free man again, and a lady is waiting for you at the door in her carriage.", "pos": 2919211}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "As soon as I was informed of your arrest. I went to the Fort l’Eveque, and on learning from the clerk what the affair was about, I deposited bonds to bail you out. If you are not in a position to have justice done you, Garnier will have to reckon with me before he takes the money I have deposited. But your first step should be to commence a criminal prosecution against your counsel, who has not only failed to put in your appeal but has robbed and deceived you.", "pos": 2920916}
{"speaker": "Garnier", "text": "I have made up my mind: I will have twenty-five thousand francs, or keep the matter before the courts till my dying day.", "pos": 2925699}
{"speaker": "M. de Choiseul", "text": "You can tell everyone, that peace is certain to be made in the course of the winter, and I will take care that you shall have what is due to you on your return to France.", "pos": 2926511}
{"speaker": "Prince Piccolomini", "text": "A look in your face, tells me that the recognition has been mutual. I knew you directly in spite of the sixteen years that have passed since we saw each other at Vicenza. To-morrow you can tell everybody that we are friends, and that though I am not a prince I am really a count; here is my passport from the King of Naples, pray read it.", "pos": 2931543}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you, on your change of employment, your new business is doubtless much better than the old.", "pos": 2932385}
{"speaker": "Count Piccolomini", "text": "I taught fencing, to save myself from dying of hunger, for my father was so hard a man that he would not give me the wherewithal to live, and I disguised my name so as not to disgrace it. On my father’s death I succeeded to the property, and at Rome I married the lady you have seen.", "pos": 2932504}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You had good taste, for she’s a pretty woman.", "pos": 2932804}
{"speaker": "Count Piccolomini", "text": "She is generally thought so, and it was a love match on my side.", "pos": 2932852}
{"speaker": "M. d'Afri", "text": "This M. Silhouette, has served the king very badly. It is all very well to say that payments are only suspended for a year, but it is not believed. He has not called on me, though he says he is commissioned by the king to negotiate a loan of a hundred millions. When I am asked about him, I am obliged to say that I know nothing about him, for fear of compromising myself. Such a reply, as you can understand, is not likely to increase his chance of success, but that is his fault and not mine. Why has he not brought me a letter from the Duc de Choiseul or the Marquise de Pompadour? I take him to be an impostor, but I shall know something more about him in the course of ten days.", "pos": 2933870}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I told him, in my turn, all I knew of this truly eccentric individual. He was not a little surprised to hear that the king had given him an apartment at Chambord, but when I told him that the count professed to be able to make diamonds he laughed and said that in that case he would no doubt make the hundred millions.", "pos": 2934687}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "You have anticipated me. I intended to have called on you. I suppose, my dear Casanova, that you have come to try what you can do for our Court, but you will find your task a difficult one, as the Exchange is highly offended at the late doings of that fool Silhouette. All the same I hope I shall be able to get my hundred millions. I have passed my word to my friend, Louis XV. (I may call him so), and I can’t disappoint him; the business will be done in the next three or four weeks.", "pos": 2935152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should think M. d’Afri might assist you.", "pos": 2935672}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "I do not require his assistance. Probably I shall not even call upon him, as he might say he helped me. No, I shall have all the trouble, and I mean to have all the glory, too.", "pos": 2935717}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I presume you will be going to Court, where the Duke of Brunswick may be of service to you?", "pos": 2935896}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "Why should I go to Court? As for the Duke of Brunswick, I do not care to know him. All I have got to do is to go to Amsterdam, where my credit is sufficiently good for anything. I am fond of the King of France; there’s not a better man in the kingdom.", "pos": 2935990}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, come and dine at the high table, the company is of the best and will please you.", "pos": 2936244}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "You know I never eat; moreover, I never sit down at a table where I may meet persons who are unknown to me.", "pos": 2936333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then, my lord, farewell; we shall see each other again at Amsterdam.", "pos": 2936443}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know him very slightly, but we happen to be staying at the same hotel.", "pos": 2940108}
{"speaker": "Count Tot", "text": "He’s a regular black sheep, and his wife’s no better than he.", "pos": 2940197}
{"speaker": "one of the Frenchmen", "text": "The famous Casanova is now in Holland.", "pos": 2942519}
{"speaker": "the other Frenchman", "text": "Is he? I shall be glad to see him, and ask for an explanation which he will not like. I’ll ought to know him,", "pos": 2942560}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nay, sir, you are mistaken; I am Casanova.", "pos": 2942909}
{"speaker": "the other Frenchman", "text": "You are really very much mistaken if you think you are the only Casanova in the world.", "pos": 2943014}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am a Venetian, sir,", "pos": 2943748}
{"speaker": "the other Frenchman", "text": "Ah! then you are a good friend to France, as your republic is under French protection.", "pos": 2943783}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps, you will reply by begging my pardon for not knowing that there was only one Venice in the world.", "pos": 2944198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You infernal liar!", "pos": 2945596}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "It makes my life happy, for it gives me a power over my father, and assures me that he will never marry me to anyone but the man of my choice.", "pos": 2949625}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted that you extract the only good that can proceed from this idle science, namely, the power to guide persons devoid of strength of will. But your father must think that I taught you the secret?", "pos": 2949782}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Yes, he does; and he said, one day, that he would forgive me any sacrifices I might have made to obtain this precious secret from you.", "pos": 2949991}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He goes a little further than we did, my dearest Esther.", "pos": 2950128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and I told him that I had gained it from you without any sacrifice, and that now I was a true Pythoness without having to endure the torments of the tripod; and I am sure that the replies you gave were invented by yourself.", "pos": 2950187}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But if that were so how could I have known where the pocket-book was, or whether the ship was safe?", "pos": 2950418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You saw the portfolio yourself and threw it where it was discovered, and as for the vessel you spoke at random; but as you are an honest man, confess that you were afraid of the results. I am never so bold as that, and when my father asks me questions of that kind, my replies are more obscure than a sibyl’s. I don’t wish him to lose confidence in my oracle, nor do I wish him to be able to reproach me with a loss that would injure my own interests.", "pos": 2950520}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If your mistake makes you happy I shall leave you in it. You are really a woman of extraordinary talents--, you are quite unique.", "pos": 2950974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t want your compliments,", "pos": 2951106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want a sincere avowal of the truth.", "pos": 2951175}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t think I can go as far as that.", "pos": 2951215}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Is it possible, for my daughter to obtain the answers of the oracle without your having taught her?", "pos": 2951943}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I always thought such a thing impossible till to-day, but Esther has convinced me that I was mistaken. I can teach the secret to no one without losing it myself, for the oath I swore to the sage who taught me forbids me to impart it to another under pain of forfeiture. But as your daughter has taken no such oath, having acquired it herself, she may be for all I know at perfect liberty to communicate the secret to anyone.", "pos": 2952060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must sow plentifully before you reap. Pluck not up the vine before the season of the vintage, for your vine is planted in a fruitful soil.", "pos": 2954094}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you sell out you will repent, for there will be a new comptroller-general, who will pay all claims before another year has elapsed.", "pos": 2954262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am much obliged to you,", "pos": 2955268}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for having confirmed my reply, but confess that you lied to please me.", "pos": 2955306}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I confess, since that will please you, and I will even tell you that you have nothing more to learn.", "pos": 2955379}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a cruel man! But how could you reply that there would be another comptroller-general in a year’s time, and run the risk of compromising the oracle? I never dare to say things like that; I love the oracle too well to expose it to shame and confusion.", "pos": 2955482}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That shews that I do not invent the answers; but since the oracle has pronounced it I am willing to bet that Silhouette will be dismissed.", "pos": 2955742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your obstinacy drives me to despair, for I shall not rest till I know that I am as much a master of the cabala as you are, and yet you will not confess that you invent the answers yourself. For charity’s sake do something to convince me of the contrary.", "pos": 2955883}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will think it over.", "pos": 2956139}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And pray what is that?", "pos": 2958497}
{"speaker": "Perine Talvis", "text": "You owe me a revenge at the sword’s point, as you know right well. Here is the mark of the gash you gave me seven years ago.", "pos": 2958565}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Anywhere else than in Holland, where important and delicate business debars me from fighting, I shall be glad to meet you and mark you again, if you still desire to cross swords with me; but while I am here I must beg you not to disturb me. All the same, you may as well know that I never go out without a couple of friends in my pockets, and that if you attack me I shall blow your brains out in self-defence.", "pos": 2958881}
{"speaker": "Perine Talvis", "text": "My revenge must be with crossed swords. However, I will let you finish your business.", "pos": 2959294}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will do wisely.", "pos": 2959393}
{"speaker": "Rigerboos", "text": "It’s a forgery, and the original from which it was copied was honoured yesterday.", "pos": 2961202}
{"speaker": "Piccolomini", "text": "though he could not believe it, he would look into the matter.", "pos": 2962069}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may look into it when you please, but in the mean time I should be obliged by your giving me five hundred florins.", "pos": 2962134}
{"speaker": "Piccolomini", "text": "You know me, sir. I guarantee to pay you, and that ought to be enough.", "pos": 2962265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No doubt it would be enough, if I chose; but I want my money.", "pos": 2962368}
{"speaker": "Rigerboos", "text": "Follow me, and let me see to this business myself.", "pos": 2962622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must take care, not to see you every day, for your eyes have a sway over me that I shall not be able to resist much longer.", "pos": 2963161}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I shall believe as much of that as I choose, but, by-the-by, have you thought of any way of convincing me?", "pos": 2963299}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want to be convinced about?", "pos": 2963408}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "If it be true that there is in your cabala an intelligence distinct from your own you ought to be able to find some way of proving it to me.", "pos": 2963450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is a happy thought; I will think it over.", "pos": 2963593}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "By way of punishment. I hope you will come with me to the theatre this evening, though they are going to give a Dutch play, of which you will not understand a word.", "pos": 2964000}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be near you, and that is enough for me.", "pos": 2964179}
{"speaker": "Piccolomini", "text": "I want to speak to you privately, tell that fellow to go out.", "pos": 2965074}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He can stay, he does not know a word of Italian.", "pos": 2965149}
{"speaker": "Piccolomini", "text": "Yesterday, about noon, two men came into my room. They were accompanied by the innkeeper, who served as interpreter. One of the men asked me if I felt inclined to cash there and then a forged bill of exchange, which I had given the night before, and which he held in his hands. As I gave no reply, he told me that there was no time for consideration or argument; I must say yes or no there and then, for such were their instructions from the chief of police. I had no choice in the matter, so I paid the five hundred florins, but I did not get back the bill, and the man told me I could not have it unless I told the police the name of the person from whom I got it, as, in the interests of commerce, the forger must be prosecuted. My reply was that I could not possibly tell them what they wanted, as I had got it of a stranger who had come into my room while I was holding a small bank of faro, to pass the time. I told him that after this person (who I had thought introduced by someone in the company) had gone, I found to my surprise that nobody knew him; and I added that if I had been aware of this I would not only have refused the bill but would not have allowed him to play. Thereupon the second policeman said that I had better find out who this person was, or else I should be considered as the forger and prosecuted accordingly; after this threat they went out.", "pos": 2965262}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "No, they are not here, and shall never come here, for they are ladies of high birth, and their uncle, who looks after their interests, is a Venetian gentleman.", "pos": 2977026}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, indeed! he does not live with his highborn nieces, then?", "pos": 2977579}
{"speaker": "Lucie", "text": "No, he only comes to dinner to hear how business has been going, and to take all the money from them.", "pos": 2977652}
{"speaker": "Rigerboos", "text": "Come along, we will go and see them.", "pos": 2977756}
{"speaker": "Rigerboos", "text": "We can get on without knowing,", "pos": 2978458}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, gentlemen, what can I do for you?", "pos": 2980389}
{"speaker": "Wiedan", "text": "Count Piccolomini has found himself forced to declare that he received the forged bill from us, in order that he may escape from the difficult position in which your denunciation placed him. He has warned us that he is going to do so, and we must escape forthwith if we want to avoid prosecution. We have not a penny; we are desperate men.", "pos": 2980470}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, gentlemen, what have I to do with that?", "pos": 2980812}
{"speaker": "Wiedan", "text": "Give us four hundred florins immediately; we do not want more, but we must have that much, and now. If you refuse we will take to flight with everything of yours that we can lay our hands on; and our arguments are these.", "pos": 2980860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You need not have recourse to violence, it can only be fatal to you. Stay, here are a hundred ducats more than you asked. Begone, and I wish you a pleasant journey, but I would not be here when my servant comes back if I were you.", "pos": 2981158}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "You will see my appetite at supper. I have had nothing to eat since dinner yesterday. I am going to tell you an important piece of news, and that is that I am sure that you do not invent the answers to your oracle, or at least that you only do so when you choose. The reply you procured me was wonderful--nay, divine, for it told me of a secret unknown to all, even to myself. You may imagine my surprise when I convinced myself, with no little trouble of the truth of the answer. You possess a treasure, your oracle is infallible; but surely it can never lie, and my oracle tells me that you love me. It makes me glad to know that, for you are the man of my heart. But I want you to give me an exemplary proof of your love, and if you do love me you will not hesitate to do so. Stay, read the reply you got me; I am sure you do not know what it says; then I will tell you how you can make me quite happy.", "pos": 2983191}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted, that the oracle has convinced you so easily, but I must be excused if I say that I believe you knew as much long ago.", "pos": 2984458}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "You love me, and you ought to make no difficulty in assuring the bliss of a girl who will be your wife, and in your power. My father will agree to our marriage, and when I become your wife I will do whatever you please. We will even go and live in another country if that would add to your happiness. But you must teach me how to obtain the answer to any question without inventing it myself.", "pos": 2984827}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You know, Esther, dear, that my word is passed at Paris. Certainly, Manon is not to be compared to you; but for all that I gave my promise to her poor mother, and I must keep it.", "pos": 2985366}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can I do for you, sir?", "pos": 2987005}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Sir, we knew each other at Cerigo, sixteen or seventeen years ago, and I am delighted to have an opportunity of renewing the acquaintance.", "pos": 2987066}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you the man, who told me that you were the son of a Count Peccini, of Padua, although there is no such count in Padua at all?", "pos": 2987380}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "I congratulate you on your excellent memory. I am that very individual.", "pos": 2987522}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, what do you want with me now?", "pos": 2987615}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "I can’t divulge my business in the presence of your servant.", "pos": 2987653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My servant does not understand Italian, so you can speak out; however, if you like, I will send him away.", "pos": 2987716}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "a time would come.", "pos": 2988236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then. I shall have him arrested as an escaped galley slave, in which character I have given him alms, and for wearing without the right to do so the uniform of an officer, thereby disgracing the whole army. And pray what outrage can I have committed against girls who live in a brothel, and whom I have paid according to their deserts?", "pos": 2989293}
{"speaker": "Major Sabi", "text": "If what you say is true you are quite right, but this poor devil is in a desperate situation; he wants to leave the country, and does not possess a single florin. I advise you to give him an alms once more, and you will have done with him. Two score florins will not make you any the poorer, and will rid you of a villainous enemy.", "pos": 2989641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A most villainous one, I think.", "pos": 2989975}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "I have told them that you are coming, and to welcome you more honourably the lodge will be opened in French.", "pos": 2990884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish to know whether the individual who desires me and my company to transact a matter of the greatest importance is really a friend of the King of France?", "pos": 2991585}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here’s a fine opportunity, for covering my oracle with glory, and giving my fair Esther something to think about.", "pos": 2991918}
{"speaker": "Oracle", "text": "The friend disavows. The order is signed. They grant. They refuse. All vanishes. Delay.", "pos": 2992264}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "The reply is clear enough for me. The oracle is divine; the word ‘delay’ is addressed to me. You and my daughter are clever enough in making the oracle speak, but I am more skilled than you in the interpretation thereof. I shall prevent the thing going any further. The project is no less a one than to lend a hundred millions, taking in pledge the diamonds of the French crown. The king wishes the loan to be concluded without the interference of his ministers and without their even knowing anything about it. I entreat you not to mention the matter to anyone.", "pos": 2992566}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Now. I am quite sure that that reply came from another intelligence than yours. In the name of all you hold sacred, tell me the meaning of those four letters, and why you usually omit them.", "pos": 2993149}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I omit them, dearest Esther, because experience has taught me that in ordinary cases they are unnecessary; but while I was making the pyramid the command came to me to set them down, and I thought it well to obey.", "pos": 2993383}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "What do they mean?", "pos": 2993599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are the initial letters of the holy names of the cardinal intelligences of the four quarters of the world. I may not tell you, but whoever deals with the oracle should know them.", "pos": 2993620}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Ah! do not deceive me; I trust in you, and it would be worse than murder to abuse so simple a faith as mine.", "pos": 2993808}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not deceiving you, dearest Esther.", "pos": 2993919}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "But if you were to teach me the cabala, you would impart to me these holy names?", "pos": 2993961}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, but I cannot reveal them except to my successor. If I violate this command I should lose my knowledge; and this condition is well calculated to insure secrecy, is it not?", "pos": 2994044}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "It is, indeed. Unhappy that I am, your successor will be, of course, Manon.", "pos": 2994228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, Manon is not fitted intellectually for such knowledge as this.", "pos": 2994306}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "But you should fix on someone, for you are mortal after all. If you like, my father would give you the half of his immense fortune without your marrying me.", "pos": 2994375}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Esther! what is it that you have said? Do you think that to possess you would be a disagreeable condition in my eyes?", "pos": 2994534}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "But what is the matter, papa dear? you surprise me more than I can say.", "pos": 2995249}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "Sit down beside me, my dear children, and listen to your father and your best friend. I have just received a letter from one of the secretaries of their high mightinesses informing me that the French ambassador has demanded, in the name of the king his master, that the Comte St. Germain should be delivered over, and that the Dutch authorities have answered that His Most Christian Majesty’s requests shall be carried out as soon as the person of the count can be secured. In consequence of this the police, knowing that the Comte St. Germain was staying at the Etoile d’Orient, sent to arrest him at midnight, but the bird had flown. The landlord declared that the count had posted off at nightfall, taking the way to Nimeguen. He has been followed, but there are small hopes of catching him up. It is not known how he can have discovered that a warrant existed against him, or how he continued to evade arrest. It is not known, but everyone guesses that M. Calcoen, the same that wrote to me, let this friend of the French king’s know that he would be wanted at midnight, and that if he did not get the key of the fields he would be arrested. He is not so foolish as to despise a piece of advice like that. The Dutch Government has expressed its sorrow to M. d’Afri that his excellence did not demand the arrest of St. Germain sooner, and the ambassador will not be astonished at this reply, as it is like many others given on similar occasions. The wisdom of the oracle has been verified, and I congratulate myself on having seized its meaning, for we were on the point of giving him a hundred thousand florins on account, which he said he must have immediately. He gave us in pledge the finest of the crown diamonds, and this we still retain. But we will return it to him on demand, unless it is claimed by the ambassador. I have never seen a finer stone. And now, my children, you see what I owe to the oracle. On the Exchange the whole company can do nothing but express their gratitude to me. I am regarded as the most prudent and most farseeing man in Holland. To you, my dear children, I owe this honour, but I wear my peacock’s feathers without scruple. My dear Casanova, you will dine with us, I hope. After dinner I shall beg you to enquire of your inscrutable intelligence whether we ought to declare ourselves in possession of the splendid diamond, or to observe secrecy till it is reclaimed.", "pos": 2995338}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Sweetheart, you have an opportunity for giving me a strong proof of your friendship. It will cost you nothing, but it will cover me with honour and happiness.", "pos": 2997847}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Command me, and it shall be done. You cannot think that I would refuse you a favour which is to cost me nothing, when I should deem myself happy to shed my blood for your sake.", "pos": 2998056}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "My father wishes you to tell him after dinner whether it will be better to declare that they have the diamond or to keep silence till it is claimed. When he asks you a second time, tell him to seek the answer of me, and offer to consult the oracle also, in case my answer may be too obscure. Then perform the operation, and I will make my father love me all the better, when he sees that my knowledge is equal to yours.", "pos": 2998235}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest one, would I not do for thee a task a thousand times more difficult than this to prove my love and my devotion? Let us set to work. Do you write the question, set up the pyramids, and inscribe with your own hand the all-powerful initials. Good. Now begin to extract the answer by means of the divine key. Never was a cleverer pupil!", "pos": 2998657}
{"speaker": "Oracle", "text": "Silence necessary. Without silence, general derision. Diamond valueless; mere paste.", "pos": 2999145}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "What an amazing reply! The diamond is false, and it is I who am about to reveal their folly to them. I shall inform my father of this important secret. It is too much, it overwhelms me; I can scarcely contain myself for joy! How much I owe you, you wonderful and delightful man! They will verify the truth of the oracle immediately, and when it is found that the famous diamond is but glittering paste the company will adore my father, for it will feel that but for him it would have been covered with shame, by avowing itself the dupe of a sharper. Will you leave the pyramid with me?", "pos": 2999312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; but it will not teach you anything you do not know.", "pos": 2999912}
{"speaker": "Manon", "text": "Be wise, and receive the news I give you calmly. The packet contains your portrait and all the letters you have written to me. Return me my portrait, and if you have kept my letters be kind enough to burn them. I rely on your honour. Think of me no more. Duty bids me do all I can to forget you, for at this hour to-morrow I shall become the wife of M. Blondel of the Royal Academy, architect to the king. Please do not seem as if you knew me if we chance to meet on your return to Paris.", "pos": 3002029}
{"speaker": "M. d'O----", "text": "What is the matter with you, my dear Casanova?", "pos": 3004517}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have had a great grief, but let us say no more about it. Sit down beside me, Esther dear, and allow me to make a mystery of what has affected me so grievously. Time, the mighty healer, and still more your company, will effect a cure which I should in vain seek by appealing to my reason. Whilst we talk of other things I shall not feel the misfortune which gnaws at my heart.", "pos": 3004575}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Well, get up, dress yourself, and come and spend the day with me, and I will do my best to make you forget your sorrow.", "pos": 3005364}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I feel very weak; for the last three days I have only taken a little broth and chocolate.", "pos": 3005486}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Dear, if a large sum of money, beyond what my father owes you, can remove or even soothe your grief I can be your doctor, and you ought to know that your accepting my treatment would make me happy.", "pos": 3005750}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, dear Esther, generous Esther, it is not money I want, for if I did I would ask you and your father as a friend: what I want, and what no one can give me, is a resolute mind, and determination to act for the best.", "pos": 3006009}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Ask advice of your oracle. Why do you laugh? if I am not mistaken, the oracle must know a remedy for your woes.", "pos": 3006228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I laughed, dearest, because I felt inclined to tell you to consult the oracle this time. As for me I will have nothing to do with it, lest the cure be worse than the disease.", "pos": 3006383}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "But you need not follow your advice unless you like it.", "pos": 3006560}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, one is free to act as one thinks fit; but not to follow the advice of the oracle would be a contempt of the intelligence which directs it.", "pos": 3006618}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Ah! I will make you the dish you are so fond of.", "pos": 3007070}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Now, you must oblige me by dressing, and doing your hair as if you were going to a ball.", "pos": 3007680}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That, is a funny idea, but as it pleases you it pleases me. Choose the dress that suits me best.", "pos": 3007783}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "No. I will choose it myself. A little broth would do you good; send for a dish, it will give you an appetite for dinner.", "pos": 3008008}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Am I to blame, for having discovered the cause of your sorrow?", "pos": 3009163}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, no, my dear Esther; pity your friend, and say no more about it.", "pos": 3009311}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Then I may read all the letters?", "pos": 3009381}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, dearest, if it will amuse you. Those cursed epistles, which please you so well, will be the death of me.", "pos": 3009416}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Death? Oh, no! I will cure you, I hope.", "pos": 3009967}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope so, too; but after dinner you must help me to burn them all from first to last.", "pos": 3010009}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Burn them! No; make me a present of them. I promise to keep them carefully all my days.", "pos": 3010098}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are yours, Esther. I will send them to you to-morrow.", "pos": 3010188}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Shall you send back the portrait to your faithless mistress?", "pos": 3010484}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know what to do with it.", "pos": 3010557}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Send it back to her; she is not worthy of your honouring her by keeping it. I am sure that your oracle would give you the same advice. Where is the portrait? Will you shew it me?", "pos": 3010592}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I have not made up the answer.", "pos": 3012695}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Shall I be impertinent, if I ask you where your portrait is? Manon says in her letter that she is sending it back; but I don’t see it anywhere.", "pos": 3013445}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In my first paroxysm of rage, I threw it down; I don’t know in what direction. What was thus despised by her cannot be of much value to me.", "pos": 3013606}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Let us look for it; I should like to see it.", "pos": 3013748}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would give it you if such a present were worthy of you.", "pos": 3013898}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Ah! you could not give me anything I would value more.", "pos": 3013958}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you deign to accept it, Esther, though it has been possessed by another?", "pos": 3014015}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "It will be all the dearer to me.", "pos": 3014095}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Is your Manon fair to see all over?", "pos": 3015498}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I really can’t say, for, not being her husband, I never had an opportunity of investigating the matter.", "pos": 3015546}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Your discretion is worthy of all praise, such conduct becomes a man of delicate feeling.", "pos": 3015652}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was told by her nurse that she was perfect in all respects, and that no mole or blemish relieved the pure whiteness of her skin.", "pos": 3015769}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "You must have a different notion of me?", "pos": 3015902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, Esther, as the oracle revealed to me the great secret you desired to know. Nevertheless, I should find you perfect in all your parts. If I became your husband, I could easily refrain from touching you there.", "pos": 3015944}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I suppose you think, that if you touched it your desires might be lessened?", "pos": 3016236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Till to-morrow.", "pos": 3017737}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "We will set to work,", "pos": 3019769}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, Esther dear, did not the oracle reveal a circumstance of which you knew perfectly well before?", "pos": 3021291}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "No, sweetheart, the secret was perfectly unknown to me and would have continued unknown.", "pos": 3021403}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you have never been curious enough to inspect your own person?", "pos": 3021494}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "However curious I may have been, nature placed that mole in such a position as to escape any but the most minute search.", "pos": 3021564}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have never felt it, then?", "pos": 3021687}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "It is too small to be felt.", "pos": 3021719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t believe it.", "pos": 3021749}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I know your love for me is as great as mine for you; and if I am certain that what you have just said cannot possibly be true, I am forced to conclude that if you do not communicate to me all the secrets of your science it is because to do so is not in your power. Let us love one another till death, and say no more about this matter. If love has taken away from you the courage of sincerity I forgive you, but I am sorry for you. You have given me too positive proof of the reality of your science to be able to shake my belief. You could never have found out a thing of which I myself was ignorant, and of which no mortal man could know.", "pos": 3022860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if I shew you, Esther dear, that I knew you had this mole, that I had good reasons for supposing you to be ignorant of it, will your belief be shaken then?", "pos": 3023546}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "You knew it? How could you have seen it? It’s incredible!", "pos": 3023708}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you all.", "pos": 3023768}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "I will find out, but after all you have told me I can only admire you the more for knowing what no one else does.", "pos": 3024087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you really think, Esther, that I am the sole possessor of this science? Undeceive yourself. All who have studied anatomy, physiology, and astrology, know of it.", "pos": 3024203}
{"speaker": "Esther", "text": "Then I beg you to get me, by to-morrow--yes, tomorrow--all the books which will teach me secrets of that nature. I long to be able to astonish the ignorant with my cabala, which I see requires a mixture of knowledge and imposition. I wish to devote myself entirely to this study. We can love each other to the death, but we can do that without getting married.", "pos": 3024369}
{"speaker": "Comte de Lastic", "text": "You played high, to save your money, but you might have lost a limb, and nothing would have made up for that.", "pos": 3028289}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I intend to go to-morrow, and if anything could keep me at Cologne it would certainly not be the prospect of being present at an execution, as such sights are not at all to my taste.", "pos": 3028624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think of crossing the Rhine to-morrow, and shall probably dine at Bonn.", "pos": 3030019}
{"speaker": "General Kettler", "text": "I am sure, sir, that this lady will persuade you to delay your departure--at least, I hope so, that I may have the pleasure of seeing more of your company.", "pos": 3030269}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Is the count right, in attributing such power to me?", "pos": 3030585}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think so, indeed, but he may possibly be wrong in thinking you care to exercise it.", "pos": 3030664}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Very good! We must catch him, then, if only as the punishment of his indiscretion. Stay.", "pos": 3030766}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Then you will stay, sir! It is really very kind of you, for if you went off to-morrow people might say that you only came here to shew your disdain for us. Tomorrow the general gives a ball, and I hope you will be one of the party.", "pos": 3031406}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can I hope to dance with you all the evening?", "pos": 3031640}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I promise to dance with nobody but you, till you get tired of me.", "pos": 3031688}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then we shall dance together through all the ball.", "pos": 3031756}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Where did you get that pomade which perfumes the air? I smelt it as soon as you came into the box.", "pos": 3031809}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It came from Florence, and if you do not like it you shall not be troubled with it any more.", "pos": 3031910}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Oh! but I do like it. I should like some of it myself.", "pos": 3032005}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I shall be only too happy if you will permit me to send you a little to-morrow.", "pos": 3032062}
{"speaker": "Count Kettler", "text": "I am sure madame has prevailed on you to stay, and to come to my ball and supper to-morrow?", "pos": 3032285}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She has led me to anticipate that you would do me that honour, and she promises to dance the quadrilles with me. How can one resist entreaty from such lips?", "pos": 3032379}
{"speaker": "Count Kettler", "text": "Quite so, and I am obliged to her for having kept you with us. I hope to see you to-morrow.", "pos": 3032538}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "And what would you say, if I give my promise, and do not keep it?", "pos": 3034087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should bemoan my lot, without accusing you; I should say to myself that you had found it impossible to keep your word.", "pos": 3034168}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "You are very good; you must stay with us. If he asks you whether you are going to the Elector’s ball at Bonn, say yes!", "pos": 3034291}
{"speaker": "General Kettler", "text": "You are very wise, sir, all the pleasures on earth should be sacrificed when it is a question of one’s health.", "pos": 3035581}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "I know Casanova, and if he be at Bonn the Elector shall hear of it, and he shan’t go off without my seeing him.", "pos": 3038090}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "My dear fellow-countryman, I am sure you are the man who broke my bank; I congratulate you.", "pos": 3038754}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should congratulate myself if I were the fortunate individual.", "pos": 3038848}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I am sure that it was you.", "pos": 3038915}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "You changed your domino in such a room, in such a house. The Elector knows all about it, and as a punishment for this deceit he has ordered me to tell you that you are not to leave Bonn to-morrow.", "pos": 3039083}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he going to arrest me, then?", "pos": 3039282}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "Why not, if you refuse his invitation to dinner tomorrow?", "pos": 3039316}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell his highness that his commands shall be obeyed. Will you present me to him now?", "pos": 3039376}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "He has left the ball, but wait on me to-morrow at noon.", "pos": 3039463}
{"speaker": "Elector", "text": "I am wearing the costume of Grand Master of the Teutonic Order to-day. I was at Venice, when you were under the Leads, and my nephew, the Elector of Bavaria, told me that after your fortunate escape you stayed some time at Munich; if you had come to Cologne I should have kept you. I hope that after dinner you will be kind enough to tell us the story of your escape, that you will stay to supper, and will join in a little masquerade with which we propose to amuse ourselves. One could never have too much of a good thing,", "pos": 3039878}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Send each one a note with the name of her cavalier, and trust in Count Verita to do everything for the best; you need only tell him that you wish to give an entertainment similar to that given two years ago by the Prince de Deux-Ponts. Lose no time. You will have a score of guests; mind you let them know the hour of the repast. Take care, too, that your invitations are sent round by nine o’clock in the morning.", "pos": 3042945}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "It can all easily be arranged. I have only to write to the steward, and I will do so immediately. But how much do you want to spend?", "pos": 3043967}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As much as possible.", "pos": 3044113}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "As little as possible, I suppose you mean.", "pos": 3044136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all; I want to treat my guests with magnificence.", "pos": 3044181}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "All the same you must fix on a sum, as I know whom I’ve got to deal with.", "pos": 3044240}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well! two-three hundred ducats; will that do?", "pos": 3044316}
{"speaker": "Count Verita", "text": "Two hundred; the Prince de Deux-Ponts did not spend more.", "pos": 3044370}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "The collation, will be composed of only twenty-four dishes, but in addition there will be twenty-four dishes of English oysters and a splendid dessert.", "pos": 3046002}
{"speaker": "General Kettler", "text": "I will wager that this is the Elector’s doing. His highness has desired to preserve his incognito, and M. Casanova has played his part to admiration.", "pos": 3048261}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "General,", "pos": 3048456}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if the Elector had given me such an order, I should, of course, have obeyed him, but I should have felt it a humiliating part to play. His highness, however, has deigned to do me a far greater honour; look here.", "pos": 3048475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The general,", "pos": 3049830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "had too much to drink; he is an envious devil, and has discovered that it is not seemly of you to treat us as if you were a prince. I told him that, on the contrary, you had treated us as if we were princes, waiting on us with your napkin on your arm. He thereupon found fault with me for degrading you.", "pos": 3049855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you not send him about his business? So rude a fellow is not worthy of serving so famous a beauty.", "pos": 3050161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s too late. A woman whom you don’t know would get possession of him. I should be obliged to conceal my feelings, and that would vex me.", "pos": 3050269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand--I understand. Would that I were a great prince! In the mean time, let me tell you that my sickness is greater than Kettler’s.", "pos": 3050410}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are joking, I hope.", "pos": 3050552}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay, not at all; I am speaking seriously, for the kisses I was so happy to snatch from you at the ball have inflamed my blood, and if you have not enough kindness to cure me in the only possible way I shall leave Cologne with a life-long grief.", "pos": 3050578}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Put off your departure: why should you desire to go to Stuttgart so earnestly? I think of you, believe me, and I do not wish to deceive you; but it is hard to find an opportunity.", "pos": 3050825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you had not the general’s carriage waiting for you to-night, and I had mine, I could take you home with perfect propriety.", "pos": 3051007}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hush! As you have not your carriage, it is my part to take you home. It is a splendid idea, that we must so contrive it that it may not seem to be a concerted plan. You must give me your arm to my carriage, and I shall then ask you where your carriage is; you will answer that you have not got one. I shall ask you to come into mine, and I will drop you at your hotel. It will only give us a couple of minutes, but that is something till we are more fortunate.", "pos": 3051135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am going to the general’s to ask after his health; if it will not take you too much out of your way, I can leave you at your lodging as we come back.", "pos": 3051967}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What!", "pos": 3054349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he has not asked you? You must go, for all that.", "pos": 3054404}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Consider what you say,", "pos": 3054455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do anything to please you but that.", "pos": 3054496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know all you can urge; nevertheless, you must go. I should feel insulted if you were not at that supper. If you love me you will give me this proof of your affection and (I think I may say) esteem.", "pos": 3054541}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You ask me thus? Then I will go. But are you aware that you are exposing me to the danger of losing my life or taking his? for I am not the man to pass over an affront.", "pos": 3054743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know all you can say,", "pos": 3054914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have your honour at heart as much as mine, or perhaps more so, but nothing will happen to you; I will answer for everything. You must go, and you must give me your promise now, for I am resolved if you do not go, neither will I, but we must never see each other more.", "pos": 3054950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you may reckon upon me.", "pos": 3055222}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "How can that have happened? Sir, I did not ask you to come.", "pos": 3056487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is quite true, general,", "pos": 3056797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I thought, no doubt correctly, that the omission was due to forgetfulness, and I thought myself obliged all the same to come and pay my court to your excellency.", "pos": 3056850}
{"speaker": "M. de Castries", "text": "His greatest merit was to have served faithfully the last Duke Kettler; who if it had not been for the courage of him who is now so unfortunate, would have lost all his belongings in the war. It was Duke Kettler who so heroically sent him to the Court of St. Petersburg, but Biron never asked for the duchy. An earldom would have satisfied him, as he recognized the rights of the younger branch of the Kettler family, which would be reigning now if it were not for the empress’s whim: nothing would satisfy her but to confer a dukedom on the favourite.", "pos": 3057855}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Yes, if it were not for that whim I should be reigning now.", "pos": 3058593}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I am quite sure, that he would have gone further, if your grand answer had not stopped his mouth; but if he had said another word, my mind was made up.", "pos": 3059723}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To do what?", "pos": 3059889}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I should have risen from the table and taken your arm, and we should have gone out together. M. de Castries has told me that he would have done the same, and I believe all the ladies whom you asked to breakfast would have followed our example.", "pos": 3059903}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But the affair would not have stopped then, for I should certainly have demanded immediate satisfaction, and if he had refused it I should have struck him with the flat of my sword.", "pos": 3060149}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I know that, but pray forget that it was I who exposed you to this danger. For my part, I shall never forget what I owe to you, and I will try to convince you of my gratitude.", "pos": 3060333}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "Here is our bedroom, and this is the closet in which I sleep for five or six nights in every month. Here is a church which we may look upon as our private chapel, as we hear mass from those two grated windows. On Sundays we go down this stair and enter the church by a door, the key to which is always in my keeping.", "pos": 3061271}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "I have thought of it as well as you, and I will give you the necessary instructions in writing; you will find them in the first gazette I send you. The design which love inspired is subject not to difficulty but uncertainty. The wife only sleeps in the closet when her husband asks her--an event which only occurs at certain periods, and the separation does not last for more than a few days. This period is not far off, but long custom has made it impossible for the wife to impose on her husband. It will, therefore, be necessary to wait. Love will warn you when the hour of bliss has come. The plan will be to hide in the church; and there must be no thought of seducing the door-keeper, for though poor he is too stupid to be bribed, and would betray the secret. The only way will be to hide so as to elude his watchfulness. He shuts the church at noon on working days; on feast days he shuts it at evening, and he always opens it again at dawn. When the time comes, all that need be done is to give the door a gentle push--it will not be locked. As the closet which is to be the scene of the blissful combat is only separated from the room by a partition, there must be no spitting, coughing, nor nose-blowing: it would be fatal. The escape will be a matter of no difficulty; one can go down to the church, and go out as soon as it is opened. Since the beadle has seen nobody in the evening, it is not likely that he will see more in the morning.", "pos": 3062567}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster's wife", "text": "The door is open, and you will be more comfortable on the staircase, where you will find a light, a little dinner, and some books, than in the church. The seat is not very easy, but I have done my best to remedy the discomfort with a cushion. Trust me, the time will seem as long to me as to you, but be patient. I have told the general that I do not feel very well, and shall not go out to-day. May God keep you from coughing, especially during the night, for on the least noise we should be undone.", "pos": 3069581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t understand. Very good, sir. Then I will go away and come again when the sovereign is not here, as when an air pleases me I always applaud.", "pos": 3080851}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "You are M. Casanova, are you?", "pos": 3081337}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my lord.", "pos": 3081384}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Where do you come from?", "pos": 3081400}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "From Cologne.", "pos": 3081426}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Is this the first time you have been to Stuttgart?", "pos": 3081442}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my lord.", "pos": 3081495}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Do you think of staying long?", "pos": 3081511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For five or six days, if your highness will allow me.", "pos": 3081543}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Certainly, you may stay as long as you like, and you may clap when you please.", "pos": 3081599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall profit by your permission, my lord.", "pos": 3081680}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Good.", "pos": 3081726}
{"speaker": "Gardella", "text": "Did you tell the duke you were my cousin?", "pos": 3082970}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No,", "pos": 3083024}
{"speaker": "Gardella", "text": "Very good, then I will do so myself; come and dine with me to-morrow.", "pos": 3083041}
{"speaker": "Cartz", "text": "She is not made for the duke’s eyes to gaze on, and he shall never have her.", "pos": 3083457}
{"speaker": "The Binetti", "text": "It’s a lie.", "pos": 3084387}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But my dear, you can’t be better informed on the subject than I am.", "pos": 3084401}
{"speaker": "Cartz", "text": "As Gardella is only a boatman’s daughter, like Binetti, the latter thinks, and very rightly, that you ought to have given her the refusal of your cousinship.", "pos": 3084543}
{"speaker": "one of them", "text": "We are going, to visit certain ladies of easy virtue; we shall be glad to have you of our company.", "pos": 3087533}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I only speak a few words of German, and if I join you I shall be bored.", "pos": 3087654}
{"speaker": "they", "text": "Ah! but the ladies are Italians, nothing could suit you better.", "pos": 3087742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t forget to wake me at four in the morning,", "pos": 3090006}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Gentlemen. I have lost a sum which I cannot pay, and which I certainly should not have lost without the drugged wine you gave me. You have taken me to a den of infamy, where I was shamefully robbed of jewellery to the value of more than three hundred Louis. I complain of no one, since I have only my own folly to complain of. If I had been wiser all this would not have happened to me.", "pos": 3091050}
{"speaker": "one of the rascals", "text": "We are too honest, sir, to take advantage of your position. You have been unfortunate, but all men are sometimes unfortunate, and we ask nothing better than a mutual accommodation. We will take over all your properties; jewels, diamonds, arms, and carriage, and have them valued; and if the sum realized does not cover your debt we will take your acceptance, payable at date, and remain good friends.", "pos": 3091919}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, I do not wish for the friendship of robbers, and I will not play a single farthing. Gentlemen, your menaces will not intimidate me, and, as far as I can see, you have only two ways of getting paid; either by way of the law, in which case I do not think I shall find it difficult to get a barrister to take up my case, or, secondly, you can pay yourselves on my body, honourably, with sword in hand.", "pos": 3092322}
{"speaker": "Toscani's Mother", "text": "If you give them the start, they may possibly gain a great advantage over you in spite of the right being on your side.", "pos": 3093369}
{"speaker": "Barrister", "text": "They took you to the house of ill-fame; they poured out the drugged wine which deprived you of your reason; they made you play in spite of their prince’s prohibition (for gaming is strictly forbidden); in this company you were robbed of your jewels after they had made you lose an enormous sum. It’s a hanging matter, and the duke’s interest will be to do you justice, for an act of scoundrelism like this committed by his officers would dishonour him all over Europe.", "pos": 3093706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As the duke gives audience to the first comer, why should I not have as good a reception as a labouring man?", "pos": 3094446}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Write a brief account of the business, and I will lay it before the sovereign, who will no doubt see justice done.", "pos": 3097063}
{"speaker": "my Spaniard", "text": "for, an officer came to see you, and finding you were out he took up his position at the street door and has two soldiers standing at the foot of the staircase.", "pos": 3097609}
{"speaker": "Binetti's Wife", "text": "You must not go to the inn; stay here, where you have nothing to fear. Send for what you want, and we will wait and see what happens.", "pos": 3097801}
{"speaker": "Barrister", "text": "And when I have done that, your business will be mine.", "pos": 3100003}
{"speaker": "Barrister", "text": "Sir, all my endeavors on your behalf have been unsuccessful. There is a party against you which seems to have support in some high quarter, and which silences the voice of justice. It is my duty to warn you that unless you find some way of arranging matters with these rascals you are a ruined man. The judgment given by the police magistrate, a rascal like the rest of them, is of a summary character, for as a stranger you will not be allowed to have recourse to the delays of the law. You would require bail to do that. They have managed to procure witnesses who swear that you are a professional gamester, that it was you who seduced the three officers into the house of your countryman Peccini, that it is not true that your wine was drugged that you did not lose your watches nor your snuff-box, for, they say, these articles will be found in your mails when your goods are sold. For that you will only have to wait till to-morrow or the day after, and do not think that I am deceiving you in any particular, or you will be sorry for it. They will come here and empty your mails, boxes, and pockets, a list will be made, and they will be sold by auction the same day. If the sum realized is greater than the debt the surplus will go in costs, and you may depend upon it that a very small sum will be returned to you; but if, on the other hand, the sum is not sufficient to pay everything, including the debt, costs, expenses of the auction, etc., you will be enrolled as a common soldier in the forces of His Most Serene Highness. I heard it said to the officer, who is your greatest creditor, that the four Louis enlistment money would be taken into account, and that the duke would be glad to get hold of such a fine man.", "pos": 3103007}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "You are very wise, in consenting to a composition, but we need not all three be present. I have full powers from the other two, and that will be sufficient for the notary.", "pos": 3106587}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am in bad enough case, for you to grant me the favour of seeing you all together; I cannot think you will refuse me.", "pos": 3106772}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Well, well, you shall be satisfied, but if you are in a hurry to leave Stuttgart I must warn you that we cannot come before Monday, for we are on duty for the next four days.", "pos": 3106906}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry to hear it, but I will wait. Give me your word of honour that all proceedings shall be suspended in the mean time.", "pos": 3107083}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Certainly; here is my hand, and you may reckon on me. In my turn I have a favour to ask. I like your post-chaise; will you let me have it for what it cost you?", "pos": 3107211}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 3107373}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Be kind enough to call the landlord, and tell him in my presence that the carriage belongs to me. I am certain of having the chaise,", "pos": 3107390}
{"speaker": "Police Valuer", "text": "In all,", "pos": 3108584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am grateful to you, and you can count upon my devotion. The whole town and the duke as well know your creditors to be knaves, but they have their reasons for refusing to see their conduct in its true light.", "pos": 3108900}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And now. I want your advice.", "pos": 3109746}
{"speaker": "The Toscani", "text": "You will have to abandon your mails, which you could not take off without attracting attention, and you must send all your effects to my house. I engage to deliver safely whatever you may put in my care. I will take away your effects under my clothes in several journeys, and I can begin to-night.", "pos": 3110417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "all the necessary measures had been taken, and that I should find a post-chaise, under the charge of his servant, waiting for me on the high road. So far good, and the reader shall now hear how I contrived to escape from my inn.", "pos": 3111593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "After supper, instead of going to bed, I shall hold myself in readiness for leaving my room, and I shall leave it when I see the light extinguished in the ante-room, while I shall take care that my candle be so placed as not to shew any light outside, or to reflect my shadow. Once out of my room, I shall have no difficulty in reaching the stairs, and my escape will be accomplished. I shall go to Binetti’s, leave the town by his house, and wait for you at Furstenburg. No one can hinder you from joining me in the course of a day or two. So when you see me ready in my room, and this will be whilst the sentry is having his supper, put out the candle on the table: you can easily manage to do so whilst snuffing it. You will then take it to re-light it, and I shall seize that moment to get off in the darkness. When you conclude that I have got out of the ante-room, you can come back to the soldier with the lighted candle, and you can help him to finish his bottle. By that time I shall be safe, and when you tell him I have gone to bed he will come to the door, wish me good night, and after locking the door and putting the key in his pocket he will go away with you. It is not likely that he will come in and speak to me when he hears I have gone to bed.", "pos": 3112241}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Drive on, and make one stage of it from here to Tubingen, without changing horses at Waldenbach. You’re drunk,", "pos": 3115689}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "Sir, all Stuttgart knows you to be here, and I fear, lest the three officers who were too cowardly to accept your challenge may have you assassinated. If you are wise you will set out for Switzerland forthwith.", "pos": 3117328}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s cowardly, my lad. Don’t be afraid about me, but tell me all that happened after my escape.", "pos": 3117552}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "As soon as you were gone, sir, I carried out your instructions, and helped the poor devil of a sentry to empty his bottle, though he would have willingly dispensed with my assistance in the matter; I then told him you had gone to bed, and he locked the door as usual, and went away after shaking me by the hand. After he had gone I went to bed. Next morning the worthy man was at his post by nine o’clock, and at ten the three officers came, and on my telling them that you were still asleep they went away, bidding me come to a coffee-house, and summon them when you got up. As they waited and waited to no purpose, they came again at noon, and told the soldier to open the door. What followed amused me, though I was in some danger in the midst of the rascals. They went in, and taking the wig-block for your head they came up to the bed and politely wished you good morning. You took no notice, so one of them proceeded to give you a gentle shake, and the bauble fell and rolled along the floor. I roared with laughter at the sight of their amazement.", "pos": 3117662}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "You laugh, do you, rascal? Tell us where your master is.", "pos": 3118720}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "I was not going to stand this sort of thing, so I told them, with an oath, that if they did not stop I should defend myself, adding that I was not my master’s keeper, and advising them to ask the sentry. The sentry on his part swore by all the saints that you must have escaped by the window, but in spite of this a corporal was summoned, and the poor man was sent to prison. The clamour that was going on brought up the landlord, who opened your mails, and on finding them empty said that he would be well enough paid by your postchaise, replying only with a grin to the officer who pretended you had given it him. In the midst of the tumult a superior officer came up, who decided that you must have escaped through the window, and ordered the sentry to be set at liberty on the spot. Then came my turn, for, as I kept on laughing and answered all questions by ‘I don’t know,’ these gentleman had me taken to prison, telling me I should stay there till I informed them where you, or at least your effects, could be found. The next day one of them came to the prison, and told me that unless I confessed I should undoubtedly be sent to the galleys. On the faith of a Spaniard. I know nothing, but if I did it would be all the same to you, for no one can make an honest servant betray his master. At this the rascal told the turnkey to give me a taste of the lash, and after this had been done I was set at liberty.", "pos": 3118868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After supper, pondering over my arrival in Zurich where I had dropped from the clouds as it were, I began, to reflect seriously upon my present situation and the events of my past life. I recalled my misfortunes and scrutinized my conduct; and was not long in concluding that all I had suffered was through my own fault, and that when fortune would have crowned me with happiness I had persistently trifled that happiness away. I had just succeeded in escaping from a trap where I might have perished, or at least have been overwhelmed with shame, and I shuddered at the thought. I resolved to be no more fortune’s plaything, but to escape entirely from her hands. I calculated my assets and found I was possessed of a hundred thousand crowns. ‘With that,’ said I, ‘I can live secure amidst the changes and chances of this life, and I shall at last experience true happiness.’", "pos": 3121177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nowhere,", "pos": 3125170}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The abbot said it was near noon and that he hoped I would do him the honour of dining with him,", "pos": 3125582}
{"speaker": "the abbot", "text": "for. I have a chancery, since as abbot of Our Lady of Einsiedel I am a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.", "pos": 3126755}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! game like that at this time of year?", "pos": 3128129}
{"speaker": "the abbot", "text": "It’s a secret, which I shall be glad to communicate to you.", "pos": 3128174}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose your monks have private libraries of their own, which contain accounts of travels, with historical and scientific works.", "pos": 3129745}
{"speaker": "the abbot", "text": "Not at all, my monks are honest folk, who are content to do their duty, and to live in peace and sweet ignorance.", "pos": 3129888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wish to make a general confession of all my sins, that I may obtain the benefit of absolution, and receive the Holy Eucharist on the morrow.", "pos": 3130227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Whether I stay here, depends on myself alone, as I am sure the abbot will not refuse me the cowl if I give him ten thousand crowns for my support.", "pos": 3131998}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When I ask for the habit. I will also ask that my novitiate be extended for ten years, and if repentance do not come in ten years it will not come at all. I shall declare that I do not wish for any cure or any ecclesiastical dignity. All I want is peace and leave to follow my own tastes, without scandalising anyone.", "pos": 3132752}
{"speaker": "the abbot", "text": "My carriage is at the door to take you to Zurich. Go, and let me have a fortnight to think it over. I will bring my answer in person. In the meanwhile here are two sealed letters, which please deliver yourself.", "pos": 3133979}
{"speaker": "the Spaniard", "text": "I am amazed to see that no sooner do you arrive in Switzerland than you contrive to find some amusement which keeps you away for two whole days.", "pos": 3134540}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, I see; go and tell the landlord that I shall want the use of a good carriage for the next fortnight, and also a guide on whom I can rely.", "pos": 3134687}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, you will confess that Our Lady of Einsiedel . . .", "pos": 3137940}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "What! do you think I should make an exception in favour of a set of forty ignorant, lazy, vicious, idle, hypocritical scoundrels who live bad lives under the cloak of humility, and eat up the houses of the poor simpletons who provide for them, when they ought to be earning their own bread?", "pos": 3138022}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But how about his reverend highness the abbot?", "pos": 3138375}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "A stuck-up peasant who plays the part of a prince, and is fool enough to think himself one.", "pos": 3138424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But he is a prince.", "pos": 3138518}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "As much a prince as I am. I look upon him as a mere buffoon.", "pos": 3138540}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has he done to you?", "pos": 3138603}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "Nothing; but he is a monk.", "pos": 3138630}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is a friend of mine.", "pos": 3138659}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "I cannot retract what I have said, but I beg your pardon.", "pos": 3138685}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Waiter. I will take supper in the dining-room with everybody else.", "pos": 3140827}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "If you want to see those ladies, that won’t do, as they have ordered their supper to be brought up to them. They want to go to bed in good time as they are to leave at day-break.", "pos": 3140906}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are they going?", "pos": 3141087}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "To Our Lady of Einsiedel to pay their vows.", "pos": 3141111}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where do they come from?", "pos": 3141157}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "From Soleure.", "pos": 3141184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are their names?", "pos": 3141200}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 3141224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you laughing at?", "pos": 3142478}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "At your taking such a fancy, sir, though I think I know why.", "pos": 3142506}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a sharp fellow.", "pos": 3142569}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "Yes, sir, as sharp as most of them; I will get you a new apron. The pretty one asked me who you were.", "pos": 3142595}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What did you tell her?", "pos": 3142699}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "I said you were an Italian; that’s all.", "pos": 3142724}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you will hold your tongue I will double that piece of gold.", "pos": 3142766}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "I have asked your Spaniard to help me, sir, as I am single-handed, and supper has to be served at the same time both upstairs and downstairs.", "pos": 3142831}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; but the rascal mustn’t come into the room or he would be sure to laugh. Let him go to the kitchen, bring up the dishes, and leave them outside the door.", "pos": 3142975}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Supper is about to be served, ladies.", "pos": 3143820}
{"speaker": "the ugliest of them", "text": "Make haste about it, then, as we have got to rise before day-break.", "pos": 3143860}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "Do you stay here, as I have to go downstairs.", "pos": 3144137}
{"speaker": "the lady of my thoughts", "text": "We have a waiter who knows his work. Have you been long at this inn?", "pos": 3144643}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only a few weeks, madam.", "pos": 3144746}
{"speaker": "the lady of my thoughts", "text": "You wait very well.", "pos": 3144773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam is very good.", "pos": 3144795}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Come here a moment.", "pos": 3145016}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What does madam require?", "pos": 3145038}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Let me see it. What beautiful lace!", "pos": 3145065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So I have been told, madam, but it is very old. An Italian gentleman who was staying here made me a present of it.", "pos": 3145103}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "You have ruffles of the same kind, I suppose?", "pos": 3145220}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, madam;", "pos": 3145268}
{"speaker": "one of the others", "text": "You are certainly very curious, my dear, one would think you had never seen lace before.", "pos": 3145720}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "What are you waiting for?", "pos": 3146225}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For your orders, madam.", "pos": 3146263}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Thank you, I don’t want anything.", "pos": 3146289}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your boots, madam, you will like them removed before you retire.", "pos": 3146325}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "True, but still I don’t like to give you so much trouble.", "pos": 3146392}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am here to attend on you, madam.", "pos": 3146452}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "That will do, thank you. I did not notice that you were giving yourself so much trouble. We shall see you to-morrow evening.", "pos": 3146774}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you will sup here, ladies?", "pos": 3146901}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Certainly. No, my good fellow, leave the key inside.", "pos": 3146935}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "She has caught you.", "pos": 3147152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What?", "pos": 3147174}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I saw it all, sir, you played your part as well as any actor in Paris; and I am certain that she will give you a louis to-morrow, but if you don’t hand it over to me I will blow on the whole thing.", "pos": 3147182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s enough, you rascal; get me my supper as quickly as possible.", "pos": 3147382}
{"speaker": "the abbot of Einsiedel", "text": "The following distich, should now become your motto: Inveni portum. Spes et fortuna valete; Nil mihi vobiscum est: ludite nuns alios.", "pos": 3149569}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is a translation of two verses from Euripides, but, my lord, they will not serve me, as I have changed my mind since yesterday.", "pos": 3149718}
{"speaker": "the abbot", "text": "I congratulate you, and I hope you will accomplish all your desires. I may tell you confidentially that it is much easier to save one’s soul in the world where one can do good to one’s neighbours, than in the convent, where a man does no good to himself nor to anyone else.", "pos": 3149867}
{"speaker": "Giustiniani", "text": "I will take you to a house, where you will find what you want. Go up to the second floor and you will be well received by an old woman, if you whisper my name to her. I dare not accompany you, as I am well known in the town and it might get me into trouble with the police, who are ridiculously strict in these matters. Indeed I advise you to take care that nobody sees you going in.", "pos": 3152559}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I took your place. The lady who has taken your fancy is Madame----, and I must confess she is vastly fine.", "pos": 3153796}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did she ask where the other waiter was?", "pos": 3153917}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "No, but the other ladies asked what had become of you several times.", "pos": 3153959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And Madame said nothing?", "pos": 3154030}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "She didn’t open her mouth, but looked sad and seemed to care for nothing, till I said you were away because you were ill.", "pos": 3154057}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That was stupid of you. Why did you say that?", "pos": 3154181}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I had to say something.", "pos": 3154229}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True. Did you untie her shoe?", "pos": 3154255}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "No; she did not want me to do so.", "pos": 3154287}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good. Who told you her name?", "pos": 3154323}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Her coachman. She is just married to a man older than herself.", "pos": 3154354}
{"speaker": "the rascal", "text": "Sir, you are condemned to pay a fine of one louis.", "pos": 3158997}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why?", "pos": 3159069}
{"speaker": "the rascal", "text": "For having danced on a holy day.", "pos": 3159076}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get out; I won’t pay.", "pos": 3159111}
{"speaker": "the rascal", "text": "You will pay, though,", "pos": 3159135}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will appeal.", "pos": 3159240}
{"speaker": "the rascal", "text": "To whom, sir?", "pos": 3159257}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To the judge of the place.", "pos": 3159273}
{"speaker": "the judge", "text": "Sir. I am the judge.", "pos": 3159577}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Judge and plaintiff too, as far as I can see. But if your daughter had not tempted me. I should not have danced; she is therefore as guilty as I.", "pos": 3159611}
{"speaker": "the judge", "text": "Very true, sir; here is a Louis for her. Now yours.", "pos": 3159875}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a robber,", "pos": 3160705}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The custom may astonish you, but it is a common one in many parts of Switzerland. The man you have just seen is a young lover who is going to pass the night with his future bride. Next morning he will leave more ardent than before, as she will not allow him to go too far. If she was weak enough to yield to his desires he would probably decline to marry her, and she would find it difficult to get married at all.", "pos": 3160788}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "I shall always remember, the kindness with which the Venetians treated me; but tell me, I beg, the names of those gentlemen who still remember me; they must be quite old now.", "pos": 3163512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Three louis, madam.", "pos": 3165653}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, sir; we have been playing at two sous the fish. You thought, perhaps, we were playing for farthings.", "pos": 3165675}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, I thought it was for francs, as I never play lower.", "pos": 3165783}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Proceed, my lord. Two ladies who saw you at my house yesterday told me in confidence, after you had gone, that I should do well to be on my guard, as you were the waiter in an inn at Zurich where they had stayed. They added that they had seen the other waiter by the Aar, and that in all probability you had run away from the inn together; God alone knows why! They said, furthermore, that you slipped away from my house yesterday as soon as you saw them. I told them that even if you were not the bearer of a letter from his grace the Duc de Choiseul I should have been convinced that they were mistaken, and that they should dine with you to-day, if they would accept my invitation. I also hinted that you might have merely disguised yourself as a waiter in the hopes of winning some favours from them, but they rejected the hypothesis as absurd, and said that you could carve a capon and change a plate dexterously enough, but were only a common waiter for all that, adding that with my permission they would compliment you on your skill to-day. Do so, by all means, ladies. M. Casanova and myself will be highly amused. Certainly, my lord, I will tell you all without reserve, but in confidence, as this ridiculous report may injure the honour of one who is dear to me, and whom I would not injure for the world. It is true, then? I am quite interested to hear all about it. It is true to a certain extent; I hope you don’t take me for the real waiter at the ‘Sword.’ Certainly not, but I supposed you played the part of waiter? Exactly. Did they tell you that they were four in company. Ah, I have got it! Pretty Madame was one of the party. That explains the riddle; now I understand everything. But you were quite right in saying that discretion was needful; she has a perfectly blameless reputation. Ah! I did not know that. What happened was quite innocent, but it might be so garbled in the telling as to become prejudicial to the honour of a lady whose beauty struck me with admiration.", "pos": 3166958}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If that prove an impossibility,", "pos": 3169197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall leave Soleure in three or four days; but I will first turn the three ugly companions of my charmer into ridicule. They might have had sense enough to guess that the waiter’s apron was only a disguise. They can only pretend to be ignorant of the fact in the hope of getting some advantage over me, and injuring their friend, who was ill advised to let them into the secret.", "pos": 3169239}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Softly, softly, you go too fast and remind me of my own young days. Permit me to embrace you, your story has delighted me. You shall not go away, you shall stay here and court your charmer. To-day you can turn two mischievous women into ridicule, but do it in an easy way. The thing is so straightforward that M.---- will be the first to laugh at it. His wife cannot be ignorant of your love for her, and I know enough of women to pronounce that your disguise cannot have displeased her. She does know of your love?", "pos": 3169622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 3170140}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You confess, then, that you are the waiter at the ‘Sword’?", "pos": 3170830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, not quite that, madam, but I confess that I was the waiter for an hour, and that you cruelly disdained to address a single word to me, though I was only a waiter, because I longed for the bliss of seeing you. But I hope I shall be a little more fortunate here, and that you will allow me to pay you my respectful homage.", "pos": 3170891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is very wonderful! You played your part so well that the sharpest eye would have been deceived. Now we shall see if you play your new part as well. If you do me the honour to call on me I will give you a good welcome.", "pos": 3171220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is the good-natured waiter,", "pos": 3171638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The worthy man stepped forward, and politely thanked me for having done his wife the honour of taking off her boots.", "pos": 3171698}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is all right,", "pos": 3172571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will play Montrose.", "pos": 3172621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I, Murray,", "pos": 3172645}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! why isn’t there a waiter’s part in the play?", "pos": 3172808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you would play it so well.", "pos": 3172869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is well said, but I hope you will teach me to play Murray even better.", "pos": 3172898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lord Murray,", "pos": 3173519}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "must dance with no one but Lindane.", "pos": 3173543}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot invite you to my house,", "pos": 3173808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for certain sufficient reasons; but if you will stay here some time we shall be able to see each other. But I entreat you not to shew me any marked attention in public, for there are those who will spy upon our actions, and it is not pleasant to be talked about.", "pos": 3173853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what respect do you think me timid?", "pos": 3175284}
{"speaker": "Lindane", "text": "What! You! You dare to love me?", "pos": 3175923}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; I adore you! How should I not?", "pos": 3176253}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "We will have a rehearsal to-morrow at my country house, and I beg the favour of all your companies to dinner there.", "pos": 3176681}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "Will you come with me, we can talk the matter over at our ease? M. Casanova will have the honour of keeping your wife company in your carriage.", "pos": 3178034}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "Well, well, did you profit by the interview I got you?", "pos": 3180797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I may hope for everything. I shall do nothing in a hurry, as I have to take care that the lady’s honour does not suffer, and I trust to time to see the accomplishment of my wishes. I shall want a pretty country house, a good carriage, two lackeys, a good cook, and a housekeeper. All that I leave to your excellency, as I look upon you as my refuge and guardian angel.", "pos": 3180882}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "To-morrow, without fail, I will see what I can do, and I have good hopes of doing you a considerable service and of rendering you well content with the attractions of Soleure. So far as I can see, what you are aiming at in this intrigue is the satisfying of your desires without doing any harm to the lady’s reputation. I think I know the nature of your love for her well enough to say that if she told you that your leaving Soleure was necessary to her peace of mind you would leave her at once. You see that I have sounded you well enough to be a competent adviser in this delicate and important affair, to which the most famous events in the annals of diplomacy are not to be compared.", "pos": 3181580}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your excellency does not do sufficient justice to a career which has gained you such distinction.", "pos": 3182373}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "That’s because I am an old man, my dear fellow, and have shaken off the rust and dust of prejudices, and am able to see things as they really are, and appreciate them at their true value. But let us return to your love-affair. If you wish to keep it in the dark, you must avoid with the greatest care any action which may awaken suspicion in the minds of people who do not believe that anything is indifferent. The most malicious and censorious will not be able to get anything but the merest chance out of the interview I procured you today, and the accident of the sneezing bout, defy the most ill-natured to draw any deductions; for an eager lover does not begin his suit by sending the beloved one into convulsions. Nobody can guess that your hellebore was used to conceal the blush that your caresses occasioned, since it does not often happen that an amorous combat leaves such traces; and how can you be expected to have foreseen the lady’s blushes, and to have provided yourself with a specific against them? In short, the events of to-day will not disclose your secret. M.---- who, although he wishes to pass for a man devoid of jealousy, is a little jealous; M.---- himself cannot have seen anything out of the common in my asking him to return with me, as I had business of importance with him, and he has certainly no reasons for supposing that I should be likely to help you to intrigue with his wife. Furthermore, the laws of politeness would have forbidden me, under any circumstances, offering the lady the place I offered him, and as he prides himself on his politeness he can raise no possible objection to the arrangement which was made. To be sure I am old and you are young--a distinction not unimportant in a husband’s eyes. an exordium which I have delivered in the official style of a secretary of state, let us see where we are. Two things are necessary for you to obtain your wished-for bliss. The first thing, which concerns you more particularly, is to make M.---- your friend, and to conceal from him that you have conceived a passion for his wife, and here I will aid you to the best of my ability. The second point concerns the lady’s honour; all your relations with her must appear open and above-board. Consider yourself under my protection; you must not even take a country house before we have found out some plan for throwing dust into the eyes of the observant. However, you need not be anxious; I have hit upon a plan. You must pretend to be taken ill, but your illness must be of such a kind that your doctor will be obliged to take your word for the symptoms. Luckily, I know a doctor whose sole idea is to order country air for all complaints. This physician, who is about as clever as his brethren, and kills or cures as well as any of them, will come and feel my pulse one of these days. You must take his advice, and for a couple of louis he will write you a prescription with country air as the chief item. He will then inform everybody that your case is serious, but that he will answer for your cure.", "pos": 3182473}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is his name?", "pos": 3185596}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "Doctor Herrenschwand.", "pos": 3185616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is he doing here? I knew him at Paris; he was Madame du Rumain’s doctor.", "pos": 3185640}
{"speaker": "The Ambassador", "text": "That is his brother. Now find out some polite complaint, which will do you credit with the public. It will be easy enough to find a house, and I will get you an excellent cook to make your gruel and beef-tea.", "pos": 3185720}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "My husband, has a very high opinion of you. He has taken no offence at our coming in the same carriage. But tell me, was it an accident or design that made M. de Chavigni take my husband and leave us together?", "pos": 3186178}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It was the result of design, dearest. Are you sorry it was so?", "pos": 3186402}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Alas! no.", "pos": 3186517}
{"speaker": "Doctor Herrenschwand", "text": "Quite so, quite so; it’s a troublesome thing, but we will see what can be done. My first remedy, which you may possibly not care much for, is for you to pass six weeks in the country, where you will not see those objects which impress your brain, acting on the seventh pair of nerves, and causing that lumbar discharge which no doubt leaves you in a very depressed state.", "pos": 3187231}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, it certainly does.", "pos": 3187605}
{"speaker": "Doctor Herrenschwand", "text": "Quite so, quite so. My next remedy is cold bathing.", "pos": 3187631}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are the baths far from here?", "pos": 3187685}
{"speaker": "Doctor Herrenschwand", "text": "They are wherever you like. I will write you a prescription, and the druggist will make it up.", "pos": 3187716}
{"speaker": "The lame friend", "text": "I know all, and I will be avenged.", "pos": 3188675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You cannot be avenged for nothing, for I have never done you an injury. However, if you intend to have me assassinated, I shall apply for police protection.", "pos": 3188741}
{"speaker": "Lame friend", "text": "We don’t assassinate here. We are not Italians.", "pos": 3188910}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "This, is the best way possible of gaining the friendship of your rival. Do you think you can manage it?", "pos": 3189345}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not positive of success.", "pos": 3189484}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Perhaps I have gone a little too far; but I told him that by means of your acquaintance with the Duchesse de Grammont you could do anything with the minister.", "pos": 3189516}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must make you a true prophet; I will do all I can.", "pos": 3189677}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I like it, and am free to leave it when I please, I will willingly pay the six months’ rent in advance.", "pos": 3192457}
{"speaker": "M.", "text": "There is a fine hall in it.", "pos": 3192579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the better; I will give a ball as evidence of my gratitude to the people of Soleure for the kind welcome I have received from them.", "pos": 3192609}
{"speaker": "M.", "text": "Would you like to come and see it to-morrow?", "pos": 3192747}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 3192794}
{"speaker": "M.", "text": "Very good, then I will call for you at eight o’clock, if that hour will suit you.", "pos": 3192811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall expect you.", "pos": 3192895}
{"speaker": "M.", "text": "I made my wife promise to come with us; but she is a sluggard, who prefers her bed to the fresh air.", "pos": 3193109}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "how pleased she was that I liked the house;", "pos": 3193773}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hoped they would often do me the honour of dining with me.", "pos": 3193858}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Yes, if I see any prospect of its being a brilliant one, and if I have your approbation. You need have no doubts on that point, my dear fellow, and whatever you can’t find in the shops come to me for. Come, I see you are going to spend a little money. It is a good plan, and overcomes many difficulties. In the meanwhile you shall have two footmen, an excellent cook, a housekeeper, and whatever other servants you require. The head of my household will pay them, and you can settle with him afterwards, he is a trustworthy man. I will come now and then and take a spoonful of soup with you, and you shall reward me for what services I may have done you by telling me how things are getting on. I have a great esteem for your charming friend, her discretion is beyond her years, and the pledges of love you will obtain of her will doubtless increase your passion and your esteem. Is she aware that I know all?", "pos": 3194289}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She knows that we are firm friends, and she is glad of it, as she is sure that you will be discreet.", "pos": 3195203}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "She may count on my discretion. She is really a delicious woman; I should have been tempted to seduce her myself thirty years ago.", "pos": 3195306}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you belong to the household?", "pos": 3195882}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "The ambassador’s steward has engaged me as your housekeeper.", "pos": 3195924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pardon my surprise. Take me to my room.", "pos": 3195987}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "That is an honour. I cannot allow myself. I am only your servant.", "pos": 3196102}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but when I am alone I hope you will consent to take your meals with me, as I don’t like eating by myself.", "pos": 3196217}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "I will do so, sir.", "pos": 3196336}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where is your room?", "pos": 3196357}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "This is the one the steward assigned to me, but you have only to speak if you wish me to sleep in another.", "pos": 3196379}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all; it will do very well.", "pos": 3196488}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where do you come from? What’s your name?", "pos": 3197497}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I come from Lyons; I am a widow, and my name is Dubois.", "pos": 3197541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to have you in my service. I shall see you again. I never eat by myself,", "pos": 3197599}
{"speaker": "Rosier", "text": "So I hear, sir; and I will serve supper accordingly.", "pos": 3198063}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are your wages?", "pos": 3198118}
{"speaker": "Rosier", "text": "Four louis a month.", "pos": 3198141}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can I do for you, madam?", "pos": 3199261}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I hope you will be good enough to order your man to be polite to me?", "pos": 3199293}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; how has he failed in politeness?", "pos": 3199364}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "He might possibly tell you in no respect. He wanted to kiss me, and as I refused he thought himself justified in being rather insolent.", "pos": 3199410}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How?", "pos": 3199548}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "By laughing at me. You will pardon me, sir, but I do not like people who make game.", "pos": 3199555}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; they are sure to be either silly or malicious. Make yourself easy; Le Duc shall understand that you are to be treated with respect. You will please sup with me.", "pos": 3199641}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "She’s a sly cat, she wouldn’t let me kiss her.", "pos": 3199907}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am afraid you are a bad fellow.", "pos": 3199975}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Is she your servant or your mistress?", "pos": 3200011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She might be my wife.", "pos": 3200051}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Oh! well, that’s different. That will do; Madame Dubois shall have all respect, and I will try my luck somewhere else.", "pos": 3200075}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "My history, sir, is short enough, and not very interesting. I was born at Lyons, and my relations took me to Lausanne, as I have been told, for I was too young at the time to remember anything about it. My father, who was in the service of Madame d’Ermance, left me an orphan when I was fourteen. Madame d’Ermance was fond of me, and knowing that my mother’s means were small she took me to live with her. I had attained my seventeenth year when I entered the service of Lady Montagu as lady’s maid, and some time after I was married to Dubois, an old servant of the house. We went to England, and three years after my marriage I lost my husband. The climate of England affected my lungs, and I was obliged to beg my lady to allow me to leave her service. The worthy lady saw how weak I was, and paid the expenses of my journey and loaded me with rich presents. I returned to my mother at Lausanne, where my health soon returned, and I went into the service of an English lady who was very fond of me, and would have taken me with her to Italy if she had not conceived some suspicions about the young Duke of Rosebury, with whom she was in love, and whom she thought in love with me. She suspected me, but wrongfully, of being her rival in secret. She sent me away, after giving me rich presents, and saying how sorry she was she could not keep me. I went back to my mother, and for two years I have lived with the toil of my hands. Four days ago M. Lebel, the ambassador’s steward, asked me if I would enter the service of an Italian gentleman as housekeeper. I agreed, in the hope of seeing Italy, and this hope is the cause of my stupidity. In short: here I am.", "pos": 3200539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What stupidity are you referring to?", "pos": 3202206}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "The stupidity of having entered your service before I knew you.", "pos": 3202245}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I like your freedom. You would not have come, then, if you had not known me?", "pos": 3202311}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Certainly not, for no lady will ever take me after having been with you.", "pos": 3202390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not? may I ask.", "pos": 3202465}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Well, sir; do you think you are the kind of man to have a house-keeper like myself without the public believing my situation to be of quite a different nature?", "pos": 3202487}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, you are too pretty, and I don’t look like a fossil, certainly; but after all, what matter does it make?", "pos": 3202649}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "It is all very well for you to make light of it, and if I were in your place I would do the same; but how am I, who am a woman and not in an independent position, to set myself above the rules and regulations of society?", "pos": 3202759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You mean, Madame Dubois, that you would very much like to go back to Lausanne?", "pos": 3202982}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Not exactly, as that would not be just to you.", "pos": 3203063}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How so?", "pos": 3203112}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "People would be sure to say that either your words or your deeds were too free, and you might possibly pass a rather uncharitable judgment on me.", "pos": 3203122}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What judgment could I pass on you?", "pos": 3203270}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "You might think I wanted to impose on you.", "pos": 3203307}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That might be, as I should be very much hurt by so sudden and uncalled-for a departure. All the same I am sorry for you, as with your ideas you can neither go nor stay with any satisfaction. Nevertheless, you must do one or the other.", "pos": 3203352}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I have made up my mind. I shall stay, and I am almost certain I shall not regret it.", "pos": 3203589}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear that, but there is one point to which I wish to call your attention.", "pos": 3203676}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 3203765}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you. Let us have no melancholy and no scruples.", "pos": 3203781}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "You shall not see me melancholy, I promise you; but kindly explain what you mean by the word ‘scruples.’", "pos": 3203843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. In its ordinary acceptation, the word ‘scruple’ signifies a malicious and superstitious whim, which pronounces an action which may be innocent to be guilty.", "pos": 3203950}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "When a course of action seems doubtful to me, I never look upon the worst side of it. Besides, it is my duty to look after myself and not other people.", "pos": 3204120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see you have read a good deal.", "pos": 3204274}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Reading is my greatest luxury. Without books I should find life unbearable.", "pos": 3204309}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you any books?", "pos": 3204387}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "A good many. Do you understand English?", "pos": 3204409}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not a word.", "pos": 3204451}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I am sorry for that, as the English books would amuse you.", "pos": 3204465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not care for romances.", "pos": 3204526}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Nor do I. But you don’t think that there are only romances in English, do you? I like that. Why do you take me for such a lover of the romantic, pray?", "pos": 3204556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I like that, too. That pretty outburst is quite to my taste, and I am delighted to be the first to make you laugh.", "pos": 3204709}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Pardon me if I laugh, but . . .", "pos": 3204826}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But me no buts, my dear; laugh away just as you like, you will find that the best way to get over me. I really think, though, that you put your services at too cheap a rate.", "pos": 3204860}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "That makes me laugh again, as it is for you to increase my wages if you like.", "pos": 3205036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall take care that it is done.", "pos": 3205116}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "It’s Le Duc’s business,", "pos": 3205709}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "but if you like, it shall be yours for the future. I see, that you are going to serve me as you served Lady Montagu.", "pos": 3205747}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Not altogether; but as you do not like melancholy, allow me to ask a favour.", "pos": 3205916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do so, my dear.", "pos": 3205995}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Please do not ask me to give you your bath.", "pos": 3206013}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Upon my honour, I did not think of doing so. It would be scandalous. That’s Le Duc’s business.", "pos": 3206059}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Pardon me, and allow me to ask another favour.", "pos": 3206156}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me everything you want.", "pos": 3206205}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Allow me to have one of the door-keeper’s daughters to sleep with me.", "pos": 3206236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it had come into my head, I would have proposed it to you. Is she in your room now?", "pos": 3206308}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "No.", "pos": 3206397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and call her, then.", "pos": 3206403}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Let us leave that till to-morrow, as if I went at this time of night it might make people talk.", "pos": 3206428}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see you have a store of discretion, and you may be sure I will not deprive you of any of it.", "pos": 3206526}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "he had not expected the honour.", "pos": 3206939}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You’re a rascal, get two cups of chocolate ready directly after I have had my bath.", "pos": 3206972}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "You look in good spirits.", "pos": 3207224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am, because I am happy with you. I have had a good night, and there is now in my room a girl as lovely as an angel, who is to sleep with me.", "pos": 3207252}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "Call her in.", "pos": 3207397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You haven’t given yourself a rival certainly, my dear, but if she suits you it is all right. You shall have your breakfast with me, and I hope you will take chocolate with me every morning.", "pos": 3207494}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "I shall be delighted, as I am very fond of it.", "pos": 3207686}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "She will be an excellent cure for your love for Madame,", "pos": 3207918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There you are wrong, she might make me fall in love with her without any diminution of my affection for my charmer.", "pos": 3207985}
{"speaker": "Lame widow", "text": "I was far from anticipating that you would do me so great an honour, madam. I daresay; I have come to dine with you, and to ask you to do me a favour.", "pos": 3208364}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come in, then, dinner is just being served. I beg to introduce Madame Dubois to you. I turned towards my charming housekeeper, and told her that the lady would dine with us.", "pos": 3208519}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have come to ask you to let her have a couple of rooms in my house for three weeks or a month at the most.", "pos": 3209088}
{"speaker": "Madam", "text": "You can’t refuse me, as everybody knows I have come on purpose to ask you.", "pos": 3209303}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then everybody must know that I have refused you. I want to be alone--absolutely alone, without any kind of restriction on my liberty. The least suspicion of company would bore me.", "pos": 3209380}
{"speaker": "Madam", "text": "I shall not bore you in any way, and you will be at perfect liberty to ignore my presence. I shall not be offended if you don’t enquire after me, and I shall not ask after you--even if you are ill. I shall have my meals served to me by my own servant, and I shall take care not to walk in the garden unless I am perfectly certain you are not there. You must allow that if you have any claims to politeness you cannot refuse me.", "pos": 3209563}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you were acquainted with the most ordinary rules of politeness, madam, you would not persist in a request to which I have formally declined to accede. Well, madam, you shall have the apartment you have solicited with so much importunity, and an hour after you come in I shall be on my way back to Soleure.", "pos": 3209993}
{"speaker": "Madam", "text": "I accept the apartment, and I shall occupy it the day after to-morrow. As for your threat of returning to Soleure, it is an idle one, as you would thereby make yourself the laughing-stock of the whole town.", "pos": 3210768}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "I can hardly credit her requesting, or your granting, such a thing, unless you have some motives of your own.", "pos": 3211539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your excellency may find it very funny, but I don’t.", "pos": 3212737}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "So I see; but take my advice, and be the first to laugh at the adventure. Behave as if you were unaware of her presence, and that will be a sufficient punishment for her. People will soon say she is smitten with you, and that you disdain her love. Go and tell the story to M.----, and stay without ceremony to dinner. I have spoken to Lebel about your pretty housekeeper: the worthy man had no malicious intent in sending her to you. He happened to be going to Lausanne, and just before, I had told him to find you a good housekeeper; thinking it over on his way, he remembered his friend Madame Dubois, and the matter was thus arranged without malice or pretense. She is a regular find, a perfect jewel for you, and if you get taken with her I don’t think she will allow you to languish for long.", "pos": 3212802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know, she seems to be a woman of principle.", "pos": 3213602}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "I shouldn’t have thought you would be taken in by that sort of thing. I will ask you both to give me a dinner to-morrow, and shall be glad to hear her chatter.", "pos": 3213656}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want to do that, as besides publicly disgracing her I should be shewing my own weakness, and proclaiming that I was not the master in my own house, and that I could not prevent her establishing herself with me.", "pos": 3214432}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "I think so, too, and I am glad you gave way to her. That shews how polite you are, and I shall go and call on her to congratulate her on the welcome she got, as she told me that her plans had succeeded.", "pos": 3214663}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "Your door-keeper’s wife, was my nurse. I have been kind to her, and when necessary I can write to you by her without running any risk.", "pos": 3215391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you would reason well if you let yourself be persuaded to sleep with me, and you think you reason well in refusing to be so persuaded.", "pos": 3216117}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "Trust me, sir, there is as much difference between the reasoning powers of men and women as there is between their physical characteristics.", "pos": 3216262}
{"speaker": "M. de Chauvelin", "text": "Ah, indeed! then we must come and see your quarters, M. Casanova.", "pos": 3219327}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Yes, indeed! and I hope he will lend me his beautiful hall to give you a ball next Sunday.", "pos": 3219487}
{"speaker": "the widow", "text": "The ambassador has asked me to his ball on Sunday. I answered that I was not well, but if I found myself better in the evening I would come. I think that as I am staying in your house I ought to be introduced by you or stay away altogether. So if you do not wish to oblige me by taking me, I must beg of you to tell the ambassador that I am ill. Pardon me if I have taken the liberty of infringing our agreement in this peculiar instance, but it is a question of keeping up some sort of appearance in public.", "pos": 3221040}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not so. I think your idea is a beautiful one, madam. You will have to be ill, as I mean to keep to the conditions you made yourself, and to enjoy full liberty in all things, and I shall therefore deny myself the honour of taking you to the ball which the ambassador is to give in my hall.", "pos": 3221551}
{"speaker": "Lebel", "text": "Which of you two, is the most taken in?", "pos": 3222538}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "We are equally pleased with each other,", "pos": 3222597}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is your nurse?", "pos": 3223243}
{"speaker": "M.----", "text": "Your door-keeper’s wife, we will wait for you in this lady’s apartment.", "pos": 3223264}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "Tell me, sweetheart, does not your pretty housekeeper sleep with you?", "pos": 3223358}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I swear she does not; I can only love you.", "pos": 3223453}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "I would like to believe you, but I find it hard to do so; however, if you are speaking the truth it is wrong of you to keep her in the house, as nobody will believe in your innocence.", "pos": 3223498}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is enough for me that you believe in it. I admire her, and at any other time I expect we could not sleep under the same roof without sleeping in the same bed; but now that you rule my heart I am not capable of a passion for her.", "pos": 3223684}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "I am delighted to hear it; but I think she is very pretty.", "pos": 3223918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It was made beforehand, was it?", "pos": 3224645}
{"speaker": "her nurse", "text": "Not at all, sir; but I am a quick hand.", "pos": 3224713}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are, indeed.", "pos": 3224755}
{"speaker": "M.----'s wife", "text": "as things seemed to be against us we must wait till her husband came to spend a few days with me.", "pos": 3224934}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I intend, to pay you a visit at Turin.", "pos": 3225712}
{"speaker": "M. de Chauvelin", "text": "Are you going to bring your housekeeper with you?", "pos": 3225763}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No.", "pos": 3225815}
{"speaker": "M. de Chauvelin", "text": "You are wrong, for she is a delightful person.", "pos": 3225821}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing, sir, unless you will give me your friendship, which I value more than all the gold in the world; and if you would give me a proof of your friendship, come and spend a few days with me; I am positively dying of loneliness. The matter I have done for you is a mere trifle; you see how quickly it has been arranged.", "pos": 3227469}
{"speaker": "M.----", "text": "A mere trifle! I have devoted a year’s labour to it; I have moved heaven and earth without succeeding, and in a fortnight you have accomplished it. Sir, you may dispose of my life.", "pos": 3227793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Embrace me, and come and see me. I am the happiest of men when I am enabled to serve persons of your merit.", "pos": 3227976}
{"speaker": "M.----", "text": "I will go and tell the good news to my wife, who will love you as well as I do.", "pos": 3228086}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Yes, do so, and bring her to dinner here to-morrow.", "pos": 3228168}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "The only way to blind a jealous husband, is to make him your friend, for friendship will rarely admit jealousy.", "pos": 3228980}
{"speaker": "Widow", "text": "after all the pains I had taken I deserved to be successful.", "pos": 3230812}
{"speaker": "My charmer", "text": "I am waiting, for my husband’s embraces, which he has prefaced with caresses, as is usual with him. We must therefore wait till the night after next, which will take away all risk, as I have never known him to embrace me for two nights in succession.", "pos": 3231065}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You really must be in love with that young woman; she is ravishing.", "pos": 3231778}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I could pass two hours in your company to-night, I would prove to you that I am yours alone.", "pos": 3231848}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "It is still out of the question, as my husband has ascertained that the moon changes to-day.", "pos": 3231946}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He has to ask leave of the moon, has he, before discharging so sweet a duty?", "pos": 3232041}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Exactly. According to his system of astrology, it is the only way to keep his health and to have the son that Heaven wills to grant him, and indeed without aid from above it is hardly likely that his wishes will be accomplished.", "pos": 3232120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope to be the instrument of Heaven,", "pos": 3232351}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I only hope you may. The sacrifice to the moon has been performed, and to make sure I will cause him to renew his caresses tonight as soon as we go to bed; and after that he is certain to sleep soundly. You can come at an hour after midnight; love will await you.", "pos": 3232410}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted, to have been of service to you.", "pos": 3234690}
{"speaker": "M.----", "text": "And I, am equally pleased to assure you of my gratitude. Come and breakfast with us, my wife is still at her toilette. Come along.", "pos": 3234750}
{"speaker": "Widow", "text": "I thank you, sir; I thank you with all my heart. I beg to leave you at liberty again; I am going back to Soleure.", "pos": 3235008}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wait for a quarter of an hour, we are going to breakfast with Madame.", "pos": 3235124}
{"speaker": "Widow", "text": "I can’t stop a moment, I have just wished her good day, and now I must be gone. Farewell, and remember me.", "pos": 3235196}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Farewell, madam. One might think so, certainly, for she has received nothing but politeness at my hands, and I think she might have waited to go back with you in the evening.", "pos": 3235305}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I did not go to sleep till four o’clock this morning, after vainly sitting up in bed waiting for you till that time. What unforeseen accident prevented your coming?", "pos": 3235829}
{"speaker": "M.----", "text": "My wife, is uneasy about you, and sent me to look after you.", "pos": 3238461}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "she was sure it was only the sudden departure of the widow that had put me out.", "pos": 3238738}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I was not jesting at all, tell me what prevented your coming. it was a love-letter", "pos": 3239015}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I am sure that you spent the night with that malicious woman, and I am afraid of being compromised in consequence. Tell me everything; confide in me without reserve; ‘tis my first intrigue, and if it is to serve as a lesson you should conceal nothing from me. I am sure you loved me once, tell me that you have not become my enemy.", "pos": 3240284}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good heavens! what are you saying? I your enemy!", "pos": 3240618}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Then tell me all, and before you read that wretched creature’s letter. I adjure you in the name of love to hide nothing from me.", "pos": 3240669}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, divine creature, I will do as you bid me. I came to your apartment at one o’clock, and as soon as I was in the second ante-chamber, I was taken by the arm, and a hand was placed upon my lips to impose silence; I thought I held you in my arms, and I laid you gently on the sofa. You must remember that I felt absolutely certain it was you; indeed, I can scarcely doubt it even now. I then passed with you, without a word being spoken, two of the most delicious hours I have ever experienced. Cursed hours! of which the remembrance will torment me for the remainder of my days. I left you at a quarter past three. The rest is known to you.", "pos": 3240800}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Who can have told the monster that you were going to visit me at that hour?", "pos": 3241446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t make out, and that perplexes me.", "pos": 3241524}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You must confess that I am the most to be pitied of us three, and perhaps, alas! the only one who may have a just title to the name ‘wretched.’", "pos": 3241567}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you love me, in the name of Heaven do not say that; I have resolved to stab her, and to kill myself after having inflicted on her that punishment she so well deserves.", "pos": 3241713}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Have you considered that the publicity of such an action would render me the most unfortunate of women? Let us be more moderate, sweetheart; you are not to blame for what has happened, and if possible I love you all the more. Give me the letter she has written to you. I will go away from you to read it, and you can read it afterwards, as if we were seen reading it together we should have to explain matters.", "pos": 3241886}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here it is.", "pos": 3242299}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "We need not fear the harpy saying anything about it, as she would first have to proclaim her own prostitution, and as for us, concealment is the best plan. And I would have you note that the horrible creature gives you a piece of advice you would do well to follow.", "pos": 3242927}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I leave your house, sir, well enough pleased, not that I have spent a couple of hours with you, for you are no better than any other man, but that I have revenged myself on the many open marks of contempt you have given me; for your private scorn I care little, and I willingly forgive you. I have avenged myself by unmasking your designs and the hypocrisy of your pretty prude, who will no longer be able to treat me with that irritating air of superiority which she, affecting a virtue which she does not possess, has displayed towards me. I have avenged myself in the fact that she must have been waiting for you all the night, and I would have given worlds to have heard the amusing conversation you must have had when she found out that I had taken for vengeance’s sake, and not for love, the enjoyment which was meant for her. I have avenged myself because you can no longer pretend to think her a marvel of beauty, as having mistaken me for her, the difference between us must needs be slight; but I have done you a service, too, as the thought of what has happened should cure you of your passion. You will no longer adore her before all other women who are just as good as she. Thus I have disabused you, and you ought to feel grateful to me; but I dispense you from all gratitude, and do not care if you choose to hate me, provided your hatred leaves me in peace; but if I find your conduct objectionable in the future, I warn you that I will tell all, since I do not care for my own fame as I am a widow and mistress of my own actions. I need no man’s favour, and care not what men may say of me. Your mistress, on the other hand, is in quite a different position.", "pos": 3244341}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And here I will give you a piece of advice, which should convince you of my generosity. For the last ten years I have been troubled with a little ailment which has resisted all attempts at treatment. You exerted yourself to such an extent to prove how well you loved me that you must have caught the complaint. I advise you, then, to put yourself under treatment at once to weaken the force of the virus; but above all do not communicate it to your mistress, who might chance to hand it on to her husband and possibly to others, which would make a wretched woman of her, to my grief and sorrow, since she has never done me any harm. I felt certain that you two would deceive the worthy husband, and I wished to have proof; thus I made you take me in, and the position of the apartment you gave them was enough to remove all doubts; still I wanted to have proof positive. I had no need of any help to arrive at my ends, and I found it a pleasant joke to keep you in the dark. After passing two nights on the sofa all for nothing, I resolved on passing the third night there, and my perseverance was crowned with success. No one saw me, and my maid even is ignorant of my nocturnal wanderings, though in any case she is accustomed to observe silence. You are, then, at perfect liberty to bury the story in oblivion, and I advise you to do so.", "pos": 3246018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you want a doctor, tell him to keep his counsel, for people at Soleure know of my little indisposition, and they might say you caught it from me, and this would do us both harm.", "pos": 3247360}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Your sadness, is not like you, it frightens me. You may console yourself by telling me of your troubles, but do not imagine that my curiosity springs from any unworthy motive, I only want to be of service to you. You may rely on my being perfectly discreet; and to encourage you to speak freely, and to give you that trust in me which I think I deserve, I will tell you what I know and what I have learnt about yourself. My knowledge has not been obtained by any unworthy stratagems, or by a curiosity in affairs which do not concern me.", "pos": 3248740}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am pleased with what you say, my dear housekeeper. I see you are my friend, and I am grateful to you. Tell me all you know about the matter which is now troubling me, and conceal nothing.", "pos": 3249292}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Very good. You are the lover and the beloved of Madame----. The widow whom you have treated badly has played you some trick which has involved you with your mistress, and then the wretched woman has left your house with the most unpardonable rudeness. This tortures you. You fear some disastrous consequences from which you cannot escape, your heart and mind are at war, and there is a struggle in your breast between passion and sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but yesterday you seemed to me happy and to-day miserable. I pity you, because you have inspired me with the tenderest feelings of friendship. I did my best to-day to converse with the husband that you might be free to talk to the wife, who seems to me well worthy of your love.", "pos": 3249484}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All that you have said is true. Your friendship is dear to me, and I have a high opinion of your intellectual powers. The widow is a monster who has made me wretched in return for my contempt, and I cannot revenge myself on her. Honour will not allow me to tell you any more, and indeed it would be impossible for you or any one else to alleviate the grief that overwhelms me. It may possibly be my death, but in the mean time, my dear Dubois, I entreat you to continue your friendship towards me, and to treat me with entire candour. I shall always attend to what you say, and thus you will be of the greatest service to me. I shall not be ungrateful.", "pos": 3250226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good heavens! Do you think I have a heart of stone? Calm yourself; I see you pity me. Leave me, and I hope I shall be able to get some sleep. We will dine together, dearest, but tell the surgeon to come in. I want to know what he has to say to me. My dear doctor, do all you can to cure him, and I will pay you handsomely, but next time don’t look so doleful when you have anything to tell me. How old are you?", "pos": 3251715}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "Nearly eighty.", "pos": 3252715}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May God help you!", "pos": 3252732}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "He must have said something amusing to make you laugh.", "pos": 3253273}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and I should like to tell you what it was; but before I do so I must ask you if you know what the venereal disease is?", "pos": 3253330}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Yes, I do; Lady Montagu’s footman died of it while I was with her.", "pos": 3253456}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but you should pretend not to know what it is, and imitate other ladies who assume an ignorance which well becomes them. Poor Le Duc has got this disease.", "pos": 3253525}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Poor fellow, I am sorry for him! Were you laughing at that?", "pos": 3253693}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; it was the air of mystery assumed by the old doctor which amused me.", "pos": 3253755}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I too have a confidence to make, and when you have heard it you must either forgive me or send me away directly.", "pos": 3253830}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here is another bother. What the devil can you have done? Quick! tell me.", "pos": 3253945}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Sir, I have robbed you!", "pos": 3254021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What robbed me? When? How? Can you return me what you have taken? I should not have thought you capable of such a thing. I never forgive a robber or a liar.", "pos": 3254047}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "You are too hasty, sir. I am sure you will forgive me, as I robbed you only half an hour ago, and I am now going to return to you the theft.", "pos": 3254206}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a singular woman, my dear. Come, I will vouchsafe full forgiveness, but restore immediately what you have taken.", "pos": 3254349}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "This is what I stole.", "pos": 3254472}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! that monster’s letter? Did you read it?", "pos": 3254496}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Yes, of course, for otherwise I should not have committed a theft, should I?", "pos": 3254544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have robbed me my secret, then, and that is a thing you cannot give me back. You have done very wrong.", "pos": 3254623}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I confess I have. My theft is all the greater in that I cannot make restoration. Nevertheless, I promise never to speak a word of it all my life, and that ought to gain me my pardon. Give it me quickly.", "pos": 3254732}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a little witch. I forgive you, and here is the pledge of my mercy.", "pos": 3254937}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I don’t doubt the validity of your pardon; you have signed with a double and a triple seal.", "pos": 3255052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; but for the future do not read, or so much as touch, any of my papers, as I am the depositary of secrets of which I am not free to dispose.", "pos": 3255146}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Very good; but what shall I do when I find papers on the ground, as that letter was?", "pos": 3255293}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must pick them up, but not read them.", "pos": 3255380}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I promise to do so.", "pos": 3255424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, my dear; but you must forget the horrors you have read.", "pos": 3255446}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Listen to me. Allow me to remember what I have read; perhaps you may be the gainer. Let us talk over this affair, which has made my hair stand on end. This monster of immodesty has given you two mortal blows--one in the body and one in the soul; but that is not the worst, as she thinks that Madame’s honour is in her keeping. This, in my thinking, is the worst of all; for, in spite of the affront, your mutual love might continue, and the disease which the infamous creature has communicated to you would pass off; but if the malicious woman carries out her threats, the honour of your charming mistress is gone beyond return. Do not try to make me forget the matter, then, but let us talk it over and see what can be done.", "pos": 3255515}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, my dear, let us think over some plan for delivering a woman who deserves the respect of all good men from this imminent danger; and the very thought that we have some chance of success makes me indebted to you. Let us think of it and talk of it from noon to night. Think kindly of Madame----, pardon her first slip, protect her honour, and have pity on my distress. From henceforth call me no more your master but your friend. I will be your friend till death; I swear it to you. What you say is full of wisdom; my heart is yours. Embrace me.", "pos": 3256450}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "No, no, that is not necessary; we are young people, and we might perhaps allow ourselves to go astray. I only wish for your friendship; but I do not want you to give it to me for nothing. I wish to deserve it by giving you solid proofs of my friendship for you. In the meanwhile I will tell them to serve dinner, and I hope that after you have eaten something you will be quite well.", "pos": 3257014}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Well, my dear, he is a rascal and a profligate, full of impudence, sharp-witted, ignorant, a fearful liar, and nobody but myself has any power over him. However, he has one good quality, and that is blind obedience to my orders. He defies the stick, and he would defy the gallows if it were far enough off. When I have to ford a river on my travels, he strips off his clothes without my telling him, and jumps in to see if I can across in safety. That will do; he is just what we want under the circumstances. I will begin by assuring you, my dear friend, as you will have me style you thus, that Madame’s honour is perfectly safe. Follow my advice, and if the detestable widow does not take care she will be the only person put to shame. But we want Le Duc; without him we can do nothing. Above all we must find out how he contracted his disease, as several circumstances might throw obstacles in the way of my design. Go to him at once and find out all particulars, and if he has told any of the servants what is the matter with him. When you have heard what he has to say, warn him to keep the matter quiet.", "pos": 3259152}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "With all my heart, sir, the matter happened like this. The day you sent me to Soleure to get your letters, I got down at a roadside dairy to get a glass of milk. It was served to me by a young wench who caught my fancy, and I gave her a hug; she raised no objection, and in a quarter of an hour she made me what you see. Have you told anyone about it? I took good care not to do so, as I should only have got laughed at. The doctor is the only one who knows what is the matter, and he tells me the swelling will be gone down before tomorrow, and I hope I shall be able by that time to wait upon you.", "pos": 3260529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, but remember to keep your own counsel.", "pos": 3261135}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Tell me whether the widow could take her oath that she had spent the two hours on the sofa with you.", "pos": 3261257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for she didn’t see me, and I did not say a word.", "pos": 3261360}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Very good; then sit down at your desk and write, and tell her she is a liar, as you did not leave your room at all, and that you are making the necessary enquiries in your household to find out who is the wretched person she has unwittingly contaminated. Write at once and send off your letter directly. In an hour and a half’s time you can write another letter; or rather you can copy what I am just going to put down.", "pos": 3261415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear, I see your plan; it is an ingenious one, but I have given my word of honour to Madame to take no steps in the matter without first consulting her.", "pos": 3261837}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Then your word of honour must give way to the necessity of saving her honour. Your love retards your steps, but everything depends on our promptitude, and on the interval between the first and second letter. Follow my advice, I beg of you, and you will know the rest from the letter I am going to write for you to copy. Quick I write letter number one. The impudence of your letter is in perfect accord with the three nights you spent in discovering a fact which has no existence save in your own perverse imagination. Know, cursed woman, that I never left my room, and that I have not to deplore the shame of having passed two hours with a being such as you. God knows with whom you did pass them, but I mean to find out if the whole story is not the creation of your devilish brain, and when I do so I will inform you. You may thank Heaven that I did not open your letter till after M. and Madame had gone. I received it in their presence, but despising the hand that wrote it I put it in my pocket, little caring what infamous stuff it contained. If I had been curious enough to read it and my guests had seen it, I would have you know that I would have gone in pursuit of you, and at this moment you would have been a corpse. I am quite well, and have no symptoms of any complaint, but I shall not lower myself to convince you of my health, as your eyes would carry contagion as well as your wretched carcase.", "pos": 3261995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A quarter of an hour after I had sent off my letter, the village doctor came to tell me that my man had need of his treatment for a disease of a shameful nature which he had contracted quite recently. I told him to take care of his patient; and when he had gone I went to see the invalid, who confessed, after some pressure, that he had received this pretty present from you. I asked him how he had contrived to obtain access to you, and he said that he saw you going by yourself in the dark into the apartment of M.----. Knowing that I had gone to bed, and having no further services to render me, curiosity made him go and see what you were doing there by stealth, as if you had wanted to see the lady, who would be in bed by that time, you would not have gone by the door leading to the garden. He at first thought that you went there with ill-intent, and he waited an hour to see if you stole anything, in which case he would have arrested you; but as you did not come out, and he heard no noise, he resolved to go in after you, and found you had left the door open. He has assured me that he had no intentions in the way of carnal enjoyment, and I can well believe him. He tells me he was on the point of crying for help, when you took hold of him and put your hand over his mouth; but he changed his plans on finding himself drawn gently to a couch and covered with kisses. You plainly took him for somebody else, ‘and,’ said he, ‘I did her a service which she has done ill to recompense in this fashion.’ He left you without saying a word as soon as the day began to dawn, his motive being fear of recognition. It is easy to see that you took my servant for myself, for in the night, you know, all cats are grey, and I congratulate you on obtaining an enjoyment you certainly would not have had from me, as I should most surely have recognized you directly from your breath and your aged charms, and I can tell you it would have gone hard with you. Luckily for you and for me, things happened otherwise. I may tell you that the poor fellow is furious, and intends making you a visit, from which course I believe I have no right to dissuade him. I advise you to hear him politely, and to be in a generous mood when he comes, as he is a determined fellow like all Spaniards, and if you do not treat him properly he will publish the matter, and you will have to take the consequences. He will tell you himself what his terms are, and I daresay you will be wise enough to grant them.", "pos": 3263910}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Yes, sir, but the doctor tells me I must begin to bathe to-morrow.", "pos": 3267337}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Very good. As soon as your horse is ready, set out and go to Madame F----, but do not let her know you come from me, or suspect that you are a mere emissary of mine. Say that you want to speak to her. If she refuses to receive you, wait outside in the street; but I fancy she will receive you, and without a witness either. Then say to her, ‘You have given me my complaint without having been asked, and I require you to give me sufficient money to get myself cured.’ Add that she made you work for two hours in the dark, and that if it had not been for the fatal present she had given to you, you would have said nothing about it; but that finding yourself in such a state (you needn’t be ashamed to shew her) she ought not to be astonished at your taking such a course. If she resists, threaten her with the law. That’s all you have to do, but don’t let my name appear. Return directly without loss of time, that I may know how you have got on.", "pos": 3267420}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "That’s all very fine, sir, but if this jolly wench has me pitched out of window, I shan’t come home quite so speedily.", "pos": 3268369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so, but you needn’t be afraid; I will answer for your safety.", "pos": 3268490}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "It’s a queer business you are sending me on.", "pos": 3268560}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are the only man I would trust to do it properly.", "pos": 3268607}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I will do it all right, but I want to ask you one or two essential questions. Has the lady really got the what d’you call it? She has. I am sorry for her. But how am I to stick to it that she has peppered me, when I have never spoken to her?", "pos": 3268663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you usually catch that complaint by speaking, booby?", "pos": 3268911}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "No, but one speaks in order to catch it, or while one is catching it.", "pos": 3268969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You spent two hours in the dark with her without a word being spoken, and she will see that she gave this fine present to you while she thought she was giving it to another.", "pos": 3269041}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Ah! I begin to see my way, sir. But if we were in the dark, how was I to know it was she I had to do with?", "pos": 3269217}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thus: you saw her going in by the garden door, and you marked her unobserved. But you may be sure she won’t ask you any of these questions.", "pos": 3269325}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I know what to do now. I will start at once, and I am as curious as you to know what her answer will be. But here’s another question comes into my head. She may try to strike a bargain over the sum I am to ask for my cure; if so, shall I be content with three hundred francs?", "pos": 3269467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s too much for her, take half.", "pos": 3269745}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "But it isn’t much for two hours of such pleasure for her and six weeks of such pain for me.", "pos": 3269783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will make up the rest to you.", "pos": 3269877}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "That’s good hearing. She is going to pay for damage she has done. I fancy I see it all, but I shall say nothing. I would bet it is you to whom she has made this fine present, and that you want to pay her out.", "pos": 3269911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps so; but keep your own counsel and set out.", "pos": 3270122}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Do you know I think the rascal is unique. I had hard work to keep from laughing when he said that if he were pitched out of the window he would not come back so soon. I am sure he will acquit himself better than ever did diplomatist. When he gets to Soleure the monster will have already dispatched her reply to your second letter. I am curious to see how it will turn out. To you, my dear, the honour of this comedy belongs. You have conducted this intrigue like a past master in the craft. It could never be taken for the work of a novice. Nevertheless, it is my first and I hope it will be my last intrigue. I hope she won’t defy me to ‘give evidence of my health’. You are quite well so far, I think? Yes; and, by the way, it is possible she may only have leucorrhoea. I am longing to see the end of the piece, and to set my mind at rest. Will you give Madame an account of our scheme? Yes; but I shall not be able to give you the credit you deserve. I only want to have credit in your eyes. You cannot doubt that I honour you immensely, and I shall certainly not deprive you of the reward that is your due. The only reward I ask for is for you to be perfectly open with me. You are very wonderful. Why do you interest yourself so much in my affairs? I don’t like to think you are really inquisitive. You would be wrong to think that I have a defect which would lower me in my own eyes. Be sure, sir, that I shall only be curious when you are sad. But what can have made you feel so generously towards me? Only your honourable conduct towards me. You touch me profoundly, and I promise to confide in you for the future. You will make me happy. Everything is getting on famously. Here is the letter; read it.", "pos": 3270175}
{"speaker": "Widow", "text": "Whether I am being told the truth, or whether I am the victim of a myth arising from your fertile imagination (for which you are too well known all over Europe), I will regard the whole story as being true, as I am not in a position to disprove it. I am deeply grieved to have injured an innocent man who has never done me any ill, and I will willingly pay the penalty by giving him a sum which will be more than sufficient to cure him of the plague with which I infected him. I beg that you will give him the twenty-five louis I am sending you; they will serve to restore him to health, and to make him forget the bitterness of the pleasure I am so sorry to have procured for him. And now are you sufficiently generous to employ your authority as master to enjoin on your man the most absolute secrecy? I hope so, for you have reason to dread my vengeance otherwise. Consider that, if this affair is allowed to transpire, it will be easy for me to give it a turn which may be far from pleasant to you, and which will force the worthy man you are deceiving to open his eyes; for I have not changed my opinion, as I have too many proofs of your understanding with his wife. As I do not desire that we should meet again, I shall go to Lucerne on the pretext of family concerns. Let me know that you have got this letter.", "pos": 3272373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry,", "pos": 3273694}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to have sent Le Duc, as the harpy is violent, and I am afraid of something happening to him.", "pos": 3273716}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Don’t be afraid, nothing will happen, and it is better that they should see each other; it makes it more certain. Send her the money directly; she will have to give it to him herself, and your vengeance will be complete. She will not be able to entertain the slightest suspicion, especially if Le Duc shews her her work, and in two or three hours you will have the pleasure of hearing everything from his lips. You have reason to bless your stars, as the honour of the woman you love is safe. The only thing that can trouble you is the remembrance of the widow’s foul embraces, and the certainty that the prostitute has communicated her complaint to you. Nevertheless, I hope it may prove a slight attack and be easily cured. An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious. We ought to be very thankful that she is going to Lucerne. Laugh and be thankful; there is certainly a comic touch in our drama. Unfortunately, it is tragi-comic. I know the human heart, and I am sure that I must have forfeited Madame’s affections. It is true that----; but this is not the time to be thinking of such matters. Quick! write to her briefly and return her the twenty-five Louis.", "pos": 3273811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your unworthy suspicions, your abominable design of revenge, and the impudent letter you wrote me, are the only causes of your no doubt bitter repentance. I hope that it will restore peace to your conscience. Our messengers have crossed, through no fault of mine. I send you the twenty-five Louis; you can give them to the man yourself. I could not prevent my servant from paying you a visit, but this time you will not keep him two hours, and you will not find it difficult to appease his anger. I wish you a good journey, and I shall certainly flee all occasions of meeting you, for I always avoid the horrible; and you must know, odious woman, that it isn’t everybody who endeavours to ruin the reputation of their friends. If you see the apostolic nuncio at Lucerne, ask him about me, and he will tell you what sort of a reputation I have in Europe. I can assure you that Le Duc has only spoken to me of his misadventure, and that if you treat him well he will be discreet, as he certainly has nothing to boast of. Farewell.", "pos": 3275105}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "The piece is not yet done, we have three scenes more.", "pos": 3276224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are they?", "pos": 3276303}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "The return of your Spaniard, the appearance of the disease, and the astonishment of Madame when she hears it all.", "pos": 3276320}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nolo coronari tristisque senectus", "pos": 3277023}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I am dying of hunger. I had to wait for that woman till half-past six. When she came in she found me on the stairs and told me to go about my business, as she had nothing to say to me. That may be, fair lady, but I have a few words to say to you, and I have been waiting here for a cursed time with that intent.", "pos": 3277435}
{"speaker": "the widow", "text": "Wait a minute. Have you been waiting for me long?", "pos": 3277791}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Since eleven, without having had a bite or a sup.", "pos": 3278261}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does the packet belong to me?", "pos": 3278683}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Certainly. Have some supper and go to bed.", "pos": 3278715}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "She never replies. For an excellent reason, namely, that she cannot write. I thought she was dead when I came back from England, and it was a happy surprise to find her in perfect health when I got to Lausanne.", "pos": 3280823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who came with you from England?", "pos": 3281048}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Nobody.", "pos": 3281082}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t credit that. Young, beautiful, well dressed, obliged to associate casually with all kinds of people, young men and profligates (for there are such everywhere), how did you manage to defend yourself?", "pos": 3281092}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Defend myself? I never needed to do so. The best plan for a young woman is never to stare at any man, to pretend not to hear certain questions and certainly not to answer them, to sleep by herself in a room where there is a lock and key, or with the landlady when possible. When a girl has travelling adventures, one may safely say that she has courted them, for it is easy to be discreet in all countries if one wishes.", "pos": 3281301}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "To hinder you from coming to ask me for what I could not refuse you at such moments.", "pos": 3282703}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "My dear friend, we are in love with one another; and if we do not take care we shall not long be content with this trifling.", "pos": 3283542}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I was delighted to read your letters, and to hear that that villainous woman can no longer flatter herself upon having spent two hours with you. But tell me, how can you have actually spent them with her without noticing, in spite of the dark, the difference between her and me? She is much shorter, much thinner, and ten years older. Besides, her breath is disagreeable, and I think you know that I have not that defect. Certainly, you could not see her hair, but you could touch, and yet you noticed nothing! I can scarcely believe it!", "pos": 3284609}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Unhappily, it is only too true. I was inebriated with love, and thinking only of you, I saw nothing but you.", "pos": 3285161}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I understand how strong the imagination would be at first, but this element should have been much diminished after the first or second assault; and, above all, because she differs from me in a matter which I cannot conceal and she cannot supply.", "pos": 3285272}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right--a burst of Venus! When I think that I only touched two dangling flabby breasts, I feel as if I did not deserve to live!", "pos": 3285520}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "And you felt them, and they did not disgust you!", "pos": 3285657}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Could I be disgusted, could I even reflect, when I felt certain that I held you in my arms, you for whom I would give my life. No, a rough skin, a stinking breath, and a fortification carried with far too much ease; nothing could moderate my amorous fury.", "pos": 3285708}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "What do I hear? Accursed and unclean woman, nest of impurities! And could you forgive me all these defects?", "pos": 3285966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I repeat, the idea that I possessed you deprived me of my thinking faculties; all seemed to me divine.", "pos": 3286076}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You should have treated me like a common prostitute, you should even have beaten me on finding me such as you describe.", "pos": 3286181}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! now you are unjust!", "pos": 3286303}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "That may be; I am so enraged against that monster that my anger deprives me of reason. But now that she thinks that she had to do with a servant, and after the degrading visit she has had she ought to die of rage and shame. What astonishes me is her believing it, for he is shorter than you by four inches. And how can she imagine that a servant would do it as well as you? It’s not likely. I am sure she is in love with him now. Twenty-five louis! He would have been content with ten. What a good thing that the poor fellow’s illness happened so conveniently. But I suppose you had to tell him all?", "pos": 3286329}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all. I gave him to understand that she had made an appointment with me in that room, and that I had really spent two hours with her, not speaking for fear of being heard. Then, thinking over the orders I gave him, he came to the conclusion that on finding myself diseased afterwards I was disgusted, and being able to disavow my presence I had done so for the sake of revenge.", "pos": 3286931}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "That’s admirable, and the impudence of the Spaniard passes all belief. But her impudence is the most astonishing thing of all. But supposing her illness had been a mere trick to frighten you, what a risk the rascal would have run!", "pos": 3287317}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was afraid of that, as I had no symptoms of disease whatever.", "pos": 3287550}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "But now you really have it, and all through my fault. I am in despair.", "pos": 3287616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be calm, my angel, my disease is of a very trifling nature. I am only taking nitre, and in a week I shall be quite well again. I hope that then . . . .", "pos": 3287689}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Ah! my dear friend.", "pos": 3287843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What?", "pos": 3287865}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Don’t let us think of that any more, I beseech you.", "pos": 3287873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are disgusted, and not unnaturally; but your love cannot be very strong, Ah! how unhappy I am.", "pos": 3287927}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I am more unhappy than you. I love you, and you would be thankless indeed if you ceased to love me. Let us love each other, but let us not endeavour to give one another proofs of our love. It might be fatal. That accursed widow! She is gone away, and in a fortnight we shall be going also to Bale, where we remain till the end of November. You have won my husband’s friendship and esteem; we shall always be good friends.", "pos": 3288028}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you are going I feel that I must go before you. That will tend to convince the wretched author of my woe that there is nothing blame-worthy in my friendship for you.", "pos": 3288680}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You reason like an angel, and you convince me more and more of your love. Where are you going?", "pos": 3288851}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To Italy; but I shall take Berne and Geneva on my way.", "pos": 3288948}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You will not be coming to Bale, then? I am glad to hear it, in spite of the pleasure it would give me to see you. No doubt your arrival would give a handle for the gossips, and I might suffer by it. But if possible, in the few days you are to remain, shew yourself to be in good spirits, for sadness does not become you.", "pos": 3289005}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "Your housekeeper, my dear friend, is a masterpiece. Tell me the truth, and I promise to give you a mark of my gratitude that will please you before I go.", "pos": 3289864}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Speak; what do you wish to know?", "pos": 3290020}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "You love her and she loves you in return.", "pos": 3290055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you are right, but so far . . . .", "pos": 3290099}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "I don’t want to know any more, for if matters are not yet arranged they soon will be, and so it comes to the same thing. If you had told me you did not love her I should not have believed you, for I can’t conceive that a man of your age can live with a woman like that without loving her. She is very pretty and exceedingly intelligent, she has good spirits, talents, an excellent manner, and she speaks exceedingly well: that is enough to charm you, and I expect you will find it difficult to separate from her. Lebel did her a bad turn in sending her to you, as she used to have an excellent reputation, and now she will no longer be able to get a place with ladies in the highest society.", "pos": 3290143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall take her to Berne.", "pos": 3290837}
{"speaker": "Madame", "text": "That is a good idea.", "pos": 3290866}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "Why, dearest, did you not procure me the bliss when I was in good health. Because at that time my husband suspected that you turned yourself into a waiter for my sake, and that you could not be indifferent towards me. Your discretion has destroyed his suspicions; and also your housekeeper, whom he believes to be your wife, and who has taken his fancy to such an extent, that I believe he would willingly consent to an exchange, for a few days at any rate. Would you agree?", "pos": 3292054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! if the exchange could be effected.", "pos": 3292533}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "Don’t give yourself the trouble, my dear Casanova, of running from house to house to take leave. It can be done just as well at the assembly, and you need not even stay to supper, if you don’t want to.", "pos": 3293905}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "You will take me with you, won’t you?", "pos": 3295067}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you like me well enough to want to go.", "pos": 3295107}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "I would go with you to the end of the world, all the more as you are now sick and sad, and when I saw you first you were blithe and well. If I must leave you, I hope at least to see you happy first.", "pos": 3295162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will have him cured at Berne, tell him that we are going to dine there the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 3295469}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "I must tell you, sir, that though it’s only a seven leagues’ journey, he cannot possibly undertake it as he has lost the use of all his limbs.", "pos": 3295579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry to hear that, doctor.", "pos": 3295724}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "I dare say, but it’s true.", "pos": 3295759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must verify the matter with my own eyes; You are in a pretty state,", "pos": 3295788}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I am very ill, sir, though otherwise I feel quite well.", "pos": 3296031}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I expect so, but as it is you can’t move, and I want to dine at Berne the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 3296089}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Have me carried there, I shall get cured.", "pos": 3296186}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, I will have you carried in a litter.", "pos": 3296230}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I shall look like a saint out for a walk.", "pos": 3296284}
{"speaker": "The man", "text": "Sir, they all aspire to the honour of attending you while you bathe; you have only to choose which it shall be. Half-a-crown will pay for the bath, the girl, and your coffee.", "pos": 3299072}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "She can’t have been pretty, for if she had been, you would certainly have given way. I should like to see her.", "pos": 3303276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you like I will take you there.", "pos": 3303401}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "I should be delighted.", "pos": 3303438}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you will have to dress like a man.", "pos": 3303463}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "Your attendant, must be a boy, not a girl.", "pos": 3306048}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, you saw her breasts.", "pos": 3306105}
{"speaker": "Madame Dubois", "text": "Yes, but she may be a boy all the same.", "pos": 3306143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You should publish it,", "pos": 3310605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God forbid!", "pos": 3310638}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Burn it, then.", "pos": 3310652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t make up my mind to do so.", "pos": 3310669}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I understand perfectly well, that each of the thirteen cantons has its own government.", "pos": 3311386}
{"speaker": "M. de Muralt", "text": "I daresay you do, but what you don’t understand any more than I do is, that there is a canton which has four separate governments.", "pos": 3311485}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Every government,", "pos": 3312791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "ought to know its own interests better than strangers, and everybody should be allowed to do what he wills with his own.", "pos": 3312820}
{"speaker": "Madame de la Saone", "text": "It seems to me, that the itching has increased since I have taken your medicines.", "pos": 3316471}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "It will last, till the end of the cure, and that will take about three months.", "pos": 3316567}
{"speaker": "Madame de la Saone", "text": "As long as I scratch myself. I shall be in the same state, and the cure will never be completed.", "pos": 3316679}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "You know the lady?", "pos": 3317705}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I had the honour to sup at her house with you.", "pos": 3317726}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "True; I remember you. I get her the books she likes, as I am a bookseller, and not only do I sup with her every evening, but we breakfast together every morning before she gets up.", "pos": 3317775}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you. I bet you are in love with her.", "pos": 3317960}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "You are pleased to jest, but she is pleasanter than you think.", "pos": 3318014}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not jest at all, but I would wager she would not have the courage to push things to an extremity.", "pos": 3318079}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Perhaps you would lose.", "pos": 3318184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really? I should be very glad to.", "pos": 3318210}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Let us make a bet.", "pos": 3318246}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How will you convince me I have lost?", "pos": 3318267}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Let us bet a louis, and you must promise to be discreet.", "pos": 3318307}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3318366}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Come and sup at her house this evening, and I will tell you something.", "pos": 3318379}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You shall see me there.", "pos": 3318452}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I am curious to know, how he will convince you.", "pos": 3318534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Call here, and the lady’s maid will tell you her mistress is not visible, but you have only to say that you will wait, and that you will go into the ante-chamber. This room has a glass door commanding a view of madame’s bed, and I will take care to draw back the curtains over the door so that you will be able to see at your ease all that passes between us. When the affair is over I shall go out by another door, she will call her maid, and you will be shewn in. At noon, if you will allow me, I will bring you some books to the ‘Falcon,’ and if you find that you have lost you shall pay me my louis.", "pos": 3319024}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I saw you when you were a child. You are the son of M. Mignard, minister of the Gospel. You must have been ten when I saw you.", "pos": 3321524}
{"speaker": "Young bookseller", "text": "Possibly, madam.", "pos": 3321665}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "You did not care to follow your father’s profession, then?", "pos": 3321684}
{"speaker": "Young bookseller", "text": "No madam, I feel much more inclined to the worship of the creature than to that of the Creator, and I did not think my father’s profession would suit me.", "pos": 3321745}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "You are right, for a minister of the Gospel ought to be discreet, and discretion is a restraint.", "pos": 3321901}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Take it and read it,", "pos": 3323266}
{"speaker": "Lebel", "text": "I have only put off the proposition, to set my affairs in order, and to see if I could afford to marry you, even if the consent of the ambassador were denied us. I find I am rich enough to live well in Berne or elsewhere without the necessity of my working; however I shall not have to face the alternative, for at the first hint of the matter M. de Chavigni gave his consent with the best grace imaginable.", "pos": 3323440}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest, you are at perfect liberty to choose your own course, but I cannot contemplate your leaving me without considering myself as the most unhappy of men.", "pos": 3324363}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "And if I lose you I should be the most unhappy of women; for if you love me I care not whether we are married or no.", "pos": 3324534}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; but what answer are you going to make.", "pos": 3324653}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "You shall see my letter to-morrow. I shall tell him politely but plainly that I love you, that I am yours, that I am happy, and that it is thus impossible for me to accept his flattering propositions. I shall also say that I appreciate his generosity, and that if I were wise I should accept him, but that being the slave of my love for you I can only follow my inclination.", "pos": 3324705}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you give an excellent turn to your letter. In refusing such an offer you could not have better reasons than those you give, and it would be absurd to try and persuade him that we are not lovers, as the thing is self-evident. Nevertheless, my darling, the letter saddens me.", "pos": 3325082}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "Why, dearest?", "pos": 3325366}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I have not a hundred thousand francs to offer you.", "pos": 3325382}
{"speaker": "Housekeeper", "text": "I despise them; and if you were to offer me such a sum, I should only accept it to lay it at your feet. You are certainly not destined to become miserable, but if that should come to pass, be sure that I should be only too happy to share your misery.", "pos": 3325443}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Now that you know I am not really a man you can not be jealous or have objection to my taking your place beside my little wife, if she will let me.", "pos": 3328752}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "Come along.", "pos": 3328954}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Do it again.", "pos": 3329572}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I can’t, my dear; don’t you see I am a dead man?", "pos": 3329587}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "That’s very funny,", "pos": 3329638}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "No, dearest, since you have effected its resurrection, you must make it die again.", "pos": 3329908}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "I should like to, but I am afraid I have not got enough room;", "pos": 3329993}
{"speaker": "M. de Chavigni", "text": "With your experience, you ought to know that a time would come when you would regret both having lost this opportunity, for your love is sure to become friendship, and then another love will replace that which you now think as firm as the god Terminus. Lebel, has told me his plans, and far from disapproving, I have encouraged him, for your charming friend won my entire esteem in the five or six times I had the pleasure of seeing her with you. I shall be delighted, therefore, to have her in my house, where I can enjoy her conversation without transgressing the laws of propriety. Nevertheless, you will understand that at my age I have formed no desires, for I could not satisfy them even if their object were propitious.", "pos": 3332645}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "What do you think of his advice, dearest? I think I had better follow it: he says there is no hurry, and delay is all we want. Let us love each other and think only of that. This letter is written with great wisdom, but I cannot imagine our becoming indifferent to each other, though I know such a thing is possible. Never indifferent; you make a mistake there. Well, friends, then; and that is not much better after being lovers. But friendship, dearest, is never indifferent. Love, it is true, may be in its composition. We know it, as it has been thus from the beginning of the world. Then the ambassador was right. Repentance might come and torment us when love had been replaced by calmer friendship. If you think so, let us marry each other to-morrow, and punish thereby the vices of our human nature. Yes, we will marry, but there is no hurry; fearing lest hymen should quicken the departure of love, let us enjoy our happiness while we can. You speak admirably, my angel, and deserve the greatest good fortune. I wish for no greater than what you procure me. Lausanne, is a little town where you would meet with the warmest hospitality, and during your fortnight’s stay you will have nothing to do but to make visits and to go to suppers. I am known to all the nobility, and the Duke of Rosebury, who wearied me with his love-making, is still there. My appearance with you will make everybody talk, and it will be as annoying for you as for me. My mother lives there, too. She would say nothing, but in her heart she would be ill-pleased to see me as the housekeeper of a man like you, for common sense would inform everyone that I was your mistress. When you leave Lausanne. I will rejoin you at Geneva, and then we will travel together where you please and as long as our love lasts.", "pos": 3333801}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "This mortuary, was constructed with part of the bones of the Burgundians, who perished here at the well-known battle lost by Charles the Bold.", "pos": 3338932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Deo. opt. Max. Caroli incluti et fortissimi Burgundie duds exercitus Muratum obsidens, ab Helvetiis cesus, hoc sui monumentum reliquit anno MCDLXXVI.", "pos": 3339461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then Morat has been razed to the ground?", "pos": 3339808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all, it is as it always has been, or nearly so.", "pos": 3339873}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will stay, but remember to be kind.", "pos": 3340876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will.", "pos": 3340916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A tutor like that and so pretty a pupil might easily become lovers.", "pos": 3345046}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "Yes, please God. Utrum memoria post mortem dubito.", "pos": 3345116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You do not think, then, that the memory is an essential part of the soul?", "pos": 3345383}
{"speaker": "M. de Haller", "text": "How is that question to be answered? Vetabo qui Cereris sacrum vulgarit arcanum sub usdem sit trabibus.", "pos": 3345469}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "M. de Voltaire is a man who ought to be known, although, in spite of the laws of nature, many persons have found him greater at a distance than close at hand.", "pos": 3346267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How is it, that he did not attain mature age?", "pos": 3346791}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "Because there is no cure for death. Boerhaave was born a doctor, as Homer was born a poet; otherwise he would have succumbed at the age of fourteen to a malignant ulcer which had resisted all the best treatment of the day. He cured it himself by rubbing it constantly with salt dissolved in his own urine.", "pos": 3346849}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have been told that he possessed the philosopher’s stone.", "pos": 3347157}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "Yes, but I don’t believe it.", "pos": 3347219}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think it possible?", "pos": 3347250}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "I have been working for the last thirty years to convince myself of its impossibility; I have not yet done so, but I am sure that no one who does not believe in the possibility of the great work can be a good chemist.", "pos": 3347278}
{"speaker": "M. Haller", "text": "It is the worst of all romances, because it is the most eloquently expressed. You will see the country of Vaud, but don’t expect to see the originals of the brilliant portraits which Jean Jacques painted. He seems to have thought that lying was allowable in a romance, but he has abused the privilege. Petrarch, was a learned man, and told no lies in speaking of his love for Laura, whom he loved as every man loves the woman with whom he is taken; and if Laura had not contented her illustrious lover, he would not have celebrated her.", "pos": 3348107}
{"speaker": "Lebel", "text": "You know, what my intentions are. I have to go back to-morrow, and when you have made up your minds, write to me and I will come and take her to Soleure, where I will marry her.", "pos": 3351160}
{"speaker": "My Dubois", "text": "that she would never leave me until I sent her away.", "pos": 3351513}
{"speaker": "My sweetheart", "text": "We ought to think ourselves very fortunate, for if it had not been for chance, we should have been in a fine state now.", "pos": 3352734}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and I should be in despair.", "pos": 3352868}
{"speaker": "My sweetheart", "text": "I don’t doubt it, and you would be all the more wretched as I should never complain to you.", "pos": 3352903}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I only see one way of providing against such a misfortune. When I have been unfaithful to you I will punish myself by depriving myself of the pleasure of giving you proofs of my affection till I am certain that I can do so without danger.", "pos": 3352997}
{"speaker": "My sweetheart", "text": "Ah! you would punish me for your faults, would you? If you love me as I love you, believe me you would find a better remedy than that.", "pos": 3353238}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 3353375}
{"speaker": "My sweetheart", "text": "You would never be unfaithful to me.", "pos": 3353391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right. I am sorry I was not the first to think of this plan, which I promise to follow for the future.", "pos": 3353430}
{"speaker": "My sweetheart", "text": "Don’t make any promises, it might prove too difficult to keep them.", "pos": 3353543}
{"speaker": "Baron de Bercei", "text": "I know, that my nephew owes his fortune to you; he is just going to be made general, and I and all the family will be enchanted to make your acquaintance. I have come to offer my services, and to beg that you will dine with me to-day, and on any other day you please when you have nothing better to do, and I hope you will always consider yourself of the family. At the same time I beg of you not to tell anybody that my nephew has become a Catholic, as according to the prejudices of the country it would be a dishonour which would reflect on the whole family.", "pos": 3353851}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, ladies! is not M. de Voltaire good-natured, polite, and affable to you who have been kind enough to act in his plays with him?", "pos": 3355424}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Not in the least. When he hears us rehearse he grumbles all the time. We never say a thing to please him: here it is a bad pronunciation, there a tone not sufficiently passionate, sometimes one speaks too softly, sometimes too loudly; and it’s worse when we are acting. What a hubbub there is if one add a syllable, or if some carelessness spoil one of his verses. He frightens us. So and so laughed badly; so and so in Alzire had only pretended to weep.", "pos": 3355569}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does he want you to weep really?", "pos": 3356026}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Certainly. He will have real tears. He says that if an actor wants to draw tears he must shed them himself.", "pos": 3356061}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think he is right there; but he should not be so severe with amateurs, above all with charming actresses like you. Such perfection is only to be looked for from professionals, but all authors are the same. They never think that the actor has pronounced the words with the force which the sense, as they see it, requires.", "pos": 3356171}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "I told him, one day, that it was not my fault if his lines had not the proper force.", "pos": 3356496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sure he laughed.", "pos": 3356583}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Laughed? No, sneered, for he is a rude and impertinent man.", "pos": 3356607}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I suppose you overlook all these failings?", "pos": 3356669}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Not at all; we have sent him about his business.", "pos": 3356718}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sent him about his business?", "pos": 3356769}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Yes. He left the house he had rented here, at short notice, and retired to where you will find him now. He never comes to see us now, even if we ask him.", "pos": 3356800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, you do ask him, though you sent him about his business?", "pos": 3356956}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "We cannot deprive ourselves of the pleasure of admiring his talents, and if we have teased him, that was only from revenge, and to teach him something of the manners of good society.", "pos": 3357018}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have given a lesson to a great master.", "pos": 3357203}
{"speaker": "Ladies", "text": "Yes; but when you see him mention Lausanne, and see what he will say of us. But he will say it laughingly, that’s his way.", "pos": 3357248}
{"speaker": "Raphael", "text": "That face pleases me, it is therefore beautiful!", "pos": 3361277}
{"speaker": "Notier", "text": "It is a magic which the god of taste distils from my brains through my brushes. It is the divinity of Beauty whom all the world adores, and which no one can define, since no one knows of what it consists. That canvas shews you what a delicate shade there is between beauty and ugliness; and nevertheless this shade seems an enormous difference to those unacquainted with art.", "pos": 3363317}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "If I write and tell him to think no more of you, I must marry you myself. No.", "pos": 3365359}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Take this letter, dearest, and read it, and if you approve its contents put your signature beside mine. Farewell, farewell, we shall see each other again as soon as Lebel comes. Excuse me to-day, my dear fellow, but I will dine with you there to-morrow.", "pos": 3366187}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I should never have sold it, for I have no need of money.", "pos": 3367781}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case I will give it back to you, but promise me never to part with it, and keep the hundred Louis as some small reward of the services you have rendered me. You are about to possess yourself of a treasure which I cannot commend too highly. You are a man of honour; you will appreciate her excellent qualities, and you will know how to make her happy. She will love you only, take care of your household, and keep no secrets from you. She is full of wit and spirits, and will easily disperse the slightest shadow of ill humour which may fall on you.", "pos": 3367853}
{"speaker": "Dubois", "text": "I am not really gay, but I oblige myself to appear so. I shall not be happy till the scar on my heart has healed. Lebel can only claim my esteem, but I shall be his alone though my love be all for you. When we see each other again, as from what you say I hope we shall, we shall be able to meet as true friends, and perhaps we shall congratulate each other on the wise part we have taken. As for you, though I do not think you will forget me, I am sure that before long some more or less worthy object will replace me and banish your sorrow. I hope it will be so. Be happy. I may be with child; and if it prove to be so, you shall have no cause to complain of my care of your child, which you shall take away when you please. We made an agreement on this point yesterday. We arranged that the marriage should not be consummated for two months; thus we shall be certain whether the child belongs to you or no, and we will let people think that it is the legitimate offspring of our marriage. Lebel conceived this plan that he might have his mind at rest on the supposed force of blood, in which he declares he believes no more than I do. He has promised to love the child as if he were its father. If you write to me, I will keep you acquainted with everything; and if I have the happiness to give you a child, it will be much dearer to me than your ring.", "pos": 3371464}
{"speaker": "pastor", "text": "It will be impossible to destroy this prejudice at Geneva, till the Government orders the effacement of an inscription on the church door which everybody reads, and which speaks of the head of the Roman Church in this manner. The people, are wholly ignorant; but I have a niece of twenty, who does not belong to the people in this way. I shall have the honour of making you known to her; she is a theologian, and pretty as well.", "pos": 3374059}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted to see her, but God preserve me from arguing with her!", "pos": 3374515}
{"speaker": "pastor", "text": "She will make you argue, and I can assure you that it will be a pleasure for you!", "pos": 3374593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall see; but will you give me your address?", "pos": 3374677}
{"speaker": "pastor", "text": "No sir, but I shall have the honour of conducting you to your inn and acting as your guide.", "pos": 3374728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will forget Henriette.", "pos": 3375015}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "What have you been doing this morning, my dear niece?", "pos": 3376997}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I have been reading St. Augustine, whom I thought absurd, and I think I can refute him very shortly.", "pos": 3377053}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "On what point?", "pos": 3377156}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Concerning the mother of the Saviour.", "pos": 3377173}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "What does St. Augustine say?", "pos": 3377213}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You have no doubt remarked the passage, uncle. He says that the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus Christ through the ears.", "pos": 3377244}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "You do not believe that?", "pos": 3377363}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Certainly not, and for three good reasons. In the first place because God, being immaterial, had no need of a hole to go in or come out by; in the second place, because the ear has no connection with the womb; and in the third place, because Mary, if she had conceived by the ear, would have given birth by the same channel. This would do well enough for the Catholics, as then they would be reasonable in calling her a virgin before her conception, during her pregnancy, and after she had given birth to the child.", "pos": 3377390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I were a theologian and allowed myself an exact examination into the miracles, it is possible I should be of your opinion; but as this is by no means the case, I must limit myself to condemning St. Augustine for having analysed the mystery of the Annunciation. I may say, however, that if the Virgin had been deaf, St. Augustine would have been guilty of a manifest absurdity, since the Incarnation would have been an impossibility, as in that case the nerves of the ear would have had no sort of communication with the womb, and the process would have been inconceivable; but the Incarnation is a miracle.", "pos": 3378308}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "M. de Voltaire, this is the happiest moment of my life. I have been your pupil for twenty years, and my heart is full of joy to see my master.", "pos": 3379711}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Honour me with your attendance on my course for twenty years more, and promise me that you will bring me my fees at the end of that time.", "pos": 3379866}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you promise to wait for me.", "pos": 3380006}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "These gentlemen are English. I wish I were.", "pos": 3380399}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know him, but not because I am a Venetian, as seven-eighths of my dear countrymen are not even aware of his existence.", "pos": 3380862}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I should have said, as a man of letters.", "pos": 3380985}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know him from having spent two months with him at Padua, seven years ago, and what particularly attracted my attention was the admiration he professed for M. de Voltaire.", "pos": 3381028}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "That is flattering for me, but he has no need of admiring anyone.", "pos": 3381203}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If Algarotti had not begun by admiring others, he would never have made a name for himself. As an admirer of Newton he endeavoured to teach the ladies to discuss the theory of light.", "pos": 3381271}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Has he succeeded?", "pos": 3381456}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not as well as M. de Fontenelle in his ‘Plurality of Worlds;’ however, one may say he has succeeded.", "pos": 3381476}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "True. If you see him at Bologna, tell him I am expecting to hear from him about Russia. He can address my letters to my banker, Bianchi, at Milan, and they will be sent on to me.", "pos": 3381579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will not fail to do so if I see him.", "pos": 3381760}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I have heard that the Italians do not care for his style.", "pos": 3381801}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; all that he writes is full of French idioms. His style is wretched.", "pos": 3381861}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "But do not these French turns increase the beauty of your language?", "pos": 3381935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They make it insufferable, as French would be mixed with Italian or German even though it were written by M. de Voltaire.", "pos": 3382005}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "You are right; every language should preserve its purity. Livy has been criticised on this account; his Latin is said to be tainted with patavinity.", "pos": 3382129}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When I began to learn Latin, the Abbé Lazzarini told me he preferred Livy to Sallust.", "pos": 3382280}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "The Abbé Lazzarini, author of the tragedy, ‘Ulisse il giovine’? You must have been very young; I wish I had known him. But I knew the Abbé Conti well; the same that was Newton’s friend, and whose four tragedies contain the whole of Roman history.", "pos": 3382368}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I also knew and admired him. I was young, but I congratulated myself on being admitted into the society of these great men. It seems as if it were yesterday, though it is many years ago; and now in your presence my inferiority does not humiliate me. I wish to be the younger son of all humanity.", "pos": 3382617}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Better so than to be the chief and eldest. May I ask you to what branch of literature you have devoted yourself?", "pos": 3382915}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To none; but that, perhaps, will come afterwards. In the meantime I read as much as I can, and try to study character on my travels.", "pos": 3383030}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "That is the way to become learned, but the book of humanity is too vast. Reading a history is the easier way.", "pos": 3383165}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, if history did not lie. One is not sure of the truth of the facts. It is tiring, while the study of the world is amusing. Horace, whom I know by heart, is my guide-book.", "pos": 3383277}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Algarotti, too, is very fond of Horace. Of course you are fond of poetry?", "pos": 3383454}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is my passion.", "pos": 3383530}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Have you made many sonnets?", "pos": 3383550}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ten or twelve I like, and two or three thousand which in all probability I have not read twice.", "pos": 3383580}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "The Italians are mad after sonnets.", "pos": 3383678}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; if one can call it a madness to desire to put thought into measured harmony. The sonnet is difficult because the thought has to be fitted exactly into the fourteen lines.", "pos": 3383716}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "It is Procrustes’ bed, and that’s the reason you have so few good ones. As for us, we have not one; but that is the fault of our language.", "pos": 3383894}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And of the French genius, which considers that a thought when extended loses all its force.", "pos": 3384035}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "And you do not think so?", "pos": 3384129}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Pardon me, it depends on the kind of thought. A witty saying, for example, will not make a sonnet; in French or Italian it belongs to the domain of epigram.", "pos": 3384156}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "What Italian poet do you like best?", "pos": 3384315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ariosto; but I cannot say I love him better than the others, for he is my only love.", "pos": 3384353}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "You know the others, though?", "pos": 3384440}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think I have read them all, but all their lights pale before Ariosto’s. Fifteen years ago I read all you have written against him, and I said that you would retract when you had read his works.", "pos": 3384471}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I am obliged to you for thinking that I had not read them. As a matter of fact I had done so, but I was young. I knew Italian very imperfectly, and being prejudiced by the learned Italians who adore Tasso I was unfortunate enough to publish a criticism of Ariosto which I thought my own, while it was only the echo of those who had prejudiced me. I adore your Ariosto!", "pos": 3384669}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! M. de Voltaire, I breathe again. But be good enough to have the work in which you turned this great man into ridicule excommunicated.", "pos": 3385040}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "What use would that be? All my books are excommunicated; but I will give you a good proof of my retractation.", "pos": 3385180}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "And I, sir, will let all Europe know of the amends I owe to the greatest genius our continent has produced.", "pos": 3386051}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but not the finest.", "pos": 3386589}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "It ought to be; for without it Signor Lodovico would not have gained his apotheosis.", "pos": 3386616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He has been canonised, then? I was not aware of that.", "pos": 3386703}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Are you thinking, of some more than human passage?", "pos": 3386986}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 3387050}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "What passage is that?", "pos": 3387069}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The last thirty-six stanzas of the twenty-third canto, where the poet describes in detail how Roland became mad. Since the world has existed no one has discovered the springs of madness, unless Ariosto himself, who became mad in his old age. These stanzas are terrible, and I am sure they must have made you tremble.", "pos": 3387093}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Yes, I remember they render love dreadful. I long to read them again.", "pos": 3387412}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "Perhaps the gentleman will be good enough to recite them,", "pos": 3387484}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Willingly, if you will have the goodness to listen to me.", "pos": 3387596}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "You have learn them by heart, then, have you?", "pos": 3387666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, it was a pleasure and no trouble. Since I was sixteen, I have read over Ariosto two or three times every year; it is my passion, and the lines naturally become linked in my memory without my having given myself any pains to learn them. I know it all, except his long genealogies and his historical tirades, which fatigue the mind and do not touch the heart. It is only Horace that I know throughout, in spite of the often prosaic style of his epistles, which are certainly far from equalling Boileau’s.", "pos": 3387729}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Boileau is often too lengthy; I admire Horace, but as for Ariosto, with his forty long cantos, there is too much of him.", "pos": 3388239}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is fifty-one cantos, M. de Voltaire.", "pos": 3388362}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "Come, come, let us hear the thirty-six stanzas which earned the author the title of divine, and which are to make us tremble.", "pos": 3388474}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I always said so; the secret of drawing tears is to weep one’s self, but they must be real tears, and to shed them the heart must be stirred to its depths. I am obliged to you, sir, and I promise to recite the same stanzas myself to-morrow, and to weep like you.", "pos": 3390339}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "It is astonishing, that intolerant Rome should not have condemned the song of Roland.", "pos": 3390648}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Far from it. Leo X. excommunicated whoever should dare to condemn it. The two great families of Este and Medici interested themselves in the poet’s favour. Without that protection it is probable that the one line on the donation of Rome by Constantine to Silvester, where the poet speaks ‘puzza forte’ would have sufficed to put the whole poem under an interdict.", "pos": 3390757}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe, that the line which has excited the most talk is that in which Ariosto throws doubt on the general resurrection. Ariosto, in speaking of the hermit who would have hindered Rhodomonte from getting possession of Isabella, widow of Zerbin, paints the African, who wearied of the hermit’s sermons, seizes him and throws him so far that he dashes him against a rock, against which he remains in a dead swoon, so that ‘che al novissimo di forse fia desto’.", "pos": 3391140}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "It is a pity, that Ariosto was not more careful in these hyperbolical expressions.", "pos": 3391839}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Be quiet, niece, they are full of wit. They are all golden grains, which are dispersed throughout the work in the best taste.", "pos": 3391945}
{"speaker": "M. de Voltaire", "text": "If I liked to play it at his house he would write to M. de Chavigni to send the Lindane, and that he himself would play Montrose.", "pos": 3392244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir. I have only come to Geneva to have the honour of seeing you, and now that I have obtained that favour I have nothing more to do.", "pos": 3392670}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Have you come to speak to me, or for me to speak to you?", "pos": 3392816}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In a measure, of course, to speak to you, but much more for you to speak to me.", "pos": 3392875}
{"speaker": "M. de Voltaire", "text": "Then stay here three days at least; come to dinner every day, and we will have some conversation.", "pos": 3392957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was present,", "pos": 3393403}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "at your argument with the great man, and though I did not open my mouth I should much like to have an hour’s talk with you.", "pos": 3393429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall wait for you,", "pos": 3394178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, but don’t tell anyone of the party.", "pos": 3394210}
{"speaker": "M. de Voltaire", "text": "Yes, provided he resigns himself to play the part of a dumb man. 'Tis the Rhone, which I send into France.", "pos": 3394929}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It does not cost you much in carriage, at all events,", "pos": 3395237}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "This, is the only tragicomic poem which Italy has. Tassoni was a monk, a wit and a genius as well as a poet.", "pos": 3398185}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will grant his poetical ability but not his learning, for he ridiculed the system of Copernicus, and said that if his theories were followed astronomers would not be able to calculate lunations or eclipses.", "pos": 3398313}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Where does he make that ridiculous remark?", "pos": 3398524}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In his academical discourses.", "pos": 3398569}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I have not read them, but I will get them. But Tassoni has criticised Petrarch very ingeniously.", "pos": 3398601}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but he has dishonoured taste and literature, like Muratori.", "pos": 3398753}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Here he is. You must allow that his learning is immense.", "pos": 3398820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Est ubi peccat.", "pos": 3398879}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "That’s my correspondence. You see before you nearly fifty thousand letters, to which I have replied.", "pos": 3398969}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you a copy of your answers?", "pos": 3399083}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Of a good many of them. That’s the business of a servant of mine, who has nothing else to do.", "pos": 3399118}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know plenty of booksellers who would give a good deal to get hold of your answers.", "pos": 3399214}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Yes; but look out for the booksellers when you publish anything, if you have not yet begun; they are greater robbers than Barabbas.", "pos": 3399300}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall not have anything to do with these gentlemen till I am an old man.", "pos": 3399434}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Then they will be the scourge of your old age. Where’s that from?", "pos": 3399511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s a line from a celebrated poem in twenty-four cantos.", "pos": 3399638}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Celebrated?", "pos": 3399698}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; and, what is more, worthy of being celebrated; but to appreciate it one must understand the Mantuan dialect.", "pos": 3399712}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I could make it out, if you could get me a copy.", "pos": 3399828}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall have the honour of presenting you with one to-morrow.", "pos": 3399879}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "You will oblige me extremely.", "pos": 3399943}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ladies, if you like, I will shew you all three, one after the other, why the sentence, ‘Gaudeant bene nati’, was uttered”;", "pos": 3402387}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "You, are the only man besides myself they know. You shall see them again, but I beg you will take care not to leave anything behind you, for in this town of prejudices that would be a great misfortune for them and for me.", "pos": 3403140}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are always moderate in your enjoyment, then?", "pos": 3403376}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Unfortunately, that is no merit as far as I am concerned. I was born for the service of love, and Venus has punished me for worshipping her when I was too young.", "pos": 3403442}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Do you know, the Marquis Albergati Capacelli, senator of Bologna, and Count Paradisi?", "pos": 3405210}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I do not know Paradisi, but I know Albergati by sight and by reputation; he is not a senator, but one of the Forty, who at Bologna are Fifty.", "pos": 3405309}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Dear me! That seems rather a riddle!", "pos": 3405453}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know him?", "pos": 3405492}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "No, but he has sent me Goldoni’s ‘Theatre,’ the translation of my Tancred, and some Bologna sausages, and he says he will come and see me.", "pos": 3405511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will not come; he is not such a fool.", "pos": 3405652}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "How a fool? Would there be anything foolish in coming to see me?", "pos": 3405695}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly not, as far as you are concerned; but very much so far his own sake.", "pos": 3405762}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Would you mind telling me why?", "pos": 3405843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He knows what he would lose; for he enjoys the idea you seem to have of him, and if he came you would see his nothingness, and good-bye to the illusion. He is a worthy man with six thousand sequins a year, and a craze for the theatre. He is a good actor enough, and has written several comedies in prose, but they are fit neither for the study nor the stage.", "pos": 3405876}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "You certainly give him a coat which does not make him look any bigger.", "pos": 3406237}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I assure you it is not quite small enough.", "pos": 3406310}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "But tell me how he can belong to the Forty and the Fifty?", "pos": 3406355}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just as at Bale noon is at eleven.", "pos": 3406415}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "I understand; just as your Council of Ten is composed of seventeen members.", "pos": 3406452}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Exactly; but the cursed Forty of Bologna are men of another kind.", "pos": 3406530}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Why cursed?", "pos": 3406598}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because they are not subject to the fisc, and are thus enabled to commit whatever crimes they like with perfect impunity; all they have got to do is to live outside the state borders on their revenues.", "pos": 3406612}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "That is a blessing, and not a curse; but let me return to our subject. I suppose the Marquis Albergati is a man of letters?", "pos": 3406816}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He writes well enough, but he is fond of the sound of his own voice, his style is prolix, and I don’t think he has much brains.", "pos": 3406942}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "He is an actor, I think you said?", "pos": 3407072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and a very good one, above all, when he plays the lover’s part in one of his own plays.", "pos": 3407108}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Is he a handsome man?", "pos": 3407203}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, on the stage, but not elsewhere; his face lacks expression.", "pos": 3407227}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "But his plays give satisfaction?", "pos": 3407294}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not to persons who understand play writing; they would be hissed if they were intelligible.", "pos": 3407329}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "And what do you think of Goldoni?", "pos": 3407423}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have the highest opinion of him. Goldoni is the Italian Moliere.", "pos": 3407459}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Why does he call himself poet to the Duke of Parma?", "pos": 3407528}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No doubt to prove that a wit as well as a fool has his weak points; in all probability the duke knows nothing about it. He also calls himself a barrister, though he is such only in his own imagination. Goldoni is a good play writer, and nothing more. Everybody in Venice knows me for his friend, and I can therefore speak of him with authority. He does not shine in society, and in spite of the fine satire of his works he is a man of an extremely gentle disposition.", "pos": 3407582}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "So I have been told. He is poor, and wants to leave Venice. The managers of the theatres where they play his pieces will not like that.", "pos": 3408052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "People talked about getting him a pension, but the project has been relegated to the Greek Kalends, as they said that if he had a pension he would write no more.", "pos": 3408190}
{"speaker": "Voltaire", "text": "Cumae refused to give a pension to Homer, for fear that all the blind men would ask for a pension. not the first Adam.", "pos": 3408354}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "That feeling which prevents our shewing those parts which we have been taught to cover from our childhood, may often proceed from virtue, but is weaker than the force of education, as it cannot resist an attack when the attacking party knows what he is about. I think the easiest way to vanquish modesty is to ignore its presence, to turn it into ridicule, to carry it by storm. Victory is certain. The hardihood of the assailer subdues the assailed, who usually only wishes to be conquered, and nearly always thanks you for your victory. Clement of Alexandria, a learned man and a philosopher, has remarked that the modesty which appears so deeply rooted in women’s hearts really goes no farther than the clothes they wear, and that when these are plucked off no trace of it remains.", "pos": 3409197}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear girls, I care more for your honour than your beauty; but do not think I am going to shut myself in a piece of dead skin to prove that I am alive. Here, is a surer and less disagreeable way of securing you from any unpleasant consequences. After fifteen years’ experience I can assure you that with these golden balls you can give and take without running the least risk. For the future you will have no need of those humiliating sheaths. Trust in me and accept this little present from a Venetian who adores you.", "pos": 3410863}
{"speaker": "elder sister", "text": "We are very grateful, but how are these pretty balls used?", "pos": 3411433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The ball has to be at the rear of the temple of love, whilst the amorous couple are performing the sacrifice. The antipathy communicated to the metal by its being soaked for a certain time in an alkaline solution prevents impregnation.", "pos": 3411530}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "But, one must take great care that the ball is not shaken out by the motion before the end of the sacrifice.", "pos": 3411768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You needn’t be afraid of that if you place yourself in a proper position.", "pos": 3411898}
{"speaker": "the syndic", "text": "Let us see how it’s done,", "pos": 3411974}
{"speaker": "M. de Voltaire", "text": "You certainly gave it me with good intentions, but I owe you no thanks for praising it so highly, as you made me lose four hours in reading nonsense. That’s true, but as for your Merlin, I will read him no more. I have put him beside Chapelain’s ‘Pucelle’.", "pos": 3413696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Which pleases all the critics, in spite of its bad versification, for it is a good poem, and Chapelain was a real poet though he wrote bad verses. I cannot overlook his genius.", "pos": 3414233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Crebillon! You cite a weighty authority. But how is my friend Crebillon your master, may I ask?", "pos": 3415049}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He taught me to speak French in less than two years, and as a mark of my gratitude I translated his Radamiste into Italian Alexandrines. I am the first Italian who has dared to use this metre in our language.", "pos": 3415147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The first? I beg your pardon, as that honour belongs to my friend Pierre Jacques Martelli.", "pos": 3415358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry to be obliged to tell you that you are making a mistake.", "pos": 3415451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, I have his works, printed at Bologna, in my room!", "pos": 3415521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t deny that, I am only talking about the metre used by Martelli. What you are thinking of must be verses of fourteen syllables; without alternative masculine and feminine rhymes. However, I confess that he thinks he has imitated the French Alexandrines, and his preface made me explode with laughter. Did you read it?", "pos": 3415578}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Read it? I always read prefaces, and Martelli proves there that his verses have the same effect in Italian as our Alexandrine verses have in French.", "pos": 3415904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly, that’s what’s so amusing. The worthy man is quite mistaken, and I only ask you to listen to what I have to say on the subject. Your masculine verse has only twelve poetic syllables, and the feminine thirteen. All Martelli’s lines have fourteen syllables, except those that finish with a long vowel, which at the end of a line always counts as two syllables. You will observe that the first hemistitch in Martelli always consists of seven syllables, while in French it only has six. Your friend Pierre Jacques was either stone deaf or very hard of hearing.", "pos": 3416055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you have followed our theory of versification rigorously.", "pos": 3416622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Just so, in spite of the difficulty, as nearly all our words end with a short syllable.", "pos": 3416687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What reception has been accorded to your innovation?", "pos": 3416777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It has not been found pleasing, because nobody knows how to recite my verses; but I hope to triumph when I deliver them myself before our literary clubs.", "pos": 3416832}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you remember any of your version of the Radamiste?", "pos": 3416988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I remember it all.", "pos": 3417044}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have a wonderful memory; I should be glad to hear it.", "pos": 3417065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It doesn’t strike one as at all harsh,", "pos": 3417261}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Which is that?", "pos": 3417835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do not write, ‘Contentus paucis lectoribus’.", "pos": 3417852}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If Horace had had to combat the hydra-headed monster of superstition, he would have written as I have written--for all the world.", "pos": 3417903}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It seems to me that you might spare yourself the trouble of combating what you will never destroy.", "pos": 3418035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That which I cannot finish others will, and I shall always have the glory of being the first in the field.", "pos": 3418136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; but supposing you succeed in destroying superstition, what are you going to put in its place?", "pos": 3418245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like that. If I deliver the race of man from a wild beast which is devouring it, am I to be asked what I intend to put in its place?", "pos": 3418352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It does not devour it; on the contrary, it is necessary to its existence.", "pos": 3418489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Necessary to its existence! That is a horrible blasphemy, the falsity of which will be seen in the future. I love the human race; I would fain see men like myself, free and happy, and superstition and freedom cannot go together. Where do you find an enslaved and yet a happy people?", "pos": 3418565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You wish, then, to see the people sovereign?", "pos": 3418850}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God forbid! There must be a sovereign to govern the masses.", "pos": 3418897}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In that case you must have superstition, for without it the masses will never obey a mere man decked with the name of monarch.", "pos": 3418959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will have no monarch; the word expresses despotism, which I hate as I do slavery.", "pos": 3419088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean, then? If you wish to put the government in the hands of one man, such a man, I maintain, will be a monarch.", "pos": 3419174}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would have a sovereign ruler of a free people, of which he is the chief by an agreement which binds them both, which would prevent him from becoming a tyrant.", "pos": 3419302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Addison will tell you that such a sovereign is a sheer impossibility. I agree with Hobbes, of two evils choose the least. A nation without superstition would be a nation of philosophers, and philosophers would never obey. The people will only be happy when they are crushed and down-trodden, and bound in chains.", "pos": 3419465}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is horrible; and you are of the people yourself. If you have read my works you must have seen how I shew that superstition is the enemy of kings.", "pos": 3419780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Read your works? I have read and re-read them, especially in places where I have differed from you. Your ruling passion is the love of humanity. ‘Est ubi peccas’. This blinds you. Love humanity, but love it as it is. It is not fit to receive the blessings you would lavish on it, and which would only make it more wretched and perverse. Leave men their devouring monster, it is dear to them. I have never laughed so heartily as at Don Quixote assailed by the galley-slaves whom his generosity had set free.", "pos": 3419933}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry that you have such a bad opinion of your fellow-creatures. And by the way, tell me whether there is freedom in Venice.", "pos": 3420442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As much as can be expected under an aristocracy. Our liberty is not so great as that which the English enjoy, but we are content.", "pos": 3420574}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Even under The Leads?", "pos": 3420706}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My imprisonment was certainly despotic; but as I had knowingly abused my liberty I am satisfied that the Government was within its rights in shutting me up without the usual formalities.", "pos": 3420730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the same, you made your escape.", "pos": 3420919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I used my rights as they had used theirs.", "pos": 3420957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good! But as far as I can see, no one in Venice is really free.", "pos": 3421001}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be; but you must agree that the essence of freedom consists in thinking you have it.", "pos": 3421072}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall not agree to that so easily. You and I see liberty from very different points of view. The aristocrats, the members of the Government even, are not free at Venice; for example, they cannot travel without permission.", "pos": 3421168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True, but that is a restriction of their own making to preserve their power. Would you say that a Bernese is not free, because he is subject to the sumptuary laws, which he himself had made.", "pos": 3421394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well, I wish the people made the laws everywhere.", "pos": 3421587}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From Roche,", "pos": 3421715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have been very sorry to leave Switzerland without seeing the famous Haller. In my travels I render homage to my learned contemporaries, and you come the last and best.", "pos": 3421737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must have liked Haller.", "pos": 3421916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I spent three of the happiest days of my life with him.", "pos": 3421946}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I congratulate you. He is a great man and worthy of all honour.", "pos": 3422004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think as you do, and I am glad to hear you doing him justice; I am sorry he was not so just towards you.", "pos": 3422070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, you see we may be both of us mistaken.", "pos": 3422179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I challenge you to prove that you are speaking the truth,", "pos": 3425615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why has he gone?", "pos": 3426002}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he said he was going to stay here for another week.", "pos": 3426036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So many of them,", "pos": 3426540}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "are not worthy the trouble.", "pos": 3426573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The place next to you was conveniently empty,", "pos": 3426757}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very conveniently, for my neighbour wearied me.", "pos": 3426859}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Had he no appetite?", "pos": 3426909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Gamesters only have an appetite for money.", "pos": 3426939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Usually, but your power is extraordinary; for I have never made two dinners on one day before now.", "pos": 3426984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only out of pride; as I am sure you will eat no supper.", "pos": 3427085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us make a bet on it.", "pos": 3427143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will; we will bet the supper.", "pos": 3427170}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right.", "pos": 3427205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is my business,", "pos": 3427376}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to order the supper.", "pos": 3427412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you are right; for he who pays, orders. My part will be to oppose you to the knife, and if I eat as much as you I shall be the winner.", "pos": 3427435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3427577}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I knew a man of that name,", "pos": 3428513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "at Paris; he came from Lyons, and owes me a pair of ears, which I mean to cut off his head when I meet him.", "pos": 3428550}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "No, would you like to see your room?", "pos": 3429179}
{"speaker": "Inn-keeper", "text": "It’s all I can offer you, but I will have a good bed, a table, and chairs taken there.", "pos": 3429422}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will sleep in my room, take care to provide yourself with a bed, and bring my baggage in.", "pos": 3429568}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "What do you think of Gilbert, sir? I only recognized him just as he was going, and I had a lively desire to take him by the back of his neck.", "pos": 3429684}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would have done well to have satisfied that desire.", "pos": 3429848}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "I will, when I see him again.", "pos": 3429906}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "I am the only one, who takes them out of necessity. I am consumptive; I get thinner every day, and if the waters don’t do me any good I shall not last much longer.", "pos": 3430512}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So all the others have only come here for amusement’s sake?", "pos": 3430688}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "And to game, sir, for they are all professional gamesters.", "pos": 3430750}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are they French?", "pos": 3430811}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "They are all from Piedmont or Savoy; I am the only Frenchman here.", "pos": 3430830}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What part of France do you come from?", "pos": 3430899}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "From Lorraine; my father, who is eighty years old, is the Marquis Desarmoises. He only keeps on living to spite me, for as I married against his wishes he has disinherited me. However, as I am his only son, I shall inherit his property after his death, in spite of him. My house is at Lyons, but I never go there, as I have the misfortune to be in love with my eldest daughter, and my wife watches us so closely as to make my courtship hopeless.", "pos": 3430939}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is very fine; otherwise, I suppose, your daughter would take pity on her amorous papa?", "pos": 3431387}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "I daresay, for she is very fond of me, and has an excellent heart.", "pos": 3431481}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In spite of your father’s sternness, you live very well.", "pos": 3432027}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "On the contrary, I live very ill. I enjoy a pension from the Government, which I surrender to my wife, and as for me I make a livelihood on my travels. I play black gammon and most other games perfectly. I win more often than I lose, and I live on my winnings.", "pos": 3432086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But is what you have told me about your daughter known to the visitors here?", "pos": 3432349}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "Everybody knows it; why should I hide it? I am a man of honour and injure no one; and, besides, my sword is sharp.", "pos": 3432428}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so; but would you tell me whether you allow your daughter to have a lover?", "pos": 3432545}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "I should have no objection, but my wife is religious.", "pos": 3432628}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your daughter pretty?", "pos": 3432684}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "Very; if you are going to Lyons, you can go and see her; I will give you a letter of introduction for her.", "pos": 3432711}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Thank you, but I am going to Italy. Can you tell me the name of the gentleman who kept the bank?", "pos": 3432820}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "That is the famous Parcalier, Marquis de Prie since the death of his father, whom you may have known as ambassador at Venice. The gentleman who asked you if you knew the Abbé Gilbert is the Chevalier Zeroli, husband of the lady you are to sup with. The rest are counts, marquises, and barons of the usual kind, some from Piedmont and some from Savoy. Two or three are merchants’ sons, and the ladies are all their friends or relations. They are all professional gamblers and sharp-witted. When a stranger comes here they know how to get over him, and if he plays it is all up with him, for they go together like pickpockets at a fair. They think they have got you, so take care of yourself.", "pos": 3432919}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I am good for another two hundred louis,", "pos": 3434891}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be glad to continue playing, if I had not to go at day-break", "pos": 3434952}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "Very good, but I will wager that you will not go for all that.", "pos": 3435477}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The too charming and hapless M---- M----, must have left her convent, desperate--nay, mad; for why does she still wear the habit of her order? Perhaps, though, she has got a dispensation to come here for the waters; that must be the reason why she has a nun with her, and why she has not left off her habit. At all events the journey must have been undertaken under false pretences. Has she abandoned herself to some fatal passion, of which the result has been pregnancy? She is doubtless perplexed, and must have been pleased to see me. I will not deceive her expectations; I will do all in my power to convince her that I am worthy of her.", "pos": 3437888}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She takes the waters,", "pos": 3439125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but she does not speak to anyone.", "pos": 3439161}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where does she come from?", "pos": 3439197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nobody knows; she lives in a peasant’s house.", "pos": 3439225}
{"speaker": "peasant woman", "text": "Sir, the young nun begs you to return this evening at nine o’clock; the lay-sister will be asleep then, and she will be able to speak freely to you.", "pos": 3439701}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "I thought you were gone?", "pos": 3440235}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going at two.", "pos": 3440262}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "But, you have only got to stay.", "pos": 3440636}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give me some hope, and I will stay till to-morrow.", "pos": 3440692}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "You are in too much of a hurry, take things more quietly. I have persuaded the gentleman to stay till the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 3440745}
{"speaker": "Chevalier Zeroli", "text": "I am all the more pleased to hear it, my dear, as I owe him his revenge.", "pos": 3441182}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "I have no time to dress, so I will have my dinner in bed, if you gentlemen will keep me company. Breakfast with me to-morrow morning. We shall be alone.", "pos": 3441607}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "I have found out the secret; they gave her coachman two Louis to substitute a sick horse for his own.", "pos": 3442453}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s a matter of give and take. I am in love with the chevalier’s wife, and I am putting off my departure till I have got all I want out of her.", "pos": 3442557}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "I am afraid you will have to pay pretty dearly for your pleasure. However, I will do what I can for your interests.", "pos": 3442714}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fear nothing; come.", "pos": 3443888}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, have you not a light? I hope you are going to inform me of an event which seems wonderful to me; quick, dearest, satisfy my impatience.", "pos": 3444123}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "You surprise me; I do not know M. de Coudert. What! Are you not a Venetian? Are you not the nun I saw this morning? Hapless one! I have made a mistake. I am the nun you saw this morning, but I am French. In the name of God keep my counsel and begone, for I have nothing to say to you! Whisper, for if the lay-sister woke up I should be undone.", "pos": 3444579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do not be afraid of my discretion. What deceived me was your exact likeness to a nun of your order who will be always dear to me: and if you had not allowed me to see your features I should not have followed you. Forgive the tenderness I shewed towards you, though you must think me very audacious.", "pos": 3444926}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "You astonished me very much, but you did not offend me. I wish I were the nun in whom you are interested. I am on the brink of a fearful precipice.", "pos": 3445227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If ten louis are any good to you, it will be an honour for me to give you them.", "pos": 3445377}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Thank you, I have no need of money. Allow me to give you back the louis you sent me this morning.", "pos": 3445459}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The louis was for the country-woman. You increase my surprise; pray tell me what is the misfortune under which you labour, for which money can do nothing.", "pos": 3445559}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Perhaps God has sent you to my aid. Maybe you will give me good advice. Listen to what I am about to tell you.", "pos": 3445716}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am at your service, and I will listen with the greatest attention. Let us sit down.", "pos": 3445829}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I am afraid there is neither seat nor bed.", "pos": 3445917}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Say on, then; we will remain standing.", "pos": 3445962}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I come from Grenoble. I was made to take the veil at Chamberi. Two years after my profession, M. de Coudert found means to see me. I received him in the convent garden, the walls of which he scaled, and at last I was so unfortunate as to become pregnant. The idea of giving birth to a child at the convent was too dreadful--I should have languished till I died in a terrible dungeon--and M. de Coudert thought of a plan for taking me out of the convent. A doctor whom he gained over with a large sum of money declared that I should die unless I came here to take the waters, which he declared were the only cure for my illness. A princess whom M. de Coudert knew was partly admitted to the secret, and she obtained the leave of absence for three months from the Bishop of Chamberi, and the abbess consented to my going. I thus hoped to be delivered before the expiration of the three months; but I have assuredly made a mistake, for the time draws to an end and I feel no signs of a speedy delivery. I am obliged to return to the convent, and yet I cannot do so. The lay-sister who is with me is a perfect shrew. She has orders not to let me speak to anybody, and never to let my face be seen. She it was who made me turn when she saw you following us. I lifted my veil for you to see that I was she of whom I thought you were in search, and happily the lay-sister did not notice me. She wants me to return with her to the convent in three days, as she thinks I have an incurable dropsy. She does not allow me to speak to the doctor, whom I might, perhaps, have gained over by telling him the truth. I am only twenty-one, and yet I long for death.", "pos": 3446003}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do not weep so, dear sister, and tell me how you expect to be delivered here without the lay-sister being aware of it?", "pos": 3447654}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "The worthy woman with whom I am staying is an angel of goodness. I have confided in her, and she promised me that when I felt the pangs coming on she would give that malicious woman a soporific, and thus we should be freed from all fears of her. By virtue of the drug she now sleeps soundly in the room under this garret.", "pos": 3447775}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why was I not let in by the door?", "pos": 3448099}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "To prevent the woman’s brother seeing you; he is a rude boor.", "pos": 3448135}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What made you think that I had anything to do with M. de Coudert?", "pos": 3448199}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Ten or twelve days ago, I wrote to him and told him of my dreadful position. I painted my situation with such lively colours that I thought he must do all in his power to help me. As the wretched cling to every straw, I thought, when I saw you following me, that you were the deliverer he had sent.", "pos": 3448267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you sure he got your letter?", "pos": 3448568}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "The woman posted it at Anneci.", "pos": 3448603}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You should write to the princess.", "pos": 3448636}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I dare not.", "pos": 3448672}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will see her myself, and I will see M. de Coudert. In fine, I will move heaven and earth, I will even go to the bishop, to obtain an extension of your leave; for it is out of the question for you to return to the convent in your present situation. You must decide, for I can do nothing without your consent. Will you trust in me? If so, I will bring you a man’s clothes to-morrow and take you to Italy with me, and while I live I swear I will care for you.", "pos": 3448686}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "At least be kind enough to take me to the fountain.", "pos": 3451638}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think not. If you take me for a freshman, you make a mistake, and I don’t care to give the impression that I am pleased when I am displeased. You can get whomsoever you please to take you to the fountain, but as for me I must beg to be excused. Farewell, madam.", "pos": 3451692}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Gentlemen. I shall rise at eight o’clock precisely.", "pos": 3453217}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Will you stake the value of this bill on a card, without knowing its value?", "pos": 3454465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, if you will tell me upon whom it is drawn, and provided that it does not exceed the value of the bank.", "pos": 3454552}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "The bill is not for so large a sum as your bank, and it is payable at sight by Zappata, of Turin.", "pos": 3454736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, you can draw back if you like.", "pos": 3454996}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "No, go on.", "pos": 3455066}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord,", "pos": 3455143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it’s two to one that I do not hold the ace, I repeat you can draw back.", "pos": 3455162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no, you are too generous, go on.", "pos": 3455236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have you decided on doing?", "pos": 3456713}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have decided on nothing, for an unforeseen incident has confounded us. The lay-sister has been asleep for eighteen hours.", "pos": 3456755}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She will die of convulsions or of an apoplectic fit to-night if you do not call a doctor, who may possibly restore her to life with a dose of castor oil.", "pos": 3456881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have thought of that, but we did not dare to take that step for fear of consequences; for whether he restores her or not, he will say that we have poisoned her.", "pos": 3457037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pity you, upon my soul! Indeed, I believe that it is too late, and that a doctor could do nothing. One must obey the laws of prudence and let her die. The mischief is done, and I see no remedy.", "pos": 3457203}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At any rate, we ought to think of her soul and send for a priest.", "pos": 3457401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A priest would do her no good, as she is in a perfect lethargy; her soul is safe enough. Besides, an ignorant priest would find out too much, and would tell the whole story either through malice or stupidity. It will be time to call a priest when she has ceased to breathe. You must tell him that she died very suddenly; you must weep a great deal, and give him a fee, and he will think only of calming your grief, and nothing about the sudden death.", "pos": 3457469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we must let her die?", "pos": 3457922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We must leave her to nature.", "pos": 3457950}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If she dies I will send a messenger to the abbess, who will dispatch another lay-sister.", "pos": 3457981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and that will give you another ten days. During that time you may be delivered, and you will confess that every cloud has a silver lining. Do not grieve so, but let us endeavour to submit to the will of God. Send for the country-woman, for I must give her some hints as to her conduct in this delicate matter, on which the honour and life of all three may depend. For instance, if it were discovered that I had come here, I might be taken for the poisoner.", "pos": 3458072}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Please let me put on my veil again,", "pos": 3460029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you do not believe me, but I assure you that the abbess threatened me with excommunication if I let myself be seen by a man.", "pos": 3460193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fear these bolts no longer, dear, they cannot hurt you.", "pos": 3460326}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why the night, dearest, while we have the day before us? The night is for slumber, and in the day one enjoys double bliss, since the light allows all the senses to be satisfied at once. If you do not expect anybody, I will pass the whole morning with you.", "pos": 3462406}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "Very good; nobody will interrupt us.", "pos": 3462664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise you, to stay here as long as you continue giving me such marks of your love as you have given me this morning.", "pos": 3463008}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "Let us get up, then, and go to dinner.", "pos": 3463141}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In company, dearest? Look at your eyes.", "pos": 3463182}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "All the better. People will guess what has happened, and the two countesses will burst with envy. I want everybody to know that it is for me alone that you are remaining at Aix.", "pos": 3463224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not worth the trouble, my angel, but so be it; I will gladly oblige you, even though I lose all my money in the next three days.", "pos": 3463404}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "I should be in despair if you lost; but if you abstain from punting you will not lose, though you may let yourself be robbed.", "pos": 3463540}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may be sure that I know what I am about, and that I shall only allow ladies to rob me. You have had some money out of me yourself.", "pos": 3463668}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "Yes, but not nearly so much as the countesses, and I am sorry you allowed them to impose on you, as they no doubt put it down to your being in love with them.", "pos": 3463805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are quite wrong, poor dears, for neither would have kept me here a day.", "pos": 3463966}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "I am delighted to hear it. But let me tell you what the Marquis of St. Maurice was saying about you yesterday.", "pos": 3464045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Say on. I hope he did not allow himself any offensive remarks.", "pos": 3464158}
{"speaker": "The Zeroli", "text": "No; he only said that you should never have offered the Englishman to be off at eight cards, as you had as much chance as he, and if he had won he might have thought that you knew the card was there.", "pos": 3464223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but tell the marquis that a gentleman is incapable of such a thought, and besides I knew the character of the young nobleman, and I was almost sure he would not accept my offer.", "pos": 3464425}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you ill?", "pos": 3465974}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I was ill for a time, but praised be God! I am now quite well, having given birth to a fine boy at two o’clock this morning.", "pos": 3465989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the child?", "pos": 3466116}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Alas! I did but kiss him once, and my good hostess carried him away I know not where. The Holy Virgin heard my prayers, for my pains, though sharp, were soon over, and a quarter of an hour after my delivery I was still sneezing. Tell me whether you are a man or an angel, for I fear lest I sin in adoring you.", "pos": 3466138}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is good news indeed. And how about the lay-sister?", "pos": 3466450}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "She still breathes, but we have no hope that she will recover. Her face is terribly distorted. We have sinned exceedingly, and God will punish me for it.", "pos": 3466508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dearest, God will forgive you, for the Most Holy judges by the heart, and in your heart you had no evil thoughts. Adore Divine Providence, which doeth all things well.", "pos": 3466664}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "You console me. The country-woman assures me that you are an angel, for the powder you gave me delivered me. I shall never forget you, though I do not know your name.", "pos": 3466838}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "All will be well, for no one knows if the lay-sister is well or ill, or why the lady does not leave her bed.", "pos": 3467283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have you done with the child?", "pos": 3467406}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I took him with my own hands to Anneci, where I bought everything necessary for the well-being of this lady and for the death of the other one.", "pos": 3467443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Doesn’t your brother know anything about it?", "pos": 3467589}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Lord preserve us--no! He went away yesterday, and will not be back for a week. We have nothing to fear.", "pos": 3467636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What news have you?", "pos": 3470546}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "The lay-sister is dead, and she is to be buried tomorrow. To-morrow is the day we were to have returned to the convent. This is the letter I am sending to the abbess. She will dispatch another laysister, unless she orders the country-woman to bring me back to the convent.", "pos": 3470568}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did the priest say?", "pos": 3470843}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "He said the lay-sister died of a cerebral lethargy, which super-induced an attack of apoplexy.", "pos": 3470870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, very good.", "pos": 3470967}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I want him to say fifteen masses for her, if you will let me?", "pos": 3470991}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, my dear, they will serve as the priest’s reward, or rather as the reward of his happy ignorance.", "pos": 3471055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When you put the child at the hospital door, were you recognized?", "pos": 3471823}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Nobody saw me as I put it into the box, and I wrote a note to say the child had not been baptized.", "pos": 3471891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who wrote the note?", "pos": 3471992}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I did.", "pos": 3472014}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will, of course, see that the funeral is properly carried out?", "pos": 3472023}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "It will only cost six francs, and the parson will take that from two louis which were found on the deceased; the rest will do for masses to atone for her having had the money.", "pos": 3472092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! ought she not to have had the two louis?", "pos": 3472270}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "we are forbidden to have any money without the knowledge of the abbess, under pain of excommunication.", "pos": 3472339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did they give you to come here?", "pos": 3472444}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Ten Savoy sols a day. But now I live like a princess, as you shall see at supper, for though this worthy woman knows the money you gave her is for herself she lavishes it on me.", "pos": 3472483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She knows, dear sister, that such is my intention, and here is some more to go on with.", "pos": 3472663}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "As to my state when I was so fortunate as to meet you, I think he cannot have received my letter.", "pos": 3473522}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly, but is he a rich or handsome man?", "pos": 3473622}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "He is rich but certainly not handsome. On the contrary, he is extremely ugly, deformed, and over fifty.", "pos": 3473668}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did you become amorous of a fellow like that?", "pos": 3473774}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I never loved him, but he contrived to gain my pity. I thought he would kill himself, and I promised to be in the garden on the night he appointed, but I only went there with the intention of bidding him begone, and he did so, but after he had carried his evil designs into effect.", "pos": 3473826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did he use violence towards you, then?", "pos": 3474110}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "No, for that would have been no use. He wept, threw himself on his knees, and begged so hard, that I let him do what he liked on the condition that he would not kill himself, and that he would come no more to the garden.", "pos": 3474151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Had you no fear of consequences?", "pos": 3474374}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "I did not understand anything about it; I always thought that one could not conceive under three times at least.", "pos": 3474409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Unhappy ignorance! how many woes are caused by it! Then he did not ask you to give him any more assignations?", "pos": 3474524}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "He often asked me, but I would not grant his request because our confessor made me promise to withstand him thenceforth, if I wished to be absolved.", "pos": 3474636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you tell him the name of the seducer?", "pos": 3474787}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Certainly not; the good confessor would not have allowed me to do so; it would have been a great sin.", "pos": 3474831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you tell your confessor the state you were in?", "pos": 3474935}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "No, but he must have guessed it. He is a good old man, who doubtless prayed to God for me, and my meeting you was, perhaps, the answer to his prayers.", "pos": 3474988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Allow me to examine them, I know something about it.", "pos": 3477144}
{"speaker": "Nun", "text": "Look!", "pos": 3477199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The beauty of your bosom,", "pos": 3477820}
{"speaker": "Marquis the Prie", "text": "You will lose.", "pos": 3479100}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will see. Here is my hand on the table, and I stake a louis on each of the thirteen cards.", "pos": 3479117}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Then I will stop in bed, and indeed I shall be very glad to do so, as I experience great discomfort from the heat of my woollen habit; but I think I should please you more if I were decently dressed; however, as you like it better, I will stop in bed.", "pos": 3480136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am obliged to you for having shewn me this letter, but be pleased to tell me if I may visit you for the next week or ten days, without doing hurt to your conscience; for I must tell you I am a man. I have only stopped in this place because of the lively interest with which you have inspired me, but if you have the least objection to receive me on account of the singular excommunication with which you are threatened, I will leave Aix tomorrow. Speak.", "pos": 3481233}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Sir, our abbess is lavish of these thunders, and I have already incurred the excommunication with which she threatens me; but I hope it will not be ratified by God, as my fault has made me happy and not miserable. I will be sincere with you; your visits are my only joy, and that joy is doubled when you tell me you like to come. But if you can answer my question without a breach of confidence, I should like to know for whom you took me the first time you saw me; you cannot imagine how you astonished and frightened me. I have never felt such kisses as those you lavished on me, but they cannot increase my sin as I was not a consenting party, and you told me yourself that you thought you were kissing another.", "pos": 3481691}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will satisfy your curiosity. I think I can do so as you are aware by this time that the flesh is weak, or rather stronger than the spirit, and that it compels the strongest intellects to commit faults against right reason. You shall hear the history of an amour that lasted for two years with the fairest and the best of all the nuns of Venice.", "pos": 3482408}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Tell me all, sir. I have fallen myself, and I should be cruel and unjust if I were to take offence at anything you may tell me, for you cannot have done anything with her that Coudert did not do to me.", "pos": 3482757}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did much more and much less, for I never gave her a child. If I had been so unfortunate I should have carried her off to Rome, where we should have fallen at the feet of the Holy Father, who would have absolved her from her vows, and my dear M---- M---- would now be my wife.", "pos": 3482961}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Good heavens M---- M---- is my name.", "pos": 3483241}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "But is your M---- M---- really so like me, that you mistook me for her?", "pos": 3483853}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Judge for yourself.", "pos": 3484037}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "She really is; it might pass for my portrait. It is my dress and my face; it is wonderful. To this likeness I owe all my good fortune. Thanks be to God that you do not love me as you loved her, whom I am glad to call my sister. There are indeed two M---- M----s. Mighty Providence, all Thy least ways are wonderful, and we are at best poor, weak, ignorant mortals.", "pos": 3484059}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have only one objection to make to that--namely, that if I wanted to play in the same way again he could only prevent me by fighting for it.", "pos": 3485951}
{"speaker": "Madame Zeroli", "text": "His mistress swears she will make you play in the usual way.", "pos": 3486096}
{"speaker": "The inn-keeper", "text": "In the meanwhile, you can use the cards on the table, which are as good as new.", "pos": 3486925}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I want them new, not as good as new. I have my prejudices, and they are so strong as to be invincible. In the meanwhile I shall remain a spectator, though I am sorry to keep the ladies waiting.", "pos": 3487018}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you feel to-day, madam?", "pos": 3487794}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Say daughter, that name is so sweet to me that I would you were my father that I might clasp you in my arms without fearing anyone.", "pos": 3487827}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, my dear daughter, do not fear anything, but open your arms to me.", "pos": 3487961}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "I will; we will embrace one another.", "pos": 3488035}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My little ones are prettier than they were yesterday let me suck them.", "pos": 3488074}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "You silly papa, you are drinking your daughter’s milk.", "pos": 3488147}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is so sweet, darling, and the little drop I tasted has made me feel so happy. You cannot be angry at my enjoying this harmless privilege.", "pos": 3488204}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Of course I am not angry; you delighted me. But I shall have to call you baby, not papa.", "pos": 3488347}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How glad I am to find you in better spirits to-night!", "pos": 3488438}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "You have given me back my happiness, and I feel at peace once more. The country-woman told me that in a few days I should be just the same as if I had never seen Coudert.", "pos": 3488494}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is not quite true; how about your stomach, for instance?", "pos": 3488667}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Be quiet; you can’t know anything about such things, and I am quite astonished myself.", "pos": 3488731}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let me see.", "pos": 3488820}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Oh, no; you mustn’t see, but you may feel.", "pos": 3488834}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All right.", "pos": 3488879}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Oh! please don’t go there.", "pos": 3488892}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not? You can’t be made differently from your sister, who would be now about thirty. I want to shew you her portrait naked.", "pos": 3488921}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Have you got it with you? I should so like to see it.", "pos": 3489050}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. She knew that such a picture would give me pleasure.", "pos": 3489232}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "It is very fine. It is more like me than the other picture. But I suppose the long hair is only put in to please you?", "pos": 3489308}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all. Italian nuns are allowed to wear their hair as long as they please, provided they do not shew it.", "pos": 3489428}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "We have the same privilege. Our hair is cut once, and then we may let it grow as long as we like.", "pos": 3489539}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you have long hair?", "pos": 3489639}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "As long as in the picture; but you would not like my hair as it is black.", "pos": 3489666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, black is my favourite colour. In the name of God, let me see it.", "pos": 3489742}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "You ask me in God’s name to commit a sin; I shall incur another excommunication, but I cannot refuse you anything. You shall see my hair after supper, as I don’t want to scandalize the countrywoman.", "pos": 3489814}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; I think you are the sweetest of your sex. I shall die of grief when you leave this cottage to return to your sad prison.", "pos": 3490015}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "I must indeed return and do penance for my sins.", "pos": 3490153}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope you have the wit to laugh at the abbess’s silly excommunications?", "pos": 3490204}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "I begin not to dread them so much as I used to.", "pos": 3490279}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, as I see you will make me perfectly happy after supper.", "pos": 3490329}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are handsomer than your sister, but I think she was more affectionate than you.", "pos": 3491304}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "She may have been more affectionate, but she had not a better heart.", "pos": 3491400}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She was much more amorous than you.", "pos": 3491471}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "I daresay; I have never been in love.", "pos": 3491509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is strange; how about your nature and the impulse of the senses?", "pos": 3491549}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "We arrange all that easily at the convent. We accuse ourselves to the confessor, for we know it is a sin, but he treats it as a childish fault, and absolves us without imposing any penances.", "pos": 3491621}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He knows human nature, and makes allowances for your sad position.", "pos": 3491814}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "He is an old man, very learned, and of ascetic habits, but he is all indulgence. It will be a sad day when we lose him.", "pos": 3491883}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But in your amorous combats with another nun, don’t you feel as if you would like her to change into a man?", "pos": 3492005}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "You make me laugh. To be sure, if my sweetheart became a man I should not be sorry, but we do not desire such a miracle.", "pos": 3492115}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is, perhaps, through a coldness of temperament. In that your sister was better, for she liked me much more than C---- C----, and you do not like me as well as the sweetheart you left behind you at the convent.", "pos": 3492238}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Certainly not, for with you I should violate my own chastity and expose myself to consequences I tremble to think of.", "pos": 3492455}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You do not love me, then?", "pos": 3492575}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "What are you saying? I adore you, and I am very sorry you are not a woman.", "pos": 3492603}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I love you too, but your desire makes me laugh; for I would rather not be turned into a woman to please you, especially as I expect I should not think you nearly as beautiful. Sit down, my dear, and let me see your fine hair flowing over your beautiful body.", "pos": 3492680}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "Do you want me to take off my chemise?", "pos": 3492941}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course; how handsome you look without it. Let me suck your pretty breasts, as I am your baby.", "pos": 3492982}
{"speaker": "The nun", "text": "If such delights as these were allowed friendship, I should say it is better than love; for I have never experienced so great pleasure as when you put your lips to my bosom. Let me do the same to you.", "pos": 3493297}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You must be very rich. Don’t think it, dearest, but I love you passionately; and not being able to give you anything by reason of your unfortunate vow of poverty, I lavish what I possess on this worthy woman, to induce her to spare nothing for your comfort while you are here. Perhaps, too--though it is not a definite thought--I hope that it will make you love me more. How can I love you more than I do? The only thing that makes me unhappy is the idea of returning to the convent. But you told me yesterday that it was exactly that idea which made you happy. I have changed my mind since yesterday. I passed a cruel night, for as soon as I fell asleep I was in your arms, and I awoke again and again on the point of consummating the greatest of crimes. You did not go through such a struggle before committing the same crime with a man you did not love. It is exactly because I did not love him that my sin struck me as venial. Do you understand what I mean? It’s a piece of superstitious metaphysics, but I understand you perfectly. You have made me happy, and I feel very grateful to you, and I feel glad and certain of conquering when I reflect that your situation is different to mine. I will not dispute it with you, although I am sorry for what you say. Why? Because you think yourself in duty bound to refuse caresses which would not hurt you, and which would give me new life and happiness. I have thought it over. Are you weeping? Yes, and what is more, these tears are dear to me. I do not understand. I have two favours to ask of you. Say on, and be sure you will obtain what you ask.", "pos": 3497823}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "Yesterday, you left in my hands the two portraits of my Venetian sister. I want you to give them to me.", "pos": 3499547}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "They are yours.", "pos": 3499678}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "I thank you. My second favour is, that you will be good enough to take my portrait in exchange; you shall have it to-morrow.", "pos": 3499696}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I shall be delighted. It will be the most precious of all my jewels, but I wonder how you can ask me to take it as a favour, whereas you are doing me a favour I should never have dared to demand. How shall I make myself worthy of giving you my portrait?", "pos": 3499823}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "Ah, dearest! it would be a dear possession, but God preserve me from having it at the convent!", "pos": 3500079}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I will get myself painted under the costume of St. Louis of Gonzaga, or St. Anthony of Padua.", "pos": 3500176}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "I shall be damned eternally.", "pos": 3500272}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "We will say no more about it.", "pos": 3500303}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "Seeing her fortune made, the worthy woman tries every possible way to convince her benefactor that she is grateful to him. Look at the bed; she was certainly thinking of you, and look at these fine materials. I confess I enjoy their softness extremely. I shall sleep better to-night if I am not plagued by those seductive dreams which tormented me last night.", "pos": 3500624}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you think that the bed and the fine linen will deliver you from the dreams you fear?", "pos": 3500986}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "No doubt they will have a contrary effect, for softness irritates the passions. I shall leave everything with the good woman. I do not know what they would say if I took them with me to the convent.", "pos": 3501076}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You are not so comfortable there?", "pos": 3501277}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "Oh, no! A straw bed, a couple of blankets, and sometimes, as a great favour, a thin mattress and two coarse sheets. But you seem sad; you were so happy yesterday.", "pos": 3501313}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "How can I be happy when I can no longer toy with you without making you unhappy.", "pos": 3501478}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "You should have said without giving me the greatest delight.", "pos": 3501561}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Then will you consent to receive pleasure in return for that which you give me?", "pos": 3501624}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "But yours is innocent and mine is not.", "pos": 3501706}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "What would you do, then, if mine and yours were the same?", "pos": 3501747}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "You might have made me wretched yesterday, for I could not have refused you anything.", "pos": 3501807}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Why wretched? You would have had none of those dreams, but would have enjoyed a quiet night. I am very sorry the peasant woman has given you that corset, as otherwise I might at least have seen my little pets without fear of bad dreams.", "pos": 3501895}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "But you must not be angry with the good woman, for she knows that a corset is easy to unlace. And I cannot bear to see you sad.", "pos": 3502134}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "I should be blithe, if it were only to please you.", "pos": 3503327}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Then grant me the favour you accorded me yesterday evening.", "pos": 3503392}
{"speaker": "the charming nun", "text": "I would rather incur all the excommunications in the world than run the risk of appearing unjust to you. Take me.", "pos": 3503454}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Ah! it is true then. Yes, my angel! are you happy? Alas! I am happy now, but you must leave me till the evening. Let us talk of our happiness, and enjoy it over again. Then you do not repent having made me a happy man? No; it is you who have made me happy. You are an angel from heaven. We loved, we crowned our love; I cannot have done aught to offend God. I am free from all my fears. We have obeyed nature and our destinies. Do you love me still? Can you ask me? I will shew you to-night.", "pos": 3505847}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was afraid of disturbing him,", "pos": 3508239}
{"speaker": "the marquis’s mistress", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 3508281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should be interrupting him in his business.", "pos": 3508300}
{"speaker": "the marquis’s mistress", "text": "He has no business, and he would be delighted to see you. Come to-morrow, he always breakfasts in my room.", "pos": 3508348}
{"speaker": "the marquis’s mistress", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 3509054}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "but I have some business in hand, and cannot come with you.", "pos": 3509070}
{"speaker": "the marquis’s mistress", "text": "Would you be kind enough to escort me?", "pos": 3509132}
{"speaker": "the fair nun", "text": "Why are you not in your own bed, dearest?", "pos": 3511004}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Because I feel quite well again, my darling, and I wished to sup with you at table. We will go to bed afterwards, if that will give you any pleasure.", "pos": 3511048}
{"speaker": "the fair nun", "text": "It will give me pleasure if you share in my delight.", "pos": 3511200}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Alas! I am undone, and I shall doubtless die when I have to leave you.", "pos": 3511255}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not leave me, sweetheart; come with me to Rome; and leave the matter in my hands. I will make you my wife, and we will live happily together ever after.", "pos": 3511327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That would be too great a bliss, but I could never make up my mind to it; say no more about it.", "pos": 3511485}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What does this packet contain, darling?", "pos": 3511835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is the present I have got for you my portrait, but you must not see it till I am in bed.", "pos": 3511877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will indulge you in that fancy, although I am very curious to see the portrait.", "pos": 3511971}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will say I am right afterwards.", "pos": 3512055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It isn’t a copy,", "pos": 3512407}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "there would not have been time. He only made the eyes and hair black, and the latter more abundant. Thus you have in it a portrait of the first and also of the second M---- M----, in whom you must forget the first. She has also vanished from the clothed portrait, for you see the nun has black eyes. I could shew this picture to anyone as my portrait.", "pos": 3512436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do not know how precious your present is to me! Tell me, dearest, how you succeeded in carrying out your plan so well.", "pos": 3512790}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told the country-woman about it yesterday morning, and she said that she had a foster-son at Anneci, who was a miniature painter. Through him she sent the two miniatures to a more skilful painter at Geneva, who made the change you see for four or five Louis; he was probably able to do it in two or three hours. I entrusted the two portraits to him, and you see how well he did his work. The woman has no doubt just received them, and to-morrow she may be able to tell you more about it.", "pos": 3512915}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is really a wonderful woman. I will indemnify her for the expense. But now tell me why you did not want me to see the portrait before you were in bed?", "pos": 3513407}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Guess.", "pos": 3513564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I can now see you in the same posture as that in which you are represented.", "pos": 3513573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 3513659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is an excellent idea; only love can have given it you. But you must wait till I am in the same state.", "pos": 3513670}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will put it on myself; you don’t know how I shall enjoy it. Why didn’t you use one last night? How could you have forgotten it? Well, I shall be very wretched if anything comes of it. What shall I do in four or five months, when my condition becomes past doubt?", "pos": 3514412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest, the only thing to do is not to think of it, for if the damage is done, there is no cure for it; but from my experience and knowledge of the laws of nature I expect that our sweet combats of last night will probably have no troublesome consequences. It has been stated that after child-birth a woman cannot conceive afresh without having seen something which I expect you have not seen.", "pos": 3514678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, God be thanked!", "pos": 3515075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good. Then let us not give any thought to the dismal future lest we lose our present bliss.", "pos": 3515097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am quite comforted; but I can’t understand why you are afraid to-day of what you were not afraid yesterday; my state is the same.", "pos": 3515191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The event has sometimes given the lie to the most eminent physicians. Nature, wiser than they, has exceptions to her rules, let us not defy them for the future, but let us not trouble ourselves if we have defied them in the past.", "pos": 3515325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like to hear you talk so sagely. Yes, we will be prudent whatever it costs. There you are, hooded like a mother abbess, but in spite of the fineness of the sheath I like the little fellow better quite naked. I think that this covering degrades us both.", "pos": 3515557}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, it does. But let us not dwell on these ideas which will only spoil our pleasure.", "pos": 3515814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will enjoy our pleasure directly; let me be reasonable now, for I have never thought of these matters before. Love must have invented these little sheaths, but it must first have listened to the voice of prudence, and I do not like to see love and prudence allied.", "pos": 3515912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The correctness of your arguments surprises me, but we will philosophize another time.", "pos": 3516182}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wait a minute. I have never seen a man before, and I have never wished to enjoy the sight as much as now. Ten months ago I should have called that article an invention of the devil; but now I look upon the inventor as a benefactor, for if my wretched hump-back had provided himself with such a sheath he would not have exposed me to the danger of losing my honour and my life. But, tell me, how is that the makers of these things remain unmolested; I wonder they are not found out, excommunicated, or heavily fined, or even punished corporeally, if they are Jews as I expect. Dear me, the maker of this one must have measured you badly! Look! it is too large here, and too small there; it makes you into a regular curve. What a stupid the fellow must be, he can’t know his own trade! But what is that?", "pos": 3516271}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You make me laugh; it’s all your fault. You have been feeling and fondling, and you see the natural consequence. I knew it would be so.", "pos": 3517075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you couldn’t keep it back a minute. It is going on now. I am so sorry; it is a dreadful pity.", "pos": 3517213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is not much harm done, so console yourself.", "pos": 3517313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can I? you are quite dead. How can you laugh?", "pos": 3517365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At your charming simplicity. You shall see in a moment that your charms will give me new life which I shall not lose so easily.", "pos": 3517417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wonderful! I couldn’t have believed it!", "pos": 3517547}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how if the rubbing makes the sheath fall off?", "pos": 3517980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How do you do?", "pos": 3519138}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the abbess said the sisters could not start before ten days had expired.", "pos": 3520394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She must have changed her mind.", "pos": 3520473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sorrow intrudes into our happy state. Will you be my wife? Will you follow me to Rome and receive absolution from your vows. You may be sure that I shall have a care for your happiness.", "pos": 3520507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay, I have lived long enough; let me return to my tomb.", "pos": 3520695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will go to bed after supper,", "pos": 3522169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and will not get up till the messenger brings the fatal news that the lay-sisters have started.", "pos": 3522213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t go, stay with me a couple of days longer.", "pos": 3524777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel the honour you are conferring on me, but business of the greatest importance obliges me to be gone forthwith.", "pos": 3524827}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible,", "pos": 3524946}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I owe you twenty,", "pos": 3525462}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do I look worthy of contempt?", "pos": 3525894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise to be yours to-morrow, wait till then.", "pos": 3526253}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "I think I can get you rooms in a beautiful house, but it is outside the town walls. The door-keeper is an excellent cook, and for the sake of doing your cooking I am sure he will lodge you for nothing.", "pos": 3527947}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t wish that,", "pos": 3528150}
{"speaker": "the baron", "text": "Don’t be afraid, he will make it up by means of his dishes; and besides, the house is for sale and costs him nothing. Come and see it.", "pos": 3528179}
{"speaker": "the baron", "text": "She is a good girl, who sees no company, and is quite poor.", "pos": 3529833}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Those are three reasons which make me the more anxious to know her.", "pos": 3529906}
{"speaker": "the baron", "text": "You will really find nothing to do in that quarter.", "pos": 3529976}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3530030}
{"speaker": "the baron", "text": "There is her aunt, I will introduce you to her as we leave the concert-room.", "pos": 3530043}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "He is making a fool of you and me,", "pos": 3530405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, he has guessed my tastes. Don’t you think everything was very good?", "pos": 3530451}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "I don’t deny it, but . . . .", "pos": 3530538}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t be afraid; I love spending my money. I beg your pardon, I only want you to be pleased. Go on as you have begun, and do better if you can; but let me have your bill every morning. You are quite right; with such an arrangement one can tell how one is getting on. I should like you always to give me ices, and you must let me have two more lights. But, unless I am mistaken, those are candles that I see. I am a Venetian, and accustomed to wax lights.", "pos": 3530570}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "That is your servant’s fault, sir.", "pos": 3531274}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because, after eating a good supper, he went to bed, saying he was ill. Thus I heard nothing as to how you liked things done. Very good, you shall learn from my own lips.", "pos": 3531326}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "He asked my wife to make chocolate for you tomorrow morning; he gave her the chocolate, I will make it myself. It’s her goodness of heart. I am obliged to her all the same. She is an excellent woman.", "pos": 3531501}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must take care of the poor fellow. What is your name?", "pos": 3534587}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "My name is Rose, and my sister is Manon.", "pos": 3534692}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, and I shall be very pleased if you will be kind enough to do the same offices for me till my servant recovers.", "pos": 3534890}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "With pleasure, sir. will shave you.", "pos": 3535030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to see how you do it; get the water. You must give me a kiss. I shall be vexed, if you refuse to kiss me. Well, if you won’t kiss me, you shan’t shave me. Your daughter has just shaved me admirably, and she refuses to kiss me, because it is not the custom at Grenoble.", "pos": 3535100}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "You little silly, it is the custom in Paris. You kiss me fast enough after you have shaved me, why should you be less polite to this gentleman? Ah! your turn will come when you have finished doing the gentleman’s hair.", "pos": 3535799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, the two sisters are delightful. I suppose they are well off.", "pos": 3536681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What makes you think that? The sight of the three Graces here, who are made of better stuff than your handsome housekeeper, who would not let me kiss her. They are making me wait too long for my broth, however. I shall have to speak severely about it. Le Duc, you are a rascal. Do you want me to get well? I want you to put a stop to this farce, as I don’t like it. I shall dine in bed. You shall be attended to. She puts on big airs, but that does not impose on me. Don’t you think she is very pretty? I think you are very impudent. You ape your betters, and I don’t approve of it. Get up. You must wait on me at table, and afterwards you will eat your dinner by yourself, and try to get yourself respected as an honest man always is, whatever his condition, so long as he does not forget himself. You must not stay any longer in this room, the doorkeeper will give you another. Oh, I am very glad! I have been talking of you,", "pos": 3537391}
{"speaker": "baron", "text": "and of the impression her niece made on you. She promised to send for her, and to keep her at the house all day.", "pos": 3539069}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "No. I have never found anybody to do it.", "pos": 3539835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is never too late, and without doubt God has willed that this pleasure should be reserved for me.", "pos": 3539890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to see you, and above all to look at your smiling face, for I thought you much too serious yesterday.", "pos": 3544880}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "That’s because M. le Duc is a greater gentleman than you are; I should not have presumed to laugh in his presence; but I had my reward in seeing him start off this morning in his gilded coach.", "pos": 3544998}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did he see you laughing at him?", "pos": 3545193}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "Yes, unless he is blind.", "pos": 3545227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will be vexed.", "pos": 3545254}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "All the better.", "pos": 3545274}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are really very charming. What have you got in that parcel?", "pos": 3545292}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "Some goods of our own manufacture. Look; they are embroidered gloves.", "pos": 3545358}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are beautiful; the embroidery is exquisitely done. How much for the lot?", "pos": 3545430}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "Are you a good hand at a bargain.", "pos": 3545510}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 3545546}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "Then we must take that into account. The lot will cost you two hundred and ten francs.", "pos": 3545559}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There are nine louis; give me six francs change.", "pos": 3545756}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "But you told us you would make a bargain.", "pos": 3545807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You were wrong to believe it.", "pos": 3545851}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "Shall we have the pleasure of waiting on you at the table?", "pos": 3546159}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wish you would.", "pos": 3546231}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "But we should like to know who is coming to dinner first; as if it is officers from the garrison we dare not come; they make so free.", "pos": 3546251}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My guests are Madame Morin, her husband, and her niece.", "pos": 3546387}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3546445}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "Mdlle. Roman is the prettiest and the best girl in Grenoble; but she will find some difficulty in marrying as she has no money.", "pos": 3546475}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She may meet some rich man who will think her goodness and her beauty worth a million of money.", "pos": 3546605}
{"speaker": "The Cousin", "text": "There are not many men of that kind.", "pos": 3546703}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; but there are a few.", "pos": 3546742}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "Sir. Sir, if my destiny points to marriage I do not deny that I should be happy to find a husband like you.", "pos": 3549382}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "I heard singing in the kitchen, and on going in I found Le Duc in a high state of excitement and very drunk. As soon as he saw me he tried to rise, but he lost his centre of gravity, and fell right under the kitchen table. He was carried away to bed.", "pos": 3550424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has he a carriage and servants?", "pos": 3555635}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "He has nothing, no servants and no money.", "pos": 3555669}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where did he come from?", "pos": 3555713}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "From the skies.", "pos": 3555739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A fair abode, certainly; how long has he been here?", "pos": 3555757}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "For the last fortnight. He visits, but asks for nothing.", "pos": 3555811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How does he live?", "pos": 3555870}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "On credit at the inn; he is supposed to be waiting for his carriage and servants.", "pos": 3555890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is probably a vagabond.", "pos": 3555974}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "He does not look like one, as you saw for yourself, and his diamonds contradict that hypothesis.", "pos": 3556003}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, if they are not imitation stones, for it seems to me that if they were real he would sell them.", "pos": 3556102}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall only see one beauty,", "pos": 3558769}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "God alone knows, what people will say in Grenoble!", "pos": 3558830}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "They will say it is your wedding ball,", "pos": 3558902}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "Yes, and they will doubtless talk of my magnificent dress, my lace, and my diamonds,", "pos": 3558975}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They will talk of your beauty, your wit, and your goodness, goodness which will make your husband a happy man.", "pos": 3559090}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "I don’t mind the indecency of it, but what strikes me is the exact likeness.", "pos": 3559926}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, that is the portrait of a Venetian, lady, of whom I was very found.", "pos": 3560106}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "I daresay, but it’s very curious. These two M’s, these cast-off robes sacrificed to love, everything makes my surprise greater.", "pos": 3560193}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is a nun and named M---- M----.", "pos": 3560323}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "And a Welsh niece of mine at Camberi is also named M---- M----, and belongs to the same order. Nay, more, she has been at Aix, whence you have come, to get cured of an illness.", "pos": 3560361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And this portrait is like her?", "pos": 3560540}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "As one drop of water is like another. If you go to Chamberi call on her and say you come from me; you will be welcome and you will be as much surprised as I am.", "pos": 3560573}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will do so, after I have been in Italy. However, I will not shew her this portrait, which would scandalize her; I will put it away carefully.", "pos": 3560738}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "I beg you not to shew it to anyone.", "pos": 3560884}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may rely on me.", "pos": 3560922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was in an ecstasy at having put her off so effectually.", "pos": 3560943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At eight o’clock all my guests arrived, and I saw before me all the fairest ladies and the noblest gentlemen of Grenoble. The only thing which vexed me was the compliments they lavished on me, as is customary in the provinces.", "pos": 3561001}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I opened the ball with the lady pointed out to me by M. Valenglard, and then I danced with all the ladies in succession; but my partner in all the square dances was the fair Mdlle. Roman, who shone from her simplicity--at least, in my eyes.", "pos": 3561228}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After a quadrille, in which I had exerted myself a good deal, I felt hot and went up to my room to put on a lighter suit, and as I was doing so, in came the fair cousin, who asked me if I required anything.", "pos": 3561469}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, you, dearest. Did anyone see you coming in here?", "pos": 3561676}
{"speaker": "Door-keeper's niece", "text": "No, I came from upstairs, and my cousins are in the dancing-room.", "pos": 3561788}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is capital. You are fair as Love himself, and this is an excellent opportunity for shewing you how much I love you.", "pos": 3561856}
{"speaker": "Door-keeper's niece", "text": "Good heavens! What are you doing? Let me go, somebody might come in. Well, put out the light!", "pos": 3561979}
{"speaker": "Guests", "text": "What name is it?", "pos": 3563508}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bouchenu de Valbonnais.", "pos": 3563554}
{"speaker": "Guest", "text": "He was my uncle. Ah! sir, you must come and stay with us. You danced with my daughter. What was your father’s name?", "pos": 3563580}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "Be my friend, sir, and not my enemy and the cause of my ruin.", "pos": 3564596}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "It will give people but a poor opinion of our merits.", "pos": 3565132}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am tired, but if you will promise to be kind I will dance a minuet with you.", "pos": 3565188}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "What do want me to do?", "pos": 3565279}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go into my bedroom and wait for me there in the dark when you see your sister and your cousin busy dancing.", "pos": 3565314}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "And you will only dance with me.", "pos": 3565424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I swear!", "pos": 3565459}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "Then you will find me in your room.", "pos": 3565470}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, let them think so, they are worthy of love, though not to be named in the same breath with one past compare, but who leaves me no hope.", "pos": 3567781}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "Let me tell Madame d’Urfe all about it.", "pos": 3567935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; I shall be delighted.", "pos": 3567977}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "She would never have done anything, if she had not left America and come to France; and if my niece does not go to Paris nobody can say that the horoscope has prophesied falsely. We should therefore go to Paris, but how is it to be done? I don’t see my way to it. The prediction of the birth of a son has something divine and entrancing about it. I don’t wish to seem prejudiced, but my niece has certainly more qualifications for gaining the king’s affection than the Maintenon had: my niece is a good girl and young, while the Maintenon was no longer as young as she had been, and had led a strange life before she became a devotee. But we shall never accomplish this journey to Paris.", "pos": 3568755}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "Nay, she must go; her fate must be fulfilled.", "pos": 3569466}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "According to the horoscope, the king is to fall in love with my niece in her eighteenth year; she is now close on it. What are we to do? Where are we to get the hundred louis necessary? And when she gets to Paris is she to go to the king and say, ‘Here I am, your majesty’? And who is going to take her there? I can’t.", "pos": 3571502}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "My aunt Roman might,", "pos": 3571840}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "Well, there is Madame Varnier, of the Rue de Richelieu; she is an aunt of yours. She has a good establishment, and knows everybody.", "pos": 3571965}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "See, how the ways of destiny are made plain. You talk of a hundred louis; twelve will be sufficient to take you to Madame Varnier’s. When you get there, leave the rest to your fate, which will surely favour you.", "pos": 3572120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you do go to Paris, say nothing to Madame Roman or Madame Varnier about the horoscope.", "pos": 3572353}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "I will say nothing to anyone about it; but, after all, it is only a happy dream. I shall never see Paris, still less Louis XV.", "pos": 3572455}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "They are gold,", "pos": 3572839}
{"speaker": "M. Morin", "text": "And the goldsmith will give you a hundred and fifty louis for them,", "pos": 3572873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg you will keep them; you can give me a bill payable at Paris when you become rich.", "pos": 3572959}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "I wish you would tell me, if this horoscope is not all a joke.", "pos": 3573443}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, it is quite serious, but it all depends on an if. If you do not go to Paris the prophecy will never be fulfilled.", "pos": 3573563}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "You must think so, certainly, or you would never have offered me those fifty medals.", "pos": 3573697}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do me the pleasure of accepting them now; nobody will know anything about it.", "pos": 3573784}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "No, I cannot, though I am much obliged to you. But why should you want to give me such a large sum?", "pos": 3573864}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For the pleasure of contributing to your happiness, and in the hope that you will allow me to love you.", "pos": 3573966}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "If you really love me why should I oppose your love? You need not buy my consent; and to be happy I do not want to possess the King of France, if you did but know to what my desires are limited.", "pos": 3574072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me.", "pos": 3574269}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "I would fain find a kind husband, rich enough for us not to lack the necessaries of life.", "pos": 3574280}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But how if you did not love him?", "pos": 3574372}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "If he was a good, kind man how could I help loving him?", "pos": 3574407}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see that you do not know what love is.", "pos": 3574465}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Roman", "text": "You are right. I do not know the love that maddens, and I thank God for it.", "pos": 3574508}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I think you are wise; may God preserve you from that love.", "pos": 3574586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You say, that as soon as the king sees me he will fall in love with me, and to tell you the truth that strikes me as vastly improbable; for though it is quite possible that he may not think me plain, or he might even pronounce me pretty, yet I do not think he will become so madly in love as you say.", "pos": 3574653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You don’t? Let us sit down. You have only got to fancy that the king will take the same liking to you that I have done; that is all.", "pos": 3574956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what do you find in me that you will not find in most girls of my age? I certainly may have struck you; but that only proves that I was born to exercise this sway over you, and not at all that I am to rule the king in like manner. Why should I go and look for the king, if you love me yourself?", "pos": 3575091}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I cannot give you the position you deserve.", "pos": 3575392}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have thought you had plenty of money.", "pos": 3575446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then there’s another reason: you are not in love with me.", "pos": 3575495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I love you as tenderly as if I were your wife. I might then kiss you, though duty now forbids my doing so.", "pos": 3575555}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am much obliged to you for not being angry with me for being so happy with you!", "pos": 3575664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, I am delighted to please you.", "pos": 3575748}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you will allow me to call on you at an early hour to-morrow, and to take coffee at your bedside.", "pos": 3575797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not dream of such a thing. If I would I could not. I sleep with my aunt, and I always rise at the same time she does. Take away your hand; you promised not to do it again. In God’s name, let me alone.", "pos": 3575901}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She pleased me so well, that I have resolved to go away to-morrow to avoid making proposals to you which would bring the great fortune that awaits her to nought. If it were not for that I should have been happy to have asked her hand of you.", "pos": 3577581}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "Alas! her happiness would, perhaps, be built on a better foundation. Explain yourself.", "pos": 3577838}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I dare not wage war with fate.", "pos": 3577927}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "But you are not going to-morrow?", "pos": 3577960}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Excuse me, but I shall call to take leave at two o’clock. At least. I may have the honour of escorting you to your door?", "pos": 3577995}
{"speaker": "Valenglard", "text": "That will protract our happiness for some minutes.", "pos": 3578523}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell him I don’t know his name.", "pos": 3580800}
{"speaker": "Rose", "text": "he was the gentleman who had had the honour of supping with me at Madame Morin’s.", "pos": 3580873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell him to come in.", "pos": 3580956}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "Sir. I want to speak with you in private.", "pos": 3580979}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot order these young ladies to leave my room, sir. Be kind enough to wait for me outside till I have put on my dressing-gown, and then I shall be ready to speak to you.", "pos": 3581034}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "If I am troubling you, I will call again to-morrow.", "pos": 3581211}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would not find me, as I am leaving Grenoble to-day.", "pos": 3581265}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "In that case I will wait. Sir. I must leave this place, and I have not a penny to pay my landlord. I beg of you to come to my aid. I dare not have recourse to anyone else in the town for fear of exposing myself to the insult of a refusal.", "pos": 3581323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps I ought to feel myself flattered at the preference you have shewn me, but without wishing to insult you in any way I am afraid I shall be obliged to refuse your request.", "pos": 3581616}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "If you knew who I am I am sure you would not refuse me some small help.", "pos": 3581796}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you think so, tell me who you are; you may count on my silence.", "pos": 3581870}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "I am Charles, second son of Ivan, Duke of Courland, who is in exile in Siberia. I made my escape.", "pos": 3581939}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you go to Genoa you will find yourself beyond the reach of poverty; for no doubt the brother of your lady-mother would never abandon you.", "pos": 3582039}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "He died in Silesia.", "pos": 3582182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When?", "pos": 3582204}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "Two years ago, I believe.", "pos": 3582212}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have been deceived, for I saw him at Stuttgart scarcely six months ago. He is the Baron de Treiden.", "pos": 3582240}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have diamond buckles. Why don’t you sell them?", "pos": 3582991}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "It’s the last piece of jewellery I possess out of all my mother gave me, and I promised her never to part with them.", "pos": 3583054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would not shew those buckles if I were you; your pocket would be a better place for them. I may tell you frankly that I believe the stones to be counterfeit, and that your lie displeases me.", "pos": 3583173}
{"speaker": "M. Charles Ivanoff", "text": "Sir, I am not a liar.", "pos": 3583368}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall see. Prove that the stones are genuine, and I will give you six louis. I shall be delighted if I am in the wrong. Farewell.", "pos": 3583392}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir. I do not wish to leave your house without having the pleasure of dining with your charming girls, to shew them how I appreciate the care they have taken of me. Let me have, then, a delicate repast for four, and also order post horses, that I may start in the evening.", "pos": 3584594}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Sir. I entreat you to order a saddle-horse besides; I was not made for a seat behind a chaise.", "pos": 3584879}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless, M. le Duc, you will have to wait on her at table.", "pos": 3585114}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Yes, as she waits on you in bed.", "pos": 3585180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come back, I forgive you. Very good, but don’t be so impudent another time. Here, take this watch.", "pos": 3585519}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I would jump again for another watch like this.", "pos": 3585865}
{"speaker": "door-keeper", "text": "You will save time and money,", "pos": 3586712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will do so, if these girls of yours will keep me company all night, as I am determined I will not go to bed.", "pos": 3586753}
{"speaker": "door-keeper", "text": "O Lord! that’s their business.", "pos": 3586880}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The famous Astrodi at Avignon--how she will be astonished to see me!", "pos": 3588621}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "May I have the pleasure of sending a glass to your wife?", "pos": 3589621}
{"speaker": "wife", "text": "she never took anything to drink.", "pos": 3589774}
{"speaker": "stranger", "text": "who she was.", "pos": 3589950}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was a newcomer and did not know,", "pos": 3589970}
{"speaker": "somebody else", "text": "her husband called himself the Chevalier Stuard, that he came from Lyons, and was going to Marseilles; he came, it appeared, to Avignon a week ago, without servants, and in a very poor carriage.", "pos": 3590033}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where is the famous Astrodi? I have not seen her yet.", "pos": 3590821}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "Excuse me, she has danced and sang before your eyes.", "pos": 3590917}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By Jove, it’s impossible! I know her perfectly, and if she has so changed as not to be recognized she is no longer herself.", "pos": 3590972}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who told you that?", "pos": 3593402}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I heard it from here; their room is only separated from this by a wooden partition. If they were in it now, I am sure they could hear all we are saying.", "pos": 3593423}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are they, then?", "pos": 3593578}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "At table, where they are eating for to-morrow, but the lady is crying. There’s a fine chance for you, sir.", "pos": 3593602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be quiet; I shan’t have anything to do with it. It’s a trap, for a woman of any worth would die rather than weep at a public table.", "pos": 3593711}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Ah, if you saw how pretty she looks in tears! I am only a poor devil, but I would willingly give her two louis if she would earn them.", "pos": 3593845}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and offer her the money. Go to bed, and next morning tell the landlord to get me another room, for a wooden partition is too thin a barrier to keep off people whom despair drive to extremities. Say I don’t know anybody of that name.", "pos": 3593982}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I am going to see, that your pistols are well primed for the future.", "pos": 3594782}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go, and ask the landlord to give me another room.", "pos": 3594997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you don’t get me another room I shall leave your house on the spot, because I don’t like hearing sobs and reproaches all night.", "pos": 3595159}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Can you hear them, sir?", "pos": 3595292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can hear them yourself now. What do you think of it? The woman will kill herself, and you will be the cause of her death.", "pos": 3595318}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I, sir? I have only asked them to pay me my just debts.", "pos": 3595446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hush! there goes the husband. I am sure he is telling his wife in his language that you are an unfeeling monster.", "pos": 3595504}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "He may tell her what he likes so long as he pays me.", "pos": 3595620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have condemned them to die of hunger. How much do they owe you?", "pos": 3595675}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Fifty francs.", "pos": 3595745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Aren’t you ashamed of making such a row for a wretched sum like that?", "pos": 3595761}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Sir, I am only ashamed of an ill deed, and I do not commit such a deed in asking for my own.", "pos": 3595833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There’s your money. Go and tell them that you have been paid, and that they may eat again; but don’t say who gave you the money.", "pos": 3595928}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "That’s what I call a good action. You may dine and sup, at the public table, but you must pay me day by day.", "pos": 3596059}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You stupid fool!", "pos": 3596445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "they will know everything.", "pos": 3596490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s the matter with you, idiot?", "pos": 3596603}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "That’s fine. I see. I am going on the stage. You would do well to become an actor.", "pos": 3596648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a fool.", "pos": 3596733}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Not so big a fool as you think.", "pos": 3596751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am going for a walk; mind you don’t leave my room for a moment.", "pos": 3596785}
{"speaker": "Chevalier", "text": "Sir, I don’t know to what you are referring.", "pos": 3596945}
{"speaker": "Young gentleman", "text": "Not having the honour to know anyone here, I did not care that anyone should be able to say that he had regaled one who was unknown to him. But you, sir, are a man who needs no introduction.", "pos": 3598445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do me too much honour.", "pos": 3598640}
{"speaker": "Young gentleman", "text": "You are staying at the ‘St. Omer’!", "pos": 3598669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; I am only stopping here to see Vaucluse, where I think of going to-morrow if I can get a good guide.", "pos": 3598706}
{"speaker": "Dolci", "text": "If you would do me the honour of accepting me, I should be delighted. My name is Dolci, I am son of the captain of the vice-legate’s guard.", "pos": 3598814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel the honour you do me, and I accept your obliging offer. I will put off my start till your arrival.", "pos": 3598956}
{"speaker": "Dolci", "text": "I will be with you at seven.", "pos": 3599064}
{"speaker": "Hunchbacked girl", "text": "If I don’t leave before it comes off, I will,", "pos": 3600277}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give him sixteen tickets,", "pos": 3600546}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "After the show we will come and sup with you, but on the condition that you ask nobody else, as we want to be alone.", "pos": 3600674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go there,", "pos": 3606262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is not far off.", "pos": 3606289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Morte bella parea nel suo bel viso", "pos": 3606508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Four hundred years have past and gone,", "pos": 3606989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "since Laura de Sade walked here; perhaps she was not as handsome as you, but she was lively, kindly, polite, and good of heart. May this air which she breathed and which you breathe now kindle in you the spark of fire divine; that fire that coursed through her veins, and made her heart beat and her bosom swell. Then you would win the worship of all worthy men, and from none would you receive the least offence. Gladness, madam, is the lot of the happy, and sadness the portion of souls condemned to everlasting pains. Be cheerful, then, and you will do something to deserve your beauty.", "pos": 3607095}
{"speaker": "Dolci", "text": "That woman is an old hand, infatuated with a sense of her own merit. I would bet that she has only left her own country because her charms, from being too freely displayed, have ceased to please there. She must be sure of making her fortune out of anybody she comes across. I suspect that the fellow who passes for her husband is a rascal, and that her pretended melancholy is put on to drive a persistent lover to distraction. She has not yet succeeded in finding a dupe, but as she will no doubt try to catch a rich man, it is not improbable that she is hovering over you.", "pos": 3608555}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I did not find her satisfactory in all respects,", "pos": 3609973}
{"speaker": "Marquis of Grimaldi", "text": "There are some very pretty women in Genoa, but not one to compare with her whom you took to Vaucluse to-day. I sat opposite to her at table yesterday evening, and I was struck with her perfect beauty. I offered her my arm up the stair; I told her that I was sorry to see her so sad, and if I could do anything for her she had only to speak. You know I was aware she had no money. Her husband, real or pretended, thanked me for my offer, and after I had wished them a good night I left them. An hour ago you left her and her husband at the door of their apartment, and soon afterwards I took the liberty of calling. She welcomed me with a pretty bow, and her husband went out directly, begging me to keep her company till his return. The fair one made no difficulty in sitting next to me on a couch, and this struck me as a good omen, but when I took her hand she gently drew it away. I then told, her, in as few words as I could, that her beauty had made me in love with her, and that if she wanted a hundred louis they were at her service, if she would drop her melancholy, and behave in a manner suitable to the feelings with which she had inspired me. She only replied by a motion of the head, which shewed gratitude, but also an absolute refusal of my offer. ‘I am going to-morrow,’ said I. No answer. I took her hand again, and she drew it back with an air of disdain which wounded me. I begged her to excuse me, and I left the room without more ado. I am going to-morrow,", "pos": 3610132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s an account of what happened an hour ago. I am not amorous of her, it was only a whim; but knowing, as I do, that she has no money, her manner astonished me. I fancied that you might have placed her in a position to despise my offer, and this would explain her conduct, in a measure; otherwise I can’t understand it at all. May I ask you to tell me whether you are more fortunate than I?", "pos": 3611589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has had an excellent dinner,", "pos": 3612326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and in all probability she will not have any supper.", "pos": 3612369}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I bet she will,", "pos": 3612424}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "It was her husband,", "pos": 3614196}
{"speaker": "Comte de Bussi", "text": "Her husband! Oh, that’s another thing; husbands don’t fight--a man of honour always apologises to them. The husband’s a fool. He shut the door in my face, and told me to satisfy my desires somewhere else. It isn’t worth the trouble of stopping, but I wish I had made an end of it.", "pos": 3614233}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "No more would I, but if she had accepted my hundred louis it would have been different. I am curious to know the further history of this siren, and I rely upon you to tell me all about it as you go through Genoa.", "pos": 3614903}
{"speaker": "sham Duke of Courland", "text": "Thank you; I am now going to Marseilles.", "pos": 3615737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope you will have a prosperous journey.", "pos": 3615780}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I have just had a row with the Chevalier Stuard.", "pos": 3616129}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What about?", "pos": 3616180}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Because he has nothing to pay me with, and I am going to turn them out immediately, although the lady is in bed in convulsions which are suffocating her.", "pos": 3616194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take out your bill in her charms.", "pos": 3616350}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Ah, I don’t care for that sort of thing! I am getting on in life, and I don’t want any more scenes to bring discredit on my house.", "pos": 3616386}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go and tell her that from henceforth she and her husband will dine and sup in their own room and that I will pay for them as long as I remain here.", "pos": 3616519}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You are very generous, sir, but you know that meals in a private room are charged double.", "pos": 3616669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know they are.", "pos": 3616761}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3616780}
{"speaker": "Stuard", "text": "She will give me no answers, and you know that that sort of thing is rather tedious.", "pos": 3617263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come, she knows what you have done for her; she will talk to you, for her feelings . . . .", "pos": 3617350}
{"speaker": "Stuard", "text": "What business have you to talk about feelings after what happened yesterday evening? It was well for that gentleman that he went away at midnight, otherwise I should have killed him this morning.", "pos": 3617443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear sir, allow me to tell you that all that is pure braggadocio. Yesterday, not to-day, was the time to kill him, or to throw your plate at his head, at all events. We will now go and see your wife.", "pos": 3617643}
{"speaker": "Stuard", "text": "A hundred Louis! what folly! We might have been at home at Liege by now. A princess allows one to kiss her hand for nothing, and she.... A hundred Louis! Oh, damnable!", "pos": 3618244}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "he was gone to fetch some water.", "pos": 3619319}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Only the vice-legate’s auditor, and though he makes me his pathic he is good-natured and generous. I have accustomed myself to his taste easily enough, though I should have thought such a thing impossible a year ago, as I fancied the exercise a harmful one, but I was wrong.", "pos": 3623439}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So the auditor makes a boy of you?", "pos": 3623731}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Yes. My sister would have adored him, as that sort of love is her passion.", "pos": 3623768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But your sister has such fine haunches.", "pos": 3623845}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "So have I! Look here, feel me.", "pos": 3623887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; but wait a bit, it is too soon for that kind of thing yet.", "pos": 3623920}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "We will be wanton after supper.", "pos": 3623996}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "I think you are wanton now,", "pos": 3624030}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Why?", "pos": 3624075}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "Why? Ought you to shew your person like that?", "pos": 3624082}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "My dear girl, you will be shewing yourself soon. When one is in good company, one is in the golden age.", "pos": 3624130}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wonder at your telling everyone what sort of a connection you have with the auditor,", "pos": 3624236}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Nonsense! I don’t tell everyone, but everyone tells me and congratulates me too. They know the worthy man never cared for women, and it would be absurd to deny what everybody guesses. I used to be astonished at my sister, but the best plan in this world is to be astonished at nothing. But don’t you like that?", "pos": 3624333}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I only like this.", "pos": 3624646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you never had a lover?", "pos": 3625139}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "No, she is still a maid.", "pos": 3625189}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "No, I am not. I had a lover at Bordeaux, and another at Montpellier.", "pos": 3625236}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Yes, I know, but you are still as you were born.", "pos": 3625346}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "I can’t deny it.", "pos": 3625397}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s that? Two lovers and still a maid! I don’t understand; please tell me about it, for I have never heard of such a thing.", "pos": 3625416}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "Before I satisfied my first lover which happened when I was only twelve, I was just the same as I am now.", "pos": 3625545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s wonderful. And what did he say when he saw it?", "pos": 3625653}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "I swore that he was my first, and he believed me, putting it down to the peculiar shape of my body.", "pos": 3625707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He was a man of spirit; but didn’t he hurt you?", "pos": 3625809}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "Not a bit; but then he was very gentle.", "pos": 3625859}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "You must have a try after supper, that would be fine fun.", "pos": 3625901}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "No, no, the gentleman would be too big for me.", "pos": 3625987}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Nonsense! You don’t want to take in all of him. I will show you how it is.", "pos": 3626053}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "That’s just what I should have thought, it could never be done.", "pos": 3626224}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Well, he is rather big, but there’s a cure for everything, and he will be content with half-measures.", "pos": 3626308}
{"speaker": "Lepi", "text": "It’s not the length, my dear, but the thickness which frightens me; I am afraid the door is too narrow.", "pos": 3626436}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "All the better for you, for you can sell your maidenhead after having had two lovers.", "pos": 3626542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 3626998}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I will turn away while you are getting ready.", "pos": 3627019}
{"speaker": "Astrodi", "text": "Now comes my turn, but I don’t want you to infringe on the rights of my auditor, so come and look round and see where the path lies. Take that.", "pos": 3628186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What am I to do with this slice of lemon?", "pos": 3628351}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want you to try whether the place is free from infection, or whether it would be dangerous for you to pay it a visit.", "pos": 3628395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is that a sure method?", "pos": 3628517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Infallible; if everything were not right I could not bear the smart.", "pos": 3628542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There you are. How’s that?", "pos": 3628613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right; but don’t deceive me, I want no half measures. My reputation would be made if I became with child.", "pos": 3628642}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s rather tragic, but I can find a cure. I will disburse twenty-five Louis, but it is your wife who must receive them; and the only condition is that she must receive me alone for an hour, and be entirely kind.", "pos": 3630115}
{"speaker": "Stuard", "text": "Sir, we need just that sum; my wife is disposed to receive you; go and talk to her. I shall not be in till noon.", "pos": 3630342}
{"speaker": "Stuard's Wife", "text": "I am ready, sir, to pay with my body for the wretched twenty-five Louis of which my husband is in need. You can do what you like with me; but remember that in taking advantage of my position to assuage your brutal lust you are the viler of the two, for I only sell myself so cheaply because necessity compels me to do so. Your baseness is more shameful than mine. Come on; here I am.", "pos": 3630764}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, madam, I shall not leave this room degraded because you have told me so, but I shall leave it after imparting to you a few degrading truths, of which you cannot be ignorant if you are a woman of any decency whatever. Here are twenty-five louis, a wretched sum to give a virtuous woman in payment of her favours, but much more than you deserve. I am not brutal, and to convince you of the fact I am going to leave you in the undisturbed possession of your charms, which I despise as heartily as I should have admired them if your behaviour had been different. I only give you the money from a feeling of compassion which I cannot overcome, and which is the only feeling I now have for you. Nevertheless, let me tell you that whether a woman sells herself for twenty-five louis or twenty-five million louis she is as much a prostitute in the one case as in the other, if she does not give her love with herself, or at all events the semblance of love. Farewell. Sir, let me alone; I wish to hear no more about your wife.", "pos": 3631618}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "Only lack of money to return to my native country,", "pos": 3633841}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What were you doing at Madrid, and why did you leave?", "pos": 3633903}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "I was there four years as valet to Dr. Pistoria, physician to the King of Spain, but on my health failing I left him. Here is a certificate which will shew you that I gave satisfaction.", "pos": 3633959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can you do?", "pos": 3634147}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "I write a good hand, I can assist a gentleman as his secretary, and I intend being a scribe when I get home. Here are some verses I copied yesterday.", "pos": 3634166}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You write well; but can you write correctly without a book?", "pos": 3634318}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "I can write from dictation in French, Latin, and Spanish.", "pos": 3634380}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Correctly?", "pos": 3634440}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "Yes, sir, if the dictation is done properly, for it is the business of the one who dictates to see that everything is correct.", "pos": 3634453}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you can’t write,", "pos": 3634845}
{"speaker": "Knight of Malta", "text": "I will breakfast with you to-morrow.", "pos": 3638737}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you give me my supper?", "pos": 3638908}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "With pleasure; but I have been taken in so often that I shan’t expect you without an earnest.", "pos": 3638938}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can I give you an earnest? I don’t understand.", "pos": 3639034}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "You must be a new-comer here.", "pos": 3639087}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just arrived.", "pos": 3639119}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Be pleased to explain to this gentleman, who has just asked me for supper, the meaning of the word ‘earnest.’", "pos": 3639179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She’s the wantonest wench in all Marseilles.", "pos": 3639683}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your favourite amongst them?", "pos": 3640361}
{"speaker": "Knight", "text": "No, I keep a ballet-girl, and I will introduce you to her, as I am glad to say that I am free from all jealousy.", "pos": 3640417}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I have finer ones, but they are three francs each, and the maker only sells them by the dozen,", "pos": 3641174}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will take a dozen if they are really good. You have got a nice maid,", "pos": 3641281}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "She is only fifteen, and won’t do anything, as she is new to it.", "pos": 3641528}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you allow me to see for myself?", "pos": 3641607}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "You may ask her if you like, but I don’t think she will consent.", "pos": 3641646}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will not, my dear, but tell me truly whether you are still a ‘virgo intacta’.", "pos": 3642489}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Certainly, sir!", "pos": 3642571}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wonderful! but tell me why you wouldn’t let me see for myself?", "pos": 3642589}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Because it revolted me.", "pos": 3642654}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless you will have to do so, for otherwise, in spite of your prettiness, people will not know what to make of you. Would you like to let me try?", "pos": 3642680}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Yes, but not in this horrible house.", "pos": 3642835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where, then?", "pos": 3642874}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Go to my mother’s to-morrow, I will be there. Your guide knows where she lives.", "pos": 3642889}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will take me to-morrow to see her mother,", "pos": 3643101}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 3643324}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is you daughter here?", "pos": 3643354}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "No, and what if she were? I am not her bawd.", "pos": 3643378}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, of course not, my good woman.", "pos": 3643425}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You hussy! you are bringing disgrace on me; get out of my house. You are no longer my daughter!", "pos": 3643809}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How could you lead me into such a dangerous position? You must have known your mother was savage.", "pos": 3644838}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "I hoped she would behave respectfully to you.", "pos": 3644948}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be calm; don’t weep any more. Tell me how I can serve you.", "pos": 3644995}
{"speaker": "The girl", "text": "Rather than return to that horrible house I was in yesterday I would throw myself into the sea.", "pos": 3645056}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know of any respectable house where I can keep her? Take me to it, then.", "pos": 3645154}
{"speaker": "The girl", "text": "I only want a little nook,", "pos": 3645410}
{"speaker": "The old man", "text": "This closet is six francs a month, a month’s rent to be paid in advance, and I may tell you that my door is always shut at ten o’clock, and that nobody can come and pass the night with you.", "pos": 3645542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How much will you board this young woman for?", "pos": 3645826}
{"speaker": "The girl", "text": "That will do,", "pos": 3645973}
{"speaker": "The old man", "text": "If you wish to board here. I think I could give satisfaction.", "pos": 3646319}
{"speaker": "The ballet-girl", "text": "I don’t believe you,", "pos": 3647538}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s true all the same.", "pos": 3647571}
{"speaker": "The ballet-girl", "text": "You are a bad fellow.", "pos": 3647690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am charmed to hear it,", "pos": 3648161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you contented, dear?", "pos": 3648715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am quite happy.", "pos": 3648750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I hope you will be kind, and find room for me in your bed.", "pos": 3648770}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may come if you like, but I must tell you that you will not find me a maid, as I have had one lover.", "pos": 3648836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You told me a lie, then?", "pos": 3648943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forgive me, I could not guess you would be my lover.", "pos": 3648970}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I forgive you willingly; all the more so as I am no great stickler for maidenheads.", "pos": 3649025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is it you do not partake my desires?", "pos": 3649358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dare not, lest you take me for a pretender.", "pos": 3649409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you tell me you had a lover?", "pos": 3649754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I never heard of a girl telling a lie of that sort before.", "pos": 3649801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the same I did not tell a lie, but I am very glad that I seem as if I had done so.", "pos": 3649862}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me all about it.", "pos": 3649951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly I will, for I want to win your confidence. This is the story:", "pos": 3649975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had enquiries about a maid this morning,", "pos": 3653364}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but it is for a gay woman, and you are pretty. You would have a good deal of difficulty in remaining virtuous.", "pos": 3653419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can keep off the infection,", "pos": 3653533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and in the position I am in I cannot pick and choose.", "pos": 3653577}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think, my poor Rosalie, you have only one chemise.", "pos": 3655436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas! that is all.", "pos": 3655491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Comfort yourself, my dear; all your wants shall be supplied tomorrow, and in the evening you shall sup with me in my room on the second floor. I will take care of you.", "pos": 3655512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You pity me, then?", "pos": 3655682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I fancy there is more love than pity in it.", "pos": 3655703}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would to God it were so!", "pos": 3655749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell your master,", "pos": 3656037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that Rosalie will sup with me to-morrow; let us have a fasting dinner, but let it be a good one.", "pos": 3656065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There will be no loose women in the amphitheatre,", "pos": 3657511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "as everybody has to pay.", "pos": 3657572}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall be my mistress,", "pos": 3659695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and my servants shall respect you as if you were my wife.", "pos": 3659731}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think I must be in disguise,", "pos": 3660388}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think I must be in disguise, for I have never seen myself so decked out before.", "pos": 3660388}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I have never seen myself so decked out before.", "pos": 3660431}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Think no more of your mother, dearest one. You look like a lady of quality, and I shall be quite proud when the people at Genoa ask me if you are my daughter.", "pos": 3660619}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At Genoa?", "pos": 3660780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, at Genoa. Why do you blush?", "pos": 3660792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From surprise; perhaps I may see there one whom I have not yet forgotten.", "pos": 3660827}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like to stay here better?", "pos": 3660903}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no! Love me and be sure that I love you and for your own sake, not from any thought of my own interests.", "pos": 3660941}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are moved, my angel; let me wipe away your tears with kisses.", "pos": 3661052}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I have as good an appetite as anyone, and an excellent digestion. You shall see for yourself when I grow more accustomed to my sudden happiness.", "pos": 3661499}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At least you can drink; this wine is admirable. If you prefer Greek muscat I will send for some. It will remind you of your lover.", "pos": 3661661}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "If you love me at all, I beg you will spare me that mortification.", "pos": 3661794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have no more mortification from me, I promise you. It was only a joke, and I beg your pardon for it.", "pos": 3661863}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "As I look upon you I feel in despair at not having known you first.", "pos": 3661976}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That feeling of yours, which wells forth from the depths of your open soul, is grand. You are beautiful and good, for you only yielded to the voice of love with the prospect of becoming his wife; and when I think what you are to me I am in despair at not being sure you love me. An evil genius whispers in my ear that you only bear with me because I had the happiness of helping you.", "pos": 3662046}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Indeed, that is an evil genius. To be sure, if I had met you in the street I should not have fallen head over ears in love with you, like a wanton, but you would certainly have pleased me. I am sure I love you, and not for what you have done for me; for if I were rich and you were poor, I would do anything in the world for you. But I don’t want it to be like that, for I had rather be your debtor than for you to be mine. These are my real feelings, and you can guess the rest.", "pos": 3662432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must thank you,", "pos": 3663035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted. Who cooked this delicious supper?", "pos": 3663066}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "My daughter.", "pos": 3663118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She understands her craft; tell her I thought it excellent.", "pos": 3663133}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Yes, sir, but it is dear.", "pos": 3663195}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not too dear for me. You shall be pleased with me as I with you, and take care to have as good a supper to-morrow evening, as I hope the lady will be well enough to do justice to the products of your daughter’s culinary skill.", "pos": 3663223}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Bed is a capital place to get an appetite. Ah! it is sixty years since I have had anything to do with that sort of thing. What are you laughing at, mademoiselle?", "pos": 3663452}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "At the delight with which you must recollect it.", "pos": 3663616}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You are right, it is a pleasant recollection; and thus I am always ready to forgive young folks the peccadilloes that love makes them commit.", "pos": 3663667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a wise old man,", "pos": 3663811}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "everyone should sympathise with the tenderest of all our mortal follies.", "pos": 3663845}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "If the old man is wise, my mother must be very foolish.", "pos": 3663920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like me to take you to the play to-morrow?", "pos": 3664021}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Pray do not. I will come if you like, but it will vex me very much. I don’t want to walk out with you or to go to the theatre with you here. Good heavens! What would people say. No, neither at Marseilles; but elsewhere, anything you please and with all my heart.", "pos": 3664076}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, my dear, just as you please. But look at your room; no more garret for you; and in three days we will start.", "pos": 3664341}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "So soon?", "pos": 3664463}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; tell me to-morrow what you require for the journey, for I don’t want you to lack for anything, and if you leave it all to me I might forget something which would vex me.", "pos": 3664474}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Well, I should like another cloak, a cloak with a lining, some boots, a night-cap, and a prayer-book.", "pos": 3664651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You know how to read, do you?", "pos": 3664755}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Certainly; and I can write fairly well.", "pos": 3664787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am glad to hear it. Your asking me so freely for what you want is a true proof of your love; where confidence dwells not there is no love. I will not forget anything, but your feet are so small that I should advise you to get your boots yourself.", "pos": 3664829}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I wanted it, but I should never have dared to ask for it.", "pos": 3666075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You, my dear,", "pos": 3666769}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "must be very reserved with them, and not allow them to take the slightest liberty. Give them your orders as a mistress, but without pride, and you will be obeyed and respected. If they forget themselves in the slightest particular, tell me at once.", "pos": 3666804}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "that he hoped to give madam satisfaction.", "pos": 3667942}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I am always afraid, of being asked who I am.", "pos": 3669222}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You needn’t be afraid, dearest; in France no gentleman or lady would think of asking such a question.", "pos": 3669281}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "But if they did, what ought I to do?", "pos": 3669385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You should make use of an evasion.", "pos": 3669424}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "What’s an evasion?", "pos": 3669461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A way of escaping from a difficulty without satisfying impertinent curiosity.", "pos": 3669482}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Give me an example.", "pos": 3669562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, if such a question were asked you, you might say, ‘You had better ask this gentleman.’", "pos": 3669584}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I see, the question is avoided; but is not that impolite?", "pos": 3669679}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but not so impolite as to ask an embarrassing question.", "pos": 3669739}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "And what would you say if the question was passed on to you?", "pos": 3669802}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, my answer would vary in a ratio with the respect in which I held the questioner. I would not tell the truth, but I should say something. And I am glad to see you attentive to my lessons. Always ask questions, and you will always find me ready to answer, for I want to teach you. And now let us to bed; we have to start for Antibes at an early hour, and love will reward you for the pleasure you have given me to-day.", "pos": 3669865}
{"speaker": "Peterson", "text": "Do you know a Russian who calls himself Charles Ivanoff?", "pos": 3670836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I saw him once at Grenoble.", "pos": 3670895}
{"speaker": "Peterson", "text": "It is said that he has escaped from Siberia, and that he is the younger son of the Duke of Courland.", "pos": 3670925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So I have heard, but I know no proof of his claim to the title.", "pos": 3671028}
{"speaker": "Peterson", "text": "He is at Genoa, where it is said a banker is to give him twenty thousand crowns. In spite of that, no one would give him a sou here, so I sent him to Genoa at my own expense, to rid the place of him.", "pos": 3671094}
{"speaker": "Ramini", "text": "She came here a fortnight ago with a man who calls himself her husband. The poor devils hadn’t a penny, and she, a great beauty, enchanted everybody, but would give no one a smile or a word.", "pos": 3671738}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have both seen and know her,", "pos": 3671931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I furnished her with the means to come here. How could she leave Nice without any money?", "pos": 3671976}
{"speaker": "Ramini", "text": "That’s just what no one can understand. She went off in a carriage, and the landlord’s bill was paid. I was interested in the woman. The Marquis Grimaldi told me that she had refused a hundred louis he offered her, and that a Venetian of his acquaintance had fared just as badly. Perhaps that is you?", "pos": 3672067}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is, and I gave her some money despite my treatment.", "pos": 3672370}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I don’t really want it, it’s only my thoughtlessness.", "pos": 3673028}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "that he was not quite sure what he would have done under the circumstances.", "pos": 3674021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want to find her a maid,", "pos": 3674193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "a good seamstress, who could go out with her, and above all who could talk Italian to her, for I want her to learn the language that I may take her into society at Florence, Rome and Naples.", "pos": 3674230}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "Don’t deprive Genoa of the pleasure of entertaining her. I will introduce her under whatever name she pleases, and in my own house to begin with.", "pos": 3674423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has good reasons for preserving her incognito here.", "pos": 3674591}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "Ah, I see!--Do you think of staying here long?", "pos": 3674649}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A month, or thereabouts, and our pleasures will be limited to seeing the town and its surroundings and going to the theatre. We shall also enjoy the pleasures of the table. I hope to eat champignons every day, they are better here than anywhere else.", "pos": 3674698}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "An excellent plan. I couldn’t suggest a better. I am going to see what I can do in the way of getting you a maid, mademoiselle.", "pos": 3674951}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "You sir? How can I deserve such great kindness?", "pos": 3675081}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "My interest in you is the greater, as I think you come from Marseilles.", "pos": 3675131}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I want ribbons and other little things, but I should like to bargain for them and pay for them out of my own money, without your having anything to do with it.", "pos": 3675808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do whatever you like, my dear, and afterwards we will go to the play.", "pos": 3675982}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "You have bought me some beautiful things, but you are too lavish with your money; if you had bargained you might have saved four louis at least.", "pos": 3676623}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very likely, dearest, but I never was any hand at a bargain.", "pos": 3676782}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "It’s the mother of the maid I have engaged,", "pos": 3677749}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "My daughter, speaks French, and you will find her a good, faithful, and obliging girl.", "pos": 3678156}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the matter, dearest? You know I do not like to see you looking melancholy.", "pos": 3679335}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I am vexed at Veronique’s being prettier than I.", "pos": 3679420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see what you mean; I like that! But console yourself, Veronique is nothing compared to you, in my eyes at all events. You are my only beauty; but to reassure you I will ask M. de Grimaldi to tell her mother to come and fetch her away, and to get me another maid as ugly as possible.", "pos": 3679471}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Oh, no! pray do not do so; he will think I am jealous, and I wouldn’t have him think so for the world.", "pos": 3679758}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, smile again if you do not wish to vex me.", "pos": 3679863}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I shall soon do that, if, as you assure me, she will not make me lose your love. But what made the old gentleman get me a girl like that? Do you think he did it out of mischief?", "pos": 3679919}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I don’t think so. I am sure, on the other hand, that he wanted to let you know that you need not fear being compared with anybody. Are you pleased with her in other respects?", "pos": 3680099}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "She works well, and she is very respectful. She does not speak four words without addressing me as signora, and she is careful to translate what she says from Italian into French. I hope that in a month I shall speak well enough for us to dispense with her services when we go to Florence. I have ordered Le Duc to clear out the room I have chosen for her, and I will send her her dinner from our own table. I will be kind to her, but I hope you will not make me wretched.", "pos": 3680280}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I could not do so; and I do not see what there can be in common between the girl and myself.", "pos": 3680755}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Then you will pardon my fears.", "pos": 3680850}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The more readily as they shew your love.", "pos": 3680883}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I thank you, but keep my secret.", "pos": 3680926}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Ask him, if he did not make me keep on. He said he would go if I didn’t, so I gave in to keep him.", "pos": 3682017}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "he must come to dinner some day that she might have an opportunity of seeing whether he really had any appetite. It’s an easy matter. Your eyes speak to my soul, and tell me what to do and what to say.", "pos": 3683069}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The first thing to be done, is for you to listen attentively to the whole piece without minding about your parts. When you know the whole play I will satisfy your curiosity.", "pos": 3684190}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe she is quite well. My only desire sir, is to avoid all appearance of knowing anything about you.", "pos": 3686435}
{"speaker": "Ivanoff", "text": "One word from you will gain me a hundred thousand crowns, and you shall have half.", "pos": 3686736}
{"speaker": "M. de Grimaldi", "text": "She has given me an exquisite dinner, you must be very happy with her.", "pos": 3686962}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I won’t have any prompter; send him about his business.", "pos": 3687350}
{"speaker": "Rossi", "text": "We can’t get on without him.", "pos": 3687408}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You’ll have to; I will be the prompter.", "pos": 3687439}
{"speaker": "actresses", "text": "If we knew our parts as well as the ‘pater noster’ we should be certain to come to a dead stop if the prompter isn’t in his box.", "pos": 3687552}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. I will occupy the box myself, but I shall see your drawers.", "pos": 3687683}
{"speaker": "first actor", "text": "You would have some difficulty in doing that, she doesn’t wear any.", "pos": 3687806}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So much the better.", "pos": 3687900}
{"speaker": "the actress", "text": "You know nothing about it.", "pos": 3687922}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I don’t read Italian well enough, and I don’t wish to have the actors laughing at me; but Veronique could do it.", "pos": 3688440}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ask if she will read the part. All the better. Si, bella Lindana, debbe adorarvi!", "pos": 3688572}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "You love Veronique, and you only translated that piece to have an opportunity of declaring your love.", "pos": 3689895}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I have reason to suspect, that I am with child, and I am enchanted at the thought of giving you a dear pledge of my love.", "pos": 3691508}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it comes at such a time it will be mine, and I assure you I shall love it dearly.", "pos": 3691652}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "And if it comes two or three weeks sooner you will not be sure that you are the parent?", "pos": 3691739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not quite sure; but I shall love it just as well, and look upon it as my child as well as yours.", "pos": 3691829}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I am sure you must be the father. It is impossible the child can be Petri’s, who only knew me once, and then very imperfectly, whilst you and I have lived in tender love for so long a time.", "pos": 3691928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Calm yourself, dearest, I implore you! You are right; it cannot be Petri’s child. You know I love you, and I cannot doubt that you are with child by me and by me alone. If you give me a baby as pretty as yourself, it will be mine indeed. Calm yourself.", "pos": 3692140}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "How can I be calm when you can have such a suspicion? The servant has given me this letter when you were away. I am offended by his doing so, and I want you to avenge me.", "pos": 3692395}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where did you get this letter?", "pos": 3692901}
{"speaker": "the servant", "text": "From a young man, who is unknown to me. He gave me a crown, and begged me to give the letter to the lady without your seeing me, and he promised to give me two crowns more if I brought him a reply tomorrow. I did not think I was doing wrong, sir, as the lady was at perfect liberty to tell you.", "pos": 3692934}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s all very well, but you must go, as the lady, who gave me the letter unopened, as you can see for yourself, is offended with you.", "pos": 3693231}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "my dear Rosalie. It was just as you were coming out of the theatre, escorted by the Marquis de Grimaldi, who is my godfather. I have not deceived you; I was still intending to come and marry you at Marseilles next spring, as I promised. I love you faithfully, and if you are still my good Rosalie I am ready to marry you here in the presence of my kinfolk. If you have done wrong I promise never to speak of it, for I know that it was I who led you astray. Tell me, I entreat you, whether I may speak to the Marquis de Grimaldi with regard to you. I am ready to receive you from the hands of the gentleman with whom you are living, provided you are not his wife. Be sure, if you are still free, that you can only recover your honour by marrying your seducer.", "pos": 3693574}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you do dear Rosalie, I shall die of grief; but if I do not yield you, my honour bids me marry you, and that I am quite ready to do.", "pos": 3694677}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I love you and you alone, darling; but it is not true that your honour bids you marry me. Ours is a marriage of the heart; our love is mutual, and that is enough for my happiness.", "pos": 3694901}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear Rosalie, I adore you, but I am the best judge of my own honour. If Petri is a well-to-do man and a man who would make you happy, I must either give you up or take you myself.", "pos": 3695083}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "No, no; there is no hurry to decide. If you love me I am happy, for I love you and none other. I shall not answer the letter, and I don’t want to hear anything more of Petri.", "pos": 3695265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may be sure that I will say no more of him, but I am sure that the marquis will have a hand in it.", "pos": 3695442}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I daresay, but he won’t speak to me twice on the subject.", "pos": 3695547}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "I want you to see my beautiful garden before you go, it will be one more pleasant recollection of your stay for me.", "pos": 3699282}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "You are a little late,", "pos": 3700180}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "However, we will see to that in the future. I mean to make his fortune. We are longing, to see the girl from Marseilles he is going to marry. We should welcome her as a beloved daughter.", "pos": 3701893}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will find some means of vengeance, but I don’t think it would be a good plan to write to him. We will hasten our preparations for leaving, and receive him to-morrow with that cold politeness which bears witness to indignation. Above all, we will not make the slightest reference to his godson.", "pos": 3703132}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "If Petri really loves me. I pity him. I think he is a good fellow, and I don’t feel angry with him for being present at dinner, as he may possibly be unaware that his presence was likely to give me offence. But I still shudder when I think of it: I thought I should have died when our eyes met! Throughout dinner he could not see my eyes, as I kept them nearly shut, and indeed he could hardly see me. Did he look at me while he was talking?", "pos": 3703440}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, he only looked at me. I am as sorry for him as you are, for, as you say, he looks an honest fellow.", "pos": 3703896}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Well, it’s over now, and I hope I shall make a good supper. Did you notice what the aunt said? I am sure she was in the plot. She thought she would gain me over by saying she was ready to treat me like her own child. She was a decent-looking woman, too.", "pos": 3704002}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "If you really feel, that you have insulted us, that is enough; we are amply avenged. But all the same, sir, we shall be on our guard against you for the future, though that will be for a short while, as we are just leaving. I take a great interest in your mistress’s welfare; and as I feel sure that she cannot long be happy in her present uncertain position, while I am sure that she would make my godson an excellent wife, I was determined that both of you should make his acquaintance, for Rosalie herself knows very little of him. I confess that the means I employed were dishonourable, but you will pardon the means for the sake of the excellent end I had in view. I hope you will have a pleasant journey, and that you may live for a long time in uninterrupted happiness with your charming mistress. I hope you will write to me, and always reckon on my standing your friend, and doing everything in my power for you. Before I go, I will tell you something which will give you an idea of the excellent disposition of young Petri, to whose happiness Rosalie seems essential. He only told me the following, after I had absolutely refused to take charge of a letter he had written to Rosalie, despairing of being able to send it any other way. After assuring me that Rosalie had loved him, and that consequently she could not have any fixed aversion for him, he added that if the fear of being with child was the reason why she would not marry him he would agree to put off the marriage till after the child was born, provided that she would agree to stay in Genoa in hiding, her presence to be unknown to all save himself. He offers to pay all the expenses of her stay. He made a remarkably wise reflection when we were talking it over. If she gave birth to a child too soon after our marriage, both her honour and mine would suffer hurt; she might also lose the liking of my relations, and if Rosalie is to be my wife I want her to be happy in everything.”", "pos": 3704740}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "If M. Petri did not tell you that it was possible that I might be with child by him, he is a right honest man, but now I tell you so myself. I do not think it likely, but still it is possible. Tell him, sir, that I will remain at Genoa until the child is born, in the case of my being pregnant, of which I have no certain knowledge, or until I am quite sure that I am not with child. If I do have a child the truth will be made known. In the case of there being no doubt of M. Petri’s being the parent, I am ready to marry him; but if he sees for himself that the child is not his I hope he will be reasonable enough to let me alone for the future. As to the expenses and my lodging at Genoa, tell him that he need not trouble himself about either.", "pos": 3707016}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You want to leave me, then, Rosalie?", "pos": 3708178}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Yes, dearest, but it will not be for long.", "pos": 3708245}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think we shall never see each other again.", "pos": 3708290}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Why not, dearest? You have only to remain faithful to me. Listen to me. Your honour and my own make it imperative that I should convince Petri that I am not with child by him, and you that I am with child by you.", "pos": 3708337}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never doubted it, dear Rosalie.", "pos": 3708552}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Yes, dear, you doubted it once and that is enough. Our parting will cost me many a bitter tear, but these pangs are necessary to my future happiness. I hope you will write to me, and after the child is born it will be for you to decide on how I shall rejoin you. If I am not pregnant I will rejoin you in a couple of months at latest.", "pos": 3708588}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Though I may grieve at your resolve I will not oppose it, for I promised I would never cross you. I suppose you will go into a convent; and the marquis must find you a suitable one, and protect you like a father. Shall I speak to him on the subject? I will leave you as much money as you will want.", "pos": 3708925}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "That will not be much. As for M. de Grimaldi, he is bound in honour to procure me an asylum. I don’t think it will be necessary for you to speak to him about it.", "pos": 3709226}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "He may hope as much as he likes,", "pos": 3709949}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I have resolved, to go into the convent to-morrow, and I shall be very glad to have a short visit from you the day after.", "pos": 3711018}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "I will be there, and you may be sure that I will do all in my power to make your stay agreeable.", "pos": 3711172}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "That’s a rare girl, you really don’t know her, and you ought to know her better.", "pos": 3712311}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, that’s in a play, in real life the man who declares his love in words is a simpleton; ‘tis with deeds the true lover shews his love.", "pos": 3715163}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Very true, but your lady was frightened all the same.", "pos": 3715312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, no, Veronique; she is very fond of you.", "pos": 3715368}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I know she is; but I have seen her jealous of me.", "pos": 3715414}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If so, she was quite wrong. You are right, kindly send Le Duc to me.", "pos": 3715466}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then go behind the lady’s chair,", "pos": 3717961}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You owe me no gratitude, your daughter is clever, good, and beautiful.", "pos": 3718795}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "Thank the gentleman for his compliment, for you are really stupid, wanton, and ugly; But how could you have the face to sit at table with the gentleman in a dirty chemise?", "pos": 3718885}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I should blush, mother, if I thought you were right; but I put a clean one on only two hours ago.", "pos": 3719100}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, the chemise cannot look white beside your daughter’s whiter skin.", "pos": 3719200}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Perhaps the gentleman won’t be pleased at my leaving him twenty-four hours before he goes away.", "pos": 3719456}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary. I should be very vexed.", "pos": 3719554}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "Well; then, she can stay, sir, but for decency’s sake I must send her younger sister to sleep with her.", "pos": 3719607}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you please,", "pos": 3719732}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be kind enough to tell her, that Veronique has anticipated her wishes and has got her sister Annette to stay with her.", "pos": 3722351}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Two are always better than one, my dear fellow. Your Rosalie is contented, and you ought to congratulate yourself on having made her happy, as I am sure she will be. The only thing that vexes me is that you can’t go and see her yourself with any decency.", "pos": 3722497}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are in love with her, my lord.", "pos": 3722877}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "I confess that I am, but I am an old man, and it vexes me.", "pos": 3722914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s no matter, she will love you tenderly; and if Petri ever becomes her husband, I am sure she will never be anything more than a good friend to him. Write to me at Florence and tell me how she receives him.", "pos": 3722975}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Stay here for another three days; the two beauties there will make the time seem short.", "pos": 3723189}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s exactly for that reason that I want to go tomorrow. I am afraid of Veronique.", "pos": 3723279}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "I shouldn’t have thought that you would have allowed any woman to frighten you.", "pos": 3723364}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am afraid she has cast her fatal nets around me, and when the time comes she will be strictly moral. Rosalie is my only love.", "pos": 3723446}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Well, here’s a letter from her.", "pos": 3723576}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Dearest,--I see you have placed me in the hands of one who will care for me like a father. This is a new kindness which I owe to the goodness of your heart. I will write to you at whatever address you send me. If you like Veronique, my darling, do not fear any jealousy from me; I should be wrong to entertain such a feeling in my present position. I expect that if you make much of her she will not be able to resist, and I shall be glad to hear that she is lessening your sadness. I hope you will write me a few lines before you go.", "pos": 3723711}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Yes, the dear girl will find in me her friend and father, and if she marries my godson and he does not treat her as he ought, he will not possess her long. I shall remember her in my will, and thus when I am dead my care will still continue. But what do you think of her advice as to Veronique? I don’t expect she is exactly a vestal virgin, though I have never heard anything against her.", "pos": 3724323}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I am quite well,", "pos": 3724916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear it; but don’t trouble now, you shall wait on me when I am at Leghorn.", "pos": 3724944}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Yes, whenever you like and with as many oarsmen as you please; but I hope you will put off your departure for two or three days.", "pos": 3725336}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, the delay might cost me too dear.", "pos": 3725478}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Certain persons have asked me to beg you to stay a few days longer, or at least to sup here to-morrow night.", "pos": 3725766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. We will talk of the few days more at supper to-morrow.", "pos": 3725877}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Victory!", "pos": 3725945}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "As my sister is with me, there can be no ground for any suspicion.", "pos": 3726123}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted that you consent; now I am going to talk to you. I beg you will stay; I want to speak to you; come and sit by me. Why should you refuse me a pleasure which after all is a mere mark of friendship?", "pos": 3726192}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Because, things being as they are, we could not remain friends, neither could we be lovers.", "pos": 3726736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Lovers! why not, we are perfectly free.", "pos": 3726830}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I am not free; I am bound by certain prejudices which do not trouble you.", "pos": 3726872}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should have thought you were superior to prejudices.", "pos": 3726948}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "There are some prejudices which a woman ought to respect. The superiority you mention is a pitiful thing; always the dupe of itself. What would become of me, I should like to know, if I abandoned myself to the feelings I have for you?", "pos": 3727005}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was waiting for you to say that, dear Veronique. What you feel for me is not love. If it were so, you would feel as I do, and you would soon break the bonds of prejudice.", "pos": 3727242}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I confess that my head is not quite turned yet, but still I feel that I shall grieve at your departure.", "pos": 3727417}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If so, that is no fault of mine. But tell me what I can do for you during my short stay here.", "pos": 3727523}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Nothing; we do not know one another well enough.", "pos": 3727619}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I understand you, but I would have you know that I do not intend to marry any woman who is not my friend.", "pos": 3727670}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "You mean you will not marry her till you have ceased to be her lover?", "pos": 3727778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 3727849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You would like to finish where I would begin.", "pos": 3727860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may be happy some day, but you play for high stakes.", "pos": 3727908}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well, it’s a case of win all or lose all.", "pos": 3727967}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s as may be. But without further argument it seems to me that we could safely enjoy our love, and pass many happy moments undisturbed by prejudice.", "pos": 3728017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly, but one gets burnt fingers at that game, and I shudder at the very thought of it. No, no; leave me alone, there is my sister who will wonder why I am in your arms.", "pos": 3728172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; I see I was mistaken, and Rosalie too.", "pos": 3728348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why what did she think about me?", "pos": 3728400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She wrote and told me that she thought you would be kind.", "pos": 3728435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope she mayn’t have to repent for having been too kind herself.", "pos": 3728495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good bye, Veronique.", "pos": 3728564}
{"speaker": "M. de Grimaldi", "text": "Bravo, Veronique! that’s the way. You are intended by nature to rule your lovers with an absolute sway.", "pos": 3729471}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "You see how I let people believe what they please; I had rather be thought kind, as you call it, than ridiculous, as an honest girl is termed now-a-days. Is it not so?", "pos": 3730237}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dear Veronique, I will never call you ridiculous, but I shall think you hate me if you make me pass another night in torture. You have inflamed me.", "pos": 3730407}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Oh, pray be quiet! For pity’s sake leave me alone! I will not inflame you any more. Oh! Oh!", "pos": 3730561}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "This is for my sister, I suppose?", "pos": 3731022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dear Annette, it’s for you.", "pos": 3731058}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Forget everything, I beg, and I will trouble you no more. Give me my buckles, as I am going for a country walk, and I shall not be in till suppertime. I shall doubtless get an excellent appetite, and as you have nothing more to fear you need not trouble to send me Annette again.", "pos": 3732255}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is your sister?", "pos": 3733641}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "She is in bed with a bad headache. She gave me a letter for you; here it is. I have been obliged to go to bed on account of a severe headache to which I am subject. I feel better already, and I shall be able to wait on you to-morrow. I tell you as much, because I do not wish you to think that my illness is feigned. I am sure that your repentance for having humiliated me is sincere, and I hope in your turn that you will forgive me or pity me, if my way of thinking prevents me from conforming to yours.", "pos": 3733665}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Annette dear, go and ask your sister if she would like us to sup in her room.", "pos": 3734175}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "I only drink water, sir.", "pos": 3734715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t you like wine?", "pos": 3734742}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Yes, but as I am not used to it I am afraid of its getting into my head.", "pos": 3734765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you can go to bed; you will sleep all the better.", "pos": 3734840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you are very fond of Veronique?", "pos": 3735158}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Oh, yes! I love her with all my heart, but she will not let me caress her.", "pos": 3735205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No doubt she is afraid of your ceasing to love her. But do you think she ought to make me suffer so?", "pos": 3735282}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "No, but if you love her you ought to forgive her.", "pos": 3735385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want it for?", "pos": 3736224}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "For the blisters that cursed saddle on which I rode six miles gave me.", "pos": 3736251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does the ointment do them good?", "pos": 3736324}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Certainly; it takes away the smart, and by to-morrow I shall be cured, but you must send Costa to me, as I cannot put it on myself.", "pos": 3736358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can’t I do it?", "pos": 3736492}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Yes, but I am afraid that would be an abuse of your kindness.", "pos": 3736509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I guess why; but as I am short-sighted, how shall I see the blisters?", "pos": 3736573}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "If you want to do it for me, I will place myself so that it will be easier for you. Stay, put the candle on this table. There you are, but don’t let Costa put it on again to-morrow, or he will guess that I or my sister did it to-night.", "pos": 3736645}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will do me the same service, then, to-morrow?", "pos": 3736885}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "I or my sister, for she will get up early.", "pos": 3736937}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your sister! No, my dear; she would be afraid of giving me too much pleasure by touching me so near.", "pos": 3736982}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "And I am only afraid of hurting you. Is that right? Good heavens! what a state your skin is in!", "pos": 3737085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have not finished yet.", "pos": 3737183}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "I am so short-sighted; turn round.", "pos": 3737212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With pleasure. Here I am.", "pos": 3737249}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Did I do it right!", "pos": 3737763}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, admirably, dear Annette! You are an angel, and I am sure you know what pleasure you gave me. Can you come and spend an hour with me?", "pos": 3737784}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Wait a bit.", "pos": 3737923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come to my arms, my love; it is very cold.", "pos": 3738291}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Here I am. My sister is asleep and suspects nothing; and even if she awoke the bed is so large that she would not notice my absence.", "pos": 3738336}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a divine creature, and I love you with all my heart.", "pos": 3738471}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "So much the better. I give myself up to you; do what you like with me, on the condition that you think of my sister no more.", "pos": 3738534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will not cost me much. I promise that I will not think of her.", "pos": 3738661}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I have always found them the best remedy for a headache.", "pos": 3739635}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "My discretion,", "pos": 3740397}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "only means that I have given up the hope of winning you. I know how to take my part.", "pos": 3740425}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Your love was not very great, then?", "pos": 3740512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It sprang up quickly, and you, Veronique, could have made it increase to a gigantic size.", "pos": 3740550}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Because my sister is ill, and spent the whole night in writing,", "pos": 3740881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know what she was writing about?", "pos": 3741017}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "Oh, no! She does not tell me that kind of thing, but here is a letter for you.", "pos": 3741059}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I will be wholly yours, if you will give me the position which Rosalie enjoyed. I will travel in your company, but you must give me a document, which M. de Grimaldi will sign as a witness, in which you must engage to marry me in a year, and to give me a portion of fifty thousand francs; and if at the end of a year you do not wish to marry me, that sum to be at my absolute disposal.", "pos": 3741433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, dear,", "pos": 3742426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will answer her when I get up.", "pos": 3742447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why write, when we can talk the matter over?", "pos": 3742750}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Because one is often more at ease in writing than in speaking.", "pos": 3742797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In diplomacy and business that will pass, but not in love. Love makes no conditions. Let us have no documents, no safeguards, but give yourself up to me as Rosalie did, and begin to-night without my promising anything. If you trust in love, you will make him your prisoner. That way will honour us and our pleasures, and if you like I will consult M. de Grimaldi on the subject. As to your plan, if it does not injure your honour, it does small justice to your common sense, and no one but a fool would agree to it. You could not possibly love the man to whom you make such a proposal, and as to M. de Grimaldi, far from having anything to do with it, I am sure he would be indignant at the very idea.", "pos": 3742862}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "I heard all you said to my sister, and I am sure you love her.", "pos": 3745985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I did, dear Annette, I should not have made my proposal in such plain terms.", "pos": 3746050}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "I should like to believe that, but what would you have done if she had accepted your offer? You would be in one bed by this, I suppose?", "pos": 3746132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was more than certain, dearest, that her pride would hinder her receiving me.", "pos": 3746270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have interrupted our enjoyment, and hurt your sister’s feelings; perhaps you will despise her for the future?", "pos": 3746768}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "On the contrary, I shall always love her.", "pos": 3746884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Her feelings overcame her, and she surrendered to me without making any terms.", "pos": 3746928}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "She has more sense than I.", "pos": 3747009}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you mean that?", "pos": 3747038}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "I do, really.", "pos": 3747058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am astonished and delighted to hear it; but as it is so, kiss your sister.", "pos": 3747074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come, Veronique,", "pos": 3747288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you will die of cold; come and lie down.", "pos": 3747315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest ones,", "pos": 3747495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have played me a pretty trick; was it premeditated? And was Veronique false this morning, or is she false now?", "pos": 3747519}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "We did not premeditate anything, I was true this morning, and I am true now. I feel that I and my plan were very silly, and I hope you will forgive me, since I have repented and have had my punishment. Now I think I am in my right senses, as I have yielded to the feelings with which you inspired me when I saw you first, and against which I have fought too long.", "pos": 3747636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What you say pleases me extremely.", "pos": 3748002}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Well, forgive me and finish my punishment by shewing that you are not angry with me.", "pos": 3748039}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How am I to do that?", "pos": 3748126}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "By telling me that you are vexed no longer, and by continuing to give my sister proofs of your love.", "pos": 3748149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I swear to you that so far from being angry with you I am very fond of you; but would you like us to be fond in your presence?", "pos": 3748252}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "Yes, if you don’t mind me.", "pos": 3748381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you say,", "pos": 3748503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "will you allow your heroic sister to remain a mere looker-on at our sweet struggles? Are you not generous enough to let me make her an actress in the drama?", "pos": 3748543}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "No; I confess I do not feel as if I could be so generous to-night, but next night, if you will play the same part, we will change. Veronique shall act and I will look on.", "pos": 3748702}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "That would do beautifully, if the gentleman was not going to-morrow morning.", "pos": 3748875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will stay, dear Veronique, if only to prove how much I love you.", "pos": 3749006}
{"speaker": "Veronique", "text": "You tired yourself too much yesterday, and you were not sufficiently temperate at supper. Do not let it trouble you, dearest, I am sure you love me. Do not try to force nature, you will only weaken yourself more. I think a gentle sleep would restore your manly powers better than anything. I can’t sleep myself, but don’t mind me. Sleep, we will make love together afterwards.", "pos": 3754199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will grant,", "pos": 3756295}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that they reason better than you, but I can go no farther; and I think every reasonable man would say as much.", "pos": 3756319}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will go as soon as the weather improves,", "pos": 3757507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in the mean time light me a fire.", "pos": 3757561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Directly, sir,", "pos": 3759332}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have paid already, and I am waiting for my change. Did I not give the money to you?", "pos": 3759519}
{"speaker": "Post-master", "text": "Certainly not, sir.", "pos": 3759607}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whom did I give it to, then?", "pos": 3759629}
{"speaker": "Post-master", "text": "I really can’t say; but you will be able to recognize the man, doubtless.", "pos": 3759660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It must have been you or one of your people.", "pos": 3759736}
{"speaker": "Post-master", "text": "These are all the men in my employ,", "pos": 3759835}
{"speaker": "Passano", "text": "That’s an anagram of my Christian name and my surname; is it not a happy combination?", "pos": 3761928}
{"speaker": "Passano", "text": "I would do so, if I could find a publisher, for I am not rich enough to pay the expenses, and the publishers are a pack of ignorant beggars. Besides, the press is not free, and the censor would not let the epithet I give to my hero pass. If I could go to Switzerland I am sure it could be managed; but I must have six sequins to walk to Switzerland, and I have not got them.", "pos": 3762625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when you got to Switzerland, where there are no theatres, what would you do for a living?", "pos": 3763013}
{"speaker": "Passano", "text": "I would paint in miniature. Look at those.", "pos": 3763109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will give you an introduction to a gentleman at Berne,", "pos": 3763260}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Know from that beating heart, all that I feel.", "pos": 3767710}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I can’t follow your example, but when I saw you I thought I should have fainted. Unfortunately I am engaged to supper. I shall not shut my eyes all night. I shall expect you at eight o’clock to-morrow morning. Where are you staying?", "pos": 3767769}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "At Dr. Vannini’s.", "pos": 3768016}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Under what name?", "pos": 3768036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My own.", "pos": 3768055}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "How long have you been here?", "pos": 3768065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Since yesterday.", "pos": 3768096}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Are you stopping long in Florence?", "pos": 3768115}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As long as you like.", "pos": 3768152}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Are you married?", "pos": 3768175}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No.", "pos": 3768194}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Cursed be that supper! What an event! You must leave me now, I have to go on. Good-bye till seven o’clock to-morrow.", "pos": 3768200}
{"speaker": "Cirillo Palesi", "text": "You have only come to Florence to-day, sir?", "pos": 3768658}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I arrived yesterday.", "pos": 3768704}
{"speaker": "Cirillo Palesi", "text": "Ah! well, then it’s excusable. That actress has the same name as I have. She is my wife, and I am Cirillo Palesi, at your service.", "pos": 3768727}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "You can’t have it till nine o’clock, sir; it was so cold the coachman sent the horses back to the stable.", "pos": 3769649}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will return on foot, then.", "pos": 3769757}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "You will catch a cold.", "pos": 3769789}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the prima donna’s name?", "pos": 3769814}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "When she came here, she called herself Lanti, but for the last two months she has been Madame Palesi. She married a handsome young man with no property and no profession, but she is rich, so he takes his ease and does nothing.", "pos": 3769848}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where does she live?", "pos": 3770077}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "At the end of this street. There’s her house, sir; she lodges on the first floor.", "pos": 3770100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But it is not light till seven.", "pos": 3770394}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I know that.", "pos": 3770428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 3770443}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "She said seven. Well, well, it’s of no consequence. Kindly walk in here. I will go and awake her.", "pos": 3770742}
{"speaker": "Young husband", "text": "Are you not the gentleman who asked me my wife’s name last night?", "pos": 3771030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, I did. I have not seen your wife for many years, but I thought I recognized her. My good fortune made me enquire of her husband, and the friendship which formerly attached me to her will henceforth attach me to you.", "pos": 3771098}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "My dear Palesi, you see before you my father--nay, more than a father, for this is my generous friend to whom I owe all. Oh, happy moment for which my heart has longed for these ten years past.", "pos": 3772184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, sir, your Thérèse is my daughter, my sister, my cherished friend; she is an angel, and this treasure is your wife. I did not reply to your last letter,", "pos": 3772645}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I know all. You fell in love with a nun. You were imprisoned under the Leads, and I heard of your almost miraculous flight at Vienna. I had a false presentiment that I should see you in that town. Afterwards I heard of you in Paris and Holland, but after you left Paris nobody could tell me any more about you. You will hear some fine tales when I tell you all that has happened to me during the past ten years. Now I am happy. I have my dear Palesi here, who comes from Rome. I married him a couple of months ago. We are very fond of each other, and I hope you will be as much his friend as mine.", "pos": 3772864}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Oh, my love! whom I shall love all my life, clasp me to your breast! Let us give each other a hundred embraces on this happy day, but not again, since my fate has made me another’s bride. To-morrow we will be like brother and sister; to-day let us be lovers. You must know that I am in love with my husband and determined not to deceive him. What I have just done was a debt I had to pay to the remembrance of my first love. I had to pay it to prove how much I love you; but let us forget it now. You must be contented with the thought of my great affection for you--of which you can have no doubt--and let me still think that you love me; but henceforth do not let us be alone together, as I should give way, and that would vex me. What makes you look so sad?", "pos": 3774415}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I find you bound, while I am free. I thought we had met never to part again; you had kindled the old fires. I am the same to you as I was at Ancona. I have proved as much, and you can guess how sad I feel at your decree that I am to enjoy you no more. I find that you are not only married but in love with your husband. Alas! I have come too late, but if I had not stayed at Genoa I should not have been more fortunate. You shall know all in due time, and in the meanwhile I will be guided by you in everything. I suppose your husband knows nothing of our connection, and my best plan will be to be reserved, will it not?", "pos": 3775590}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Yes, dearest, for he knows nothing of my affairs, and I am glad to say he shews no curiosity respecting them. Like everybody else, he knows I made my fortune at Naples; I told him I went there when I was ten years old. That was an innocent lie which hurts nobody; and in my position I find that inconvenient truths have to give way to lies. I give myself out as only twenty-four, how do you think I look?", "pos": 3776214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You look as if you were telling the truth, though I know you must be thirty-two.", "pos": 3776621}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "You mean thirty-one, for when I knew you I couldn’t have been more than fourteen.", "pos": 3776704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thought you were fifteen at least.", "pos": 3776788}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Well, I might admit that between ourselves; but tell me if I look more than twenty-four.", "pos": 3776827}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I swear to you you don’t look as old, but at Naples . . . .", "pos": 3776918}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "At Naples some people might be able to contradict me, but nobody would mind them. But I am waiting for what ought to be the sweetest moment of your life.", "pos": 3776980}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that, pray?", "pos": 3777136}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Allow me to keep my own counsel, I want to enjoy your surprise. How are you off? If you want money, I can give you back all you gave me, and with compound interest. All I have belongs to me; my husband is not master of anything. I have fifty thousand ducats at Naples, and an equal sum in diamonds. Tell me how much you want--quick! the chocolate is coming.", "pos": 3777158}
{"speaker": "Theresa", "text": "At ten o’clock. I have a rehearsal here of the new opera. You can stay and listen if you like. I hope you will dine with us every day, and it will give me great pleasure if you will look upon my house as yours.", "pos": 3778171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To-day. I will stay with you till after supper, and then I will leave you with your fortunate husband.", "pos": 3778400}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you allow me, to have my footman in? Rascal, who told you to come here with my carriage? Nobody, sir, but I know my duty. Who told you that I was here? I guessed as much. Go and fetch Le Duc, and come back with him.", "pos": 3779071}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "The same, rising, and placing his arms round my neck he kissed me again and again.", "pos": 3781785}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "That is my brother.", "pos": 3782799}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "May I come, too?", "pos": 3785305}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainty; you too. Come and breakfast with me. I shall be delighted to see you.", "pos": 3785324}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "My dear, he is the fruit of our amours; he is your son. He makes me happy, and is happy himself, and indeed he has everything to make him so.", "pos": 3786043}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I, too, am happy, dear Thérèse. You must have seen that I recognized him at once.", "pos": 3786187}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "But do you want to give him a brother? How ardent you are!", "pos": 3786275}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Remember, beloved one, that to-morrow we are to be friends, and nothing more.", "pos": 3786336}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "The duke who took me from Rimini brought up our child; as soon as I knew that I was pregnant I confided my secret to him. No one knew of my delivery, and the child was sent to nurse at Sorrento, and the duke had him baptized under the name of Caesar Philip Land. He remained at Sorrento till he was nine, and then he was boarded with a worthy man, who superintended his education and taught him music. From his earliest childhood he has known me as his sister, and you cannot think how happy I was when I saw him growing so like you. I have always considered him as a sure pledge of our final union. I was ever thinking what would happen when we met, for I knew that he would have the same influence over you as he has over me. I was sure you would marry me and make him legitimate.", "pos": 3786599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And you have rendered all this, which would have made me happy, an impossibility.", "pos": 3787384}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "The fates decided so; we will say no more about it. On the death of the duke I left Naples, leaving Cesarino at the same boarding school, under the protection of the Prince de la Riccia, who has always looked upon him as a brother. Your son, though he does not know it, possesses the sum of twenty thousand ducats, of which I receive the interest, but you may imagine that I let him want for nothing. My only regret is that I cannot tell him I am his mother, as I think he would love me still more if he knew that he owed his being to me. You cannot think how glad I was to see your surprise to-day, and how soon you got to love him.", "pos": 3787468}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is wonderfully like me.", "pos": 3788104}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "That delights me. People must think that you were my mother’s lover. My husband thinks that our friendship is due to the connection between you and my mother. He told me yesterday that Cesarino might be my brother on the mother’s side, but not on my father’s; as he had seen his father in the theatre, but that he could not possibly be my father, too. If I have children by Palesi all I have will go to them, but if not Cesarino will be my heir. My property is well secured, even if the Prince de Riccia were to die. Come,", "pos": 3788133}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know whether our dear Cesarino has been in love yet?", "pos": 3788955}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I don’t think so, but I fancy my pretty maid is in love with him. I shall keep my eyes open.", "pos": 3789025}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You mustn’t be too strict.", "pos": 3789120}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "No, but it isn’t a good thing for a young man to engage too soon in that pleasure which makes one neglect everything else.", "pos": 3789149}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let me have him, I will teach him how to live.", "pos": 3789274}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Ask all, but leave me my son. You must know that I never kiss him for fear of my giving way to excessive emotion. I wish you knew how good and pure he is, and how well he loves me, I could not refuse him anything.", "pos": 3789323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What will people say in Venice when they see Casanova again, who escaped from The Leads and has become twenty years younger?", "pos": 3789539}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "You are going to Venice, then, for the Ascensa?", "pos": 3789666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and you are going to Rome?", "pos": 3789716}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "And to Naples, to see my friend the Duke de Matalone.", "pos": 3789750}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know him well. He has already had a son by the daughter of the Duke de Bovino, whom he married. She must be a charming woman to have made a man of him, for all Naples knew that he was impotent.", "pos": 3789806}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Probably, she only knew the secret of making him a father.", "pos": 3790004}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, it is possible.", "pos": 3790065}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "What are you going to do in Rome?", "pos": 3792897}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going to beg the Pope to use his influence in my favour with the State Inquisitors at Venice.", "pos": 3792957}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "I can give you a mark of my friendship, by introducing you to the Marquis de Botta-Adamo, Governor of Tuscany; he is supposed to be a friend of the regent’s.", "pos": 3793384}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "Well, well, another time will do.", "pos": 3794254}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you can take her back again this instant, or take this ducat to dine somewhere else, as I don’t want your company or your son’s.", "pos": 3795360}
{"speaker": "Corticelli's mother", "text": "She took the ducat, saying that she was sure she was leaving her daughter in good hands.", "pos": 3795505}
{"speaker": "Mother of Corticelli", "text": "You may be sure of that,", "pos": 3795595}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "so be off.", "pos": 3795630}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "He is a good fellow, but unfortunately he is rather stupid.", "pos": 3797792}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, would you like to make an exchange? Certainly, give me some paper. That is not requisite; we will exchange the snuff and the snuff-boxes.", "pos": 3798795}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Look, here is your portrait.", "pos": 3799135}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did not think it was worth mentioning, but as you are interested in the subject I may tell you that my means are small, but that I have friends whose purses are always open to me.", "pos": 3800294}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "If you have true friends you are a rich man, but true friends are scarce.", "pos": 3800478}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Haven’t you a better room to receive your friends in?", "pos": 3800843}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "I have no friends, so I don’t want a room.", "pos": 3800907}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get it, my dear, and you will find the friends come fast enough. This is all very well for you to welcome your relations in, but not persons like myself who come to do homage to your charms and your talents.", "pos": 3800952}
{"speaker": "Mother of Redegonde", "text": "Sir, my daughter has but few talents, and thinks nothing of her charms, which are small.", "pos": 3801162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are extremely modest, and I appreciate your feelings; but everybody does not see your daughter with the same eyes, and she pleased me greatly.", "pos": 3801272}
{"speaker": "Mother of Redegonde", "text": "That is an honour for her, and we are duly sensible of it, but not so as to be over-proud. My daughter will see you as often as you please, but here, and in no other place.", "pos": 3801421}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I am afraid of being in the way here.", "pos": 3801596}
{"speaker": "Mother of Redegonde", "text": "An honest man is never in the way.", "pos": 3801640}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I shall be glad to see you at the opera, and you can get into my dressing-room if you give the door-keeper a small piece of money.", "pos": 3801917}
{"speaker": "Marshal Botta", "text": "It is only in Russia, that poison enters into politics.", "pos": 3802885}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Redegonde must know, that I could see everything in the glass; My dear. I am going to talk plainly to you. You have inflamed my passions and I shall die if you do not make me happy.", "pos": 3804059}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "You do not say that you will die if you chance to make me unhappy.", "pos": 3804509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I could not say so, because I cannot conceive such a thing as possible. Do not trifle with me, dear Redegonde, you must be aware that I saw all in the mirror, and I cannot think that you are so cruel as to arouse my passions and then leave me to despair.", "pos": 3804578}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "What could you have seen? I don’t know what you are talking about.", "pos": 3804835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May be, but know that I have seen all your charms. What shall I do to possess you?", "pos": 3804904}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "To possess me? I don’t understand you, sir; I’m an honest girl.", "pos": 3804989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I dare say; but you wouldn’t be any less honest after making me happy. Dear Redegonde, do not let me languish for you, but tell me my fate now this instant.", "pos": 3805055}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "I do not know what to tell you, but you can come and see me whenever you like.", "pos": 3805214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When shall I find you alone?", "pos": 3805295}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "Alone! I am never alone.", "pos": 3805326}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, that’s of no consequence; if only your mother is present, that comes to the same thing. If she is sensible, she will pretend not to see anything, and I will give you a hundred ducats each time.", "pos": 3805353}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "You are either a madman, or you do not know what sort of people we are.", "pos": 3805561}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Begin, by offering the hundred ducats to the mother, and if she refuses, have no more to do with them, and go elsewhere.", "pos": 3805714}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good evening, madam, I am a stranger here; I am only staying a week, and I am in love with your daughter. If you like to be obliging, bring her to sup with me. I will give you a hundred sequins each time, so you see my purse is in your power.", "pos": 3805959}
{"speaker": "Mother of Redegonde", "text": "Whom do you think you are talking to, sir? I am astonished at your impudence. Ask the townsfolk what sort of character I bear, and whether my daughter is an honest girl or not! and you will not make such proposals again.", "pos": 3806204}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Good-bye, madam.", "pos": 3806427}
{"speaker": "Mother of Redegonde", "text": "Good-bye, sir.", "pos": 3806446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have I done well or ill?", "pos": 3806591}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "Well enough, but if you love me come and see me.", "pos": 3806626}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "See you after what your mother said?", "pos": 3806677}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "Well, why not, who knows of it?", "pos": 3806716}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who knows? You don’t know me, Redegonde. I do not care to indulge myself in idle hopes, and I thought I had spoken to you plainly enough. Come and breakfast with me to-morrow morning, and I will speak to the Israelite in your presence--at least I will do so if he comes.", "pos": 3806750}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "I love you very much, can’t I stop a little longer here.", "pos": 3807475}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may stop as long as you like, but as I have got some letters to finish, I must ask you to excuse my entertaining you.", "pos": 3807559}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Oh! just as you please.", "pos": 3807683}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Get along with you, you are not a girl.", "pos": 3808019}
{"speaker": "Mother of Corticelli", "text": "He’s a pretty lad, isn’t he?", "pos": 3808560}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "And that, I hope, will please your excellency,", "pos": 3809478}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In what respect?", "pos": 3810483}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I have told Redegonde that I am going to call for her, that I will keep her to supper, and have her taken home. You must see that this last condition is properly carried out. Come to supper too, and have your carriage in waiting. I leave the rest to you. You will only be a few minutes with her, but that’s something; and the first step leads far.", "pos": 3810511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "An excellent plan. I will sup with you, and my carriage shall be ready. I will tell you all about it to-morrow.", "pos": 3810861}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "If the gentleman will be so kind. I need not send for a chair.", "pos": 3811425}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is that?", "pos": 3811805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you allow this horrible union?", "pos": 3813286}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "What harm is there? They are brother and sister.", "pos": 3813348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s just what makes it a criminal matter.", "pos": 3813399}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Everything is perfectly innocent.", "pos": 3813446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Possibly; but it’s not a good plan.", "pos": 3813482}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "You must console yourself, you will not find much difficulty in filling the place in your affections.", "pos": 3814830}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! why are you married?", "pos": 3814946}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Well, it’s done; and there’s no helping it. But listen to me. As you can’t do without someone, take up with the Corticelli; she’s as good as any other woman, and won’t keep you waiting long.", "pos": 3814973}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am ready to do my best, you have only to write to me, and I will tell you where to direct your letters.", "pos": 3815440}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you know, Le Duc, the affair must be kept secret.", "pos": 3819996}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "I only want twenty-four hours to give you an answer. To-day I will not let him go out of my sight. I shall find out at what hour he returns home, and to-morrow you shall know the results.", "pos": 3820052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be discreet, and don’t let anybody into your plans.", "pos": 3820423}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Not I!", "pos": 3820487}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Whom have you chosen for this expedition?", "pos": 3820639}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "Myself. These affairs ought to be kept secret, and a secret oughtn’t to be known to more than two people. I am sure that everything will turn out well, but when you are satisfied that the ass’s hide has been well tanned, will there be anything to be picked up?", "pos": 3820683}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Twenty-five sequins.", "pos": 3820946}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "That will do nicely. When I have done the trick I shall put on my great coat again and return by the back door. If necessary Costa himself will be able to swear that I did not leave the house, and that therefore I cannot have committed the assault. However, I shall put my pistols in my pocket in case of accidents, and if anybody tries to arrest me I shall know how to defend myself. The thing’s done. Instead of the Jew’s running away when he received the first blow he threw himself on to the ground. Then I tanned his skin for him nicely, but on hearing some people coming up I ran off. I don’t know whether I did for him, but I gave him two sturdy blows on the head. I should be sorry if he were killed, as then he could not see about the dance.", "pos": 3820969}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry for him, though he is a rascally fellow.", "pos": 3822188}
{"speaker": "M. Sassi", "text": "I am not at all sorry for him myself, he’s a knave.", "pos": 3822252}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I daresay that everybody will be putting down his wooden baptism to my account.", "pos": 3822320}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "No, people say that M. Casanova did the deed for good reasons of his own.", "pos": 3822402}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It will be difficult to pitch on the right man, the rascal has pushed so many worthy people to extremities that he must have a great many thrashings owing him.", "pos": 3822495}
{"speaker": "Charles Ivanoff", "text": "I daren’t cash it in Florence, as I am afraid of being arrested for my unfortunate affair at Genoa. I entreat you, then, to have pity on me, to get the bill cashed, and to bring me the money here, that I may pay my landlord and go.", "pos": 3823967}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I advise you, to give the bill to your landlord, who will cash it at M. Sassi’s and bring you your change.", "pos": 3824832}
{"speaker": "Charles Ivanoff", "text": "I will follow your advice,", "pos": 3824951}
{"speaker": "M. Sassi", "text": "The inn-keeper here, discounted the bill, the Russian has gone off, and when I told him that it was a forgery he said that he knew Charles Ivanoff had it of you, and that thus he had made no difficulty in cashing it; but now he wants you to return him two hundred crowns.", "pos": 3825427}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then he will be disappointed!", "pos": 3825712}
{"speaker": "M. Sassi", "text": "You had a right to be angry, but you must not take any notice of what the poor fellow says in his blind rage.", "pos": 3826353}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir. I will not pay.", "pos": 3827073}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "I foresee, that the auditor will not let go his hold, and if M. Sassi does not succeed with him I advise you to speak to Marshal Botta.", "pos": 3827509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t think that will be necessary; the auditor can’t force me to pay.", "pos": 3827658}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "He can do worse.", "pos": 3827733}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can he do?.", "pos": 3827752}
{"speaker": "Abbé Gama", "text": "He can make you leave Florence.", "pos": 3827771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I shall be astonished if he uses his power in this case, but rather than pay I will leave the town. Let us go to the marshal.", "pos": 3827805}
{"speaker": "M. Sassi", "text": "I am sorry to tell you, that I could do nothing with the auditor, and if you want to remain in Florence you will have to pay.", "pos": 3828038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will leave as soon as I receive the order, and as soon as I reach another state I will print the history of this shameful perversion of justice.", "pos": 3828182}
{"speaker": "marshal", "text": "It’s an incredible, a monstrous sentence, and I am sorry I cannot interfere. You are quite right, to leave the place rather than pay.", "pos": 3828341}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your judgment is an iniquitous one, but it shall be obeyed to the letter.", "pos": 3828935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What splendid eyes! let me kiss them. Who are you, my angel?", "pos": 3831328}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I am Thérèse, the inn-keeper’s daughter, and this is my sister.", "pos": 3831651}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How old are you?", "pos": 3831808}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Nearly seventeen.", "pos": 3831827}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope I shall see you in my room to-morrow morning.", "pos": 3831847}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Have you any ladies with you?", "pos": 3831902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No.", "pos": 3831934}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "That’s a pity, as we never go to the gentlemen’s rooms.", "pos": 3831940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Lower the coverlet a little; I can’t hear what you say.", "pos": 3831998}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "It’s too cold.", "pos": 3832056}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear Thérèse, your eyes make me feel as if I were in flames.", "pos": 3832073}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Farewell till to-morrow,", "pos": 3832640}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "As to your table, there is a restaurant in the house where one can get a capital meal.", "pos": 3833648}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your advice is excellent, but I have not the courage to follow it, as I am in love with my landlord’s daughter;", "pos": 3833737}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "That’s a mere nothing, you can cultivate her acquaintance without staying in the house.", "pos": 3833912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can say the same, for you are not the Angelica I used to know. Good-bye, madam!", "pos": 3834738}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "He’s Casanova’s brother,", "pos": 3835809}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s not correct; you should say Casanova’s my brother.", "pos": 3835864}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "That comes to the same thing.", "pos": 3835924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, my dear abbé.", "pos": 3835956}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "The gentleman is quite right; it does not come to the same thing.", "pos": 3836065}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Alexander Albani", "text": "It is not my hardihood in coming to Rome that your eminence should wonder at, but a man of any sense would wonder at the Inquisitors if they had the hardihood to issue an ‘ordine sanctissimo’ against me; for they would be perplexed to allege any crime in me as a pretext for thus infamously depriving me of my liberty.", "pos": 3836894}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "You saw her in bed, I will bet!", "pos": 3838055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Exactly, and I should very much like to see the rest of her. Would you be so kind as to ask her to step up for a few minutes?", "pos": 3838089}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 3838217}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "My brother Cornaro might have made a better choice, as he knows the Pope does not like me.", "pos": 3841172}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He thought it better to choose the man who is esteemed than the man who is merely liked.", "pos": 3841265}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "I don’t know whether the Pope esteems me, but I am sure he knows I don’t esteem him. I both liked and esteemed him before he was pope, and I concurred in his election, but since he has worn the tiara it’s a different matter; he has shewn himself too much of a ‘coglione’.", "pos": 3841356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The conclave ought to have chosen your eminence.", "pos": 3841630}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "No, no; I’m a root-and-branch reformer, and my hand would not have been stayed for fear of the vengeance of the guilty, and God alone knows what would have come of that. The only cardinal fit to be pope was Tamburini; but it can’t be helped now. I hear people coming; good-bye, come again to-morrow.", "pos": 3841681}
{"speaker": "Winckelmann", "text": "He’s a man deserving of respect for his virtues, his character, his firmness, and his farseeing intelligence. He has never disguised his opinion of the Jesuits, whom he styles the fathers of deceits, intrigues, and lies; and that’s what made Passionei mention him. I think, with him, that Tamburini would be a great and good pope.", "pos": 3842288}
{"speaker": "somebody else", "text": "This Benedictine cardinal is an impious fellow after all; he is on his death-bed, and he has asked for the viaticum, without wishing to purify his soul by confession.", "pos": 3842832}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "I shall be delighted to satisfy your eminence, but the story is a long one. All the better; they say you tell it well.", "pos": 3843776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, my lord, am I to sit down on the floor?", "pos": 3843899}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "No, no; your dress is too good for that. I write better than you speak,", "pos": 3843946}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, I never speak well except when I am at my ease.", "pos": 3844278}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "But you are not afraid of me?", "pos": 3844337}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, my lord, a true man and a philosopher can never make me afraid; but this stool of yours . . . .", "pos": 3844369}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Passionei", "text": "You like to be at your ease, above all things. Take this, it is the funeral oration of Prince Eugene; I make you a present of it. I hope you will approve of my Latinity. You can kiss the Pope’s feet tomorrow at ten o’clock.", "pos": 3844471}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Holy Father, I have much worse sins than that on my conscience, so I come prostrate at your foot to receive your absolution. I beg Your Holiness to plead for me, that I may be able to return to Venice.", "pos": 3846259}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "We will speak of it to the ambassador, and then we will speak again to you on the matter. Do you often go and see Cardinal Passionei?", "pos": 3846552}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have been three times. He gave me his funeral oration on Prince Eugene, and in return I sent him the ‘Pandects’.", "pos": 3846690}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "Has he accepted them?", "pos": 3846807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think so, Holy Father.", "pos": 3846831}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "If he has, he will send Winckelmann to pay you for them.", "pos": 3846858}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would be treating me like a bookseller; I will not receive any payment.", "pos": 3846917}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "Then he will return the volume of the ‘Pandects’; we are sure of it, he always does so.", "pos": 3846996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If his eminence returns me the ‘Pandects’, I will return him his funeral oration.", "pos": 3847086}
{"speaker": "Pope", "text": "We shall be pleased to hear the end of the story without anyone being informed of our innocent curiosity.", "pos": 3847217}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes. I am the man.", "pos": 3847593}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "Heaven be praised, worthy sir, that I see you again in such good estate!", "pos": 3847624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But whom have I the honour of addressing?", "pos": 3847699}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "Don’t you recollect me? I am Momolo, formerly gondolier at Venice.", "pos": 3847743}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you entered holy orders, then?", "pos": 3847812}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "Not at all, but here everyone wears the cassock. I am the first scopatore (sweeper) of His Holiness the Pope.", "pos": 3847850}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you on your appointment, but you mustn’t mind me laughing.", "pos": 3847962}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "Laugh as much as you like. My wife and daughters laugh when I put on the cassock and bands, and I laugh myself, but here the dress gains one respect. Come and see us.", "pos": 3848038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where do you live?", "pos": 3848207}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "Behind the Trinity of Monti; here’s my address.", "pos": 3848228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will come to-night.", "pos": 3848278}
{"speaker": "Abbé Winckelmann", "text": "I am commissioned to pay you for it.", "pos": 3848735}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have told his eminence that it was a present.", "pos": 3848774}
{"speaker": "Abbé Winckelmann", "text": "He never accepts books as presents, and he wants yours for his own library; and as he is librarian of the Vatican Library he is afraid lest people might say unpleasant things.", "pos": 3848824}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s very well, but I am not a bookseller; and as this book only cost me the trouble of accepting it, I am determined only to sell it at the same price. Pray ask the cardinal to honour me by accepting it.", "pos": 3849002}
{"speaker": "Abbé Winckelmann", "text": "He is sure to send it back to you.", "pos": 3849211}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He can if he likes, but I will send back his funeral oration, as I am not going to be under an obligation to anyone who refuses to take a present from me.", "pos": 3849248}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They are very nice,", "pos": 3850746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but will you allow me to send for half a dozen flasks of Orvieto from my lodging?", "pos": 3850776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are master here.", "pos": 3850860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a fine fellow!", "pos": 3851042}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you like him as well as your girls I will let him stay.", "pos": 3851131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "‘Tis Signora Maria and her mother,", "pos": 3851541}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who asked them?", "pos": 3851661}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do they want?", "pos": 3851689}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What troublesome people they are!", "pos": 3851724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They might have stayed at home,", "pos": 3851774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My children, they are hungry, and they shall share what Providence has given us.", "pos": 3851859}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could be sure of one number,", "pos": 3853246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would stake something on it.", "pos": 3853287}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is the lottery still open?", "pos": 3853463}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Till midnight,", "pos": 3853517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and if you like I will go and get the number for you.", "pos": 3853546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here are fifty crowns,", "pos": 3853602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "put twenty-five crowns on 27--this for these five young ladies; and the other twenty-five on 27 coming out the fifth number, and this I will keep for myself.", "pos": 3853635}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure of it,", "pos": 3854013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for you are the fifth young lady I saw in this house.", "pos": 3854044}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do, sometimes,", "pos": 3854346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but we shall see how it turns out, and when one plays one is obliged either to win or lose.", "pos": 3854373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s the matter with the girls?", "pos": 3859951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are vexed that you did not stake for them in the same way as you did for yourself.", "pos": 3860003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "People are never satisfied. If I had staked for them as I did for myself, and the number had come out first instead of fifth, they would have got nothing, and they would have been vexed then. Two days ago they had nothing, and now that they have twenty-seven pounds apiece they ought to be contented.", "pos": 3860093}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s just what I tell them, but all women are the same.", "pos": 3860396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And men too, dear countryman, unless they are philosophers. Gold does not spell happiness, and mirth can only be found in hearts devoid of care. Let us say no more about it, but be happy.", "pos": 3860456}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will distribute them,", "pos": 3860718}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "when everybody is here.", "pos": 3860752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why are they not coming?", "pos": 3860909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They had a quarrel yesterday,", "pos": 3860936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and Mariuccia, who was in the right, went away saying that she would never come here again.", "pos": 3860985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You ungrateful girls!", "pos": 3861079}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "don’t you know that it is to her that you owe your winnings, for she gave me the number twenty-seven, which I should never have thought of. Quick! think of some way to make her come, or I will go away and take all the sweets with me.", "pos": 3861135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are quite right,", "pos": 3861371}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ira,", "pos": 3861487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that won’t do; you made her say that she would never come here again, and you must make up the quarrel.", "pos": 3861503}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "No one will come and look for me here, so we can talk freely together.", "pos": 3863762}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me, what I can do to make you happy; for I wish to possess you, but first to shew my deserts.", "pos": 3863924}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "Make me happy, and I will yield to your desires, for I love you.", "pos": 3864036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me what I can do.", "pos": 3864103}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "You can draw me out of the poverty and misery which overwhelm me. I live with my mother, who is a good woman, but devout to the point of superstition; she will damn my soul in her efforts to save it. She finds fault with my keeping myself clean, because I have to touch myself when I wash, and that might give rise to evil desires. If you had given me the money you made me win in the lottery as a simple alms she would have made me refuse it, because you might have had intentions. She allows me to go by myself to mass because our confessor told her she might do so; but I dare not stay away a minute beyond the time, except on feast days, when I am allowed to pray in the church for two or three hours. We can only meet here, but if you wish to soften my lot in life you can do so as follows: A fine young man, who is a hairdresser, and bears an excellent character, saw me at Momolo’s a fortnight ago, and met me at the church door next day and gave me a letter. He declared himself my lover, and said that if I could bring him a dowry of four hundred crowns, he could open a shop, furnish it, and marry me. I am poor, and I have only a hundred crowns in charity tickets, which my confessor keeps for me. Now I have two hundred crowns, for if I marry, my mother will willingly give me her share of the money you made us gain. You can therefore make me happy by getting me tickets to the amount of two hundred crowns more. Take the tickets to my confessor, who is a very good man and fond of me; he will not say anything to my mother about it.", "pos": 3864128}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I needn’t go about seeking for charity tickets, my angel. I will take two hundred piastres to your confessor to-morrow, and you must manage the rest yourself. Tell me his name, and to-morrow I will tell you what I have done, but not here, as the wind and the cold would be the death of me. You can leave me to find out a room where we shall be at our ease, and without any danger of people suspecting that we have spent an hour together. I will meet you at the church to-morrow at the same hour and when you see me follow me.", "pos": 3865696}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am looking for a room to let.", "pos": 3866906}
{"speaker": "a woman", "text": "There are none here, sir, but, you will find a hundred in the square.", "pos": 3866940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, but I want the room to be here, not for the sake of the expense, but that I may be sure of being able to spend an hour or so of a morning with a person in whom I am interested. I am ready to pay anything.", "pos": 3867012}
{"speaker": "a woman", "text": "I understand what you mean, and you should have a room in my house if I had one to spare, but a neighbour of mine has one on the ground floor, and if you will wait a moment I will go and speak to her.", "pos": 3867230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will oblige me very much.", "pos": 3867433}
{"speaker": "the good woman", "text": "Kindly step in here.", "pos": 3867465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you ask for the three months’ rent?", "pos": 3868229}
{"speaker": "a woman", "text": "Three Roman crowns.", "pos": 3868275}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you will see to the furnishing of the room this very day I will give you twelve crowns.", "pos": 3868297}
{"speaker": "a woman", "text": "Twelve crowns! What furniture do you want?", "pos": 3868390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A good clean bed, a small table covered with a clean cloth, four good chairs, and a large brazier with plenty of fire in it, for I am nearly perishing of cold here. I shall only come occasionally in the morning, and I shall leave by noon at the latest.", "pos": 3868435}
{"speaker": "a woman", "text": "Come at three o’clock, then, to-day, and you will find everything to your satisfaction.", "pos": 3868690}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Reverend father. I saw at the house of Abbé Momolo, ‘scoptore santissimo’, a young girl named Mary, whose confessor you are. I fell in love with her, and offered her money to try and seduce her. She replied that instead of trying to lead her into sin I would do better to get her some charity tickets that she might be able to marry a young man who loved her, and would make her happy. I was touched by what she said, but my passion still remained. I spoke to her again, and said that I would give her two hundred crowns for nothing, and that her mother should keep them.", "pos": 3868924}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "That would be my ruin, my mother would think the money was the price of sin, and would not accept it. If you are really going to be so generous, take the money to my confessor, and ask him to do what he can for my marriage.", "pos": 3869509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, then, reverend father, is the sum of money for the good girl; be kind enough to take charge of it, and I will trouble her no more. I am going to Naples the day after to-morrow, and I hope when I come back she will be married.", "pos": 3869748}
{"speaker": "the confessor", "text": "Her mother, is a sainted woman, and as soon as I have enquired into the character of the future husband I will soon bring the marriage about. No one shall ever know from whom this generous gift comes.", "pos": 3870349}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "We have three hours before us, as I told my mother I was going to give thanks to God for having made me a winner in the lottery.", "pos": 3871825}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I shall be at Monolo’s to-night, dearest, and you must come, too; but we must appear indifferent to each other, though our hearts be full of joy, lest those malicious girls suspect our mutual understanding. It is all the more necessary to be cautious, as I have noticed that they suspect that we love each other.", "pos": 3873296}
{"speaker": "Czartoryski", "text": "What are you doing with that wretched bauble? It’s a drug in the market, and no one but an impostor would wear it now.", "pos": 3876255}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Then, you must stay with me;", "pos": 3880696}
{"speaker": "Casalnovo", "text": "If you bear my name, you must be one of my father’s bastards.", "pos": 3880980}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, one of your mother’s.", "pos": 3881044}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Did you know, that I had a son?", "pos": 3881335}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was told so, but did not believe it, but now I must do penance for my incredulity, for I see before me an angel capable of working this miracle.", "pos": 3881398}
{"speaker": "monk", "text": "that there was no likeness at all.", "pos": 3881918}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "The abbé is very wise, for he has deceived so many people with his false antiques that he might have got into trouble. Promise to keep the most absolute secrecy on what I am going to shew you. You must come to the St. Charles Theatre, and I will present you to the handsomest ladies in Naples, and afterwards you can go when you like, as my box is always open to my friends. I will also introduce you to my mistress, and she, I am sure, will always be glad to see you.", "pos": 3882596}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you have a mistress, have you?", "pos": 3883635}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Yes, but only for form’s sake, as I am very fond of my wife. All the same, I am supposed to be deeply in love with her, and even jealous, as I never introduce anyone to her, and do not allow her to receive any visitors.", "pos": 3883674}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But does not your young and handsome duchess object to your keeping a mistress?", "pos": 3883896}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "My wife could not possibly be jealous, as she knows that I am impotent--except, of course, with her.", "pos": 3883978}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see, but it seems strange; can one be said to have a mistress whom one does not love?", "pos": 3884081}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "I did not say I loved her not; on the contrary, I am very fond of her; she has a keen and pleasant wit, but she interests my head rather than my heart.", "pos": 3884171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see; but I suppose she is ugly?", "pos": 3884325}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Ugly? You shall see her to-night, and you can tell me what you think of her afterwards. She is a handsome and well-educated girl of seventeen.", "pos": 3884361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can she speak French?", "pos": 3884506}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "As well as a Frenchwoman.", "pos": 3884530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am longing to see her.", "pos": 3884558}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "'Leonilda mia, ti presento il cavalier Don Giacomo Casanova, Veneziano, amico mio'. You may believe me.", "pos": 3885994}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s credible,", "pos": 3886514}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Whatever is possible is credible.", "pos": 3886616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so, but one may believe, or not believe, according to the various degrees of possibility.", "pos": 3886652}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I think it’s easier to believe than to disbelieve. You came to Naples yesterday; that’s true and yet incredible.", "pos": 3886760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why incredible?", "pos": 3886875}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Would any man suppose that a stranger would come to Naples at a time when the inhabitants are wishing themselves away?", "pos": 3886893}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Indeed, I have felt afraid till this moment, but now I feel quite at my ease, since, you being here, St. Januarius will surely protect Naples.", "pos": 3887014}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Why?", "pos": 3887159}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I am sure he loves you; but you are laughing at me.", "pos": 3887166}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "It is such a funny idea. I am afraid that if I had a lover like St. Januarius I should not grant him many favours.", "pos": 3887228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he very ugly, then?", "pos": 3887345}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "If his portrait is a good likeness, you can see for yourself by examining his statue. Love, unless it leads to the possession of the beloved object, is a mere torment; if bounds are placed to passion, love must die.", "pos": 3887370}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; and the enjoyment of a beautiful object is not a true pleasure unless it be preceded by love.", "pos": 3887822}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "No doubt if love precedes it accompanies, but I do not think it necessarily follows, enjoyment.", "pos": 3887933}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, it often makes love to cease.", "pos": 3888031}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "She is a selfish daughter, then, to kill her father; and if after enjoyment love still continue in the heart of one, it is worse than murder, for the party in which love still survives must needs be wretched.", "pos": 3888069}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; and from your strictly logical arguments I conjecture that you would have the senses kept in subjection: that is too hard!", "pos": 3888280}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I would have nothing to do with that Platonic affection devoid of love, but I leave you to guess what my maxim would be.", "pos": 3888420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To love and enjoy; to enjoy and love. Turn and turn about.", "pos": 3888543}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "You have hit the mark.", "pos": 3888604}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Now we must part, unless you are fond of games of chance.", "pos": 3889873}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t object to them when I am to play with good hands.", "pos": 3889933}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "Then follow me; ten or twelve of my friends will play faro, and then sit down to a cold collation, but I warn you it is a secret, as gaming is forbidden. I will answer for you keeping your own counsel, however.", "pos": 3889993}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may do so.", "pos": 3890206}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s my way, of distracting attention from my face and figure.", "pos": 3891942}
{"speaker": "Don Lelio", "text": "It’s eighteen years ago, since I chose M. Casanova as the companion of your studies.", "pos": 3892325}
{"speaker": "Duke de Matalone", "text": "If you go to the Opera Buffa you will please Leonilda. I will come for you towards the close, and we will sup together as before.", "pos": 3892612}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Caro Don Giacomo, I am so pleased to see you again.", "pos": 3893022}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "But I suppose it is only a poet’s fancy, at which one could but smile.", "pos": 3894084}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Possibly, but I did not care to wound your ears.", "pos": 3894157}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "You are very good, but all the same, I am not so thin-skinned, as I have a closet which the duke has had painted over with couples in various amorous attitudes. We go there sometimes, and I assure you that I do not experience the slightest sensation.", "pos": 3894208}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That may be through a defect of temperament, for whenever I see well-painted voluptuous pictures I feel myself on fire. I wonder that while you and the duke look at them, you do not try to put some of them into practice.", "pos": 3894496}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "We have only friendship for one another.", "pos": 3894719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let him believe it who will.", "pos": 3894762}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I am sure he is a man, but I am unable to say whether he is able to give a woman any real proofs of his love.", "pos": 3894793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yet he has a son.", "pos": 3894905}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Yes, he has a child who calls him father; but he himself confesses that he is only able to shew his manly powers with his wife.", "pos": 3894925}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s all nonsense, for you are made to give birth to amorous desires, and a man who could live with you without being able to possess you ought to cease to live.", "pos": 3895055}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Do you really think so?", "pos": 3895221}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear Leonilda, if I were in the duke’s place I would shew you what a man who really loves can do.", "pos": 3895247}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Caro Don Giacomo, I am delighted to hear you love me, but you will soon forget me, as you are leaving Naples.", "pos": 3895347}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Cursed be the gaming-table, for without it we might spend some delightful hour together.", "pos": 3895459}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "The duke told me that you lost a thousand ducats yesterday evening like a perfect gentleman. You must be very unlucky.", "pos": 3895550}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not always, but when I play on a day in which I have fallen in love I am sure to lose.", "pos": 3895671}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "You will win back your money this evening.", "pos": 3895760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is the declaration day; I shall lose again.", "pos": 3895805}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Then don’t play.", "pos": 3895856}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "People would say I was afraid, or that all my money was gone.", "pos": 3895875}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I hope at all events that you will win sometimes, and that you will tell me of your good luck. Come and see me to-morrow with the duke. We have been talking about love all the time, so we don’t know what has been going on the stage.", "pos": 3895939}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "You have done well.", "pos": 3896273}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I trust you will bring M. Casanova to see me tomorrow morning, as I hope he will bring me news that he has won.", "pos": 3896295}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "It’s my turn to deal this evening, dearest, but whether he wins or loses you shall see him to-morrow. You must give us some breakfast.", "pos": 3896409}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I shall be delighted.", "pos": 3896546}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then. I will hazard two thousand ducats also and not more, for they say at Venice that a prudent player never risks more than he can win. Each of my counters will be equivalent to two ducats.", "pos": 3897148}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Caro mio Don Giacomo, I am sorry to hear that! You would have done better not to play, for I should have loved you all the same, and you would have been two thousand ducats better off.", "pos": 3899940}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "And I two thousand ducats worse off,", "pos": 3900127}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind, dear Leonilda, I shall win this evening if you grant me some favour to-day. If you do not do so, I shall lose heart, and you will mourn at my grave before long.", "pos": 3900191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Think, Leonilda, what you can do for my friend.", "pos": 3900366}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I don’t see that I can do anything.", "pos": 3900416}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It will not be so with me, charming Leonilda,", "pos": 3901270}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "You make a mistake, I am sure.", "pos": 3901326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They don’t make any impression on me,", "pos": 3901529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am in the same state as you,", "pos": 3901686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That can’t be,", "pos": 3901780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s astonishing,", "pos": 3901878}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you must be as impotent as I am.", "pos": 3901908}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I wanted to controvert that assertion one glance into Leonilda’s eyes would be enough.", "pos": 3901943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look at him, dearest Leonilda, that I may be convinced.", "pos": 3902035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me your hand,", "pos": 3902176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was in the wrong,", "pos": 3902238}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Fortune is the most fickle of beings, but I don’t complain of my loss--nay, when you speak thus I love it, and I even think that you will make me win this evening.", "pos": 3903674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope so, but I am afraid not; you will have to contend against Monte Leone, who is usually very lucky.", "pos": 3903840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear Leonilda,", "pos": 3904528}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "What did he say?", "pos": 3904760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That I must ask you, and that he would offer no opposition.", "pos": 3904779}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Then we should leave Naples together.", "pos": 3904841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Directly, dearest, and thenceforth death alone would part us.", "pos": 3904881}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "We will talk of it to-morrow, dear Don Giacomo, and if I can make you happy I am sure you will do the same by me. Don Giacomo and I are talking of marrying,", "pos": 3904945}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Marriage, mia carissima,", "pos": 3905170}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Yes, when one has time; but my dear Giacomo cannot wait, and we shall have plenty of time to think it over afterwards.", "pos": 3905251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As you are going to marry,", "pos": 3905372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord,", "pos": 3905809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Just as you please; it comes to the same thing, but don’t trouble yourself. I have made a bank of four thousand ducats that you may be able to recoup yourself for your losses.", "pos": 3905917}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thanks, I promise to break it or to lose as much.", "pos": 3906095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, Don Giacomo, you have spent all the morning with my mistress; do you still wish to marry her?", "pos": 3907442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "More than ever; what do you mean?", "pos": 3907544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing; and as you have passed this trial to which I purposely subjected you, we will discuss your union tomorrow, and I hope you will make this charming woman happy, for she will be an excellent wife.", "pos": 3907580}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I agree with you.", "pos": 3907785}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Leonilda,", "pos": 3909913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "has a mother, who lives at a short distance from here, on an income of six hundred ducats, which I have given her for life, in return for an estate belonging to her husband; but Leonilda does not depend on her. She gave her up to me seven years ago, and I have given her an annuity of five hundred ducats, which she will bring to you, with all her diamonds and an extensive trousseau. Her mother gave her up to me entirely, and I gave my word of honour to get her a good husband. I have taken peculiar care of her education, and as her mind has developed I have put her on her guard against all prejudices, with the exception of that which bids a woman keep herself intact for her future husband. You may rest assured that you are the first man whom Leonilda (who is a daughter to me) has pressed to her heart.", "pos": 3909941}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will mortgage them,", "pos": 3910905}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am going to send for your mother, who will be delighted to sign the settlement, and to make the acquaintance of your future husband.", "pos": 3911041}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The law business will be all done by then, and we shall be able to go to the little church at Portici, and the priest will marry you. Then we will take your mother to St. Agatha and dine with her, and you can go your way with her maternal blessing.", "pos": 3911361}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear mamma, come directly and sign my marriage contract with a gentleman introduced to me by the duke, with whom I shall be leaving for Rome on Monday next.", "pos": 3912425}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come without delay, and sign your daughter’s marriage contract, and give her your blessing. She has wisely chosen a husband old enough to be her father; he is a friend of mine.", "pos": 3912623}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "That’s not true, she will think you are really old, and I am sorry.", "pos": 3912802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your mother an elderly woman?", "pos": 3912910}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "She’s a charming woman, full of wit, and not thirty-eight yet.", "pos": 3912945}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has she got to do with Galiani?", "pos": 3913027}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "She is an intimate friend of the marchioness’s, and she lives with the family but pays for her board. Here he is!", "pos": 3913066}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Donna Lucrezia! I am fortunate indeed!", "pos": 3913556}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "Let us take breath, my dear friend. Come and sit by me. So you are going to marry my daughter, are you?", "pos": 3913597}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Must I grieve my dear one when I have loved so well? Leonilda is your daughter, I am certain of it. I always looked upon her as your daughter, and my husband knew it, but far from being angry, he used to adore her. I will shew you the register of her birth, and you can calculate for yourself. My husband was at Rome, and did not see me once, and my daughter did not come before her time. You must remember a letter which my mother should have given you, in which I told you I was with child. That was in January, 1744, and in six months my daughter will be seventeen. My late husband gave her the names of Leonilda Giacomina at the baptismal font, and when he played with her he always called her by the latter name. This idea of your marrying her horrifies me, but I cannot oppose it, as I am ashamed to tell the reason. What do you think? Have you still the courage to marry her? You seem to hesitate. Have you taken any earnest of the marriage-bed?", "pos": 3914549}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, dear Lucrezia, your daughter is as pure as a lily.", "pos": 3915504}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I breathe again.", "pos": 3915561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah, yes! but my heart is torn asunder.", "pos": 3915580}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "I am grieved to see you thus.", "pos": 3915621}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She has no likeness to me.", "pos": 3915653}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "That proves nothing; she has taken after me. You are weeping, dearest, you will break my heart.", "pos": 3915682}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who would not weep in my place? I will send the duke to you; he must know all.", "pos": 3915780}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "Dear Leonilda, you must be let into the secret of this disagreeable mystery, and your mother is the proper person to enlighten you. Do you remember what name my late husband used to call you when he petted you?", "pos": 3916230}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "He used to call me his charming Giacomina.", "pos": 3916455}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "That is M. Casanova’s name; it is the name of your father. Go and kiss him; his blood flows in your veins; and if he has been your lover, repent of the crime which was happily quite involuntary.", "pos": 3916500}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I have only felt what an affectionate daughter might feel for a father.", "pos": 3916848}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "Come and have some broth with me, and from henceforth look upon this marriage project as one of the many pranks in which you have engaged. We will spend the three or four days pleasantly together, and perhaps when we have thought over all this for some time we shall end by thinking it matter for mirth and not sadness. Believe me the mother’s as good as the daughter; recollection is often better than hope; console yourself with Lucrezia. I don’t think you can see any difference between her present appearance and that of eighteen years ago, for I don’t see how she can ever have been handsomer than she is now.", "pos": 3918684}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will marry you, and we will all of us go to Rome on Monday, for since Leonilda is my daughter I do not like to leave her at Naples.", "pos": 3921842}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "My dear friend, you have slept for five hours; and as I did not like to leave you alone I would not go with the duke and our daughter to the opera.", "pos": 3922361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Once again, then. I am in this charming land which I entered for the first time to the noise of the drum and the rattle of musket shots. Let us be united for life; we are of the same age, we love each other, our means are sufficient for us, we may hope to live a happy life, and to die at the same moment.", "pos": 3923174}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "‘Tis the darling wish of my heart, but let us stay at Naples and leave Leonilda to the duke. We will see company, find her a worthy husband, and our happiness will be complete.", "pos": 3923930}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot live at Naples, dearest, and you know that your daughter intended to leave with me.", "pos": 3924128}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "My daughter! Say our daughter. I see that you are still in love with her, and do not wish to be considered her father.", "pos": 3924223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas, yes! But I am sure that if I live with you my passion for her will be stilled, but otherwise I cannot answer for myself. I shall fly, but flight will not bring me happiness. Leonilda charms me still more by her intelligence than by her beauty. I was sure that she loved me so well that I did not attempt to seduce her, lest thereby I should weaken my hold on her affections; and as I wanted to make her happy I wished to deserve her esteem. I longed to possess her, but in a lawful manner, so that our rights should have been equal. We have created an angel, Lucrezia, and I cannot imagine how the duke . . .", "pos": 3924344}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "The duke is completely impotent. Do you see now how I was able to trust my daughter to his care?", "pos": 3924961}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Impotent? I always thought so myself, but he has a son.", "pos": 3925060}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "His wife might possibly be able to explain that mystery to you, but you may take it for granted that the poor duke will die a virgin in spite of himself; and he knows that as well as anybody.", "pos": 3925118}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do not let us say any more about it, but allow me to treat you as at Tivoli.", "pos": 3925312}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "Not just now, as I hear carriage wheels.", "pos": 3925391}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "As she is your daughter, she can and ought to take this present from her father, if only as a dowry for her future husband.", "pos": 3926772}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you accept it, then, my dear Leonilda?", "pos": 3926909}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Yes, papa dear, on the condition that you will promise to come and see me again as soon as you hear of my marriage.", "pos": 3926955}
{"speaker": "the duke", "text": "As you are going to-morrow. I shall ask all the nobility of Naples to meet you at supper. In the meanwhile I leave you with your daughter; we shall see each other again at suppertime.", "pos": 3927140}
{"speaker": "the duchess", "text": "I hope, Don Giacomo, that you have had no unpleasantness during your short stay at Naples, and that you will sometimes think of your visit with pleasure.", "pos": 3927919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who goes there?", "pos": 3931036}
{"speaker": "Lucrezia", "text": "What happy chance brings you here, dear Don Giacomo? Buy a property, in the kingdom of Naples, and I will spend the remainder of my days with you, without asking a priest to give us his blessing, unless we happen to have children.", "pos": 3933386}
{"speaker": "Signora Diana", "text": "I suppose you don’t mind stopping for the night at Piperno?", "pos": 3935105}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No. I am afraid that can’t be managed; I don’t intend to break my journey.", "pos": 3935167}
{"speaker": "Signora Diana", "text": "But you would get to Rome by to-morrow.", "pos": 3935254}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know that, but I sleep better in my carriage than in the bad beds they give you in the inns.", "pos": 3935296}
{"speaker": "Signora Diana", "text": "I dare not travel by night.", "pos": 3935393}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, madam, I have no doubt we shall see each other at Rome.", "pos": 3935423}
{"speaker": "Signora Diana", "text": "You are a cruel man. You see I have only a stupid servant, and a maid who is as timid as I am, besides it is cold and my carriage is open. I will keep you company in yours.", "pos": 3935493}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I really can’t take you in, as all the available space is taken up by my old secretary, who broke his arm yesterday.", "pos": 3935668}
{"speaker": "Signora Diana", "text": "Shall we dine together at Terracino? We could have a little talk.", "pos": 3935787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 3935855}
{"speaker": "Eldest Daughter", "text": "You are right,", "pos": 3940331}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted to see the fair Mariuccia.", "pos": 3940356}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "It is somebody whom you know, So and so, he saw me here, and we are going to open a hair-dresser’s shop.", "pos": 3940713}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "The marriage was arranged by good Father St. Barnabe. He has in his keeping my daughter’s dower of four hundred Roman crowns.", "pos": 3940820}
{"speaker": "Momolo", "text": "He’s a good lad. I have a high opinion of him; he would have married one of my daughters if I could have given him such a dowry.", "pos": 3940968}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never mind, my dear, your turn will come in time.", "pos": 3941180}
{"speaker": "Jealous Sister", "text": "How about Signora Maria?", "pos": 3941693}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As Signora Maria is going to be married, she must not be present at any festivity without her future husband.", "pos": 3941745}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When shall we see each other again, my angel?", "pos": 3942918}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "On Sunday, the eve of my wedding, we shall be able to spend four hours together.", "pos": 3942966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Delightful! I promise you that when you leave me you will be in such a state that the caresses of your husband won’t hurt you.", "pos": 3943049}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you doing at Rome? Where’s my Lord O’Callaghan?", "pos": 3944935}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "He’s in the next room, but as his father is dead his title is now Earl of Lismore. You know he was an adherent of the Pretender’s. I left Paris with him, well enough pleased at being able to come to Rome without its costing me anything.", "pos": 3944994}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then the earl is a rich man now?", "pos": 3945233}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "Not exactly; but he will be, as he is his father’s heir, and the old earl left an immense fortune. It is true that it is all confiscated, but that is nothing, as his claims are irresistible.", "pos": 3945268}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In short, he is rich in claims and rich in the future; but how did he get himself made a knight of one of the French king’s orders?", "pos": 3945461}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "You’re joking. That is the blue ribbon of the Order of St. Michael, of which the late Elector of Cologne was grand master. As you know, my lord plays exquisitely on the violin, and when he was at Bonn he played the Elector a concerto by Tartini. The prince could not find words in which to express the pleasure of my lord’s performance, and gave him the ribbon you have seen.", "pos": 3945595}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A fine present, doubtless.", "pos": 3945973}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "You don’t know what pleasure it gave my lord, for when we go back to Paris everybody will take it for the Order of the Holy Ghost.", "pos": 3946002}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "Where are you going, prince?", "pos": 3946817}
{"speaker": "The Prince de Chimai", "text": "I don’t feel well, my lord. I think I must go out.", "pos": 3946920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What prince is that?", "pos": 3946973}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "The Prince de Chimai. He is a sub-deacon, and is endeavouring to gain permission to marry, lest his family should become extinct.", "pos": 3947004}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I admire his prudence or his delicacy, but I am afraid I should not imitate him.", "pos": 3947136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wonder people give you credit, then.", "pos": 3950827}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "They give me credit because everybody knows that I have drawn a bill of exchange on Paris to the tune of two hundred thousand francs. But in four or five days the bill will be returned protested, and I am only waiting for that to happen to make my escape.", "pos": 3950868}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you are certain of its being protested, I advise you to make your escape to-day; for as it is so large a sum it may be taken up before it is due.", "pos": 3951126}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "No, I won’t do that; I have one hope left. I have written to tell my mother that I shall be undone if she does not furnish the banker, on whom I have drawn the bill, with sufficient funds and if she does that, the bill will be accepted. You know my mother is very fond of me.", "pos": 3951277}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but I also know that she is far from rich.", "pos": 3951555}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "True, but M. de St. Aubin is rich enough, and between you and me I think he is my father. Meanwhile, my creditors are almost as quiet as I am. All those girls you saw yesterday would give me all they have if I asked them, as they are all expecting me to make them a handsome present in the course of the week, but I won’t abuse their trust in me. But I am afraid I shall be obliged to cheat the Jew, who wants me to give him three thousand sequins for this ring, as I know it is only worth one thousand.", "pos": 3951605}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will send the police after you.", "pos": 3952111}
{"speaker": "the earl", "text": "I defy him to do whatever he likes.", "pos": 3952148}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your father’s garden a pretty one?", "pos": 3953745}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia's intended husband", "text": "Not exactly pretty, but very well kept. As he owns the land, he has separated a plot which he wants to sell; it would bring in twenty crowns a year, and I should be as happy as a cardinal if I could buy it.", "pos": 3953794}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How much will it cost?", "pos": 3954003}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia's intended husband", "text": "It’s a heavy price; two hundred crowns.", "pos": 3954028}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, that’s cheap! Listen to me. I have met your future bride at this house, and I have found her all worthy of happiness. She deserves an honest young fellow like you for a husband. Now what would you do supposing I were to make you a present of two hundred crowns to buy the garden?", "pos": 3954070}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia's intended husband", "text": "I should put it to my wife’s dowry.", "pos": 3954357}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then here are the two hundred crowns. I shall give them to Momolo, as I don’t know you well enough, though I think you are perfectly to be trusted. The garden is yours, as part of your wife’s dowry.", "pos": 3954395}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "Everything is for the best, and I am sure I shall be happy. My intended adores you, but you did wisely not to accept his invitation, for you would have found everything so poor, and besides tongues might have been set wagging to my disadvantage.", "pos": 3955928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are quite right, dearest, but what do you intend to do if your husband finds that the door has been opened by someone else, for possibly he expects you to be a maid.", "pos": 3956176}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I expect he will know no more about it than I did the first time you knew me; besides, I do not feel that you have defiled me, and my clean conscience will not allow me to think of the matter; and I am sure that he will not think of it any more than I.", "pos": 3956348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but if he does?", "pos": 3956603}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "It would not be delicate on his part, but what should prevent me from replying that I don’t know what he means?", "pos": 3956626}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; that’s the best way. But have you told your confessor of our mutual enjoyment?", "pos": 3956740}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "No, for as I did not give myself up to you with any criminal intention, I do not think I have offended God.", "pos": 3956836}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are an angel, and I admire the clearness of your reasoning. But listen to me; it’s possible that you are already with child, or that you may become so this morning; promise to name the child after me.", "pos": 3956946}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I will do so.", "pos": 3957153}
{"speaker": "an ecclesiastic", "text": "You are quite right. Why should this castrato be allowed to shew his breast, of which the fairest Roman lady might be proud, and yet wish everyone to consider him as a man and not a woman? If the stage is forbidden to the fair sex lest they excite desires, why do they seek out men-monsters made in the form of women, who excite much more criminal desires? They keep on preaching that pederasty is comparatively unknown and entraps only a few, but many clever men endeavour to be entrapped, and end by thinking it so pleasant that they prefer these monsters to the most beautiful women.", "pos": 3959036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Pope would be sure of heaven if he put a stop to this scandalous practice.", "pos": 3959625}
{"speaker": "an ecclesiastic", "text": "I don’t agree with you. One could not have a pretty actress to supper without causing a scandal, but such an invitation to a castrato makes nobody talk. It is of course known perfectly well that after supper both heads rest on one pillow, but what everybody knows is ignored by all. One may sleep with a man out of mere friendship, it is not so with a woman.", "pos": 3959706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, monsignor, appearances are saved, and a sin concealed is half pardoned, as they say in Paris.", "pos": 3960067}
{"speaker": "an ecclesiastic", "text": "At Rome we say it is pardoned altogether. ‘Peccato nascosto non offende’.", "pos": 3960169}
{"speaker": "Holy Father", "text": "Have recourse to God, dear son; His grace will be more efficacious than my prayers;", "pos": 3963224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But has he not questioned you indirectly as to the connection between us?", "pos": 3964694}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "Not at all. I told him that you went to my confessor after having spoken to me once only in the church, where I told you what a good chance I had of being married to him.", "pos": 3964770}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think he believed you?", "pos": 3964943}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I am not sure; however, even if it were otherwise, it is enough that he pretends to, for I am determined to win his esteem.", "pos": 3964975}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, and I think all the better of him for his suspicions, for it is better to marry a man with some sense in his head than to marry a fool.", "pos": 3965101}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You had better make yourself scarce as soon as you can,", "pos": 3966689}
{"speaker": "Lord Lismore", "text": "Buy this ring, and so furnish me with the means for my escape. You would not know that it was not my property if I had not told you so in confidence.", "pos": 3966781}
{"speaker": "jeweller", "text": "I know this stone, it is worth two thousand Roman crowns.", "pos": 3967042}
{"speaker": "Lord Lismore", "text": "I will be off at nightfall, and travel by myself to Amsterdam, only taking such effects as are absolutely necessary, and my beloved blue ribbon.", "pos": 3967303}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A pleasant journey to you,", "pos": 3967461}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "I haven’t a farthing. I have only the shirt on my back. I know nobody here, and I think I shall go and throw myself into the Tiber.", "pos": 3968501}
{"speaker": "Sir Mann", "text": "That’s all very well, but you know you ought to call on the auditor.", "pos": 3969922}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Where in the world are we going?", "pos": 3971804}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Bologna.", "pos": 3971849}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "How about mamma?", "pos": 3971860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She will come on to-morrow.", "pos": 3971879}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Does she know about it?", "pos": 3971909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, but she will to-morrow when Costa comes to tell her, and to fetch her and your brother.", "pos": 3971935}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "That’s the mother, now we shall have some fun. Let’s get something for them to eat, and be ready to hear the history of this marvellous adventure which she will remember to her dying day.", "pos": 3975171}
{"speaker": "Signora Laura", "text": "I got an excellent supper ready, according to your orders; it cost me more than ten paoli, as I shall shew you, and I hope you will make it up to me as I’m but a poor woman. All was ready and I joyfully expected you, but in vain; I was in despair. At last when midnight came I sent my son to your lodging to enquire after you, but you may imagine my grief when I heard that nobody knew what had become of you. I passed a sleepless night, weeping all the time, and in the morning I went and complained to the police that you had taken off my daughter, and asked them to send after you and make you give her back to me. But only think, they laughed at me! ‘Why did you let her go out without you?’ laughing in my face. ‘Your daughter’s in good hands,’ says another, ‘you know perfectly well where she is.’ In fact I was grossly slandered. Why did you let her go out without you? Your daughter’s in good hands, you know perfectly well where she is.", "pos": 3975596}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Slandered?", "pos": 3976448}
{"speaker": "Signora Laura", "text": "Yes, slandered, for it was as much as to say that I had consented to your being carried off, and if I had done that the fools might have known I would not have come to them about it. I went away in a rage to Dr. Vannini’s, where I found your man, who told me that you had gone to Bologna, and that I could follow you if I liked. I consented to this plan, and I hope you will pay my travelling expenses. But I can’t help telling you that this is rather beyond a joke.", "pos": 3976482}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. Who is that man?", "pos": 3978817}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "A SPY.", "pos": 3978907}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A spy; and the Government dares to send such a fellow to me?", "pos": 3978916}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "The ‘borgello’ must have sent him.", "pos": 3978979}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then the ‘borgello’ is the Governor of Modena--the infamous wretch!", "pos": 3979016}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Hush! hush! all the best families speak to him in the street.", "pos": 3979086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then the best people are very low here, I suppose?", "pos": 3979150}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Not more than anywhere else. He is the manager of the opera house, and the greatest noblemen dine with him and thus secure his favour.", "pos": 3979203}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s incredible! But why should the high and mighty borgello send me away from Modena?", "pos": 3979340}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I don’t know, but do you take my advice and go and speak to him; you will find him a fine fellow.", "pos": 3979429}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can I do?", "pos": 3980048}
{"speaker": "Abbé Testa Grossa", "text": "You had better go, as the man may put a much more grievous insult on you.", "pos": 3980073}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will do so, but could you oblige me by telling me the reason for such a high-handed action?", "pos": 3980149}
{"speaker": "Abbé Testa Grossa", "text": "Come again this evening; I shall probably be able to satisfy you.", "pos": 3980245}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "The borgello, saw your name on the bill which he receives daily containing a list of the names of those who enter or leave the city. He remembered that you were daring enough to escape from The Leads, and as he does not at all approve of that sort of thing he resolved not to let the Modenese be contaminated by so egregious an example of the defiance of justice, however unjust it may be; and in short he has given you the order to leave the town.", "pos": 3980491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am much obliged, but I really wonder how it is that while you were telling me this you did not blush to be a subject of the Duke of Modena’s. What an unworthy action! How contrary is such a system of government to all the best interests of the state!", "pos": 3980953}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "You are quite right, my dear sir, but I am afraid that as yet men’s eyes are not open to what best serves their interests.", "pos": 3981208}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is doubtless due to the fact that so many men are unworthy.", "pos": 3981333}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I will not contradict you.", "pos": 3981400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, abbé.", "pos": 3981429}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Farewell, M. Casanova.", "pos": 3981447}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "If you like to stop at Parma for three days, and if you will promise to give me fifty sequins when I bring you the news that the borgello is dead, I promise to shoot him within the next twenty-four hours.", "pos": 3981791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thanks. Such an animal as that should be allowed to die a natural death. Here’s a crown to drink my health.", "pos": 3981998}
{"speaker": "Le Duc", "text": "He’s no profligate, he is sober, and has no liking for bad company. But I think he’s a robber, and a dangerous robber, too. I know it, because he seems so scrupulously careful not to cheat you in small things. Remember what I say, sir; he will do you. He is waiting to gain your confidence, and then he will strike home. Now, I am quite a different sort of fellow, a rogue in a small way; but you know me.", "pos": 3983454}
{"speaker": "Marquis Desarmoises", "text": "That’s the famous Leah, she is a Jewess, and impregnable. She has resisted the attacks of the best strategists in Turin. Her father’s a famous horse-dealer; you can go and see her easily enough, but there’s nothing to be done there.", "pos": 3986804}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take me there,", "pos": 3987119}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "As soon as you please.", "pos": 3987160}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "He is gentleness itself, and he ambles as fast as any other horse trots.", "pos": 3988581}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have ridden it, then?", "pos": 3988669}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Often, sir, and if I were rich I would never sell him.", "pos": 3988697}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I won’t buy the horse till I have seen you ride it.", "pos": 3988754}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "You must oblige the gentleman,", "pos": 3988829}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fair Leah, I will buy the horse, but as a present for you; and if you will not take it I shall leave Turin today. The only condition I attach to the gift is, that you will ride with me whenever I ask you.", "pos": 3989354}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "The condition you impose on me is an extremely pleasant one, and I am sure that my father will like me to accept it. All I ask is for you to make me the present before him, repeating that you will only buy it on the condition that I will accept it.", "pos": 3989985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another day,", "pos": 3990741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to-day I should like to converse with you in your own house.", "pos": 3990764}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "You must shew them to the gentleman,", "pos": 3990969}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I will look at them,", "pos": 3991118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I won’t buy, as I should not know what to do with them.", "pos": 3991157}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "You can take your lady-love out for a drive.", "pos": 3991219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That would be you; but perhaps you would be afraid!", "pos": 3991266}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Not at all, if you drove in the country or the suburbs.", "pos": 3991320}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, Leah, then I will look at them.", "pos": 3991378}
{"speaker": "Moses", "text": "Well, you can have them now for four hundred sequins, but after Easter the price will be five hundred sequins at least.", "pos": 3991524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s quite worth four hundred sequins,", "pos": 3991887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and to-morrow I will buy it with pleasure; but on the same condition as that on which I bought the horse, and something more--namely, that you will grant me all the favours that a tender lover can desire.", "pos": 3991936}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "You speak plainly, and I will answer you in the same way. I’m an honest girl, sir, and not for sale.", "pos": 3992143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All women, dear Leah, whether they are honest or not, are for sale. When a man has plenty of time he buys the woman his heart desires by unremitting attentions; but when he’s in a hurry he buys her with presents, and even with money.", "pos": 3992246}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Then he’s a clumsy fellow; he would do better to let sentiment and attention plead his cause and gain the victory.", "pos": 3992482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish I could give myself that happiness, fair Leah, but I’m in a great hurry.", "pos": 3992599}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Come. We see no more of you now, but come and breakfast with me to-morrow, or I will send you back the horse.", "pos": 3993809}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Will you arrange my frill?", "pos": 3994508}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "If you will buy the phaeton and horses. I will abate twenty sequins.", "pos": 3994789}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All that depends on your daughter,", "pos": 3994871}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Strike the bargain, and you can give it me when you are sure of my love.", "pos": 3995146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear Leah, I am your humble servant, but you know on what condition.", "pos": 3995233}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I promise to drive out with you whenever you please, without getting out of the carriage, but I know you would not care for that. No, your affection was only a temporary caprice.", "pos": 3995307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To convince you of the contrary I will buy the phaeton and put it in a coach-house. I will see that the horses are taken care of, though I shall not use them. But if you do not make me happy in the course of a week I shall re-sell the whole.", "pos": 3995488}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Come to us to-morrow.", "pos": 3995732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do so, but I trust have some pledge of your affection this morning.", "pos": 3995756}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "This morning? It’s impossible.", "pos": 3995833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Excuse me; I will go upstairs with you, and you can shew me more than one kindness while you are undressing.", "pos": 3995866}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Count out the money.", "pos": 3996184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have not any money about me, but I will write you a cheque, if you like.", "pos": 3996207}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Here is paper. You have trusted me, and have thus shewn yourself worthy of my love.", "pos": 3996284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then undress, quick!", "pos": 3996525}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "No, my aunt is about the house; and as I cannot shut the door without exciting suspicion, she might come in; but I promise that you shall be content with me tomorrow. Nevertheless, I am going to undress, but you must go in this closet; you may come back when I have got my woman’s clothes on again.", "pos": 3996548}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have seen everything.", "pos": 3997835}
{"speaker": "Moses", "text": "Everything in my poor house is at your service.", "pos": 3998145}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been very busy,", "pos": 4001198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will take the lot myself.", "pos": 4001631}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Where do you live, sir? and when shall I send you your purchases?", "pos": 4001717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may bring them to-morrow yourself, and do me the honour of breakfasting with me.", "pos": 4001797}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "I can never leave the shop, sir.", "pos": 4001884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want some dark lace,", "pos": 4002042}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Then kindly follow me, sir.", "pos": 4002075}
{"speaker": "Girls", "text": "Yes, mother.", "pos": 4002676}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "I am really much obliged to you, for your kindness to my girls. They came home enchanted. Tell me frankly whether you are really in love with the pretty Jewess.", "pos": 4004380}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am really in love with her, but as she will not make me happy I have signed my own dismissal.", "pos": 4004555}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "You were quite right. All Leah thinks of is duping those who are captivated by her charms.", "pos": 4004653}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not your charming apprentices follow your maxims?", "pos": 4004746}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "No; but they are only complaisant when I give them leave.", "pos": 4004801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I commend myself to your intercession, for they would not even take a cup of chocolate from me.", "pos": 4004861}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "They were perfectly right not to accept your chocolate: but I see you do not know the ways of Turin. Do you find yourself comfortable in your present lodging?", "pos": 4004964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so.", "pos": 4005125}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Are you perfectly free to do what you like?", "pos": 4005137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 4005183}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Can you give supper to anyone you like in your own rooms? I am certain you can’t.", "pos": 4005197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have not had the opportunity of trying the experiment so far, but I believe . . . .", "pos": 4005281}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Don’t flatter yourself by believing anything; that house is full of the spies of the police.", "pos": 4005369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you think that I could not give you and two or three of your girls a little supper?", "pos": 4005464}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "I should take very good care not to go to it, that’s all I know. By next morning it would be known to all the town, and especially to the police.", "pos": 4005555}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, supposing I look out for another lodging?", "pos": 4005703}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "It’s the same everywhere. Turin is a perfect nest of spies; but I do know a house where you could live at ease, and where my girls might perhaps be able to bring you your purchases. But we should have to be very careful.", "pos": 4005753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the house I will be guided by you in everything.", "pos": 4005976}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Don’t trust a Piedmontese; that’s the first commandment here. They will let it you by the month, and if you pay a month in advance you need not even tell them your name.", "pos": 4006036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear child, your little Hymen defies the most vigorous lover to enter his temple.", "pos": 4008884}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "It may prove a happy accident for Victorine; it may make her fortune.", "pos": 4009134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can only buy this ring from Leah’s hands,", "pos": 4009847}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "You are the Chevalier de Seingalt?", "pos": 4012219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is my name, and I have come here to ask how I can oblige you?", "pos": 4012256}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I have summoned you here to order you to leave the place in three days at latest.", "pos": 4012325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And as you have no right to give such an order, I have come here to tell you that I shall go when I please, and not before.", "pos": 4012409}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I will expel you by force.", "pos": 4012535}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may do that whenever you please. I cannot resist force, but I trust you will give the matter a second thought; for in a well-ordered city they do not expel a man who has committed no crimes, and has a balance of a hundred thousand francs at the bank.", "pos": 4012564}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Very good, but in three days you have plenty of time to pack up and arrange matters with your banker. I advise you to obey, as the command comes from the king.", "pos": 4012821}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I were to leave the town I should become accessory to your injustice! I will not obey, but since you mention the king’s name, I will go to his majesty at once, and he will deny your words or revoke the unjust order you have given me with such publicity.", "pos": 4012983}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Pray, does not the king possess the power to make you go?", "pos": 4013242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, by force, but not by justice. He has also the power to kill me, but he would have to provide the executioner, as he could not make me commit suicide.", "pos": 4013302}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "You argue well, but nevertheless you will obey.", "pos": 4013459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I argue well, but I did not learn the art from you, and I will not obey.", "pos": 4013509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With these words I turned my back on him, and left without another word.", "pos": 4013582}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My only business here, is to spend my money till I have instructions from the Court of Portugal to attend the Congress of Augsburg on behalf of his most faithful majesty.", "pos": 4015955}
{"speaker": "Chevalier Osorio", "text": "Then you think that this Congress will take place?", "pos": 4016138}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nobody doubts it.", "pos": 4016191}
{"speaker": "Chevalier Osorio", "text": "Somebody believes it will all end in smoke. However, I am delighted to have been of service to you, and I shall be curious to hear what sort of reception you get from the superintendent.", "pos": 4016211}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "The Chevalier Osorio tells me that you have business in Turin which will keep you for some days. You may therefore stay, but you must tell me as nearly as possible how long a time you require.", "pos": 4016741}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot possibly tell you that.", "pos": 4016936}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "Why? if you don’t mind telling me.", "pos": 4016971}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am awaiting instructions from the Court of Portugal to attend the Congress to be held at Augsburg, and before I could tell you how long I shall have to stay I should be compelled to ask his most faithful majesty. If this time is not sufficient for me to do my business, I will intimate the fact to you.", "pos": 4017008}
{"speaker": "superintendent", "text": "I shall be much obliged by your doing so.", "pos": 4017315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know why?", "pos": 4019232}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "Last night when I was at the coffee-house, Count Scarnafis dared to say that France subsidised the Berne newspapers. I told him he lied, at which he rose and left the place in a rage, giving me a glance the meaning of which is not doubtful. I followed him to bring him to reason or to give him satisfaction; but he would do nothing and I suspect he went to the police to complain. I shall have to leave Turin early to-morrow morning.", "pos": 4019264}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You’re a Frenchman, and as you can claim the protection of your ambassador you will be wrong to leave so suddenly.", "pos": 4019700}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the first place the ambassador is away, and in the second my cruel father disavows me. No, I would rather go, and wait for you at Lyons. All I want is for you to lend me a hundred crowns, for which I will give you an account.", "pos": 4019817}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It will be an easy account to keep,", "pos": 4020048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but a long time before it is settled.", "pos": 4020094}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly; but if it is in my power I will shew my gratitude for the kindnesses you have done me.", "pos": 4020134}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is that young lady?", "pos": 4020697}
{"speaker": "Chambermaid", "text": "That’s the wife of a young gentleman who has to keep his bed to get cured of a sword-thrust which he received four days ago on his way from France.", "pos": 4020771}
{"speaker": "Young lady", "text": "The doctor will not let him talk, on account of a sword-thrust in the chest he received at half a league from here. We hope he will be all right in a few days, and then we can continue our journey.", "pos": 4021225}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are you going, madam?", "pos": 4021448}
{"speaker": "Young lady", "text": "To Geneva.", "pos": 4021478}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I would sup in my own apartment, adding that I had not the honour of the lady’s acquaintance.", "pos": 4021628}
{"speaker": "Young lady", "text": "it would give her great pleasure if I would sup with her", "pos": 4021750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am only at Chamberi for her sake I would await her convenience.", "pos": 4023174}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing. I shall be only too happy, however, if I can be of any service to you.", "pos": 4024469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! I breathe again!", "pos": 4024551}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could you imagine me pursuing any other line of conduct? I am much interested in you, and will do all in my power to help you. Are you married?", "pos": 4024574}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not yet, but we are going to be married when we get to Geneva.", "pos": 4024720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sit down and tell me all about yourself. I know that your father is unhappily in love with you, and that you avoid his attentions.", "pos": 4024785}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has told you that much? I am glad of it. A year ago he came to Lyons, and as soon as I knew he was in the town I took refuge with a friend of my mother’s, for I was aware that I could not stay in the same house with my father for an hour without exposing myself to the most horrible outrage. The young man in bed is the son of a rich Geneva merchant. My father introduced him to me two years ago, and we soon fell in love with each other. My father went away to Marseilles, and my lover asked my mother to give me in marriage to him; but she did not feel authorized to do so without my father’s consent. She wrote and asked him, but he replied that he would announce his decision when he returned to Lyons. My lover went to Geneva, and as his father approved of the match he returned with all the necessary documents and a strong letter of commendation from M. Tolosan. When my father came to Lyons I escaped, as I told you, and my lover got M. Tolosan to ask my hand for him of my father. His reply was, ‘I can give no answer till she returns to my house!’", "pos": 4024918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. Tolosan brought this reply to me, and I told him that I was ready to obey if my mother would guarantee my safety. She replied, however, that she knew her husband too well to dare to have us both under the same roof. Again did M. Tolosan endeavour to obtain my father’s consent, but to no purpose. A few days after he left Lyons, telling us that he was first going to Aix and then to Turin, and as it was evident that he would never give his consent my lover proposed that I should go off with him, promising to marry me as soon as we reached Geneva. By ill luck we travelled through Savoy, and thus met my father. As soon as he saw us he stopped the carriage and called to me to get out. I began to shriek, and my lover taking me in his arms to protect me my father stabbed him in the chest. No doubt he would have killed him, but seeing that my shrieks were bringing people to our rescue, and probably believing that my lover was as good as dead, he got on horseback again and rode off at full speed. I can shew you the sword still covered with blood.", "pos": 4025980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am obliged to answer this letter of his, and I am thinking how I can obtain his consent.", "pos": 4027038}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s of no consequence; we can marry and be happy without it.", "pos": 4027131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True, but you ought not to despise your dower.", "pos": 4027197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good heavens! what dower? He has no money!", "pos": 4027246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But on the death of his father, the Marquis Desarmoises . . . .", "pos": 4027291}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s all a lie. My father has only a small yearly pension for having served thirty years as a Government messenger. His father has been dead these thirty years, and my mother and my sister only live by the work they do.", "pos": 4027358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you were always able to resist his attempts?", "pos": 4028075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, whenever he pushed things too far.", "pos": 4028134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how long did this state of things continue?", "pos": 4028176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For two years. When I was thirteen he thought I was ripe, and tried to gather the fruit; but I began to shriek, and escaped from his bed stark naked, and I went to take refuge with my mother, who from that day forth would not let me sleep with him again.", "pos": 4028226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You used to sleep with him? How could your mother allow it?", "pos": 4028483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She never thought that there was anything criminal in his affection for me, and I knew nothing about it. I thought that what he did to me, and what he made me do to him, were mere trifles.", "pos": 4028545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you have saved the little treasure?", "pos": 4028736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have kept it for my lover.", "pos": 4028778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Begin with me,", "pos": 4029957}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "At Grenoble, you are the sole topic of conversation; and I advise you not to go there unless you wish to settle in the country, for they would never let you go. You would have all the nobility at your feet, and above all, the ladies anxious to know the lot of their daughters. Everybody believes in judicial astrology now, and Valenglard triumphs. He has bet a hundred Louis to fifty that my niece will be delivered of a young prince, and he is certain of winning; though to be sure, if he loses, everybody will laugh at him.", "pos": 4030799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t be afraid of his losing.", "pos": 4031340}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "Is it quite certain?", "pos": 4031373}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has not the horoscope proved truthful in the principal particular? If the other circumstances do not follow, I must have made a great mistake in my calculations.", "pos": 4031396}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "I am delighted to hear you say so.", "pos": 4031560}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going to Paris and I hope you will give me a letter of introduction to Madame Varnier, so that I may have the pleasure of seeing your niece.", "pos": 4031597}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "You shall have the letter to-morrow without fail.", "pos": 4031745}
{"speaker": "Madame Morin", "text": "You must make her the present yourself, for though she’s a nun she’s a woman, and we women much prefer a present from a man’s than from a woman’s hand.", "pos": 4033046}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Sir, kindly send me the chocolate, and to-morrow we will breakfast together with these dear sisters.", "pos": 4033561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s a sight I should like to see, if you will allow me to pay all expenses.", "pos": 4034468}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 4034557}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am quite ready, dearest, to climb the garden wall, and I shall do it more dexterously than your wretched humpback.", "pos": 4038007}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Alas! that may not be, for, trust me, you are already spied upon. Everybody here is sure that we knew each other at Aix. Let us forget all, and thus spare ourselves the torments of vain desires.", "pos": 4038126}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give me your hand.", "pos": 4038323}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "No. All is over. I love you still, probably I shall always love you; but I long for you to go, and by doing so, you will give me a proof of your love.", "pos": 4038344}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is dreadful; you astonish me. You appear to me in perfect health, you are prettier than ever, you are made for the worship of the sweetest of the gods, and I can’t understand how, with a temperament like yours, you can live in continual abstinence.", "pos": 4038497}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Alas! lacking the reality we console ourselves by pretending. I will not conceal from you that I love my young boarder. It is an innocent passion, and keeps my mind calm. Her caresses quench the flame which would otherwise kill me.", "pos": 4038753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And that is not against your conscience?", "pos": 4038987}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I do not feel any distress on the subject.", "pos": 4039030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you know it is a sin.", "pos": 4039075}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Yes, so I confess it.", "pos": 4039103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what does the confessor say?", "pos": 4039127}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Nothing. He absolves me, and I am quite content.", "pos": 4039162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And does the pretty boarder confess, too?", "pos": 4039213}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Certainly, but she does not tell the father of a matter which she thinks is no sin.", "pos": 4039257}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wonder the confessor has not taught her, for that kind of instruction is a great pleasure.", "pos": 4039343}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Our confessor is a wise old man.", "pos": 4039438}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Am I to leave you, then, without a single kiss?", "pos": 4039473}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Not one.", "pos": 4039523}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I come again to-morrow? I must go the day after.", "pos": 4039534}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You may come, but I cannot see you by myself as the nuns might talk. I will bring my little one with me to save appearances. Come after dinner, but into the other parlour.", "pos": 4039589}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Desarmoises", "text": "Very pleasantly, like the beginning of the night.", "pos": 4041254}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What time would you like to have dinner?", "pos": 4041318}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Desarmoises", "text": "I won’t dine; I prefer to keep my appetite for supper.", "pos": 4041361}
{"speaker": "Her lover", "text": "It is impossible to keep up with her.", "pos": 4041470}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In eating or drinking?", "pos": 4041510}
{"speaker": "Her lover", "text": "In eating, drinking, and in other things,", "pos": 4041544}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What age are you, pretty one?", "pos": 4044185}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "I am thirteen.", "pos": 4044225}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "You are wrong, you have not yet completed your twelfth year.", "pos": 4044242}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The time will come, when you will diminish the tale of your years instead of increasing it.", "pos": 4044325}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "I shall never tell a lie, sir; I am sure of that.", "pos": 4044429}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So you want to be a nun, do you?", "pos": 4044481}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "I have not yet received my vocation; but even if I live in the world I need not be a liar.", "pos": 4044516}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are wrong; you will begin to lie as soon as you have a lover.", "pos": 4044609}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "Will my lover tell lies, too?", "pos": 4044677}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly he will.", "pos": 4044709}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "If the matter were really so, then, I should have a bad opinion of love; but I do not believe it, for I love my sweetheart here, and I never conceal the truth from her.", "pos": 4044730}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but loving a man is a different thing to loving a woman.", "pos": 4044901}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "No, it isn’t; it’s just the same.", "pos": 4044965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not so, for you do not go to bed with a woman and you do with your husband.", "pos": 4045001}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "That’s no matter, my love would be the same.", "pos": 4045079}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What? You would not rather sleep with me than with M---- M----?", "pos": 4045126}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "No, indeed I should not, because you are a man and would see me.", "pos": 4045192}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You don’t want a man to see you, then?", "pos": 4045259}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "No.", "pos": 4045300}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think you are so ugly, then?", "pos": 4045306}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "I am not really ugly, am I?", "pos": 4045411}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "No, darling, it is quite the other way; you are very pretty.", "pos": 4045441}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your corset is too tight; you can’t possibly have such a small waist as that.", "pos": 4045617}
{"speaker": "The pretty boarder", "text": "You make a mistake, you can put your hand there and see for yourself.", "pos": 4045697}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t believe it. You were right, and I owe you an apology; My opinion is, that we have here a little boy.", "pos": 4045769}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you know that what you have shewn me has made me unhappy? Has it? Why?", "pos": 4046601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because your boarder is charming, and I am longing to enjoy her.", "pos": 4046679}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I am sorry for that, for you can’t possibly go any further; and besides, I know you, and even if you could satisfy your passion without danger to her, I would not give her up to you, you would spoil her.", "pos": 4046746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How?", "pos": 4046952}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Do you think that after enjoying you she would care to enjoy me? I should lose too heavily by the comparison.", "pos": 4046958}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give me your hand.", "pos": 4047070}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "No.", "pos": 4047091}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Stay, one moment.", "pos": 4047097}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "I don’t want to see anything.", "pos": 4047117}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not a little bit?", "pos": 4047149}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Nothing at all.", "pos": 4047169}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you angry with me, then?", "pos": 4047187}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Not at all. If you have been pleased I am glad, and if you have filled her with desires she will love me all the better.", "pos": 4047218}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How pleasant it would be, sweetheart, if we could all three of us be together alone and at liberty!", "pos": 4047341}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Yes; but it is impossible.", "pos": 4047443}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you sure that no inquisitive eye is looking upon us?", "pos": 4047472}
{"speaker": "M---- M----", "text": "Quite sure.", "pos": 4047531}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The height of that fatal grill has deprived me of the sight of many charms.", "pos": 4047545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why didn’t you go to the other parlour it is much lower there.", "pos": 4047623}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us go there, then.", "pos": 4047688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not to-day; I should not be able to give any reason for the change.", "pos": 4047713}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will come again to-morrow, and start for Lyons in the evening.", "pos": 4047783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As long as you like; you may look at them and touch them as well.", "pos": 4048136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 4048919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have fired her imagination. She has told me all about it, playing a thousand wanton tricks, and calling me her dear husband. You have seduced the girl, and I am very glad you are going or else you would drive her mad. You will see how she has dressed herself.", "pos": 4049925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you sure of her discretion?", "pos": 4050191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perfectly, but I hope you won’t do anything in my presence. When I see the time coming I will leave the room.", "pos": 4050225}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are an angel, dearest, but you might be something better than that if you would--", "pos": 4050337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want nothing for myself; it is out of the question.", "pos": 4050425}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You could--", "pos": 4050481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I will have nothing to do with a pastime which would rekindle fires that are hardly yet quenched. I have spoken; I suffer, but let us say no more about it.", "pos": 4050495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind, I told her all about it. She is a good creature and will not be vexed.", "pos": 4051531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Kneel down on the ledge, and leave the rest to me,", "pos": 4052115}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did the lady receive you, Costa?", "pos": 4055531}
{"speaker": "Costa", "text": "She looked into a mirror, sir, and said some words I could make nothing of; then she went round the room three times burning incense; then she came up to me with a majestic air and looked me in the face; and at last she smiled very pleasantly, and told me to wait for a reply in the ante-chamber.", "pos": 4055570}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is the reason,", "pos": 4056676}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will gladly see to all that, but you need not hurry yourself as the Congress will not meet till September.", "pos": 4057080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Believe me, it will never meet at all, but the ambassadors of the belligerent powers will be there all the same. If, contrary to my expectation, the Congress is held, I shall be obliged to go to Lisbon. In any case, I promise to see you again in the ensuing winter. The fortnight that I have to spend here will enable me to defeat a plot of St. Germain’s.", "pos": 4057191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "St. Germain--he would never dare to return to Paris.", "pos": 4057549}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am certain that he is here in disguise. The state messenger who ordered him to leave London has convinced him the English minister was not duped by the demand for his person to be given up, made by the Comte d’Afri in the name of the king to the States-General.", "pos": 4057604}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The king adores her,", "pos": 4058082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She will give birth to a son who will make France happy, and in thirty years time you will see wondrous things, of which, unfortunately, I can tell you nothing until your transformation. Did you mention my name to her?", "pos": 4058226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I did not; but I am sure you will be able to see her, if only at Madame Varnier’s.", "pos": 4058447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is eighteen years ago,", "pos": 4058919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "since I fell asleep on the same spot that we now occupy. During my sleep the divine Horosmadis came down from the sun and stayed with me till I awoke. As I opened my eyes I saw him leave me and ascend to heaven. He left me with child, and I bore a girl which he took away from me years ago, no doubt to punish me for having so far forgotten myself as to love a mortal after him. My lovely Iriasis was like him.", "pos": 4058957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are quite sure that M. d’Urfe was not the child’s father?", "pos": 4059370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. d’Urfe did not know me after he saw me lying beside the divine Anael.", "pos": 4059434}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s the genius of Venus. Did he squint?", "pos": 4059509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To excess. You are aware, then, that he squints?", "pos": 4059554}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and I know that at the amorous crisis he ceases to squint.", "pos": 4059605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I did not notice that. He too, left me on account of my sinning with an Arab.", "pos": 4059671}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Arab was sent to you by an enemy of Anael’s, the genius of Mercury.", "pos": 4059751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It must have been so; it was a great misfortune.", "pos": 4059825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, it rendered you more fit for transformation.", "pos": 4059876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you see him?", "pos": 4060084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am quite thunderstruck. I will go and impart this piece of news to the Duc de Choiseul to-morrow morning. I am curious to hear what he will say when I tell him.", "pos": 4060172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall see my niece,", "pos": 4061644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you want to know what my niece’s answer is,", "pos": 4061800}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The moment in which I see the Chevalier de Seingalt once more will be one of the happiest of my life. Ask him to be at your house at ten o’clock the day after tomorrow, and if he can’t come then please let me know.", "pos": 4062100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must spend a whole day with her as she had several questions to put to my oracle.", "pos": 4062444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should not be surprised,", "pos": 4062690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "considering that he spent the night in my closet.", "pos": 4062738}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The small Conte d’Aranda after caressing me affectionately begged me to come and breakfast with him at his boarding-house, telling me that Mdlle. Viar would be glad to see me.", "pos": 4063579}
{"speaker": "The fair lady", "text": "They think I am happy, and envy my lot; but can one be happy after the loss of one’s self-respect? For the last six months I have only smiled, not laughed; while at Grenoble I laughed heartily from true gladness. I have diamonds, lace, a beautiful house, a superb carriage, a lovely garden, waiting-maids, and a maid of honour who perhaps despises me; and although the highest Court ladies treat me like a princess, I do not pass a single day without experiencing some mortification.", "pos": 4064383}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Mortification?", "pos": 4064881}
{"speaker": "The fair lady", "text": "Yes; people come and bring pleas before me, and I am obliged to send them away as I dare not ask the king anything.", "pos": 4064898}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 4065016}
{"speaker": "The fair lady", "text": "Because I cannot look on him as my lover only; he is always my sovereign, too. Ah! happiness is to be sought for in simple homes, not in pompous palaces.", "pos": 4065027}
{"speaker": "Madame Varnier", "text": "Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you. I cannot do it; I love the king and I am always afraid of vexing him. I am always thinking that he does too much for me, and thus I dare not ask for anything for others. But I am sure the king would be only too glad to shew his love for you by benefiting the persons in whom you take an interest. I know he would, and that thought makes me happy, but I cannot overcome my feeling of repugnance to asking favours. I have a hundred louis a month for pin-money, and I distribute it in alms and presents, but with due economy, so that I am not penniless at the end of the month. I have a foolish notion that the chief reason the king loves me is that I do not importune him. And do you love him? How can I help it? He is good-hearted, kindly, handsome, and polite to excess; in short, he possesses all the qualities to captivate a woman’s heart. He is always asking me if I am pleased with my furniture, my clothes, my servants, and my garden, and if I desire anything altered. I thank him with a kiss, and tell him that I am pleased with everything. Does he ever speak of the scion you are going to present to him? He often says that I ought to be careful of myself in my situation. I am hoping that he will recognize my son as a prince of the blood; he ought in justice to do so, as the queen is dead. To be sure he will. I should be very happy if I had a son. I wish I felt sure that I would have one. But I say nothing about this to anyone. If I dared speak to the king about the horoscope, I am certain he would want to know you; but I am afraid of evil tongues. So am I. Continue in your discreet course and nothing will come to disturb your happiness, which may become greater, and which I am pleased to have procured for you.", "pos": 4065183}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "She would no doubt have been happier. You did not foresee, perhaps, her timidity and her lack of ambition. I can assure you that I did not reckon upon her courage or ambition. I laid aside my own happiness to think only of hers. But what is done cannot be recalled, and I shall be consoled if I see her perfectly happy at last. I hope, indeed, she will be so, above all if she is delivered of a son.", "pos": 4067374}
{"speaker": "Madame Vanloo", "text": "You will have the pleasure of meeting Madame Blondel and her husband,", "pos": 4068108}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does she know I am coming?", "pos": 4068283}
{"speaker": "Madame Vanloo", "text": "No, I promise myself the pleasure of seeing her surprise.", "pos": 4068324}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am much obliged to you for not wishing to enjoy my surprise as well. We shall see each other again, but not to-day, so I must bid you farewell; for as I am a man of honour I hope never to be under the same roof as Madame Blondel again.", "pos": 4068384}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "Why did you not make the trial before you married? Was it for me to propose such a thing? How should I suppose that such a fine man was impotent? But I will tell you how it all happened. As you know, I was a dancer at the Comedie Italienne, and I was the mistress of M. de Sauci, the ecclesiastical commissioner. He brought your brother to my house, I liked him, and before long I saw that he loved me. My lover advised me that it was an opportunity for getting married and making my fortune. With this idea I conceived the plan of not granting him any favours. He used to come and see me in the morning, and often found me in bed; we talked together, and his passions seemed to be aroused, but it all ended in kissing. On my part, I was waiting for a formal declaration and a proposal of marriage. At that period, M. de Sauci settled an annuity of a thousand crowns on me on the condition that I left the stage. In the spring M. de Sauci invited your brother to spend a month in his country house. I was of the party, but for propriety’s sake it was agreed that I should pass as your brother’s wife. Casanova enjoyed the idea, looking upon it as a jest, and not thinking of the consequences. I was therefore introduced as his wife to my lover’s family, as also to his relations, who were judges, officers, and men about town, and to their wives, who were all women of fashion. Your brother was in high glee that to play our parts properly we were obliged to sleep together. For my part, I was far from disliking the idea, or at all events I looked upon it as a short cut to the marriage I desired. But how can I tell you? Though tender and affectionate in everything, your brother slept with me for a month without our attaining what seemed the natural result under the circumstances.", "pos": 4068982}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You might have concluded, then, that he was impotent; for unless he were made of stone, or had taken a vow of chastity, his conduct was inexplicable.", "pos": 4070774}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "The fact is, that I had no means of knowing whether he was capable or incapable of giving me substantial proof of his love.", "pos": 4070926}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why did you not ascertain his condition for yourself?", "pos": 4071052}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "A feeling of foolish pride prevented me from putting him to the test. I did not suspect the truth, but imagined reasons flattering to myself. I thought that he loved me so truly that he would not do anything before I was his wife. That idea prevented me humiliating myself by making him give me some positive proof of his powers.", "pos": 4071108}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That supposition would have been tenable, though highly improbable, if you had been an innocent young maid, but he knew perfectly well that your novitiate was long over.", "pos": 4071440}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "Very true; but what can you expect of a woman impelled by love and vanity?", "pos": 4071612}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your reasoning is excellent, but it comes rather late.", "pos": 4071689}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "Well, at last we went back to Paris, your brother to his house, and I to mine, while he continued his courtship, and I could not understand what he meant by such strange behaviour. M. de Sauci, who knew that nothing serious had taken place between us, tried in vain to solve the enigma. ‘No doubt he is afraid of getting you with child,’ he said, ‘and of thus being obliged to marry you.’ I began to be of the same opinion, but I thought it a strange line for a man in love to take. M. de Nesle, an officer in the French Guards, who had a pretty wife I had met in the country, went to your brother’s to call on me. Not finding me there he asked why we did not live together. Your brother replied openly that our marriage had been a mere jest. M. de Nesle then came to me to enquire if this were the truth, and when he heard that it was he asked me how I would like him to make Casanova marry me. I answered that I should be delighted, and that was enough for him. He went again to your brother, and told him that his wife would never have associated with me on equal terms if I had not been introduced to her as a married woman; that the deceit was an insult to all the company at the country-house, which must be wiped out by his marrying me within the week or by fighting a duel. M. de Nesle added that if he fell he would be avenged by all the gentlemen who had been offended in the same way. Casanova replied, laughing, that so far from fighting to escape marrying me, he was ready to break a lance to get me. ‘I love her,’ he said, ‘and if she loves me I am quite ready to give her my hand. Be kind enough,’ he added, ‘to prepare the way for me, and I will marry her whenever you like.’ M. de Nesle embraced him, and promised to see to everything; he brought me the joyful news, and in a week all was over. M. de Nesle gave us a splendid supper on our wedding-day, and since then I have had the title of his wife. It is an empty title, however, for, despite the ceremony and the fatal yes, I am no wife, for your brother is completely impotent. I am an unhappy wretch, and it is all his fault, for he ought to have known his own condition. He has deceived me horribly.", "pos": 4071746}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But he was obliged to act as he did; he is more to be pitied than to be blamed. I also pity you, but I think you are in the wrong, for after his sleeping with you for a month without giving any proof of his manhood you might have guessed the truth. Even if you had been a perfect novice, M. de Sauci ought to have known what was the matter; he must be aware that it is beyond the power of man to sleep beside a pretty woman, and to press her naked body to his breast without becoming, in spite of himself, in a state which would admit of no concealment; that is, in case he were not impotent.", "pos": 4073924}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "All that seems very reasonable, but nevertheless neither of us thought of it; your brother looks such a Hercules.", "pos": 4074519}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There are two remedies open to you; you can either have your marriage annulled, or you can take a lover; and I am sure that my brother is too reasonable a man to offer any opposition to the latter course.", "pos": 4074635}
{"speaker": "Madame Blondel", "text": "I am perfectly free, but I can neither avail myself of a divorce nor of a lover; for the wretch treats me so kindly that I love him more and more, which doubtless makes my misfortune harder to bear.", "pos": 4074842}
{"speaker": "Madame Vanloo", "text": "He seems to have found his wife a maid, but that’s no fault of mine; and Manon Baletti is the only person he ought to be grateful to. They tell me that he has a pretty baby, and that he lives at the Louvre, while she has another house in the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs. Yes, but he has supper with her every evening. It’s an odd way of living. I assure you it answers capitally. Blondel regards his wife as his mistress. He says that that keeps the flame of love alight, and that as he never had a mistress worthy of being a wife, he is delighted to have a wife worthy of being a mistress.", "pos": 4075562}
{"speaker": "Poinsinet", "text": "He would not get me anything to do, because a French poet is rather at a discount in Italy. Yes, he wrote to his mother from Leghorn, telling her that he was going to the Indies, and that if you had not been good enough to give him a thousand Louis he would have been a prisoner at Rome. I will tell her that you are in Paris, and I am sure that she will invite you to supper, for she has the greatest desire to talk to you. He is not the god of wealth by any means. I have no money and no room, and I shall be glad of a supper, if you will ask me. I will read you my play, the ‘Cercle’, which has been accepted. I am sure it will be successful?", "pos": 4077500}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you had returned it, it would be on my finger, and you see that it is not. You’re a liar,", "pos": 4081568}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s an idle tale, your friend said that he saw you return it, and now he has escaped me. Do you think that I am green enough to be taken in by this sort of thing? You’re a couple of robbers.", "pos": 4082672}
{"speaker": "Santis", "text": "Help!", "pos": 4083132}
{"speaker": "Desarmoises", "text": "You know the lady, but she made me give my word of honour that I would not tell you. She has only her maid with her, and I am sure you will be pleased to see her.", "pos": 4084456}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "I am quite sure, that you will come too, for the ambassadors do not assemble at Augsburg till next September.", "pos": 4085352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, he is the son of the Marquis Desarmoises, of Nancy.", "pos": 4086305}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "No, he isn’t; he is only a retired messenger, with a small pension from the department of foreign affairs. I know the Marquis Desarmoises; he lives at Nancy, and is not so old as our friend.", "pos": 4086374}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then one can’t see how he can be Desarmoises’s father.", "pos": 4086567}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "The landlord of the inn at Strasburg knew him when he was a messenger.", "pos": 4086624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did you make his acquaintance?", "pos": 4086697}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "We met at the table d’hote. After dinner he came up to my room, and told me he was waiting for a gentleman who was going to Augsburg, and that we might make the journey together. He told me the name, and after questioning him I concluded that the gentleman was yourself, so here we are, and I am very glad of it. But listen to me; I advise you to drop all false styles and titles. Why do you call yourself Seingalt?", "pos": 4086734}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because it’s my name, but that doesn’t prevent my old friends calling me Casanova, for I am both. You understand?", "pos": 4087152}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "Oh, yes! I understand. Your mother is at Prague, and as she doesn’t get her pension on account of the war, I am afraid she must be rather in difficulties.", "pos": 4087268}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, but I do not forget my filial duties. I have sent her some money.", "pos": 4087425}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "That’s right. Where are you going to stay at Augsburg?", "pos": 4087504}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall take a house, and if you like you shall be the mistress and do the honours.", "pos": 4087561}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "That would be delightful! We will give little suppers, and play cards all night.", "pos": 4087647}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your programme is an excellent one.", "pos": 4087730}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "I will see that you get a good cook; all the Bavarian cooks are good. We shall cut a fine figure, and people will say we love each other madly.", "pos": 4087768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must know, dearest, that I do not understand jokes at the expense of fidelity.", "pos": 4087914}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "You may trust me for that. You know how I lived at Dresden.", "pos": 4087999}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will trust you, but not blindly, I promise you. And now let us address each other in the same way; you must call me tu. You must remember we are lovers.", "pos": 4088061}
{"speaker": "Renaud", "text": "Kiss me!", "pos": 4088218}
{"speaker": "Dowager Electress of Saxony", "text": "Everybody knows what kind of a life you lead here, and the way the Renaud behaves, possibly without your knowing it. I advise you to have done with her, as your character is suffering.", "pos": 4093272}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "That’s a better trade than mine, and I am happy to be able to give you a valuable present.", "pos": 4104378}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 4104482}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "The receipt for the Venetian Specific, which you can sell at two florins a pound, while it will only cost you four gros.", "pos": 4104507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be delighted; but tell me, how is the treasury?", "pos": 4104630}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "Well, I can’t complain for a first night. I have paid all expenses, and have given my actors a florin apiece. But I am sure I don’t know how I am to play to-morrow, as the company has rebelled; they say they won’t act unless I give each of them a florin in advance.", "pos": 4104688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They don’t ask very much, however.", "pos": 4104956}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "I know that, but I have no money, and nothing to pledge; but they will be sorry for it afterwards, as I am sure I shall make at least fifty florins to-morrow.", "pos": 4104993}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How many are there in the company?", "pos": 4105154}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "Fourteen, including my family. Could you lend me ten florins? I would pay you back tomorrow night.", "pos": 4105191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, but I should like to have you all to supper at the nearest inn to the theatre. Here are the ten florins.", "pos": 4105292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, I will engage you myself for a week at fifty florins a day on the condition that you acknowledge me as your manager for the time being, and pay all the expenses of the theatre. You must charge the prices I name for seats, five members of the company to be chosen by me must sup with me every evening. If the receipts amount to more than fifty florins, we will share the overplus between us.", "pos": 4106601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For to-morrow,", "pos": 4107126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the prices for admission shall remain the same, but the day after we will see what can be done. You and your family will sup with me to-morrow, as also the young Alsatian whom I could never separate from her dear Harlequin.", "pos": 4107160}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Courage!", "pos": 4107695}
{"speaker": "Bassi's daughter", "text": "her lover had offered me great provocation;", "pos": 4108735}
{"speaker": "young Alsatian", "text": "she would never sup with me again if I did not make her lover return.", "pos": 4108838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will see to all that,", "pos": 4108909}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "We shall have nobody there,", "pos": 4109400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Maybe, but that remains to be seen. You must request twelve soldiers to keep order, and I will pay for them.", "pos": 4109456}
{"speaker": "Bassi", "text": "We shall want some soldiers to look after the mob which will besiege the gallery, but as for the rest of the house . . . .", "pos": 4109567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Again I tell you, we shall see. Carry out my instructions, and whether they prove successful or no, we will have a merry supper as usual.", "pos": 4109692}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "Why do you bear a false name?", "pos": 4112982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My name is not false. You can ask Carli, the banker, who has paid me fifty thousand florins.", "pos": 4113024}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "I know that; but your name is Casanova, so why do you call yourself Seingalt?", "pos": 4113119}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I take this name, or rather I have taken it, because it belongs to me, and in such a manner that if anyone else dared to take it I should contest it as my property by every legitimate resource.", "pos": 4113199}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "Ah! and how does this name belong to you?", "pos": 4113395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I invented it; but that does not prevent my being Casanova as well.", "pos": 4113439}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "Sir, you must choose between Casanova and Seingalt; a man cannot have two names.", "pos": 4113517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Spaniards and Portuguese often have half a dozen names.", "pos": 4113600}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "But you are not a Spaniard or a Portuguese; you are an Italian: and, after all, how can one invent a name?", "pos": 4113662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s the simplest thing in the world.", "pos": 4113771}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "Kindly explain.", "pos": 4113811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The alphabet belongs equally to the whole human race; no one can deny that. I have taken eight letters and combined them in such a way as to produce the word Seingalt. It pleased me, and I have adopted it as my surname, being firmly persuaded that as no one had borne it before no one could deprive me of it, or carry it without my consent.", "pos": 4113828}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster", "text": "This is a very odd idea. Your arguments are rather specious than well grounded, for your name ought to be none other than your father’s name.", "pos": 4114171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suggest that there you are mistaken; the name you yourself bear because your father bore it before you, has not existed from all eternity; it must have been invented by an ancestor of yours who did not get it from his father, or else your name would have been Adam. Does your worship agree to that?", "pos": 4114315}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster", "text": "I am obliged to; but all this is strange, very strange.", "pos": 4114618}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are again mistaken. It’s quite an old custom, and I engage to give you by to-morrow a long list of names invented by worthy people still living, who are allowed to enjoy their names in peace and quietness without being cited to the town hall to explain how they got them.", "pos": 4114676}
{"speaker": "Burgomaster", "text": "But you will confess that there are laws against false names?", "pos": 4114954}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but I repeat this name is my true name. Your name which I honour, though I do not know it, cannot be more true than mine, for it is possible that you are not the son of the gentleman you consider your father.", "pos": 4115018}
{"speaker": "M. Carli", "text": "I saw him yesterday, and we had a long talk, in the course of which I succeeded in convincing him on the question of names, and he is now quite of your opinion.", "pos": 4115635}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It may be so, but I can’t believe it all the same.", "pos": 4117190}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Idiot. I have no wife and no daughter.", "pos": 4127396}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why did you allow your mother to call herself my wife, little simpleton? Do you think that’s a compliment to my judgment? She might have given herself out for your governess, as she wishes to pass you off as my daughter.", "pos": 4128219}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "My mother is an obstinate old woman who had rather be whipped at the cart-tail than call herself my governess. She has very narrow ideas, and always thinks that governess and procuress mean the same thing.", "pos": 4128442}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She’s an old fool, but we will make her hear reason either with her will or in spite of it. But you look well dressed, have you made your fortune?", "pos": 4128650}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "At Prague I captivated the affections of Count N----, and he proved a generous lover. But let your first action be to send back M. Month. The worthy man has his family at Prague to look after; he can’t afford to stay long here.", "pos": 4128799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, I will see about it directly.", "pos": 4129029}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "I owe her all the more friendship, as the family of Lascaris is connected with the family of d’Urfe, and as I am to be born again in the seed of the happy virgin.", "pos": 4129805}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "You have no business to be jealous, and I am the mistress of my own actions.", "pos": 4135632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite right, my dear,", "pos": 4135723}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but it is my business to see that you do not behave like a prostitute in your present position.", "pos": 4135759}
{"speaker": "d'Ache", "text": "Yes, that will make double or quits.", "pos": 4139603}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "We shall see each other again.", "pos": 4140231}
{"speaker": "d'Ache", "text": "Now, you see, we are quits.", "pos": 4140316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very much quits.", "pos": 4140346}
{"speaker": "d'Ache", "text": "That’s all very well; but, by God! you might have prevented the insult which has dishonoured me.", "pos": 4140365}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I might have done so, but I did not care to interfere. You are strong enough to look after yourself. Schmit had not his sword, but I believe him to be a brave man; and he will give you satisfaction if you will return him his money, for there can be no doubt that you lost the match.", "pos": 4140464}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "I am sure you have come to ask me to fight with d’Ache. I am quite ready to burn powder with him, but he must first pay me the twenty Louis he robbed me of.", "pos": 4141504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have them to-morrow, and I will attend you. D’Ache will be seconded by M. de Pyene.", "pos": 4141663}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "Very good. I shall expect you at day-break. Here you are, let us be off, then. I have only fought with men of honour up to now, and I don’t much care for killing a rascal; it’s hangman’s work.", "pos": 4141759}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know, that it’s very hard to have to risk one’s life against a fellow like that.", "pos": 4142375}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "There’s no risk. I am certain that I shall kill him.", "pos": 4142473}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can you be certain?", "pos": 4142557}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "I shall make him tremble.", "pos": 4142583}
{"speaker": "d'Ache", "text": "I may be mistaken, but I hope to make you pay dearly for your brutality. I owe you twenty louis also;", "pos": 4142880}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "Place yourself at a distance of ten paces, and fire first. I shall walk to and fro between these two trees, and you may walk as far if you like to do so when my turn comes to fire.", "pos": 4143276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But we must decide, who is to have the first shot.", "pos": 4143532}
{"speaker": "Schmit", "text": "There is no need. I never fire first, besides, the gentleman has a right to the first shot. You have missed me, sir; I knew you would. Try again.", "pos": 4143595}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have convulsions, have you, dearest?", "pos": 4145787}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "No, I haven’t. I am quite well, but all the same I shall have them till you give me back my jewel-casket.", "pos": 4145838}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are getting wicked, my poor child; this comes of following your mother’s advice. As for the casket, if you are going to behave like this, probably you will have it.", "pos": 4145946}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "I will reveal all.", "pos": 4146117}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will not be believed; and I shall send you back to Bologna without letting you take any of the presents which Madame d’Urfe has given you.", "pos": 4146138}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "You ought to have given me back the casket when I declared myself with child.", "pos": 4146283}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is, then?", "pos": 4146443}
{"speaker": "Signora Laura", "text": "Count N----, whose mistress she was at Prague.", "pos": 4146468}
{"speaker": "d'Ache's widow", "text": "You caused my husband’s death, and I ask you to give me a thousand crowns; if you refuse me I shall commence a lawsuit against you, for as the Swiss officer has left, you are the only person I can prosecute.", "pos": 4150058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am surprised at your taking such a tone towards me,", "pos": 4150281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and were it not for the respect I feel for your misfortune, I should answer as bitterly as you deserve. In the first place I have not a thousand crowns to throw away, and if I had I would not sacrifice my money to threats. I am curious to know what kind of a case you could get up against me in the courts of law. As for Schmit, he fought like a brave gentleman, and I don’t think you could get much out of him if he were still here. Good-day, madam.", "pos": 4150356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your intention is not a very flattering one,", "pos": 4151021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and there is something rather brutal about it. I had rather not have any affair of the kind with a man whom I don’t know and to whom I owe nothing.", "pos": 4151076}
{"speaker": "de Pyene", "text": "You are a coward.", "pos": 4151226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would be, you mean, if I were to imitate you. It is a matter of perfect indifference to me what opinion you may have on the subject.", "pos": 4151246}
{"speaker": "de Pyene", "text": "You will be sorry for this.", "pos": 4151382}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Maybe, but I warn you that I never go out unattended by a pair of pistols, which I keep in good order and know how to use.", "pos": 4151412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should be sorry,", "pos": 4151988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to have anything to do with a fellow like de Pyene, and if you can rid me of him I promise you a hundred crowns.", "pos": 4152017}
{"speaker": "Maliterni", "text": "I daresay that can be managed, and I will tell you what I can do to-morrow!", "pos": 4152132}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. d'Ache", "text": "I feel for your condition, as I feel your abuse of me; and I cannot help saying that you have shewn yourself the vilest of women in inciting de Pyene, who may be an honest man for all I know, to assassinate me. In fine, rich or not, and though I owe you nothing, I will give you enough money to take your property out of pawn, and I may possibly take you to Colmar myself, but you must first consent to my giving your charming daughter a proof of my affection. And you dare to make this horrible proposal to me?", "pos": 4153944}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Horrible or not, I do make it.", "pos": 4154473}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. d'Ache", "text": "I will never consent.", "pos": 4154506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good day, madam.", "pos": 4154530}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As I have not the pleasure of knowing you,", "pos": 4163882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "prudence will not allow me to do so.", "pos": 4163938}
{"speaker": "Stuart", "text": "You do know me, though,", "pos": 4163977}
{"speaker": "Stuart", "text": "Stuart, was only my keeper; my real name is Ranson, and I am the mistress of a rich landed proprietor. I got back to Liege after many sufferings.", "pos": 4164577}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted to hear that you are more prosperous now, but it must be confessed that your behaviour at Avignon was both preposterous and absurd. But the subject is not worth discussing. Good day, madam.", "pos": 4164737}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I think not, for we don’t play on the same principle. I play for amusement’s sake and you play to win money.", "pos": 4170002}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "What do you mean? Your words are offensive.", "pos": 4170127}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I didn’t mean them to be offensive, but as a matter of fact, each time we have played you have risen after a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 4170173}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "You ought to be obliged to me, as otherwise you would have lost heavily.", "pos": 4170304}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Possibly; but I don’t think so.", "pos": 4170379}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "I can prove it to you.", "pos": 4170413}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I accept the offer, but the first to leave the table must forfeit fifty Louis.", "pos": 4170438}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "I agree; but money down.", "pos": 4170519}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never play on credit. I am not hungry, but you can go if you want me to put the hundred Louis in my pocket.", "pos": 4170546}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "Let us agree that the first man who asks for food, who absents himself for more than a quarter of an hour, or who falls asleep in his chair, loses the bet.", "pos": 4171840}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will take you at your word, and I adhere to all your conditions.", "pos": 4171998}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "O Lord! I pity you, sir.", "pos": 4173725}
{"speaker": "Madame Saxe", "text": "Now, sir, you may fairly yield.", "pos": 4174668}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madam, in hope of pleasing you, I will gladly divide the stakes and rise from the table. You see, Madam, that I am not the more obstinate of the two.", "pos": 4174720}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "I made a silly bet, but you have given me a lesson which will last me all my days, and I am much obliged to you for it.", "pos": 4175843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, provided that your health has not suffered.", "pos": 4175965}
{"speaker": "d’Entragues", "text": "No, I am quite well, but we will play no more together.", "pos": 4176038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I hope we shan’t play against each other any more.", "pos": 4176096}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why?", "pos": 4177481}
{"speaker": "Signora Laura", "text": "She has been very poorly all the evening, and she is in need of sleep.", "pos": 4177496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; then I will sleep too.", "pos": 4177569}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "It’s a young lord, and I don’t even know his name.", "pos": 4178229}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, he is a young lord, is he? and you don’t know his name, you little hussy, don’t you? Well, he will tell me himself. Kindly tell me your name, fair sir.", "pos": 4178294}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "I am Count B----, canon of Bale.", "pos": 4178853}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And do you think you have been performing an ecclesiastical function here?", "pos": 4178888}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "No sir, no, and I hope you will forgive me and the lady too, for I am the only guilty party.", "pos": 4178965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not asking you whether she is guilty or not.", "pos": 4179060}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "Sir, the countess is perfectly innocent.", "pos": 4179112}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No one must hear anything more of this, but you and I will go to a distance of two hundred paces and burn a little powder.", "pos": 4179981}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "No, no, sir, you may take me where you like, and kill me if you please, but I was not meant for a fighting man.", "pos": 4180116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really?", "pos": 4180252}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "Yes, sir, and I only became a priest to escape the fatal duty of duelling.", "pos": 4180262}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you are a coward, and will not object to a good thrashing?", "pos": 4180339}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "Anything you like, but it would be cruelty, for my love blinded me. I only came here a quarter of an hour ago, and the countess and her governess were both asleep.", "pos": 4180405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a liar.", "pos": 4180571}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "I had only just taken off my shirt when you came, and I have never seen this angel before.", "pos": 4180589}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "And that’s gospel truth,", "pos": 4180682}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you aware that you are a couple of impudent scoundrels? And as for you, master canon, you deserve to be roasted like St. Laurence. Follow me, sir. What will you do, if I forgive you and let you go without putting you to shame?", "pos": 4180730}
{"speaker": "Count B----", "text": "I will leave in an hour and a half, and you shall never see me here again; but even if we meet in the future, you will find me always ready to do you a service.", "pos": 4181142}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. Begone, and in the future take more precautions in your amorous adventures.", "pos": 4181305}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "I shall say I am ill.", "pos": 4181678}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just as you please, but nobody will take any notice of you.", "pos": 4181702}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "These are the persons you are to drive, and they will pay you when they reach Turin in safety with their luggage. You are to take four days and a half for the journey, as is stipulated in the agreement, of which they have one copy and you another.", "pos": 4184168}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How are our sweethearts getting on?", "pos": 4185830}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Excellently. They are always talking about you and regretting your absence; they will go wild with joy when they know you are here.", "pos": 4185868}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must tell them directly, then.", "pos": 4186002}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "I will go and warn them that we shall all sup together this evening. By the way, M. de Voltaire has given up his house at Delices to M. de Villars, and has gone to live at Ferney.", "pos": 4186039}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That makes no difference to me, as I was not thinking of calling on him this time. I shall be here for two or three weeks, and I mean to devote my time to you.", "pos": 4186221}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "You are too good.", "pos": 4186383}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you give me writing materials before you go out? I will write a few letters while you are away.", "pos": 4186403}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the better. I shall know how to regulate my conduct, and perhaps I may succeed in initiating her.", "pos": 4187823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have all the prejudices which honour and religion suggest,", "pos": 4188926}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Ah! then, you, sir, are the person who discussed some very singular questions with my cousin, the pastor’s niece. I am delighted to make your acquaintance.", "pos": 4189228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am equally pleased to make yours, but I hope the pastor’s niece said nothing against me.", "pos": 4189386}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Not at all; she has a very high opinion of you.", "pos": 4189479}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going to dine with her to-morrow, and I shall take care to thank her.", "pos": 4189529}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "To-morrow! I should like to be there, for I enjoy philosophical discussions though I never dare to put a word in.", "pos": 4189606}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Then how could Christ have said that the time in which the world was to come to an end was unknown to Him?", "pos": 4192311}
{"speaker": "M. de Ximenes", "text": "He was speaking the truth; it was not known to Him.", "pos": 4192420}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Then he was not God?", "pos": 4192474}
{"speaker": "M. de Ximenes", "text": "That is a false deduction, for since God may do all things, He may certainly be ignorant of an event in futurity.", "pos": 4192497}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "something difficult, which you don’t know yourself.", "pos": 4193129}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted. Do you grant that a god possesses in a supreme degree the qualities of man?", "pos": 4193183}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Yes, excepting man’s weaknesses.", "pos": 4193283}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you class the generative power as a weakness?", "pos": 4193318}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "No.", "pos": 4193369}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you tell me, then, of what nature would have been the offspring of a union between a god and a mortal woman?", "pos": 4193375}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "It would be absurd, to suppose that a deity could perform such an action without its having any results. At the end of nine months a woman would be delivered a male child, which would be three parts man and one part god.", "pos": 4193826}
{"speaker": "M. de Ximenes", "text": "Naturally, if the son of the woman married, his children would be seven-eighths men and one-eighth gods.", "pos": 4194192}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, unless he married a goddess, which would have made the proportion different.", "pos": 4194299}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Tell me exactly, what proportion of divinity there would be in a child of the sixteenth generation.", "pos": 4194393}
{"speaker": "M. de Ximenes", "text": "Give me a pencil and I will soon tell you,", "pos": 4194510}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is no need to calculate it, the child would have some small share of the wit which you enjoy.", "pos": 4194575}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What have you done with Helen?", "pos": 4196562}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Nothing; she’s a simpleton, and an intractable one. She hid under the sheets and would not look at my performance with her friend.", "pos": 4196604}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You ought to go to her direct.", "pos": 4196737}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "I have done so, but she repulsed me again and again. I have given it up, and shall not try it again, unless you will tame her for me.", "pos": 4196770}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How is it to be done?", "pos": 4196906}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Come to dinner to-morrow. I shall be away at Geneva. I shall be back by supper-time. I wish we could give her too much to drink!", "pos": 4196930}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would be a pity. Let me see what I can do. The syndic, is in love with you, and last night . . .", "pos": 4197061}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Last night, he amused himself with his old friend. I am for everyone’s following their own tastes, but I expect to be allowed to follow mine.", "pos": 4197500}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I could gain your heart I should be happy.", "pos": 4197656}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Why don’t you invite the pastor and my cousin to dine with you? I could come too, for the pastor makes much of everyone who loves his niece.", "pos": 4197704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear that. Has she a lover?", "pos": 4197847}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "No.", "pos": 4197890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can scarcely believe it. She is young, pretty, agreeable, and very clever.", "pos": 4197896}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "You don’t understand Genevan ways. It is because she is so clever that no young man falls in love with her. Those who might be attracted by her personal charms hold themselves aloof on account of her intellectual capacities, as they would have to sit in silence before her.", "pos": 4197975}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are the young Genevans so ignorant, then?", "pos": 4198251}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "As a rule they are. Some of them have received excellent educations, but in a general way they are full of prejudice. Nobody wishes to be considered a fool or a blockhead, but clever women are not appreciated; and if a girl is witty or well educated she endeavors to hide her lights, at least if she desires to be married.", "pos": 4198295}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! now I see why you did not open your lips during our discussion. No, I know I have nothing to hide. This was not the motive which made me keep silence, but the pleasure of listening. I admired my cousin, who was not afraid to display her learning on a subject which any other girl would have affected to know nothing about.", "pos": 4198620}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Yes, affected, though she might very probably know as much as her grandmother.", "pos": 4198950}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a matter of morals, or rather of prejudices.", "pos": 4199031}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Your reasoning is admirable, and I am already longing for the party you so cleverly suggested.", "pos": 4199085}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will have the pleasure of being with my cousin.", "pos": 4199182}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "I do her justice. Hedvig is certainly a very interesting and agreeable girl, but believe me it is your presence that will constitute my chief enjoyment.", "pos": 4199236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And how if I do not believe you?", "pos": 4199391}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "You would wrong me and give me pain, for I love you dearly.", "pos": 4199426}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In spite of that you have deceived me. I am sure that you have given marks of your affection to those three young ladies. For my part I pity them.", "pos": 4199488}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "Why?", "pos": 4199637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because neither of them can flatter herself that you love her, and her alone.", "pos": 4199644}
{"speaker": "Syndic", "text": "And do you think that your delicacy of feeling makes you happier than they are?", "pos": 4199724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I think so though of course, I have no experience in the matter. Tell me truly, do you think I am right?", "pos": 4199806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I do.", "pos": 4199918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted to hear it; but you must confess that to associate me with them in your attentions would not be giving me the greatest possible proof of your love.", "pos": 4199931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I do confess it, and I beg your pardon. But tell me how I should set to work to ask the pastor to dinner.", "pos": 4200096}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There will be no difficulty. Just call on him and ask him to come, and if you wish me to be of the party beg him to ask my mother and myself.", "pos": 4200209}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why your mother?", "pos": 4200353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because he has been in love with her these twenty years, and loves her still.", "pos": 4200372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And where shall I give this dinner?", "pos": 4200452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is not M. Tronchin your banker?", "pos": 4200490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4200524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has a nice pleasure house on the lake; ask him to lend it you for the day; he will be delighted to do so. But don’t tell the syndic or his three friends anything about it; they can hear of it afterwards.", "pos": 4200531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do you think your learned cousin will be glad to be in my company?", "pos": 4200740}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "More than glad, you may be sure.", "pos": 4200813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, everything will be arranged by tomorrow. The day after, you will be returning to Geneva, and the party will take place two or three days later.", "pos": 4200848}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see,", "pos": 4201532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that I shall waste my time with the little fool. I think I shall give her up.", "pos": 4201550}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think that’s the best thing you could do,", "pos": 4201630}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for a man who languishes after a woman who is either devoid of feeling or full of caprice, makes himself her dupe. Bliss should be neither too easy nor too hard to be won.", "pos": 4201687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know,", "pos": 4208926}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that you have made a conquest of M. Tronchin?", "pos": 4208959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have I? The worthy banker asked me some very silly questions.", "pos": 4209007}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must not expect everyone to be able to contend with you.", "pos": 4209071}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t help telling you that your question pleased me best of all. A bigoted theologian at the end of the table seemed scandalized at the question and still more at the answer.", "pos": 4209134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why?", "pos": 4209314}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He says I ought to have told you that a deity could not impregnate a woman. He said that he would explain the reason to me if I were a man, but being a woman and a maid he could not with propriety expound such mysteries. I wish you would tell me what the fool meant.", "pos": 4209325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should be very glad, but you must allow me to speak plainly, and I shall have to take for granted that you are acquainted with the physical conformation of a man.", "pos": 4209594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, speak as plainly as you like, for there is nobody to hear what we say; but I must confess that I am only acquainted with the peculiarities of the male by theory and reading. I have no practical knowledge. I have seen statues, but I have never seen or examined a real live man. Have you, Helen?", "pos": 4209761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have never wished to do so.", "pos": 4210062}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not? It is good to know everything.", "pos": 4210094}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, Hedvig, your theologian meant to say that a god was not capable of this.", "pos": 4210136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 4210217}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me your hand.", "pos": 4210233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can feel it, and have thought it would be something like that; without this provision of nature man would not be able to fecundate his mate. And how could the foolish theologian maintain that this was an imperfection?", "pos": 4210254}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because it is the result of desire, Hedvig, and it would not have taken place in me if I had not been charmed with you, and if I had not conceived the most seducing ideas of the beauties that I cannot see from the view of the beauties I can see. Tell me frankly whether feeling that did not give you an agreeable sensation.", "pos": 4210476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It did, and just in the place where your hand is now. Don’t you feel a pleasant tickling there, Helen, after what the gentleman has been saying to us?", "pos": 4210802}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I feel it, but I often do, without anything to excite me.", "pos": 4210955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And then,", "pos": 4211020}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "nature makes you appease it . . . thus?", "pos": 4211040}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 4211082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 4211096}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Even when we are asleep our hands seek that spot as if by instinct, and if it were not for that solace I think we should get terribly ill.", "pos": 4211120}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should like to so much,", "pos": 4211664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I too,", "pos": 4211705}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then sit down, ladies, on the first step.", "pos": 4211730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well,", "pos": 4212050}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "men have thighs too.", "pos": 4212077}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will do, charming maids,", "pos": 4212201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you might catch cold if you stayed longer in the water.", "pos": 4212241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What effect had it on you?", "pos": 4212929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I daren’t tell you to look, but feel, both of you.", "pos": 4212972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you bathe, too.", "pos": 4213025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s out of the question, a man’s undressing takes so much trouble.", "pos": 4213046}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But we have still two hours before us, in which we need not fear any interruption.", "pos": 4213116}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That,", "pos": 4214167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s beautiful!", "pos": 4214214}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have a word too,", "pos": 4214274}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I will shew it to you if you will wait a minute.", "pos": 4214308}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come, Hedvig, and I will save you the trouble of making it yourself, and will do it better.", "pos": 4214363}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I daresay, but I have never done it with a man.", "pos": 4214457}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No more have I,", "pos": 4214507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We were now close friends, and soon promised to be something more; and we walked back and found the pastor and Helen’s mother strolling by the side of the lake.", "pos": 4215193}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "To-morrow. I shall be able to get a word with you at Madame Tronchin’s dinner, and I expect Hedvig will have hit on some way for you to satisfy your desires.", "pos": 4216169}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Eve, did not deceive her husband, she only cajoled him into eating it in the hope of giving him one more perfection. Besides Eve had not been forbidden to eat the fruit by God, but only by Adam, and in all probability her woman’s sense prevented her regarding the prohibition as serious. I beg your pardon, madam. What do you say to this?", "pos": 4217079}
{"speaker": "The Pastor", "text": "Madam, my niece is not infallible.", "pos": 4217771}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Excuse me, dear uncle, I am as infallible as Holy Writ when I speak according to it.", "pos": 4217808}
{"speaker": "The Pastor", "text": "Bring a Bible, and let me see. Hedvig, my dear Hedvig, you are right after all. Here it is. The prohibition was given before woman was made.", "pos": 4217895}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "I do not think so, because it could only be a symbol of sexual union, and it is clear that such did not take place between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. All the worse for them, madam, the Scripture is plain enough. In the first verse of the fourth chapter it is written, that Adam knew his wife after they had been driven from the Garden, and that in consequence she conceived Cain. I cannot admit the inference, as in that case she would have conceived; for it would be absurd to suppose that two creatures who had just left God’s hands, and were consequently as nearly perfect as is possible, could perform the act of generation without its having any result. The Old Testament, does not teach this doctrine; but, nevertheless, human reason teaches it, as the soul is a substance, and the destruction of any substance is an unthinkable proposition. Where there is smoke there is always fire. I cannot answer that question, for it is beyond my knowledge. I can only say that as I believe God to be all powerful, I cannot deny Him the power to make matter capable of thought. I believe that I have a soul endowed with thinking capacities, but I do not know whether I shall remember that I had the honour of dining with you to-day after I die. One may be a theologian and a philosopher, for philosophy never contradicts any truth, and besides, to say ‘I do not know’ is not the same as ‘I am sure’. but it must be something quite new. Certainly, and the reason is that in God there is no first principle, and He is therefore incomprehensible. There my learning is baffled. I know not what to reply. You should not ask me so hard a thing as that. That’s prettily said. Be kind enough to reply for me, gentlemen, and teach me what to say. My opinion is that since God knows all, He knows of His own existence, but you must not ask me how He knows it. I cannot recognize the word ‘created,’ Ask me whether matter was formed, and I shall reply in the affirmative. The word ‘created’ cannot have existence, for the existence of anything must be prior to the word which explains it. Made out of nothing. You see the absurdity, for nothing must have first existed. I am glad to see you laugh. Do you think that nothingness could be created? Not at all, not at all. My uncle there. Your question is a purely philosophical one, and I must answer that I do not know enough of spirit or matter to be able to give a satisfactory definition. No solid foundation can be built on abstract ideas. Hobbes calls such ideas mere fantasms. One may have them, but if one begins to reason on them, one is landed in contradiction. I know that God sees me, but I should labour in vain if I endeavoured to prove it by reasoning, for reason tells us no one can see anything without organs of sight; and God being a pure spirit, and therefore without organs, it is scientifically impossible that He can see us any more than we can see Him. But Moses and several others have seen Him, and I believe it so, without attempting to reason on it. I am not afraid of that. I cannot conceive the possibility of Atheism.", "pos": 4218287}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Hedvig, will stay the night and sleep with me as she always does when she comes to supper with her uncle. It remains to be seen if you are willing to hide in a place I will shew you at eleven o’clock tomorrow, in order to sleep with us. Call on my mother at that hour to-morrow, and I will find an opportunity of shewing you where it is. You will be safe though not comfortable, and if you grow weary you can console yourself by thinking that you are in our minds. Shall I have to stay there long? Four hours at the most. At seven o’clock the street door is shut, and only opened to anyone who rings. If I happen to cough while I am in hiding might I be heard? Yes, that might happen. There’s a great hazard. All the rest is of no consequence; but no matter, I will risk all for the sake of so great happiness. At seven o’clock, the door will be open, and when you are in put on the bolt. Take care that no one sees you as you are entering the house.", "pos": 4224303}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Follow me on tiptoe. There, now come upstairs softly after me.", "pos": 4229623}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "Divine Hedvig, if I had not loved you madly I would not have stayed a quarter of an hour in that dismal cell, but I am ready to spend four hours there every day till I leave Geneva for your sake. But we must not lose any time; let us go to bed.", "pos": 4230248}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Do you two go to bed. I will sleep on the sofa.", "pos": 4230509}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "don’t think of it; our fate must be exactly equal.", "pos": 4230597}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "Yes, darling Helen. I love you both with equal ardour, and these ceremonies are only wasting the time in which I ought to be assuring you of my passion. Imitate my proceedings. I am going to undress, and then I shall lie in the middle of the bed. Come and lie beside me, and I’ll shew you how I love you. If all is safe I will remain with you till you send me away, but whatever you do do not put out the light.", "pos": 4230650}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "In five or six days time, perhaps, the opportunity may recur again, but that will be all. Ask us to sup at your inn to-morrow, and maybe, chance will favour the commission of a sweet felony.", "pos": 4233301}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall be in the town, and can remain together as long as we please, but do not forget to bring the amiable widow and her charming daughter.", "pos": 4234434}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "I don’t care to. Well, let us go and see them again.", "pos": 4236021}
{"speaker": "Helen", "text": "I will be there. And I will be there to shut you up, but you cannot have a light as the servant might see it. I forgot to tell you, that you would find a fowl there.", "pos": 4237050}
{"speaker": "Hedvig", "text": "We shall be wretched, sweetheart, and if you like we will come with you.", "pos": 4238060}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise to come and see you before two years have expired,", "pos": 4238150}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am flush of money, and I intend to invite my friends to supper frequently. Can you lay your hands on a good cook?", "pos": 4241614}
{"speaker": "Chevalier", "text": "I know a pearl amongst cooks, and you can have him directly.", "pos": 4241742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You, chevalier, are the pearl of men. Get me this wonder, tell him I am hard to please, and agree on the sum I am to pay him per month.", "pos": 4241816}
{"speaker": "Raiberti", "text": "It would be a good idea, to call on the Count d’Aglie. He knows that the Corticelli is your mistress, and he has given a formal order to Madame Pacienza, the lady with whom she lives, that when you come and see her you are not to be left alone together. Since she has been here, her conduct has been irreproachable.", "pos": 4242013}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear that.", "pos": 4242534}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "You might let her take some lessons from the dancing-master Dupre. He will no doubt give her something to do at the carnival.", "pos": 4242560}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "I warn you that I have been informed that you keep a mistress, and that I have given strict orders to the respectable woman with whom she lives not to leave her alone with you.", "pos": 4242880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am glad to hear it,", "pos": 4243059}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and the more as I fear her mother is not a person of very rigid morals. I advised the Chevalier Raiberti of my intentions with regard to her, and I am glad to see that he has carried them out so well. I hope the girl will shew herself worthy of your protection.", "pos": 4243094}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "Do you think of staying here throughout the carnival?", "pos": 4243358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, if your excellency approves.", "pos": 4243414}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "It depends entirely on your good conduct.", "pos": 4243450}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A few peccadilloes excepted, my conduct is always above reproach.", "pos": 4243494}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "There are some peccadilloes we do not tolerate here. Have you seen the Chevalier Osorio?", "pos": 4243562}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think of calling on him to-day or to-morrow.", "pos": 4243653}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "I hope you will remember me to him.", "pos": 4243702}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 4244055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "for I am not in love with her.", "pos": 4244076}
{"speaker": "Osorio", "text": "Somehow I don’t think your indifference will be very pleasing to the virtuous duenna.", "pos": 4244150}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shew me your room. Here is something to make you a winter dress,", "pos": 4245506}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Is this from the marchioness?", "pos": 4245656}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, it is from me.", "pos": 4245688}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "But where are the three dresses she said she would give me?", "pos": 4245709}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You know very well on what conditions you were to have them, so let us say no more about it. I should have thought, that a virtuous person like you would have been delighted.", "pos": 4245771}
{"speaker": "Signora Laura", "text": "I thank God for it every morning and night.", "pos": 4246315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You infernal old hypocrite! Upon my word, anybody who didn’t know you would be taken in. Are you still at Madame R----’s?", "pos": 4246361}
{"speaker": "Victorine", "text": "Yes sir,", "pos": 4246611}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s a pleasure, is it? well, I don’t know when you will have it again; it depends on my leisure and my fancy.", "pos": 4247279}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "Victorine and Caton are the only two of the old set that still remain, but I have replaced them with others.", "pos": 4248465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has Victorine found anyone to operate on her yet?", "pos": 4248576}
{"speaker": "Madame R----", "text": "No, she is just as you left her, but a gentleman who is in love with her is going to take her to Milan.", "pos": 4248628}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are in good hands, my dear sir,", "pos": 4249510}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the woman is not only a spy of d’Aglie’s, but a professional procuress. I wonder the Chevalier Raiberti placed the girl with her.", "pos": 4249558}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "No one better, sir, for I am Dupre, at your service.", "pos": 4250049}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted at this happy chance. The Chevalier Raiberti gave me to understand that you might be able to give dancing lessons to a ballet-girl of my acquaintance.", "pos": 4250104}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "M. de Raiberti mentioned your name to me this morning. You must be the Chevalier de Seingalt?", "pos": 4250272}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 4250368}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "I can give the young lady lessons every morning at nine o’clock at my own home.", "pos": 4250379}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, do you come to her house, but at whatever hour you like. I will pay you, and I hope you will make her one of your best pupils. I must warn you, however, that she is not a novice.", "pos": 4250461}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "I will call on her to-day, and to-morrow I will tell you what I can make of her; but I think I had better tell you my terms: I charge three Piedmontese livres a lesson.", "pos": 4250646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think that is very reasonable; I will call on you to-morrow.", "pos": 4250817}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "You do me honour. Here is my address. If you like to come in the afternoon you will see the rehearsal of a ballet.", "pos": 4250882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is it not rehearsed at the theatre?", "pos": 4250999}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "Yes, but at the theatre no on-lookers are allowed by the orders of the superintendent of police.", "pos": 4251037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This superintendent of yours puts his finger into a good many pies.", "pos": 4251136}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "In too many.", "pos": 4251206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But at your own house anybody may come?", "pos": 4251221}
{"speaker": "Dupre", "text": "Undoubtedly, but I could not have the dancers there if my wife were not present. The superintendent knows her, and has great confidence in her.", "pos": 4251263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will see me at the rehearsal.", "pos": 4251409}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I am her mother,", "pos": 4255620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You, madam! I should not have thought it possible.", "pos": 4255652}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I was very young when she was born.", "pos": 4255705}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should think so. Where do you come from?", "pos": 4255743}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I am from Lucca, and what is more, a poor widow.", "pos": 4255788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can you be poor, when you are still young and handsome, and have an angel for a daughter?", "pos": 4255839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Allow me to offer you mine,", "pos": 4256147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have not used it,", "pos": 4256362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do so.", "pos": 4256394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must not give it me back, fair Agatha, till you have had it washed.", "pos": 4256471}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I have the pleasure of calling on you?", "pos": 4256654}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I cannot receive you, sir, except in the presence of my landlady.", "pos": 4256707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This cursed restriction is general in Turin, then?", "pos": 4256775}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "Yes, the superintendent uses everybody in the same way.", "pos": 4256828}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again here?", "pos": 4256886}
{"speaker": "Count A---- B----", "text": "I hope, that you will come and stay with us at Milan, and that she will please you.", "pos": 4260111}
{"speaker": "Madame Dupre", "text": "That’s true, and it’s a great pity.", "pos": 4264359}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "Unfortunately, my poor girl hasn’t got another pair.", "pos": 4264418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have some pretty imitation pendants, which I could lend you,", "pos": 4264492}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "they are really very brilliant.", "pos": 4264565}
{"speaker": "Madame Dupre", "text": "One would swear they were real diamonds,", "pos": 4264758}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "all the other girls would be jealous, as they would certainly take them for real stones.", "pos": 4264890}
{"speaker": "Madame de Chauvelin", "text": "It is not so? M. de Seingalt has deceived you, my dear child. A gentleman of his caste does not lend imitation jewellery to such a pretty girl as you are. Your ear-rings are set with magnificent diamonds.", "pos": 4267061}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The man’s mad, you ought to have let him have them; they are not worth four sequins.", "pos": 4268572}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "Am I to tell my girl, of the way in which you proved to me that you love her?", "pos": 4269010}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I leave that to your discretion, my dear. I have certainly proved that I love you, but it does not follow that I do not adore your daughter. In fact, I burn for her; and yet, if we are not careful to avoid being alone together, what has just happened between us will often happen again.", "pos": 4269116}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "It is hard to resist you, and it is possible that I may have occasion to speak to you again in private.", "pos": 4269415}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may be sure you will always be welcome, and all I ask of you is not to put any obstacles in the way of my suit with Agatha.", "pos": 4269521}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I have also a favour to ask.", "pos": 4269651}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it is within my power, you may be sure I will grant it.", "pos": 4269682}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "Very good! Then tell me if these ear-rings are real, and what was your intention in putting them in my daughter’s ears?", "pos": 4269743}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The diamonds are perfectly genuine, and my intention was that Agatha should keep them as a proof of my affection.", "pos": 4269865}
{"speaker": "My man", "text": "Sir, I have been looking for you to warn you that I have just seen the Chevalier de Ville-Follet slip into Madame Pacienza’s house, and I suspect he is making an amorous call on the Corticelli.", "pos": 4270779}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir. I hope you will pardon me for coming in without knocking.", "pos": 4271540}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Wait a moment, wait a moment.", "pos": 4271615}
{"speaker": "Chevalier Raiberti", "text": "I suppose you will not be going to complain to the Count d’Aglie?", "pos": 4271920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is only fools who complain, above all in circumstances like these.", "pos": 4271988}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s exactly what I am going to do, and for the rest of my days I never wish to see the Corticelli again, or to make or mar in her affairs, and for all this I am greatly obliged to the Chevalier de Ville-Follet.", "pos": 4273600}
{"speaker": "M. de Aglie", "text": "I see you are angry. Come, come! you must not abandon the girl for that. I will have the woman Pacienza punished in such a way as to satisfy you, and I will place the girl in a respectable family where you can go and see her in perfect liberty.", "pos": 4273826}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am greatly obliged to you for your kindness, indeed I am grateful; but I despise the Pacienza too heartily to wish for her punishment, and as to the Corticelli and her mother, they are two female swindlers, who have given me too much trouble already. I am well quit of them.", "pos": 4274073}
{"speaker": "M. de Aglie", "text": "You must confess, however, that you had no right to make a forcible entry into a room in a house which does not belong to you.", "pos": 4274352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I had not the right, I confess, but if I had not taken it I could never have had a certain proof of the perfidy of my mistress; and I should have been obliged to continue supporting her, though she entertained other lovers.", "pos": 4274481}
{"speaker": "M. de Aglie", "text": "The Corticelli pretends that you are her debtor, and not vice versa. She says that the diamonds you have given another girl belong of right to her, and that Madame d’Urfe, whom I have the honour to know, presented her with them.", "pos": 4274707}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is a liar! And as you know Madame d’Urfe, kindly write to her (she is at Lyons); and if the marchioness replies that I owe the wretched girl anything, be sure that I will discharge the debt. I have a hundred thousand francs in good banks of this town, and the money will be a sufficient surety for the ear-rings I have disposed of.", "pos": 4274938}
{"speaker": "M. de Aglie", "text": "I am sorry that things have happened so.", "pos": 4275276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I am very glad, as I have ridden myself of a burden that was hard to bear.", "pos": 4275319}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear chevalier, it will be enough if you do not demand satisfaction of me.", "pos": 4276015}
{"speaker": "Agatha's mother", "text": "I do not know, if they are real diamonds, or if they belong to the Corticelli, but I do know that my girl has received no such present from the gentleman.", "pos": 4278212}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, we will have no more surmises in the matter; Dearest Agatha, I make you a present of them before this company, and my giving them to you now is a proof that hitherto they have belonged to me. I should be very glad to do so,", "pos": 4278382}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I know, that you are in love with Redegonde, and have long tried vainly to obtain her; now I am willing to exchange her for Agatha, and all I want to know is what sum of money you want over and above?", "pos": 4283313}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are very good, my dear lord, but to determine the excess of value would require a good mathematician. Redegonde is all very well, and inspires me with curiosity, but what is she compared to Agatha?", "pos": 4283526}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I know, I know, and I therefore offer you any sum you like to mention.", "pos": 4283730}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I am sure of Redegonde’s consent,", "pos": 4284334}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I am not at all sure of Agatha’s,", "pos": 4284387}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 4284435}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have very strong grounds for supposing that she would not consent to the arrangement. What reasons have you for the contrary opinion?", "pos": 4284446}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "She will shew her sense.", "pos": 4284584}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But she loves me.", "pos": 4284611}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "Well, Redegonde loves me.", "pos": 4284631}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I dare say; but does she love me?", "pos": 4284659}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I am sure I don’t know, but she will love you.", "pos": 4284695}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you consulted her upon the point?", "pos": 4284744}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "No, but it is all the same. What I want to know now is whether you approve of my plan, and how much you want for the exchange, for your Agatha is worth much more than my Redegonde.", "pos": 4284785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear you do my mistress justice. As for the money question, we will speak of that later. In the first place I will take Agatha’s opinion, and will let you know the result to-morrow morning.", "pos": 4284968}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me, if you would agree to the change?", "pos": 4285786}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "I will do just as you like, and if the money he offers be acceptable to you, I advise you to close with him.", "pos": 4285841}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will see, how it all ends. Quite right,", "pos": 4286210}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "The four of us had better go masked to the first ball at the Carignan Theatre. We will sup at a house which belongs to me, and there the bargain can be struck.", "pos": 4286473}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "He reflected a few minutes, and told me he must think it over, and would see me again. It would be amusing if he took me at my word, would it not?", "pos": 4290469}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but we should then have to enquire whether he is a madman or a beggar on the verge of bankruptcy. And if he turns out to be a man of means? In that case you would be obliged to accept. I will engage to find you one. As to talent, you have enough and to spare; but you will see that it will come to nothing.", "pos": 4290630}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, you know that I love Agatha, and that she loves me, nevertheless I am your friend, and since you adore her I will do my best to hasten your bliss. I will leave you in possession of this treasure, but you must promise that when you abandon her you will give her two thousand guineas.", "pos": 4293018}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "My dear sir. I will give them her now if you like.", "pos": 4293312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, my lord, I do not wish her to know anything about our agreement while you are living happily together.", "pos": 4293376}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "Then I will give you a bond binding myself to pay her the two thousand guineas when we separate.", "pos": 4293485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want that, the word of an Englishman is enough; but since we cannot command the fates, and may die without having time to put our affairs in order, I wish you to take such steps as may seem convenient to you, whereby that sum would go to her after your death.", "pos": 4293584}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I give you my word on it.", "pos": 4293854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is enough; but I have one other condition to make.", "pos": 4293882}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 4293940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is that you promise to say nothing to Agatha before my departure.", "pos": 4293950}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "I swear I will not.", "pos": 4294021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; and on my part I promise to prepare her for the change.", "pos": 4294043}
{"speaker": "Lord Percy", "text": "This is the best letter I can give you. I will write and tell her that you will call and give her the portrait, unless, indeed, she likes to leave it in your hands.", "pos": 4295226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope my lady will think me worthy of such an honour.", "pos": 4295393}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "We are so poor,", "pos": 4298793}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "There are three courses before you, Mr. Venetian, and you can take which you like. Either countermand this supper, invite me to come to it, or come and measure swords with me now.", "pos": 4299267}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "At all events. I will go out with you.", "pos": 4300174}
{"speaker": "Clairmont", "text": "Sir, your affairs of this kind are mine too, I shall take care not to go beyond my duty.", "pos": 4300331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The French are brave,", "pos": 4301357}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but generally they are perfectly polite and have wonderful tact. Wretchedness and love, joined to a false spirit of courage, makes a fool of a man all the world over.", "pos": 4301392}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear count,” I replied, “I have enough fine Turin chocolate to go all round. Does the countess like it?”", "pos": 4305233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very much, but she won’t take it unless it is made by her woman.”", "pos": 4305342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here are six pounds: make her accept it, and tell her that if I hear anything about payment I shall take it back.”", "pos": 4305409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure she will accept it, and thank you too. Shall I have your carriage housed?”", "pos": 4305525}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be extremely obliged to you, and I shall be glad if you would get me a hired carriage, and a guide for whom you can answer.”", "pos": 4305611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It shall be done.”", "pos": 4305745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear, dear, abbé!” said I, laughing, “this sort of thing is not exactly proper in a man of your sacred profession. How can you advise me to tell a lie? No, sir; if the countess asks me any such impertinent question, I shall tell her the truth.”", "pos": 4306381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure she will ask you, and if you answer like that I shall suffer for it.”", "pos": 4306627}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, sir, if you are in the wrong you deserve to suffer.”", "pos": 4306708}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But as it happens, I should be blamed for nothing.”", "pos": 4306768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, go and tell her it’s a present; and if she won’t have that, tell her I am in no hurry to be paid.”", "pos": 4306821}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see, sir, that you don’t know the lady or the way in which this house is managed. I will speak to her husband.”", "pos": 4306927}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If your wife asks me whether I have received the money, be sure I will answer in the affirmative.”", "pos": 4307376}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triuizi", "text": "for, there’s only one fireplace in the house and that’s in your room.", "pos": 4308425}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Is it possible that a man of your years has not yet learnt to respect a woman?”", "pos": 4308729}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triuizi", "text": "Really, countess. I thought it would be very disrespectful to continue sitting while you were standing.", "pos": 4308810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 4309080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I hope to find someone at Milan who will be worthy of such presents.", "pos": 4309094}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know the Prince Triulzi, at Venice; I suppose he is of your family?", "pos": 4309178}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triuizi", "text": "He says he is, and it may be so; but I am certainly not a member of his family.”", "pos": 4309250}
{"speaker": "Count A---- B----", "text": "You must stay to dinner, marquis, and as you only like dishes prepared by your own cook you had better send for them.", "pos": 4309404}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your husband settled with me,", "pos": 4310569}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but you have given me a lesson I can never forget.", "pos": 4310609}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triuizi", "text": "What lesson?” said the marquis.”", "pos": 4310662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had hoped that the countess would have deigned to receive this poor present at my hands.”", "pos": 4310695}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triuizi", "text": "And she wouldn’t take it? It’s absurd, on my life.”", "pos": 4310788}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "There is nothing to laugh at, but you laugh at everything.", "pos": 4310841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am glad of it as it made her speak so.", "pos": 4312401}
{"speaker": "Clairmont", "text": "Is she young? Both young and pretty, sir.", "pos": 4312538}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will do nicely, shew her in.", "pos": 4312584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you live at any distance?", "pos": 4313027}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "I live on the ground floor of this house.", "pos": 4313058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All by yourself?", "pos": 4313102}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "No sir, I have my father and mother.", "pos": 4313121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what is your name?", "pos": 4313160}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Zenobia.", "pos": 4313185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your name is as pretty as you are. Will you give me your hand to kiss?", "pos": 4313196}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "I can’t, my hand is another’s.", "pos": 4313269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are engaged, are you?", "pos": 4313331}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Yes, to a tailor, and we are going to be married before the end of the carnival.", "pos": 4313359}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he rich or handsome?", "pos": 4313442}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Neither the one nor the other.", "pos": 4313468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then why are you going to marry him?", "pos": 4313501}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Because I want to have a house of my own.", "pos": 4313540}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like you, and will stand your friend. Go and fetch your tailor. I will give him some work to do.", "pos": 4313584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, master tailor,", "pos": 4313934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "so you are going to marry this charming girl?", "pos": 4313965}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "Yes, sir, the banns have been published already.", "pos": 4314013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a lucky fellow indeed to have so much happiness in store. When are you going to marry her?", "pos": 4314064}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "In ten or twelve days.", "pos": 4314165}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not to-morrow?", "pos": 4314190}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "Your worship is in a great hurry.", "pos": 4314211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think I should be, indeed,", "pos": 4314247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if I were in your place. I want you to make me a domino for the ball to-morrow.", "pos": 4314296}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "Certainly, sir; but your excellency must find me the stuff, for nobody in Milan would give me credit for it, and I couldn’t afford to lay out so much money in advance.", "pos": 4314378}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When you are married you will have money and credit too. In the meanwhile here are ten sequins for you.", "pos": 4314548}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "He is neither jealous nor amorous. He is only marrying me because I earn more than he does.", "pos": 4314796}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With your charms I should have thought you might have made a better match.", "pos": 4314905}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood. Besides, he is sharp if he is not handsome, and perhaps a keen head is better than a handsome face.", "pos": 4314982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are sharp enough yourself, anyhow. But why does he put off the wedding?", "pos": 4315143}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Because he hasn’t got any money, and wants to have a fine wedding for his relations to come to. I should like it myself.", "pos": 4315221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think you are right; but I can’t see why you should not let an honest man kiss your hand.", "pos": 4315344}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "That was only a piece of slyness to let you know I was to be married. I have no silly prejudices myself.", "pos": 4315438}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, that’s better! Tell your future husband that if he likes me to be the patron of the wedding I will pay for everything.", "pos": 4315545}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Really?", "pos": 4315670}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, really. I will give him twenty-five sequins on the condition that he spends it all on the wedding.", "pos": 4315680}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Twenty-five sequins! That will make people talk; but what care we? I will give you an answer to-morrow.", "pos": 4315786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And a kiss now?", "pos": 4315892}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 4315910}
{"speaker": "Thérèse Palesi", "text": "And where is Cesarino? In this town. You can see him whenever you like. Are you happy? Quite. People say that I have a lover, but it is not true; and you can see me at any time with perfect liberty. At Florence. I was still in love with him; but now, if I am still pleasing in your eyes, we can renew our connection, and live together till we die.", "pos": 4316492}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will soon shew you, darling, that I love you as well as ever.", "pos": 4317094}
{"speaker": "Countess A---- B----", "text": "I know where you have been, but if you love that person, you will not go and see her again, or else her lover will leave her.", "pos": 4317419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I would take his place, madam.", "pos": 4317579}
{"speaker": "Countess A---- B----", "text": "You are right in amusing yourself with women who know how to earn your presents. I am aware that you never give anything till you have received evident proofs of their affection.", "pos": 4317617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That has always been my principle.", "pos": 4317798}
{"speaker": "Countess A---- B----", "text": "It’s an excellent way to avoid being duped. The lover of the person you have been with kept a lady in society for some time in great splendour, but all the rest of us despised her.", "pos": 4317835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why so, if you please?", "pos": 4318018}
{"speaker": "Countess A---- B----", "text": "Because she lowered herself so terribly. Greppi is absolutely a man of no family whatever.", "pos": 4318043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The only thing needful,", "pos": 4318259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is a fine physique and plenty of money, and those ladies who despised their friend were either ridiculously proud or abominably envious. I have not the slightest doubt that if they could find any more Gieppis they would be willing enough to lower themselves.", "pos": 4318293}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "They say it’s worth a thousand sequins,", "pos": 4319599}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, that is so; but I would sell everything I possess before parting with any of the articles which I intend for the fair sex.", "pos": 4319651}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Marquis Triulzi wants it badly to present to someone.", "pos": 4319781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very sorry, but I cannot sell it to him.", "pos": 4319837}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I will expect you, then. I know you were in love with Countess A---- B----, and I felt sure you would not dare to come to supper with me.", "pos": 4320296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I thought I should confound you by accepting your invitation, as I knew Greppi was your lover.", "pos": 4320665}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "He is my friend. If he loves me in any other way than that of friendship, I pity him, for as yet he has not discovered the secret of seduction.", "pos": 4320766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you think he ever will?", "pos": 4320927}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "No, I don’t. I am rich.", "pos": 4320956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but he is richer than you.", "pos": 4320982}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I know that, but I think he loves his money better than he loves me.", "pos": 4321016}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand. You will make him happy if he loves you well enough to ruin himself.", "pos": 4321087}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "That is it, but it will never come to pass. But here we are, together again after a divorce of nearly twenty years. I don’t think you will find any change in me.", "pos": 4321172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a privilege which nature grants to the fair sex only. You will find me changed, but you will be able to work miracles.", "pos": 4321336}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "the tailor was ready to marry her next Sunday if my offer was not a joke.", "pos": 4321831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To convince you of the contrary,", "pos": 4321906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "here are the twenty-five sequins.", "pos": 4321949}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I suppose you will be giving it to the person with whom you spent the night,", "pos": 4322814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s an impossibility,", "pos": 4322912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I spent the night in play.", "pos": 4322951}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "I saw you losing money at Canano’s bank, and remembering our old friendship I want to communicate to you a sure way of winning money. All that is necessary is for me to introduce you to a club of young men who are very fond of play, and cannot possibly win.", "pos": 4323742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where does this club meet?", "pos": 4324013}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "In an extremely respectable house. If you agree I will keep the bank myself, and I am sure of winning. I want you to lend me capital, and I only ask a fourth of the profits.", "pos": 4324042}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose you can hold the cards well.", "pos": 4324218}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "You are right.", "pos": 4324259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear sir,", "pos": 4324501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will give you my decision after seeing the club to which you want to introduce me.", "pos": 4324527}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "Will you be at the theatre coffee-house at three o’clock to-morrow?", "pos": 4324614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but I hope to see you at the ball in the evening.", "pos": 4324684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You insult me cruelly,", "pos": 4325455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you must know my character better than that.", "pos": 4325490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know everything, my dear countess; but, after all, the insult’s nothing; you can easily forgive me if you pluck up a little spirit; trample on a foolish prejudice; get the dress, and make me happy for a whole night long.", "pos": 4325537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That it all very well when one is in love, but you must confess that your coarse way of speaking is more likely to make me hate you than love you.", "pos": 4325762}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I use that style, because I want to come to the point; I have no time to waste. And you, countess, must confess in your turn, that you would be delighted to have me sighing at your feet.", "pos": 4325911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be all the same to me, I don’t think I could love you.", "pos": 4326100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we are agreed on one point at all events, for I love you no more than you love me.", "pos": 4326166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And yet you would spend a thousand sequins for the pleasure of passing a night with me.", "pos": 4326256}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all, I don’t want to sleep with you for the sake of the pleasure, but to mortify your infernal pride, which becomes you so ill.", "pos": 4326346}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "You lost an immense sum, and I am very glad of it. The marquis will give you a thousand sequins, and the money will bring you luck.", "pos": 4327375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you, too, for I suppose you will have the dress?", "pos": 4327509}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Maybe.", "pos": 4327564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, madam, you shall never have it in this way, and you know the other. I despise a thousand sequins.", "pos": 4327573}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "And I despise you and your presents.", "pos": 4327677}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may despise me as much as you please, and you may be sure I despise you.", "pos": 4327716}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Triulzi will give you a thousand sequins; that will fit you up again.", "pos": 4328014}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For the dress you mean?", "pos": 4328086}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4328112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wanted to give it to your wife, but she said she would despise it, coming from my hands.", "pos": 4328119}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "You astonish me; she is mad after it. You must have wounded her haughty temper in some way or another. But sell it, and get the thousand sequins.", "pos": 4328212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will let you know to-morrow.", "pos": 4328360}
{"speaker": "Greppi", "text": "my affairs were his own, and that I could count on his secrecy.", "pos": 4328597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Such a meeting would give me the greatest pleasure,", "pos": 4328790}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "My wife is in a furious rage with you, and won’t tell me why.", "pos": 4329189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The reason is, my dear count, that I won’t let her accept the dress from any hand but mine. She told me that she should despise it as a gift from me, but she has nothing to be furious about that I know.", "pos": 4329264}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "It’s some mad notion of hers, and I don’t know what to make of it. But pray attend to what I am about to say to you. You despise a thousand sequins--good. I congratulate you. But if you are in a position to despise a sum which would make me happy, offer up a foolish vanity on the shrine of friendship, take the thousand sequins, and lend them to me, and let my wife have the dress, for of course he will give it her.", "pos": 4329469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will willingly assist you in this arrangement. I will sell the dress to the marquis as soon as you please, but I won’t lend you the money. I’ll give it to you in the person of your wife at a private interview; but when she receives me she must not only be polite and complaisant, but as gentle as a lamb. Go and see if it can be arranged, my dear count; ‘tis absolutely my last word.", "pos": 4330215}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "I will see,", "pos": 4330603}
{"speaker": "Prince Palatine of Russia", "text": "It only serves to dazzle fools, and here you have none such to deal with.", "pos": 4331782}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "he knew Venice, and as I was not a patrician I could live as pleasantly anywhere else. consider his house and all he possessed as mine.", "pos": 4332138}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The two young ladies are two incarnate angels,", "pos": 4332911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall pay my duty to them, and shall find out in a few days whether they are for me. As for the gaming speculation, I will lend you two hundred sequins; but I don’t want to lose the money, so you must give me good security.", "pos": 4332985}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "To that I agree willingly, but I am certain of giving it you back with good interest.", "pos": 4333213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have a half share and not twenty-five per cent., and I must strongly insist that nobody shall know of my having anything to do with your bank. If I hear any rumours, I shall bet heavily on my own account.", "pos": 4333301}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "You may be sure I shall keep the secret; it is to my own interest to have it believed that I am my own capitalist.", "pos": 4333518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good. Come to me early to-morrow morning, and bring me good security, and you shall have the money.", "pos": 4333634}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make me blush, marquis, for not having called on you yet.", "pos": 4334097}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "No, no; there can be nothing of that kind between men of the world, who know the world’s worth.", "pos": 4334161}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We are agreed there, at all events.", "pos": 4334259}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "By the way, I hear you have decided on selling me that handsome dress of yours. I am really very much obliged to you, and will give you the fifteen thousand livres whenever you like.", "pos": 4334297}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can come and take it to-morrow morning. When I was in church the other day I saw two exquisite beauties. A man at my side told me they were cousins, the Marchionesses Q---- and I----, I think he said. Do you know them? I am quite curious to hear about them.", "pos": 4334482}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "I know them. As you say, they are charming. It’s not very difficult to obtain access to them; and I suppose they are good girls, as I have not heard their names in connection with any scandal. However, I know that Mdlle. F has a lover, but it is a great secret; he is the only son of one of the noblest of our families. Unfortunately, they are not rich; but if they are clever, as I am sure they are, they may make good matches. If you like I can get someone to introduce you there.", "pos": 4334863}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I haven’t made up my mind yet. I may be able to forget them easily only having seen them once. Nevertheless, I am infinitely obliged to you for your kind offer.", "pos": 4335348}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "The marquis will dine with us, and, no doubt, he will bring the money with him for this treasure.", "pos": 4336675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You think it a treasure, then?", "pos": 4336793}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Yes, fit for a queen to wear.", "pos": 4336826}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wish the treasure had the virtue of giving you a crown; one head-dress is as good as another.", "pos": 4336858}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "I have spoken to her about it, and your proposal made her laugh; but I am sure she will make up her mind when she finds herself in possession of the dress.", "pos": 4337244}
{"speaker": "Marchioness Menafoglio", "text": "I would gladly buy that dress.", "pos": 4338253}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "I did not buy it to sell again,", "pos": 4338286}
{"speaker": "Marchioness Menafoglio", "text": "Excuse me. I thought it was for sale, and I am sorry it is not.", "pos": 4338348}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "You are a great favourite of Canano’s, and he wants you to come and dine with him. He can’t ask you to supper, as he is obliged to spend his nights in the assembly-rooms.", "pos": 4339023}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell him I will come any day he likes except the day after to-morrow, when I have to go to a wedding at the ‘Apple Garden.’", "pos": 4339208}
{"speaker": "The count and the marquis", "text": "I congratulate you, it will no doubt be very pleasant.", "pos": 4339334}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I expect to enjoy myself heartily there.", "pos": 4339434}
{"speaker": "The count and the marquis", "text": "Could not we come, too?", "pos": 4339477}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you really want to?", "pos": 4339503}
{"speaker": "The count and the marquis", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 4339528}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I will get you an invitation from the fair bride herself on the condition that the countess comes as well. I must warn you that the company will consist of honest people of the lower classes, and I cannot have them humiliated in any way.", "pos": 4339541}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "I will persuade the countess,", "pos": 4339786}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To make your task an easier one, I may as well tell you that the wedding is that of the fair Zenobia.", "pos": 4339832}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "Bravo! I am sure the countess will come to that.", "pos": 4339936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have the thousand sequins in my pocket, and if I find her reasonable, I will leave them with her.", "pos": 4340484}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "I will go and speak to her first.", "pos": 4340600}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do so. This lace is yours, dearest Zenobia, if you will content me this moment.", "pos": 4340636}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "I love you well, but I should be glad if you would wait till after my marriage.", "pos": 4341124}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, dearest, now or never. I cannot wait. I shall die if you do not grant my prayer. Look! do you not see what a state I am in?", "pos": 4341206}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "I see it plainly enough, but it can’t be done.", "pos": 4341336}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not? Are you afraid of your husband noticing the loss of your maidenhead?", "pos": 4341385}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Not I, and if he did I shouldn’t care. I promise you if he dared to reproach me, he should not have me at all.", "pos": 4341465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well said, for my leavings are too good for him. Come quick!", "pos": 4341578}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "But you will shut the door, at least?", "pos": 4341641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, the noise would be heard, and might give rise to suspicion. Nobody will come in.", "pos": 4341681}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "I have been watching you all the time by this chink and I have found it very amusing.", "pos": 4343180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to hear it, but keep it to yourself.", "pos": 4343292}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Of course, of course. My wife, will be very pleased to see you; and I, shall be very pleased as well.", "pos": 4343346}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a philosophical husband, but I am afraid after the exercises you witnessed the countess will find me rather slow.", "pos": 4343475}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Not at all, the recollection will make it all the pleasanter for you.", "pos": 4343609}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Mentally perhaps, but in other respects . . .", "pos": 4343681}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Oh! you will manage to get out of it. My carriage is at your service, as I shall not be going out for the rest of the day.", "pos": 4343729}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "I am very well, my husband has done me good. Aren’t you going out any more to-day? you have got your dressing-gown on.", "pos": 4343958}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I fell asleep lying on my bed, and when I awoke I decided on keeping you company if you will be as good and gentle as you are pretty.", "pos": 4344218}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "If you behave well to me, you will always find me so.", "pos": 4344354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And will you love me?", "pos": 4344409}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "That depends on you. So you are going to sacrifice Canano to me this evening.", "pos": 4344433}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and with the greatest pleasure. He has won a lot from me already, and I foresee that he will win the fifteen thousand francs I have in my pocket to-morrow. This is the money the Marquis Triulzi gave me for the dress.", "pos": 4344513}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "It would be a pity to lose such a large sum.", "pos": 4344737}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, and I need not lose them if you will be complaisant, for they are meant for you. Allow me to shut the door.", "pos": 4344784}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "What for?", "pos": 4344909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I am perishing with cold and desire, and intend warming myself in your bed.", "pos": 4344921}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "I will never allow that.", "pos": 4345007}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want to force you. Good-bye, countess, I will go and warm myself by my own fire, and to-morrow I will wage war on Canano’s bank.", "pos": 4345034}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "You are certainly a sad dog. Stay here, I like your conversation.", "pos": 4345173}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "‘Tis not my fault, madam, that your charms have so little power over me. Here, take these fifteen thousand francs by way of consolation.", "pos": 4346477}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "My wife is very well, and told me to wish you good day. I am glad, that you gave her francs instead of the sequins you got from Triulzi, and I hope, as Triulzi said, you will have luck with it at the bank.", "pos": 4347011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not going to the opera, but to the masked ball, and I don’t want anyone to recognize me.", "pos": 4347309}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Was she really asleep, when I was outraging her so shamefully?", "pos": 4348084}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "You a monster? On the contrary I owe much to you, and there is nothing I can think of for which I have cause to reproach you.", "pos": 4348312}
{"speaker": "Barbaro", "text": "He accosted me and congratulated me on my luck,", "pos": 4350625}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "You look hot, come and rest in my box. But how did you recognize me, dearest?", "pos": 4351315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By your snuff-box. I knew it, otherwise I should never have found you out.", "pos": 4351730}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "Then you think that nobody has recognized me?", "pos": 4351807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nobody, unless in the same way as I did.", "pos": 4351855}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "None of the people here have seen my snuff-box. There will be four of us in all.", "pos": 4351898}
{"speaker": "Female Dominos", "text": "Fie, fie! your punishment is never to know who we are.", "pos": 4352610}
{"speaker": "The shepherdess", "text": "You shall know, if you will come to the ‘Three Kings.’", "pos": 4354102}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you alone?", "pos": 4354184}
{"speaker": "The shepherdess", "text": "No, my father and mother, who are old friends of yours, are with me", "pos": 4354201}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will call on Monday.", "pos": 4354271}
{"speaker": "the marquis", "text": "Canano knew you, by the way you opened your snuff-box, and he hopes to see us to dinner before long. He says he hopes you will win a hundred pounds weight of gold; he has a fancy for you.", "pos": 4354996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Canano, has keen eyes, and plays faro admirably. I have not the slightest wish to win his money from him.", "pos": 4355206}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I went to my room, leaving your wife at your house, for which I beg your pardon.", "pos": 4358183}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Didn’t you see that the gentleman had spilt a cup of coffee over his handsome breeches?", "pos": 4358266}
{"speaker": "The tailor", "text": "My dear wife. I don’t see everything, nor is it necessary that I should do so, but you should have accompanied the gentleman to his room.", "pos": 4358370}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Immensely, and my friends have done the same; but you must let me pay you, dear gossip, for what you spent over and above the twenty-four sequins. You can tell me how much it is.", "pos": 4358612}
{"speaker": "The tailor", "text": "Very little, a mere trifle; Zenobia shall bring you the bill.", "pos": 4358793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to see you again, are you still living with your husband?", "pos": 4360101}
{"speaker": "Madame Rinaldi", "text": "You will see him in half an hour, and he will be glad to present his respects to you.", "pos": 4360186}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should not at all care for it myself, madam; there are old quarrels between us which I do not want to renew, so, madam, farewell.", "pos": 4360274}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no, don’t go yet, sit down.", "pos": 4360408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardon me.", "pos": 4360442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Irene, don’t let the gentleman go.", "pos": 4360455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let me through, fair Irene,", "pos": 4360721}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we may see each other somewhere else.", "pos": 4360759}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pray do not go before you have seen my father.", "pos": 4360799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At Mantua,", "pos": 4361149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "three months after I left Venice.", "pos": 4361172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when did you leave Venice?", "pos": 4361208}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Six months after I met you.", "pos": 4361241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a curious coincidence, and if we had been tenderly acquainted you might say that Irene was my daughter, and I should believe you, and think that my affection for her was purely paternal.", "pos": 4361271}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your memory is not very good, sir, I wonder at that.", "pos": 4361468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I may tell you, that I never forget certain things, But I guess your meaning. You want me to subdue my liking for Irene. I am willing to do so, but she will be the loser.", "pos": 4361523}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 4361787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if you were like me you would not be so pretty.", "pos": 4361809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t think so; I think you are very handsome.", "pos": 4361859}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You flatter me.", "pos": 4361910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stay to dinner with us.", "pos": 4361928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, if I stayed I might fall in love with you, and that would be a pity, as your mother says I am your father.", "pos": 4361954}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was joking,", "pos": 4362067}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you may love Irene with a good conscience.", "pos": 4362102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will see what can be done.", "pos": 4362147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like your daughter, but I won’t be long sighing for her, and you mustn’t take me for a dupe.", "pos": 4362233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Speak to my husband about it. We are very poor, and we want to go to Cremona.", "pos": 4362330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose Irene has a lover?", "pos": 4362410}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 4362441}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she has had one, of course?", "pos": 4362447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never anything serious.", "pos": 4362481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t believe it.", "pos": 4362507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s true, nevertheless. Irene is intact.", "pos": 4362529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is only you,", "pos": 4362760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "who can furnish me with funds to go to Cremona.", "pos": 4362788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have several debts here, and am in some danger of imprisonment. Nobody of any consequence comes to see me. My dear daughter is the only thing of value which I still possess. I have just been trying to sell this pinchbeck watch, and though I asked only six sequins, which is half what it is worth, they would not give me more than two. When a man gets unfortunate, everything is against him.", "pos": 4362837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here,", "pos": 4363461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you can sell it again now.", "pos": 4363504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have come,", "pos": 4365494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to beg your pardons for having revealed to you the secret of the snuff-box.", "pos": 4365517}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "She’s my sister,", "pos": 4367812}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "I bet I know you, if you come to the bank.", "pos": 4371224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not going to play any more,", "pos": 4371284}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "All the better for me, for though your punting is unlucky, you don’t leave off till you have won my money. But that’s only my joke; try again, and I protest I would see you win half my fortune gladly.", "pos": 4371327}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When?", "pos": 4371796}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "Before going to the opera.", "pos": 4371812}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; but on two turns of the cards, and a deal to each.", "pos": 4371841}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "No. No, I never punt.", "pos": 4371905}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then we must equalise the game.", "pos": 4371925}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 4371959}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By leaving doubles and the last two cards out of account.", "pos": 4371978}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "Then you would have the advantage.", "pos": 4372038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you can prove that I will pay you a hundred sequins. Indeed, I would bet anything you like that the game would still be to the advantage of the banker.", "pos": 4372075}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "Can you prove it?", "pos": 4372232}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; and I will name the Marquis Triulzi as judge. The advantages of the banker, are two. The first and the smaller is that all he has got to attend to is not to deal wrongly, which is a very small matter to an habitual player; and all the time the punter has to rack his brains on the chances of one card or another coming out. The other advantage is one of time. The banker draws his card at least a second before the punter, and this again gives him a purchase.", "pos": 4372252}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triulzi", "text": "All that is too sublime for me,", "pos": 4372971}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "I don’t understand it.", "pos": 4373018}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Forgive an old and unfortunate man, forgive a father, if I ask you whether it is true that you promised Irene a hundred sequins if I would let her go to the ball with you.", "pos": 4373924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is quite true, but of course you know what the consequences will be.", "pos": 4374098}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "You must not think me a liar, or that my parents suspected that I was imposing on them; they only thought you said fifty instead of a hundred, as if I were not worth such a sum.", "pos": 4374548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are worth a thousand, my dear Irene; your courage in barring the way pleased me extremely. But you must come to the ball in a domino.", "pos": 4374728}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "Oh! you will be pleased with my dress.", "pos": 4374868}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are those the shoes and buckles you are going to wear? Have you no other stockings? Where are your gloves?", "pos": 4374909}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "Good heavens! I have nothing.", "pos": 4375018}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quick! Send for the tradesmen. We will choose what we want, and I will pay.", "pos": 4375050}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be ready, before the time for the opera to-morrow, for before going to the ball we will sup together in a room which belongs to me, where we shall be quite at our ease. You know what to expect,", "pos": 4375719}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "To Marseilles, then to Paris, and then to London, at which place I intend stopping a year. Your flight from The Leads was wonderfully lucky.", "pos": 4376068}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but I risked my life.", "pos": 4376213}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "You have certainly deserved all your good fortune.", "pos": 4376242}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think so? I have only used my fortune--in subservience to my pleasures.", "pos": 4376295}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "I wonder you do not have a regular mistress.", "pos": 4376376}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The reason is, that I like to be my own master. A mistress at my coat-tails would be more troublesome than a wife; she would be an obstacle to the numerous pleasant adventures I encounter at every town. For example, if I had a mistress I should not be able to take the charming Irene to the ball to-morrow.", "pos": 4376423}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "You speak like a wise man.", "pos": 4376732}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, though my wisdom is by no means of the austere kind.", "pos": 4376761}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did not tell you that I aspired to the honour of marrying her.", "pos": 4377585}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "No, and I did not say anything about marriage; but that’s what the girls are always aiming at.", "pos": 4377652}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must go and disabuse her of the notion.", "pos": 4377749}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "That’s a good idea; principals are always the best in these affairs. Come at two o’clock, I shall be dining there, and as I have got to speak to her cousin you will be at liberty to say what you like.", "pos": 4377793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You mean till the day when it advances your suit with a lady,", "pos": 4378266}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I hope it will be so,", "pos": 4378937}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But what is this, my dear countess, it isn’t snuff?", "pos": 4379139}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "No, it makes the nose bleed, and is an excellent thing for the head-ache. It won’t bleed much, and it is really beneficial. Come here. I am beginning to bleed too. This admixture of our blood, will create a sweet sympathy between us, which will only end with the death of one or the other.", "pos": 4379193}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I guess what you mean, but please to understand that my brother gave me your message in perfect innocence. Let him believe what he likes. Do you think I really believed you capable of taking such a step, when we barely knew each other?", "pos": 4381488}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear you say so.", "pos": 4381726}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I thought the best thing would be to give a matrimonial turn to your gallantry. Otherwise my brother, who is quite a young man, might have interpreted it in an unfavourable sense.", "pos": 4381758}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That was cleverly done, and of course I have nothing more to say. Nevertheless, I am grateful to your brother for having given you to understand that your charms have produced a vivid impression on me. I would do anything to convince you of my affection.", "pos": 4381940}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "That is all very well, but it would have been wiser to conceal your feelings from my brother, and, allow me to add, from myself as well. You might have loved me without telling me, and then, though I should have perceived the state of your affections, I could have pretended not to do so. Then I should have been at my ease, but as circumstances now stand I shall have to be careful. Do you see?", "pos": 4382197}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really, marchioness, you astonish me. I was never so clearly convinced that I have done a foolish thing. And what is still more surprising, is that I was aware of all you have told me. But you have made me lose my head. I hope you will not punish me too severely?", "pos": 4382595}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Pray inform me how it lies in my power to punish you.", "pos": 4382861}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By not loving me.", "pos": 4382917}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Ah! loving and not loving; that is out of one’s power. Of a sudden we know that we are in love, and our fate is sealed. No.", "pos": 4382937}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps you are going incognito?", "pos": 4383188}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "We should like to, but it is an impossibility; there is always someone who knows us.", "pos": 4383223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you would take me into your service, I would wager anything that you would not be recognized.", "pos": 4383310}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "You would not care to trouble yourself about us.", "pos": 4383409}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I like you to be a little sceptical, but put me to the proof. If you could manage to slip out unobserved, I would engage to disguise you in such a manner that no one would know you.", "pos": 4383460}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "We could leave the house with my brother and a young lady with whom he is in love. I am sure he would keep our counsel.", "pos": 4383644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be delighted, but it must be for the ball on Sunday. I will talk it over with your brother. Kindly warn him not to let Barbaro know anything about it. You will be able to put on your disguise in a place I know of. However, we can settle about that again. I shall carry the matter through, you may be sure, with great secrecy. Permit me to kiss your hand.", "pos": 4383765}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "If you only play on a single card,", "pos": 4385412}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you are sure to lose.", "pos": 4385459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind; go ahead.", "pos": 4385483}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "When I am not playing against sharpers. I can also punt very well.", "pos": 4386034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you can come to Canano’s bank and risk the hundred sequins I have given you. Put twenty sequins on a card, and if you win go paroli, seven, and the va, and leave the game when they turn up. If you can’t make the three cards come out second, you will lose, but I will reimburse you.", "pos": 4386115}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 4386473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you shall have it all.", "pos": 4386487}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "I am sure it is my father weeping for joy.", "pos": 4387388}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "I won’t go. I want to stay with my lover. You are the ruin of my life. Whenever anybody takes a liking to me, you snatch me away. I belong to this gentleman, and I won’t leave him.", "pos": 4388145}
{"speaker": "young lieutenant", "text": "My sister has told me about the masquerade, but I have a great secret to confide in you.", "pos": 4388784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Say on, and count on my keeping your secret.", "pos": 4388886}
{"speaker": "young lieutenant", "text": "One of the finest noblemen of the town, my friend and my cousin’s lover, who has to be very careful of his actions on account of his exalted position, would like to be of the party if you have no objection. My sister and my cousin would like him to come very much.", "pos": 4388933}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course he shall. I have been making my calculations for a party of five, and now it will be a party of six, that is all.", "pos": 4389200}
{"speaker": "young lieutenant", "text": "You really are a splendid fellow.", "pos": 4389326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On Sunday evening you must be at a certain place, of which I will tell you. First of all we will have supper, then put on our disguises, and then go to the ball. To-morrow at five o’clock we shall meet at your sister’s. All I want to know is what is the height of your mistress and of the young nobleman.", "pos": 4389362}
{"speaker": "young lieutenant", "text": "My sweetheart is two inches shorter than my sister, and a little thinner; my friend is just about the same make as you are, and if you were dressed alike you would be mistaken for each other.", "pos": 4389669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will do. Let me think it over, and leave me alone now; there’s a Capuchin waiting for me, and I am curious to learn his business.", "pos": 4389863}
{"speaker": "Capuchin", "text": "Sir, listen attentively to what I am about to tell you, and beware of despising my advice, for it might cost you your life. You would repent when it was too late. After hearing me, follow my advice immediately; but ask no questions, for I can answer none. You may guess, perhaps, that what silences me is a reason incumbent on all Christians--the sacred seal of the confessional. You may be sure that my word is above suspicion; I have no interests of my own to serve. I am acting in obedience to an inspiration; I think it must be your guardian angel speaking with my voice. God will not abandon you to the malice of your enemies. Tell me if I have touched your heart, and if you feel disposed to follow the counsels I am going to give you.", "pos": 4390351}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have listened to you, father, with attention and respect. Speak freely and advise me; what you have said has not only moved me, but has almost frightened me. I promise to do as you tell me if it is nothing against honour or the light of reason.", "pos": 4391095}
{"speaker": "Capuchin", "text": "Very good. A feeling of charity will prevent your doing anything to compromise me, whatever may be the end of the affair. You will not speak of me to anyone, or say either that you know me or do not know me?", "pos": 4391344}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I swear to you I will not on my faith as a Christian. But speak, I entreat you. Your long preface has made me burn with impatience.", "pos": 4391554}
{"speaker": "Capuchin", "text": "This day, before noon, go by yourself to---- Square, No.--, on the second floor, and ring at the bell on your left. Tell the person who opens the door that you want to speak to Madame. You will be taken to her room without any difficulty; I am sure your name will not be asked, but if they do ask you, give an imaginary name. When you are face to face with the woman, beg her to hear you, and ask her for her secret, and to inspire confidence put a sequin or two in her hand. She is poor, and I am sure that your generosity will make her your friend. She will shut her door, and tell you to say on. You must then look grave, and tell her that you are not going to leave her house before she gives you the little bottle that a servant brought her yesterday with a note. If she resists, remain firm, but make no noise; do not let her leave the room or call anybody. Finally, tell her that you will give her double the money she may lose by giving you the bottle and all that depends on it. Remember these words: and all that depends on it. She will do whatever you want. It will not cost you much, but even if it did, your life is worth more than all the gold of Peru. I can say no more, but before I go, promise me that you will follow my advice.", "pos": 4391688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, reverend father, I will follow the inspiration of the angel who led you here.", "pos": 4392937}
{"speaker": "Capuchin", "text": "May God give you His blessing.", "pos": 4393022}
{"speaker": "old creature", "text": "I shall lose six sequins, but you will gladly pay double when I shew you what I have got; I know who you are.", "pos": 4394605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who am I?", "pos": 4394729}
{"speaker": "old creature", "text": "Giacomo Casanova, the Venetian.", "pos": 4394741}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "I would not have killed you outright, certainly, but I would have made you amorous and wretched.", "pos": 4394889}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Explain what you mean.", "pos": 4394988}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "Follow me. Here is the bottle,", "pos": 4395013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What does it contain?", "pos": 4395371}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "Your blood and the countess’s, as you will see in this letter.", "pos": 4395395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What would you have done with this blood?", "pos": 4395698}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "I should have plastered you with it.", "pos": 4395742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean by ‘plastered’? I don’t understand you.", "pos": 4395781}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "I will shew you.", "pos": 4395840}
{"speaker": "sorceress", "text": "You laugh, do you? Woe to you if I had bathed you in the bath of blood mingled according to my art, and more woe still if, after I had bathed you, I had thrown your image on a burning coal.", "pos": 4396348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is this all?", "pos": 4396540}
{"speaker": "sorceress", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4396555}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the apparatus is to become mine for twelve sequins; here they are. And now, quick! light me a fire that I may melt this monster, and as for the blood I think I will throw it out of the window.", "pos": 4396562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dreamt,", "pos": 4398238}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that you were so angry with me that you were going to have me assassinated.", "pos": 4398258}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "I want to look at your very finest costumes, both for ladies and gentlemen.", "pos": 4399719}
{"speaker": "second-hand clothes dealer", "text": "Would you like something that has never been worn?", "pos": 4399797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, if you have got such a thing.", "pos": 4399850}
{"speaker": "second-hand clothes dealer", "text": "I have a very rich assortment of new clothes.", "pos": 4399893}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Get me, then, in the first place, a handsome velvet suit, all in one piece, which nobody in Milan will be able to recognize.", "pos": 4399941}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now, gossip, it is your turn; I want you to sew in these pieces into the holes I have made, and I hope your tailoring genius will aid you to produce some pretty contrasts. You see that you have got your work cut out for you and no time to lose. I will see that your meals are properly served in an adjoining chamber, but you must not leave the house till the work is finished. I will go for your wife, who will help you, and you can sleep together.", "pos": 4401612}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "For God’s sake, sir! you don’t want the ladies’ dresses treated like the coats and trousers?", "pos": 4402063}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just the same.", "pos": 4402158}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "What a pity! it will make my wife cry.", "pos": 4402175}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will console her.", "pos": 4402216}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have been losing, then?", "pos": 4404763}
{"speaker": "Q----", "text": "Yes, but my brother has won something,", "pos": 4404793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope luck will declare itself on your side also.", "pos": 4404858}
{"speaker": "Q----", "text": "No, we are not lucky.", "pos": 4404911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know all, and I hope you will enjoy yourselves, but you will not do so more than I. I want to speak to the gallant lieutenant to-morrow morning.", "pos": 4405073}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "Tell us about our disguises.", "pos": 4405236}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will be disguised in such a manner that nobody will recognize you.", "pos": 4405267}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "But how shall we be dressed?", "pos": 4405340}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very handsomely.", "pos": 4405371}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "But what costume have you given us?", "pos": 4405390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is my secret, ladies. However much I should like to please you, I shall say nothing till the time for you to dress comes round. Don’t ask me anything more, as I have promised myself the enjoyment of your surprise. I am very fond of dramatic situations. You shall know all after supper.", "pos": 4405428}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "Are we to have supper, then?", "pos": 4405721}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you would like it. I am a great eater myself and I hope you will not let me eat alone.", "pos": 4405752}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "Then we will have some supper to please you. We will take care not to eat much dinner, so as to be able to vie with you in the evening. The only thing I am sorry about, is that you should be put to such expense.", "pos": 4405855}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is a pleasure; and when I leave Milan I shall console myself with the thought that I have supped with the two handsomest ladies in the town.", "pos": 4406091}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "How is fortune treating you?", "pos": 4406237}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Canano wins two hundred sequins from me every day.", "pos": 4406268}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "But you won two thousand from him in one night. You will break his bank on Sunday. We will bring you luck.", "pos": 4406321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like to look on?", "pos": 4406432}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "We should be delighted, but my brother says you don’t want to go with us.", "pos": 4406461}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so, the reason is that I should be recognized. But I believe the gentleman who will accompany you is of the same figure as myself.", "pos": 4406537}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Exactly the same, except that he is fair.", "pos": 4406676}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the better, the fair always conquer the dark with ease.", "pos": 4406739}
{"speaker": "Other Cousin", "text": "Not always. But tell us, at any rate, whether we are to wear men’s dresses.", "pos": 4406811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Fie! fie! I should be angry with myself if I had entertained such a thought.", "pos": 4406907}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "That’s curious; why so?", "pos": 4406986}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I’ll tell you. If the disguise is complete I am disgusted, for the shape of a woman is much more marked than that of a man, and consequently a woman in man’s dress, who looks like a man, cannot have a good figure.", "pos": 4407012}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "But when a woman skews her shape well?", "pos": 4407228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I am angry with her for shewing too much, for I like to see the face and the general outlines of the form and to guess the rest.", "pos": 4407269}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "But the imagination is often deceptive!", "pos": 4407405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but it is with the face that I always fall in love, and that never deceives me as far as it is concerned. Then if I have the good fortune to see anything more I am always in a lenient mood and disposed to pass over small faults. You are laughing?", "pos": 4407447}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "I am smiling at your impassioned arguments.", "pos": 4407701}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like to be dressed like a man?", "pos": 4407747}
{"speaker": "Cousins", "text": "I was expecting something of the kind, but after you have said we can make no more objections.", "pos": 4407790}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can imagine what you would say; I should certainly not take you for men, but I will say no more.", "pos": 4407887}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must get a carriage and four, and as soon as the five of you are in it tell the coachman to drive as fast as his horses can gallop out of Milan, and to bring you back again by another road to the house. There you must get down, send the carriage away, after enjoining silence on the coachman, and come in. After the ball you will undress in the same house, and then go home in sedan-chairs. Thus we shall be able to baffle the inquisitive, who will be pretty numerous, I warn you.", "pos": 4408832}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "My friend the marquis will see to all that, and I promise you he will do it well, for he is longing to make your acquaintance.", "pos": 4409319}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall expect you, then, at seven o’clock to-morrow. Warn your friend that it is important the coachman should not be known, and do not let anybody bring a servant.", "pos": 4409459}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As I am not going to appear with you, I may as well tell you the parts you are to play. You are to be five beggars, two men and three women, all rags and tatters. You will each carry a plate in your hands to solicit alms, and you must walk together about the ball-room as a band of mendicants. But now follow me and take possession of your ragged robes.", "pos": 4411001}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, ladies, are your dresses, and here is yours, mademoiselle--a little smaller. Here are your shifts, your handkerchiefs and your stockings, and I think you will find everything you require on this table. Here are masks, the faces of which shew so poorly beside your own, and here are three plates to crave alms. If anybody looks as high as your garters, they will see how wretched you are, and the holes in the stockings will let people know that you have not the wherewithal to buy silk to mend them. This packthread must serve you for buckles, and we must take care that there are holes in your shoes and also in your gloves, and as everything must match, as soon as you have put on your chemises you must tear the lace round the neck.", "pos": 4411943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a pity!", "pos": 4412965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, gentlemen, are your beggar-clothes. I forgot to lacerate your beaver hats, but that is soon done. Well, what do you think of the costume? Now, ladies, we must leave you; shut the door fast, for it is a case of changing your shifts. Now, gentlemen, leave the room.", "pos": 4412980}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "What a sensation we shall create! nothing could be better.", "pos": 4413284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a disguise!", "pos": 4415037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s wonderful!", "pos": 4415056}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are they?", "pos": 4415074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who can they be?", "pos": 4415090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 4415109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll find out.", "pos": 4415125}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "That’s the Chevalier de Seingalt.", "pos": 4416282}
{"speaker": "Another Lady", "text": "No. I saw him a little while ago in the ball-room disguised as a beggar, with four other masquers whom nobody knows.", "pos": 4416318}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "How do you mean, dressed as a beggar?", "pos": 4416453}
{"speaker": "Another Lady", "text": "Why, in rags, and the four others, too; but in spite of that the dresses are splendid and the effect is very good. They are asking for alms.", "pos": 4416506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They ought to be turned out,", "pos": 4416649}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It isn’t Seingalt; he doesn’t play like that; besides, he is at the ball.", "pos": 4416954}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "Here come the beggars. I don’t pity you with that fine hair of yours, and if you like to put it on a card I will allow you a thousand sequins for it. Pierrot seems to like beggars,", "pos": 4417461}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triulzi", "text": "The beggar in the straw-coloured dress is certainly Casanova.", "pos": 4418304}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "I recognized him directly, but who are the others?", "pos": 4418368}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triulzi", "text": "We shall find out in due time. A dearer costume could not be imagined; all the dresses are quite new.", "pos": 4418443}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "Would you like to go on playing?", "pos": 4418620}
{"speaker": "Marquis Triulzi", "text": "I am taken for you, sir, and it may cause some annoyance to our fair friends here.", "pos": 4419510}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have foreseen that, and I shall unmask before the end of the ball. This will falsify all suppositions, and nobody will succeed in identifying you.", "pos": 4419615}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "Our pockets are full of sweetmeats. Everybody wanted to fill our plates.", "pos": 4419779}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Yes, everybody admired us; the ladies came down from their boxes to have a closer view of us, and everyone said that no richer disguise could be imagined.", "pos": 4419875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have enjoyed yourselves, then?", "pos": 4420051}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Yes, indeed.", "pos": 4420088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I too. I feel quite boastful at having invented a costume which has drawn all eyes upon you, and yet has concealed your identity.", "pos": 4420103}
{"speaker": "lieutenant’s little mistress", "text": "You have made us all happy. I never thought I should have such a pleasant evening.", "pos": 4420239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Finis coronat opus,", "pos": 4420365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I hope the end will be even better than the beginning.", "pos": 4420398}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "We will go down now,", "pos": 4420586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So will I, for I want to dance, and I am sure I shall make you laugh as Pierrot.", "pos": 4420619}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Do you know how much money you gave each of us?", "pos": 4420702}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot say precisely, but I believe I gave each an equal share.", "pos": 4420752}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "That is so. I think it is wonderful how you could do it.", "pos": 4420820}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have done it a thousand times. When I lose a paroli of ten sequins I put three fingers into my purse, and am certain to bring up thirty sequins. I would bet I gave you each from thirty-eight to forty sequins.", "pos": 4420879}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Forty exactly. It’s wonderful. We shall remember this masqued ball.", "pos": 4421092}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I don’t think anybody will imitate us,", "pos": 4421162}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "and we would not dare to wear the same dresses again.", "pos": 4421244}
{"speaker": "You", "text": "You are the Pierrot who broke the bank?", "pos": 4421546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I answered the question in the affirmative by a nod.", "pos": 4421597}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "What are you going to do with this chemise?", "pos": 4423674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will laugh at our silliness. We have determined to keep everything as a memorial of the splendid evening we have had. My brother will bring it all to the house. Are you coming to see us this evening?", "pos": 4423720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I were wise I should avoid you.", "pos": 4423926}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if I were wise I shouldn’t ask you to come.", "pos": 4423963}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is fairly answered! Of course I will come; but before we part may I ask one kiss?", "pos": 4424013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Say two.", "pos": 4424102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I guessed you were going to humiliate me.", "pos": 4424315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Such was not my intention, and I do not insist; but then you know I shall be humiliated.", "pos": 4424359}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all; I reckon on your good sense. It really costs me nothing. Besides, I give you my word to let you pay for all the parties of pleasure we enjoy together during the carnival. We will sup here when you like; you shall invite the company, and I will leave you to pay the bill.", "pos": 4424450}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That arrangement will suit me admirably. We must be friends. I leave you with this charming attendant. I did not think that such a beauty could exist in Milan unknown to all but you.", "pos": 4424735}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is a townswoman, who knows how to keep a secret. Do you not?", "pos": 4424920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would rather die than tell anyone that this gentleman is the Marquis of F----.", "pos": 4424987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s right; always keep your word, and take this trifle as a souvenir of me.", "pos": 4425070}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "He won’t be uneasy, he is a philosopher.", "pos": 4425436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He need be with such a pretty wife. Kiss me again, Zenobia, and then we must part.", "pos": 4425491}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will not betray you,", "pos": 4426275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "or tell anyone that I surprised you reading a prayer-book.", "pos": 4426308}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, don’t; for my reputation would be gone if I were thought to be a devotee.", "pos": 4426369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has there been any talk of the masqued ball or of the mysterious masquers?", "pos": 4426449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "People talk of nothing else, and condole with us for not having been to the ball, but no one can guess who the beggars were. It seems that an unknown carriage and four that sped like the wind took them as far as the first stage, and where they went next God alone knows! It is said that my hair was false, and I have longed to let it down and thus give them the lie. It is also said that you must know who the beggars were, as you loaded them with ducats.", "pos": 4426526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One must let people say and believe what they like and not betray ourselves.", "pos": 4426984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; and after all we had a delightful evening. If you acquit yourself of all commissions in the same way, you must be a wonderful man.", "pos": 4427063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But it is only you who could give me such a commission.", "pos": 4427211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I to-day, and another to-morrow.", "pos": 4427269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you think I am inconstant, but believe me if I find favour in your eyes your face will ever dwell in my memory.", "pos": 4427304}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am certain you have told a thousand girls the same story, and after they have admitted you to their favour you have despised them.", "pos": 4427424}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pray do not use the word ‘despise,’ or I shall suppose you think me a monster. Beauty seduces me. I aspire to its possession, and it is only when it is given me from other motives than love that I despise it. How should I despise one who loved me? I should first be compelled to despise myself. You are beautiful and I worship you, but you are mistaken if you think that I should be content for you to surrender yourself to me out of mere kindness.", "pos": 4427559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! I see it is my heart you want.", "pos": 4428010}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 4428047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To make me wretched at the end of a fortnight.", "pos": 4428058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To love you till death, and to obey your slightest wishes.", "pos": 4428107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My slightest wishes?", "pos": 4428168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, for to me they would be inviolable laws.", "pos": 4428191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you settle in Milan?", "pos": 4428239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, if you made that a condition of my happiness.", "pos": 4428268}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What amuses me in all this is that you are deceiving me without knowing it, if indeed you really love me.", "pos": 4428327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Deceiving you without knowing it! That is something new. If I am not aware of it, I am innocent of deceit.", "pos": 4428435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am willing to admit your innocency, but you are deceiving me none the less, for after you had ceased to love me no power of yours could bring love back again.", "pos": 4428544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That, of course, might happen, but I don’t choose to entertain such unpleasant thoughts; I prefer to think of myself as loving you to all eternity. It is certain at all events that no other woman in Milan has attracted me.", "pos": 4428707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not the pretty girl who waited on us, and whose arms you have possibly left an hour or, two ago?", "pos": 4428932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you saying? She is the wife of the tailor who made your clothes. She left directly after you, and her husband would not have allowed her to come at all if he was not aware that she would be wanted to wait on the ladies whose dresses he had made.", "pos": 4429031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is wonderfully pretty. Is it possible that you are not in love with her?", "pos": 4429288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How could one love a woman who is at the disposal of a low, ugly fellow? The only pleasure she gave me was by talking of you this morning.", "pos": 4429367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of me?", "pos": 4429508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. You will excuse me if I confess to having asked her which of the ladies she waited on looked handsomest without her chemise.", "pos": 4429517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That was a libertine’s question. Well, what did she say?", "pos": 4429649}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That the lady with the beautiful hair was perfect in every respect.", "pos": 4429708}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t believe a word of it. I have learnt how to change my chemise with decency, and so as not to shew anything I might not shew a man. She only wished to flatter your impertinent curiosity. If I had a maid like that, she should soon go about her business.", "pos": 4429778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are angry with me.", "pos": 4430039}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 4430064}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s no good saying no, your soul flashed forth in your denunciation. I am sorry to have spoken.", "pos": 4430070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! it’s of no consequence. I know men ask chambermaids questions of that kind, and they all give answers like your sweetheart, who perhaps wanted to make you curious about herself.", "pos": 4430169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could she hope to do that by extolling your charms above those of the other ladies? And, how could she know that I preferred you?", "pos": 4430353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If she did not know it, I have made a mistake; but for all that, she lied to you.", "pos": 4430493}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She may have invented the tale, but I do not think she lied. You are smiling again! I am delighted.", "pos": 4430577}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like to let you believe what pleases you.", "pos": 4430679}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you will allow me to believe that you do not hate me.", "pos": 4430725}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hate you? What an ugly word! If I hated you, should I see you at all? But let’s talk of something else. I want you to do me a favour. Here are two sequins; I want you to put them on an ‘ambe’ in the lottery. You can bring me the ticket when you call again, or still better, you can send it me, but don’t tell anybody.", "pos": 4430786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have the ticket without fail, but why should I not bring it?", "pos": 4431106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because, perhaps, you are tired of coming to see me.", "pos": 4431179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do I look like that? If so I am very unfortunate. But what numbers will you have?", "pos": 4431234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Three and forty; you gave them me yourself.", "pos": 4431318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did I give them you?", "pos": 4431364}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You put your hand three times on the board, and took up forty sequins each time. I am superstitious, and you will laugh at me, I daresay, but it seems to me that you must have come to Milan to make me happy.", "pos": 4431391}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now you make me happy indeed. You say you are superstitious, but if these numbers don’t win you mustn’t draw the conclusion that I don’t love you; that would be a dreadful fallacy.", "pos": 4431601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not superstitious as all that, nor so vile a logician.", "pos": 4431784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you believe I love you?", "pos": 4431846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4431875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I tell you so a hundred times?", "pos": 4431882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4431919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And prove it in every way?", "pos": 4431926}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must enquire into your methods before I consent to that, for it is possible that what you would call a very efficacious method might strike me as quite useless.", "pos": 4431955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see you are going to make me sigh after you for a long time.", "pos": 4432120}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As long as I can.", "pos": 4432185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when you have no strength left?", "pos": 4432205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will surrender. Does that satisfy you?", "pos": 4432243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, but I shall exert all my strength to abate yours.", "pos": 4432286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do so; I shall like it.", "pos": 4432349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And will you help me to succeed?", "pos": 4432375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps.", "pos": 4432410}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, dear marchioness; you need only speak to make a man happy. You have made me really so, and I am leaving you full of ardour.", "pos": 4432421}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "That will do. The bank is prosperous, but it is not always so. Pierrot was very lucky the other night. No, I was so firmly persuaded that the beggar was you. You know who he is?", "pos": 4432893}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I haven’t an idea. I never saw him before that day.", "pos": 4433221}
{"speaker": "Canano", "text": "It is said that they are Venetians, and that they went to Bergamo.", "pos": 4433314}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It may be so, but I know nothing about them. I left the ball before they did.", "pos": 4433383}
{"speaker": "Triulzi", "text": "I had let the cat out of the bag by giving the beggars handfuls of sequins.", "pos": 4433590}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is a mistake. When the luck is in my favour I never refuse anyone who asks me for money, for I have a superstition that I should lose if I did. I had won thirty pounds weight of gold, and I could afford to let fools talk.", "pos": 4433666}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "My brother, will call on you to-morrow to see what can be arranged.", "pos": 4435117}
{"speaker": "worthy ambassador", "text": "The Marquis of F----, asks you to supper in your own rooms with all the band of beggars. He wishes to give us a surprise, and would be obliged if you would lend him the room to have a set of disguises made, and to ensure secrecy he wants you to let have the same waiting-maid.", "pos": 4435512}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure; tell the marquis that all shall be according to his pleasure.", "pos": 4435821}
{"speaker": "worthy ambassador", "text": "Get the girl to come there at three o’clock to-day, and let the pastry-cook know that the marquis has full powers to do what he likes in the place.", "pos": 4435900}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Everything shall be done as you suggest.", "pos": 4436050}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want you, as it is only women’s dresses that have to be done. My good gossip here will be sufficient.", "pos": 4436675}
{"speaker": "Tailor", "text": "At three o’clock she may go, and I shall not expect to see her again for three days.", "pos": 4436811}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And that makes you happy, does it?", "pos": 4437053}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "It does, not because of the gain in money, though I am by no means rich, but for the beauty of the idea and for the thought that I owe it all to you. These two things speak volumes in your favour.", "pos": 4437098}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do they say?", "pos": 4437297}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "That you deserve to be loved.", "pos": 4437317}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And also that you love me?", "pos": 4437349}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "No, but my heart tells me as much.", "pos": 4437378}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make me happy, but does not your heart also tell you that you should prove your love?", "pos": 4437415}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Dearest, can you doubt it? My first idea, was to put the whole forty sequins on the ‘ambe’.", "pos": 4437507}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You hadn’t sufficient courage?", "pos": 4437682}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "It wasn’t that, I felt ashamed to do it. I was afraid that you might have a thought you would not tell me of--namely, that if I gave you the forty sequins to risk on the lottery, you would think I despised your present. This would have been wrong, and if you had encouraged me I should have risked all the money.", "pos": 4437715}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am so sorry not to have thought of it. You would have had ten thousand sequins, and I should be a happy man.", "pos": 4438030}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "We will say no more about it.", "pos": 4438143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your brother tells me that we are going to the masqued ball under the direction of the marquis, and I leave you to imagine how glad I feel at the thought of spending a whole night with you. But one thought troubles me.", "pos": 4438175}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 4438396}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am afraid it will not go off so well as before.", "pos": 4438412}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Don’t be afraid, the marquis is a man of much ingenuity, and loves my cousin’s honour as herself. He is sure to get us disguises in which we shall not be recognized.", "pos": 4438464}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope so. He wants to pay for everything, including the supper.", "pos": 4438632}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "He cannot do better than imitate your example in that respect.", "pos": 4438699}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Yes, with her work. I did not ask her to do anything else for me.", "pos": 4439011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh! of course I believe it, but I am afraid your sweetheart will be rather sceptical.", "pos": 4439094}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "She knows that I cannot love anyone besides herself.", "pos": 4439182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, we will say no more about it.", "pos": 4439237}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Here, ladies, are your disguises, and here is your maid who will help you while we dress in another room. Let us be as quick as we can.", "pos": 4439470}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your fine garters, make me want to wear some too.", "pos": 4440553}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Exactly, but the worst of it is nobody will take the trouble to find out whether we have garters or not, for two young ladies five feet ten in height will not inspire very ardent desires.", "pos": 4440631}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Supposing somebody knew us, we should be undone!", "pos": 4442210}
{"speaker": "Lieutenant", "text": "We must make up our minds, shall we go to the ball or go home?", "pos": 4443735}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Neither, we will dance here.", "pos": 4443823}
{"speaker": "mistress", "text": "Where are the violins you could not get them to-night for their weight in gold.", "pos": 4443874}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, we will do without them. We will have some punch, laugh, and be merry, and we shall enjoy ourselves better than at the ball, and when we are tired we can go to sleep. We have three beds here.", "pos": 4443978}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Two would be enough,", "pos": 4444188}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, but we can’t have too much of a good thing. I don’t think I need fear its going any farther, we will leave the marquis with your cousin then, and I will watch over you while you sleep.", "pos": 4444228}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "No, no, you shall sleep too. I breathe again. Those dreadful trousers were too tight; they hurt me.", "pos": 4444889}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where did the breeches hurt you?", "pos": 4445187}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "I can’t tell you, but I should think you must find them dreadfully uncomfortable.", "pos": 4445230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, dearest, our anatomy is different, and breeches do not trouble us at all where they hurt you.", "pos": 4445314}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "What a difference there is, between nature and art!", "pos": 4446509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But of course you think that art is the better?", "pos": 4446575}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "No, certainly not.", "pos": 4446625}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But there may be imperfections in nature, whereas art is perfect.", "pos": 4446646}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Q----", "text": "I do not know whether there be any imperfection in what I behold, but I do know that I have never seen anything so beautiful. If we were wise, instead of going to the ball again we would come here and enjoy ourselves.", "pos": 4446714}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "He paid me well,", "pos": 4449021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is enough, no one can see you without loving you, or love you without desiring to possess your charms.", "pos": 4449093}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "The marquis did not go so far as that.", "pos": 4449213}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It may be so, but I am surprised to hear it.", "pos": 4449254}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "I was sure, that you would come and see me;", "pos": 4449647}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What friend is that?", "pos": 4453224}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "Myself.", "pos": 4453247}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is your name?", "pos": 4453257}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "I cannot tell you.", "pos": 4453278}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you need not tell me to come, for if you were a true friend of mine you would tell me your name. I am surprised to see you here,", "pos": 4453299}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "I dare say your are. I have come here in this carnival season, when one can wear a mask, to compel my relations to give me what they owe me; but they put me off from one day to another, as they are sure I shall be obliged to go when Lent begins.", "pos": 4453782}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And will you do so?", "pos": 4454030}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "I shall be obliged to, but as you will not come and see me, give me twenty sequins, which will enable me to leave Milan. My cousin owes me ten thousand livres, and will not pay me a tenth even. I will kill him before I go.", "pos": 4454052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I haven’t a farthing, and that mask of yours has made me lose a thousand sequins, which I do not know how to pay.", "pos": 4454277}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "I know. I am an unlucky man, and bring bad luck to all my friends. It was I who told her to give you a card, in the hope that it would change the run against you.", "pos": 4454392}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she a Milanese girl?", "pos": 4454557}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "No, she comes from Marseilles, and is the daughter of a rich agent. I fell in love with her, seduced her, and carried her off to her unhappiness. I had plenty of money then, but, wretch that I am, I lost it all at Genoa, where I had to sell all my possessions to enable me to come here. I have been a week in Milan. Pray give me the wherewithal to escape.", "pos": 4454583}
{"speaker": "Young lady", "text": "Have compassion, sir, on the most wretched creature breathing. M. de la Croix has gone away in despair. He has left me here in the inn, where he has paid for nothing. Good God! what will become of me? I conjure you to come and see me, be it only to give me your advice.", "pos": 4455617}
{"speaker": "Young lady", "text": "She has been tiring me for more than an hour. I cannot understand what she says, but I can make out that she wants to do me a service. However, I do not feel inclined to accept her assistance.", "pos": 4456420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who told you to come and see this young lady?", "pos": 4456615}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "One of the servants of the inn told me that a young lady from foreign parts had been left alone here, and that she was much to be pitied. My feelings of humanity made me come and see if I could be useful to her; but I see she is in good hands, and I am very glad of it for her sake, poor dear!", "pos": 4456685}
{"speaker": "Poor girl", "text": "Soon after he put on his great coat and got ready to go out, telling me that if he did not return he would communicate with me by you, at the same time giving me your address, of which I have made use as you know. He has not come back, and if you have not seen him I am sure he has gone off on foot without a penny in his pocket. The landlord wants to be paid, and by selling all I have I could satisfy his claims; but, good God! what is to become of me, then?", "pos": 4457496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dare you return to your father?", "pos": 4457959}
{"speaker": "Poor girl", "text": "Yes, sir, I dare return to him. He will forgive me when on my knees and with tears in my eyes I tell him that I am ready to bury myself in a nunnery.", "pos": 4457993}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good! then I will take you to Marseilles myself, and in the meanwhile I will find you a lodging with some honest people. Till then, shut yourself up in your room, do not admit anyone to see you, and be sure I will have a care for you.", "pos": 4458145}
{"speaker": "Worthy tailor", "text": "She shall have my place, if she won’t mind sleeping with my wife. I will hire a small room hard by, and will sleep there as long as the young lady stays.", "pos": 4458945}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a good idea, gossip, but your wife will lose by the exchange.", "pos": 4459128}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "Not much,", "pos": 4459199}
{"speaker": "Worthy tailor", "text": "As for her meals, she must arrange that herself.", "pos": 4459260}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a very simple matter. Zenobia will get them and I will pay for them.", "pos": 4459323}
{"speaker": "Count Ambrose", "text": "She makes me happy, and though she brought me no dower, I seem to be a richer man, for she has taught me to look on everything we don’t possess as a superfluity.", "pos": 4464299}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There, indeed, you have the true philosophy of an honest man.", "pos": 4464475}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "There’s not a lock or a key, in the whole castle, except in the cellar, but everything is safe for all that. There are no robbers at St. Angelo, and if there were they would not dare to come here.", "pos": 4466673}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I daresay, my dear count, but you know it is my business to suppose robbers everywhere. My own valet might take the opportunity of robbing me, and you see I should have to keep silence if I were robbed.", "pos": 4466883}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Quite so, I feel the force of your argument. Tomorrow morning a locksmith shall put locks and keys to your doors, and you will be the only person in the castle who is proof against thieves. We will go and see the beautiful penitent. She was once a Lais of Milan, and enjoyed such a reputation for beauty that not only all the flower of Milan but people from the neighbouring towns were at her feet. Her hall-door was opened and shut a hundred times in a day, and even then she was not able to satisfy the desires aroused. At last an end came to what the old and the devout called a scandal. Count Firmian, a man of learning and wit, went to Vienna, and on his departure received orders to have her shut up in a convent. Our august Marie Thérèse cannot pardon mercenary beauty, and the count had no choice but to have the fair sinner imprisoned. She was told that she had done amiss, and dealt wickedly; she was obliged to make a general confession, and was condemned to a life-long penance in this convent. She was absolved by Cardinal Pozzobonelli, Archbishop of Milan, and he then confirmed her, changing the name of Thérèse, which she had received at the baptismal font, to Mary Magdalen, thus shewing her how she should save her soul by following the example of her new patroness, whose wantonness had hitherto been her pattern. Our family are the patrons of this convent, which is devoted to penitents. It is situated in an inaccessible spot, and the inmates are in the charge of a kind mother-superior, who does her best to soften the manifold austerities of their existences. They only work and pray, and see no one besides their confessor, who says mass every day. We are the only persons whom the superioress would admit, as long as some of our family are present she always let them bring whom they like.", "pos": 4467088}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "O my God! what do I see? Holy Mary, come to my aid! Begone, dreadful sinner, though thou deservest to be here more than I. Scoundrel!", "pos": 4470442}
{"speaker": "Mother-superior", "text": "Do not be offended, sir, the poor girl has become mad, and unless she really has recognized you . . . .", "pos": 4470755}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is impossible, madam, I have never seen her before.", "pos": 4470861}
{"speaker": "Mother-superior", "text": "Of course not, but you must forgive her, as she has lost the use of her reason.", "pos": 4470920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Maybe the Lord has made her thus in mercy.", "pos": 4471002}
{"speaker": "Mother-superior", "text": "She has begged me, to take down the pictures of St. Louis de Gonzaga and St. Antony from the chapel wall because she says they distract her fearfully. I have thought it my duty to yield to her request, in spite of our confessor, who says it’s all nonsense.", "pos": 4472303}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I ask you, fair countess, why you laugh thus to yourself?", "pos": 4473594}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Forgive me; I was not amused at the poor girl’s recognizing you, for that must have been a mistake, but I cannot help laughing when I think of your face at her words, ‘You are more deserving of imprisonment than I.’", "pos": 4473658}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps you think she was right.", "pos": 4473876}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I? Not at all. But how is it that she attacked you and not my brother-in-law?", "pos": 4473911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Probably because she thought I looked a greater sinner than he.", "pos": 4473991}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "That, I suppose, must have been the reason. One should never heed the talk of mad people.", "pos": 4474057}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are sarcastic, but I take it all in good part. Perhaps I am as great a sinner as I look; but beauty should be merciful to me, for it is by beauty that I am led astray.", "pos": 4474149}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I wonder the empress does not shut up men as well as women.", "pos": 4474323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perhaps she hopes to see them all at her feet when there are no more girls left to amuse them.", "pos": 4474385}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "That is a jest. You should rather say that she cannot forgive her own sex the lack of a virtue which she exercises so eminently, and which is so easily observed.", "pos": 4474482}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have nothing to allege against the empress’s virtue, but with your leave I beg to entertain very strong doubts as to the possibility of the general exercise of that virtue which we call continence.", "pos": 4474646}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "No doubt everyone thinks by his own standard. A man may be praised for temperance in whom temperance is no merit. What is easy to you may be hard to me, and ‘vice versa’. Both of us may be right.", "pos": 4474848}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am thinking some matter over, and I must go and write one or two letters in my room till it is time for supper.", "pos": 4479456}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "You won’t leave us surely? Clementine, help me to keep M. de Seingalt; you must make him postpone his letter-writing.", "pos": 4479582}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "But my dear brother, if M. de Seingalt has business to do, it would be rude of me to try and prevent his doing it.", "pos": 4479713}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Do you think it would bring you ill luck?", "pos": 4480704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t like birds of ill omen.", "pos": 4480748}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I was not listening, but I hope you will give me my revenge after supper.", "pos": 4481483}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "After supper I shall be going to bed, but you shall have your revenge, and as much as you like of it, tomorrow, provided that our charming hostesses like playing. I hope the luck will be in your favour.", "pos": 4481570}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Sir, as we haven’t got a maid to look after your linen, I have come to beg you to let me undertake that office.", "pos": 4482397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You! my dear countess?", "pos": 4482523}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Yes, I, sir, and I hope you will make no objection. It will be a pleasure to me, and I hope to you as well. Let me have the shirt you are going to wear to-morrow, and say no more about it.", "pos": 4482548}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, it shall be as you please. Every day I want a shirt, a collar, a front, a pair of drawers, a pair of stocking, and two handkerchiefs; but I don’t mind which you take, and leave the choice to you as the mistress, as I wish you were in deed and truth. I shall sleep a happier sleep than Jove himself. Farewell, dear Hebe!", "pos": 4482739}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Very good! Tell him that he can pay when he likes, but warn him not to play this evening. I will not take his bets. But you would have no objection to his punting with ready money. Certainly I should, unless he pays me first, otherwise he would be punting with my money. Of course it’s a mere trifle, and I hope he won’t trouble himself in the least or put himself to any inconvenience to pay it. I am afraid he will be mortified. So much the better, what did he play for, when he knew that he could not pay his debts if he incurred any? It will be a lesson to him. My dear Clementine, tell me frankly whether the rather uncivil way in which I have treated the abbé has pained you. I am going to give you twenty sequins, do you send them to him, and to-night he can pay me honourably, and make a good figure. I promise you no one shall know about it. Thank you, but the honour of the abbé is not dear enough to me for me to accept your offer. The lesson will do him good. A little shame will teach him that he must mend his ways. You will see he won’t come this evening. That may be, but do you think I shall care? Well--yes, I did think so. Because we joked together, I suppose. He is a hare-brained fellow, to whom I do not give two thoughts in the year. I pity him, as heartily as I congratulate anyone of whom you do think. Maybe there is no such person What! You have not yet met a man worthy of your regard? Many worthy of regard, but none of love. Then you have never been in love? Never. Your heart is empty? You make me laugh. Is it happiness, is it unhappiness? Who can say. If it be happiness, I am glad, and if it be unhappiness, I do not care, for I do not feel it to be so. Nevertheless, it is a misfortune, and you will know it to have been so on the day in which you love. And if I become unhappy through love, shall I not pronounce my emptiness of heart to have been happiness. I confess you would be right, but I am sure love would make you happy. I do not know. To be happy one must live in perfect agreement; that is no easy matter, and I believe it to be harder still when the bond is lifelong. I agree, but God sent us into the world that we might run the risk To a man it may be a necessity and a delight, but a girl is bound by stricter laws. In nature the necessity is the same though the results are different, and the laws you speak of are laid down by society.", "pos": 4484854}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "I wish you would fall in love with one another,", "pos": 4487531}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "You wish to see us unhappy, do you? What do you mean by that? I should be unhappy with an inconstant lover, and you would be unhappy too, for you would feel bitter remorse for having destroyed my peace of mind.", "pos": 4487590}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Clementine is rather too romantic; she will get over it, however; she is young yet. Do you know, my dear sister, that the chevalier here is in love with Clementine, and she seems inclined to pay him back in his own coin?", "pos": 4487978}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "I hope a suitable match like that may make us relations.", "pos": 4488327}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "You have no right to complain. Hebe’s duty is to keep the cup of the chief of the gods always full. Very good; but you know Jupiter sent her away. Yes, but I know why. I will take care not to stumble in the same way; and no Ganymede shall take my place for a like cause. You are very wise. Jupiter was wrong, and henceforth I will be Hercules. Will that please you, fair Hebe? No; because he did not marry her till after her death. True, again. I will be Iolas then, for . . . Be quiet. Iolas was old. True; but so was I yesterday. You have made me young again. I am very glad, dear Iolas; but remember what I did when he left me. And what did you do? I do not remember. I did not believe a word he said. You can believe. I took away the gift I had made.", "pos": 4489931}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Pray where was that young lady educated?", "pos": 4491851}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "In the country. She was always present when my brother had his lessons, but the tutor, Sardini, never took any notice of her, and it was only she who gained anything; my brother only yawned. Clementine used to make my mother laugh, and puzzle the old tutor sadly sometimes.", "pos": 4491918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sardini wrote and published some poems which are not bad; but nobody reads them, because they are so full of mythology.", "pos": 4492194}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Quite so. Clementine possesses a manuscript with which he presented her, containing a number of mythological tales verified. Try and make her shew you her books and the verses she used to write; she won’t shew them to any of us.", "pos": 4492316}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I should be ashamed. I had to give over my studies two years ago, when my sister married and we came to live here, where we only see honest folks who talk about the stable, the harvest, and the weather. You are the first person I have seen who has talked to me about literature. If our old Sardini had come with us I should have gone on learning, but my sister did not care to have him here.", "pos": 4492758}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "But my dear Clementine, what do you think my husband could have done with an old man of eighty whose sole accomplishments are weighing the wind, writing verses, and talking mythology?", "pos": 4493152}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "He would have been useful enough, if he could have managed the estate, but the honest old man will not believe in the existence of rascals. He is so learned that he is quite stupid.", "pos": 4493359}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Good heavens! Sardini stupid? It is certainly easy to deceive him, but that is because he is so noble. I love a man who is easily deceived, but they call me silly.", "pos": 4493563}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Not at all, my dear sister. On the contrary, there is wisdom in all you say, but it is wisdom out of place in a woman; the mistress of a household does not want to know anything about literature, poetry, or philosophy, and when it comes to marrying you I am very much afraid that your taste for this kind of thing will stand in your way.", "pos": 4493749}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I know it, and I am expecting to die a maid; not that it is much compliment to the men. Have you been to see him? I have never been to Milan. Is it possible? It is not far from here. Distance is relative, you know.", "pos": 4494110}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Do you know, my dear Hebe, that you want more books? I have often suspected it, dear Iolas, without being able to say exactly what I want. No, they are too bad. I expect so; but the good will outweigh the bad. I don’t think so. Oh, yes! you needn’t be afraid. I will forgive the bad grammar, bad style, absurd images, faulty method, and even the verses that won’t scan. That’s too much, Iolas; Hebe doesn’t need so vast a pardon as all that. Here, sir, these are my scribblings; sift the faults and the defaults. Read what you will.", "pos": 4495189}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "You have come to St. Angelo to make me happy.", "pos": 4500467}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "It will be my pleasure to read these books, when you have left us.", "pos": 4501191}
{"speaker": "Countess Ambrose", "text": "she would be able to find the two guests who were wanted at Lodi,", "pos": 4501444}
{"speaker": "Canon", "text": "he would take the lady friend with her two children.", "pos": 4501529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Pastor Fido will please you still more.", "pos": 4503990}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Is it more beautiful?", "pos": 4504036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not exactly.", "pos": 4504060}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Then why do you say it will please me more?", "pos": 4504075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because it charms the heart. It appeals to our softest feelings, and seduces us--and we love seduction.", "pos": 4504121}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "It is a seducer, then?", "pos": 4504227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, not a seducer; but seductive, like you.", "pos": 4504252}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "That’s a good distinction. I will read it this evening. Now I am going to dress.", "pos": 4504298}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It must not be lost, madam; allow me to sip nectar which will elevate me to the rank of the gods. Do not be afraid of my teeth.", "pos": 4505385}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Certainly, if I had any milk.", "pos": 4505980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have the source of the milk; I will see to the rest.", "pos": 4506024}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Vigi will bring his translation of the thirteenth book, and I shall not know a word about it. But I wanted to read the Pastor Fido.", "pos": 4508963}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are in a hurry; we must read that another time.", "pos": 4509312}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I will follow your advice in all things, my dear Iolas.", "pos": 4509365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will make me happy, dearest Hebe.", "pos": 4509423}
{"speaker": "Dido", "text": "I might still pardon you if, before abandoning me, you had left me a little AEneas to play about these halls.", "pos": 4509877}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "What a night!", "pos": 4510326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It has been one of great pleasure to me, has it not to you?", "pos": 4510377}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I have enjoyed it because you have.", "pos": 4510439}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if you had been reading by yourself?", "pos": 4510477}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "It would have still been a pleasure, but a much smaller one. I love your intellect to distraction, Clementine, but tell me, do you think it possible to love the intellect without loving that which contains it? No, for without the body the spirit would vanish away. I conclude from that that I am deeply in love with you, and that I cannot pass six or seven hours in your company without longing to kiss you. Certainly, but we resist these desires because we have duties to perform, which would rise up against us if we left them undone. True again, but if your disposition at all resembles mine this constraint must be very painful to you. Perhaps I feel it as much as you do, but it is my belief that it is only hard to withstand temptation at first. By degrees one gets accustomed to loving without running any risk and without effort. Our senses, at first so sharp set, end by becoming blunted, and when this is the case we may spend hours and days in safety, untroubled by desire. I have my doubts as far as I am concerned, but we shall see. Good night, fair Hebe. Good night, my good Iolas, may you sleep well! My sleep will be haunted by visions of you.", "pos": 4510520}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "May I rise in your presence? Why not? A man has need of very little care to observe the laws of decency.", "pos": 4513461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then please give me that shirt.", "pos": 4513570}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do the same for you at the first opportunity,", "pos": 4513684}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "It’s not nearly so far from you to me as it is from me to you.", "pos": 4513773}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Divine Hebe, that is beyond my understanding. You speak like the Cumaean sibyls, or as if you were rendering oracles at your temple in Corinth.", "pos": 4513838}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Had Hebe a temple at Corinth? Sardini never said so.", "pos": 4513984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But Apollodorus says so. It was an asylum as well as a temple. But come back to the point, and pray do not elude it. What you said is opposed to all the laws of geometry. The distance from you to me ought to be precisely the same as from me to you.", "pos": 4514039}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Perhaps, then, I have said a stupid thing.", "pos": 4514290}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all, Hebe, you have an idea which may be right or wrong, but I want to bring it out. Come, tell me.", "pos": 4514335}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Well, then, the two distances differ from each other with respect to the ascent and descent, or fall, if you like. Are not all bodies inclined to obey the laws of gravitation unless they are held back by a superior force?", "pos": 4514444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 4514668}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "And is it not the case that no bodies move in an upward direction unless they are impelled?", "pos": 4514681}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite true.", "pos": 4514775}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Then you must confess that since I am shorter than you I should have to ascend to attain you, and ascension is always an effort; while if you wish to attain me, you have only to let yourself go, which is no effort whatever. Thus it is no risk at all for you to let me put on your shirt, but it would be a great risk for me if I allowed you to do the same service for me. I might be overwhelmed by your too rapid descent on me. Are you persuaded?", "pos": 4514789}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Persuaded is not the word, fair Hebe. I am ravished in an ecstacy of admiration. Never was paradox so finely maintained. I might cavil and contest it, but I prefer to keep silence to admire and adore.", "pos": 4515237}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Thank you, dear Iolas, but I want no favour. Tell me how you could disprove my argument?", "pos": 4515440}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should attack it on the point of height. You know you would not let me change your chemise even if I were a dwarf.", "pos": 4515531}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Ah, dear Iolas! we cannot deceive each other. Would that Heaven had destined me to be married to a man like you!", "pos": 4515650}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas! why am I not worthy of aspiring to such a position?", "pos": 4515765}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Madly, but we are discreet.", "pos": 4516006}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "If you are discreet, you cannot love madly.", "pos": 4516055}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "True, countess,", "pos": 4516101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for the madness of love and wisdom cannot dwell together. I should rather say we are reasonable, for the mind may be grave while the heart’s gay.", "pos": 4516127}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear countess, it is quite worthless; and I only praised it to flatter the descendant of the author. However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. But you are sleepy, and I am preventing you from undressing.", "pos": 4516513}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 4516785}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "You are trembling,", "pos": 4517648}
{"speaker": "Iolas", "text": "Yes, dearest countess, and I assure you I tremble for fear of you. Good night, I am going; and my prayer must be that I may love you less.", "pos": 4517744}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Why so? To love less is to begin to hate. Do as I do, and pray that your love may grow and likewise the strength to resist it.", "pos": 4517885}
{"speaker": "Iolas", "text": "If she loves me, she cannot refuse me, but it is my part to beg and pray, and even to push her to an extremity, that she may find an excuse for her defeat. A lover’s duty is to oblige the woman he loves to surrender at discretion, and love always absolves him for so doing.", "pos": 4518468}
{"speaker": "Eleanore", "text": "My sister, read till three o’clock this morning. Now that she has so many books, she is getting quite mad over them. Let us play a trick on her; get into the bed beside her; it will be amusing to see her surprise when she wakes up.", "pos": 4519371}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "But do you think she will take it as a joke? She won’t be able to help laughing; besides, you are dressed.", "pos": 4519617}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "This is a fine trick, you are two charmers indeed!", "pos": 4520661}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You see. I have had a kiss from my sweet Hebe.", "pos": 4520820}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I thought I was giving it to my sister. ‘Tis the kiss that Amaryllis gave to Mistillo.", "pos": 4520879}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It comes to the same thing. The kiss has produced its effects, and Iolas is young again.", "pos": 4520968}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Dear Eleanore, you have gone too far, for we love each other, and I was dreaming of him. No, no. Iolas is dressed. Look!", "pos": 4521059}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest Hebe, you are certainly fairer than the cupbearer of the gods. I have just seen what must have been seen when Hebe was falling, and if I had been Jupiter I should have changed my mind.", "pos": 4521641}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Sardini told me that Jupiter drove Hebe away, and now I ought to drive Jupiter away out of revenge.", "pos": 4521846}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; but, my angel, I am Iolas, and not Jupiter. I adore you, and I seek to quench the desires which torture me.", "pos": 4521948}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "This is a trick between you and Eleanore.", "pos": 4522063}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dearest, it was all pure chance. I thought I should find you dressed, and I went in to wish you good day. You were asleep and your sister was dressing. I gazed at you, and Eleanore suggested that I should lie down beside you to enjoy your astonishment when you awoke. I ought to be grateful to her for a pleasure which has turned out so pleasantly. But the beauties she discovered to me surpass all the ideas I had formed on the subject. My charming Hebe will not refuse to pardon me.", "pos": 4522107}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "No, since all is the effect of chance. But it is curious that when one loves passionately one always feels inquisitive concerning the person of the beloved object.", "pos": 4522597}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is a very natural feeling, dearest. Love itself is a kind of curiosity, if it be lawful to put curiosity in the rank of the passions; but you have not that feeling about me?", "pos": 4522763}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "No, for fear you might disappoint me, for I love you, and I want everything to speak in your favour.", "pos": 4522942}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know you might be disappointed, and consequently I must do everything in my power to preserve your good opinion.", "pos": 4523045}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Then you are satisfied with me? Surely. I am a good architect, and I think you are grandly built. Stay, Iolas, do not touch me; it is enough that you have seen me.", "pos": 4523162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas! it is by touching that one rectifies the mistakes of the eyes; one judges thus of smoothness and solidity. Let me kiss these two fair sources of life. I prefer them to the hundred breasts of Cybele, and I am not jealous of Athys.", "pos": 4523332}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "You are wrong there; Sardini told me that it was Diana of Ephesus who had the hundred breasts.", "pos": 4523570}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The quintessence of a kiss.", "pos": 4524291}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I think you must have swallowed something of me, since you have given me a pleasurable sensation I have never before experienced.", "pos": 4524321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear Hebe, you make me happy.", "pos": 4524453}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I am glad to hear it, but I think the kiss on the lips is much better.", "pos": 4524485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, because the pleasure is reciprocal, and consequently greater.", "pos": 4524558}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "You teach by precept and example too. Cruel teacher! Enough, this pleasure is too sweet. Love must be looking at us and laughing.", "pos": 4524633}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why should we not let him enjoy a victory which would make us both happier?", "pos": 4524765}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Because such happiness is not built on a sure foundation. No, no! put your arms down. If we can kill each other with kisses, let us kiss on; but let us use no other arms. I am delighted to see you back. I am full of the poetic frenzy and propose to tell the story of the victory we have gained in verse.", "pos": 4524843}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A sad victory, abhorred by love, hateful to nature.", "pos": 4525561}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "That will do nicely. Will each write a poem; I to celebrate the victory and you to deplore it. But you look sad.", "pos": 4525615}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am in pain; but as the masculine anatomy is unknown to you, I cannot explain matters.", "pos": 4525730}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your enjoyment cannot be so great as mine,", "pos": 4528215}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Then, you have no right to ask me to pity you. I possess her, but she does not possess me.", "pos": 4528319}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, we will start at eight o’clock to-morrow, and nobody need be at any trouble, the carriages are ordered.", "pos": 4531976}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is the matter with you, dearest? Has Ricciardetto displeased you?", "pos": 4533126}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Not at all, he has pleased me, and in the princess’s place I should have done the same; but we shall not sleep all night, and it is your fault.", "pos": 4533199}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What have I done, pray?", "pos": 4533345}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Nothing, but you can make us happy, and give us a great proof of your friendship.", "pos": 4533371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Speak, then. What is it you want of me? I would do anything to please you. My life is yours. You shall sleep soundly.", "pos": 4533455}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Well, then, tell us where we are going to-morrow.", "pos": 4533575}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have I not already said that I would tell you just as we are going?", "pos": 4533627}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Yes, but that won’t do. We want to know now, and if you won’t tell us we shan’t sleep, all night, and we shall look frightful to-morrow.", "pos": 4533697}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be so sorry, but I don’t think that you could look frightful.", "pos": 4533836}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "You don’t think we can keep a secret. It is nothing very important, is it?", "pos": 4533909}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, it is not very important, but all the same it is a secret.", "pos": 4533986}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "It would be dreadful if you refused me.", "pos": 4534051}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest Hebe! how can I refuse you anything? I confess freely that I have been wrong in keeping you waiting so long. Here is my secret: you are to dine with me to-morrow.", "pos": 4534093}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "With you? Where?", "pos": 4534266}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Milan.", "pos": 4534285}
{"speaker": "Hebe", "text": "We have never seen Milan,", "pos": 4534504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and it has been the dream of our lives to see that splendid town. How often I have been put to the blush when I have been forced to confess that I have never been to Milan.", "pos": 4534544}
{"speaker": "Hebe", "text": "It makes me very happy, but my happiness is troubled by the idea that we shall see nothing of the town, for we shall have to return after dinner. It is cruel! Are we to go fifteen miles to Milan only to dine and come back again? At least we must see our sister-in-law.", "pos": 4534719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have foreseen all your objections, and that was the reason I made a mystery of it, but it has been arranged. You don’t like it? Speak and tell me your pleasure.", "pos": 4535003}
{"speaker": "Hebe", "text": "Of course we like it, dear Iolas. The party will be charming, and perhaps, if we knew all, the very conditions are all for the best.", "pos": 4535168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It may be so, but I may not tell you any more now.", "pos": 4535303}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And we will not press you.", "pos": 4535356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Drive to Milan.", "pos": 4536756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Milan! Milan!", "pos": 4536774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Capital! capital!", "pos": 4536821}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "What will my wife say?", "pos": 4537184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing, for she will not know anything about it, and if she does I am the only guilty party. You are to dine with me in a suite of rooms which I have occupied incognito since I have been at Milan; for you will understand that I could not have my wants attended to at your house, where the place is already taken.", "pos": 4537226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how about Zenobia?", "pos": 4537542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Zenobia was a lucky chance, and is a very nice girl, but she would not suffice for my daily fare.", "pos": 4537567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a lucky fellow!", "pos": 4537667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I try to make myself comfortable.", "pos": 4537693}
{"speaker": "Countess Ambrose", "text": "My dear husband, you proposed a visit to Milan two years ago, and the chevalier proposed it a few hours ago, and now we are on our way.", "pos": 4537729}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Yes, sweetheart, but my idea was that we should spend a month there.", "pos": 4537896}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you want to do that,", "pos": 4537967}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will see to everything.", "pos": 4538001}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Thank you, my dear sir; you are really a wonderful man.", "pos": 4538029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do me too much honour, count, there is nothing wonderful about me, except that I execute easily an easy task.", "pos": 4538087}
{"speaker": "The count", "text": "Yes; but you will confess that a thing may be difficult from the way in which we regard it, or from the position in which we find ourselves.", "pos": 4538203}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are quite right.", "pos": 4538346}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "You must confess, sir, that you are a very fortunate man.", "pos": 4538420}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not deny it, my dear countess, but my happiness is due to the company I find myself in; if you were to expel me from yours, I should be miserable.", "pos": 4538480}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "You are not the kind of man to be expelled from any society.", "pos": 4538634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a very kindly compliment.", "pos": 4538697}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "Say, rather, a very true one.", "pos": 4538733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am happy to hear you say so, but it would be both foolish and presumptuous for me to say so myself.", "pos": 4538765}
{"speaker": "the canon", "text": "I want to call on a lady. I should lose her favour forever if she came to know that I had been in Milan without paying her a visit.", "pos": 4539044}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "You must submit to the conditions, so don’t count on my intercession.", "pos": 4539189}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "Here are two pretty girls. Who are you, pray?", "pos": 4540448}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "We are the chevalier’s humble servants, and we are here only to wait on you.", "pos": 4540517}
{"speaker": "The countess", "text": "What a lovely dress! To whom does it belong, M. de Seingalt? You ought to know.", "pos": 4541476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly. It belongs to your husband who can do what he likes with it, and I hope, if he gives it you, you will take it. Take it, count; it is yours; and if you refuse I will positively kill myself.", "pos": 4541558}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We love you too well to drive you to an act of despair. The idea is worthy of your nobility of heart. I take your beautiful present with one hand, and with the other I deliver it to her to whom it really belongs.", "pos": 4541760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What, dear husband! is this beautiful dress really mine? Whom am I to thank? I thank you both, and I must put it on for dinner.", "pos": 4541975}
{"speaker": "Zenobia", "text": "How do you know? It is the longer, and you are taller than your sister.", "pos": 4542569}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "That is true. It is really mine, then?", "pos": 4542645}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I may hope that you will deign to accept it.", "pos": 4542711}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Surely, dear Iolas, and I will put it on directly.", "pos": 4542761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, very good!", "pos": 4542904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we will leave you to dress, and here are your maids.", "pos": 4542955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have all given me such a warm welcome,", "pos": 4543729}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that I felt obliged to give you some small proof of my gratitude.", "pos": 4543783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must have contrived to take our measures,", "pos": 4543929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but we cannot imagine how you did it.", "pos": 4543988}
{"speaker": "the eldest", "text": "The funniest thing is, that you have had my dress made so that it can be let out when necessary without destroying the shape. But what a beautiful piece of trimming! It is worth four times as much as the dress itself.", "pos": 4544028}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will be at Marseilles,", "pos": 4546180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "a fortnight after Easter at latest.", "pos": 4546236}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Do you think, that I shall be happy when you have left me all alone?", "pos": 4547836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest Hebe, both of us will be unhappy for the first few days, but then philosophy will step in and soften the bitterness of parting without lessening our love.", "pos": 4547919}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Soften the bitterness! I do not think any philosophy can work such a miracle. I know that you, dear sophist, will soon console yourself with other girls. Don’t think me jealous; I should abhor myself if I thought I was capable of so vile a passion, but I should despise myself if I was capable of seeking consolation in your way.", "pos": 4548084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be in despair if you entertain such ideas of me.", "pos": 4548416}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "They are natural, however.", "pos": 4548475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly. What you call ‘other girls’ can never expel your image from my breast. The chief of them is the wife of a tailor, and the other is a respectable young woman, whom I am going to take back to Marseilles, whence she has been decoyed by her wretched seducer.", "pos": 4548504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From henceforth to death, you and you alone will reign in my breast; and if, led astray by my senses, I ever press another in these arms, I shall soon be punished for an act of infidelity in which my mind will have no share.", "pos": 4548770}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I at all events will never need to repent in that fashion. But I cannot understand how, with your love for me, and holding me in your arms, you can even contemplate the possibility of becoming unfaithful to me.", "pos": 4548997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t contemplate it, dearest, I merely take it as an hypothesis.", "pos": 4549210}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I don’t see much difference.", "pos": 4549280}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Would you like to take me away with you? I am ready to follow you, and it would make me happy. If you love me, you ought to be enchanted for your own sake. Let us make each other happy, dearest.", "pos": 4549923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not dishonour your family.", "pos": 4550132}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Do you not think me worthy of becoming your wife?", "pos": 4550169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are worthy of a crown, and it is I who am all unworthy of possessing such a wife. You must know that I have nothing in the world except my fortune, and that may leave me to-morrow. By myself I do not dread the reverses of fortune, but I should be wretched if, after linking your fate with mine, you were forced to undergo any privation.", "pos": 4550221}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "I think--I know not why--that you can never be unfortunate, and that you cannot be happy without me. Your love is not so ardent as mine; you have not so great a faith.", "pos": 4550564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My angel, if my fate is weaker than yours, that is the result of cruel experience which makes me tremble for the future. Affrighted love loses its strength but gains reason.", "pos": 4550734}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Cruel reason! Must we, then, prepare to part?", "pos": 4550910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We must indeed, dearest; it is a hard necessity, but my heart will still be thine. I shall go away your fervent adorer, and if fortune favours me in England you will see me again next year. I will buy an estate wherever you like, and it shall be yours on your wedding day, our children and literature will be our delights.", "pos": 4550958}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "What a happy prospect!--a golden vision indeed! I would that I might fall asleep dreaming thus, and wake not till that blessed day, or wake only to die if it is not to be. But what shall I do if you have left me with child?", "pos": 4551283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Divine Hebe, you need not fear. I have managed that.", "pos": 4551509}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "Managed? I did not think of that, but I see what you mean, and I am very much obliged to you. Alas perhaps after all it would have been better if you had not taken any precautions, for surely you are not born for my misfortune, and you could never have abandoned the mother and the child.", "pos": 4551563}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, sweetheart, and if before two months have elapsed you find any signs of pregnancy in spite of my precautions, you have only to write to me, and whatever my fortunes may be, I will give you my hand and legitimise our offspring. You would certainly be marrying beneath your station, but you would not be the less happy for that, would you?", "pos": 4551854}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "No, no! to bear your name, and to win your hand would be the crowning of all my hopes. I should never repent of giving myself wholly to you.", "pos": 4552209}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make me happy.", "pos": 4552352}
{"speaker": "Clementine", "text": "All of us love you, all say that you are happy, and that you deserve your happiness. What praise is this! You cannot tell how my heart beats when I hear you lauded when you are away. When they say I love you, I answer that I adore you, and you know that I do not lie.", "pos": 4552373}
{"speaker": "Thérèse", "text": "I am leaving him at Milan. I know how he got this idea into his head, but I will never give my consent. I hope I shall find him wiser by the time I come back.", "pos": 4557788}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I am sure M. de la Croix would not have abandoned me if he had not met you at Milan.", "pos": 4560407}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are very charitable, but I am unable to share in your good opinion. To my mind Croce has behaved in a rascally manner, to say the least of it, for in spite of your many charms he had no right to count on me in the matter. I will not say that he openly scorned you, since he might have acted from despair; but I am sure he must have ceased to love you, or he could never have abandoned you thus.", "pos": 4560494}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I am sure of the contrary. He saw that he had no means of providing for me, and he had to choose between leaving me and killing himself.", "pos": 4560895}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all. He ought to have sold all he had and sent you back to Marseilles. Your journey to Genoa would not have cost much, and thence you could have gone to Marseilles by sea. Croce counted on my having been interested in your pretty face, and he was right; but you must see that he exposed you to a great risk. You must not be offended if I tell you the plain truth. If your face had not inspired me with a lively interest in you, I should have only felt ordinary compassion on reading your appeal, and this would not have been enough to force me to great sacrifices of time and trouble. But I have no business to be blaming Croce. You are hurt; I see you are still in love with him.", "pos": 4561034}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I confess it, and I pity him. As for myself, I only pity my cruel destiny. I shall never see him again, but I shall never love anyone else, for my mind is made up. I shall go into a convent and expiate my sins. My father will pardon me, for he is a man of an excellent heart. I have been the victim of love; my will was not my own. The seductive influence of passion ravished my reason from me, and the only thing that I blame myself for is for not having fortified my mind against it. Otherwise I cannot see that I have sinned deeply, but I confess I have done wrong.", "pos": 4561724}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would have gone with Croce from Milan if he had asked you, even on foot.", "pos": 4562295}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Of course; it would have been my duty; but he would not expose me to the misery that he saw before us.", "pos": 4562374}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nay, you were miserable enough already. I am sure that if you meet him at Marseilles you will go with him again.", "pos": 4562479}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Never. I begin to get back my reason. I am free once more, and the day will come when I shall thank God for having forgotten him.", "pos": 4562594}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Alas! you can do what you like. If liberty is a precious thing, it is most precious of all in love.", "pos": 4563675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is no need for this disobedience. You have inspired me with a tender passion, but if you don’t share my feelings my love for you shall be stifled at its birth. There are two beds here, as you see; you can choose which one you will sleep in.", "pos": 4563777}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Then I will sleep in that one, but I shall be very sorry if you are not so kind to me in the future as you have been in the past.", "pos": 4564026}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t be afraid. You shall not find me unworthy of your esteem. Good night; we shall be good friends.", "pos": 4564158}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "This is what I love.", "pos": 4566607}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "It was a mere chance. The equivocation was innocent because it was not premeditated, for if I had thought it over I should never have said such a thing.", "pos": 4567669}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "My dear friend, you are very good to call on me directly you arrive, and I hope you will dine with us to-morrow. I owe all my happiness to you, and that is even a sweeter thought than the recollection of the passionate hours we have spent together. Let us kiss, but no more; my duty as an honest wife forbids me from going any further, so do not disturb the happiness you have given. Oh! by the way. I have a pleasant surprise for you.", "pos": 4570008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want her to come and wait on my niece while we are here,", "pos": 4570799}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "What! another niece? You have a great many relations! But as she is your niece, I hope you will bring her with you to-morrow.", "pos": 4570904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, and all the more willingly as she is from Marseilles.", "pos": 4571032}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "From Marseilles? Why, we might know each other. Not that that would matter, for all your nieces are discreet young persons. What is her name?", "pos": 4571099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Crosin.", "pos": 4571243}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I don’t know it.", "pos": 4571253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I daresay you don’t. She is the daughter of a cousin of mine who lived at Marseilles.", "pos": 4571272}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Tell that to someone else; but, after all, what does it matter? You choose well, amuse yourself, and make them happy. It may be wisdom after all, and at any rate I congratulate you. I shall be delighted to see your niece, but if she knows me you must see that she knows her part as well.", "pos": 4571360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My cook?", "pos": 4573933}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "Yes, sir, the one your secretary, M. Possano, engaged for you. I could have got a much better one and a much cheaper one myself.", "pos": 4573956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Get one to-morrow.", "pos": 4574087}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "Certainly; but you must rid yourself and me of the present cook, for he has taken up his position here with his wife and children. Tell Possano to send for him.", "pos": 4574108}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do so, and in the meanwhile do you get me a fresh cook. I will try him the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 4574271}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You might spare me the pain of having to sleep by myself.", "pos": 4574572}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot allow that, my dear young lady.", "pos": 4574988}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Why not? it is a mark of friendship.", "pos": 4575031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be, but such marks cannot be given to anyone but your lover without your degrading yourself.", "pos": 4575070}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "I engaged the man by your orders, for the whole time you stayed at Genoa, at four francs a day, with board and lodging.", "pos": 4575936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is my letter?", "pos": 4576069}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "Here it is: ‘Get me a good cook; I will keep him while I stay in Genoa.’", "pos": 4576091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps you did not remark the expression, a good cook? Well, this fellow is a very bad cook; and, at all events, I am the best judge whether he is good or bad.", "pos": 4576166}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "You are wrong, for the man will prove his skill. He will cite you in the law courts, and win his case.", "pos": 4576329}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you have made a formal agreement with him?", "pos": 4576434}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "Certainly; and your letter authorized me to do so.", "pos": 4576484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell him to come up; I want to speak to him.", "pos": 4576537}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Sir. I am skilled in my business, and I can get four thousand Genoese to swear as much.", "pos": 4576836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That doesn’t say much for their good taste; but whatever they may say, the execrable supper you gave me last night proves that you are only fit to keep a low eating-house.", "pos": 4576943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be,", "pos": 4577481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but as I stick to my own opinion, and think his cooking horrible, he must go, for I want to get another, and I will pay that fellow as if he had served me the whole time.", "pos": 4577507}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "That won’t do. I will summon you before the judge and demand damages for defamation of character.", "pos": 4577680}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio Grimaldi", "text": "My dear sir, you had better not go into court, or you will be cast in costs, for the evidence is against you. Probably this man makes a slight mistake in believing himself to be an excellent cook, but the chief mistake is in the agreement, which ought to have stipulated that he should cook a trial dinner. The person who drew up the agreement is either a great knave or a great fool.", "pos": 4578013}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "But you are cousin to the cook,", "pos": 4578501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do I owe you any money, Possano?", "pos": 4578677}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "On the contrary, you paid me a month in advance, and there are ten more days of the month to run.", "pos": 4578712}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will make you a present of the ten days and send you away this very moment, unless your cousin does not leave my house to-day, and give you the foolish engagement which you signed in my name.", "pos": 4578812}
{"speaker": "M. Grimaldi", "text": "That’s what I call cutting the Gordian knot. Signora Isola-Bella will be delighted to see her.", "pos": 4579008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As the marquis did not mention her in his letter, I did not take the liberty of bringing her.", "pos": 4579237}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "I knew her at home; she and her mother used to bring linen from the wash. I always liked her.", "pos": 4582419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must be nearly the same age.", "pos": 4582515}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "She is two years older than I am. I recognized her directly.", "pos": 4582550}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did she tell you?", "pos": 4582613}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "That it was you who brought her from Marseilles and made her fortune.", "pos": 4582638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has not made you the depositary of any other confidences?", "pos": 4582710}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "No, but there are some things which don’t need telling.", "pos": 4582774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right. And what did you tell her?", "pos": 4582832}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Only what she could have guessed for herself. I told her that you were not my uncle, and if she thought you were my lover I was not sorry. You do not know how I have enjoyed myself to-day, you must have been born to make me happy.", "pos": 4582876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how about La Croix?", "pos": 4583109}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "For heaven’s sake say nothing about him.", "pos": 4583135}
{"speaker": "Annette", "text": "If the lady is really your niece, may I hope that you still love me?", "pos": 4583334}
{"speaker": "Pogomas", "text": "Assuredly, dear Annette, I shall always love you. Undress, and let us have a little talk.", "pos": 4583417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your decision,", "pos": 4584009}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "will decide the fate of my cook; it will be his trial dinner.", "pos": 4584034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas!", "pos": 4584206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you may not believe me, but I assure you I am only beginning with her.", "pos": 4584222}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "I shall certainly believe you, if you tell me so, though it seems very strange.", "pos": 4584295}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Strange but true. You must understand, however, that I have only known her for a very short time; and, again, I would not be made happy save through love, mere submission would kill me.", "pos": 4584377}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "Good! but what did she say of me? As you have not yet gone far with your niece, would you object if the young man who shewed her so much attention yesterday were of the party to-morrow?", "pos": 4584565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is he? I should like to know him.", "pos": 4584866}
{"speaker": "Rosalie", "text": "M. N----, the only son of a rich merchant.", "pos": 4584906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly, bring him with you.", "pos": 4584951}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You are too kind to me, my dear uncle. I will go to Rosalie’s.", "pos": 4585434}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Very good. Are you satisfied with Annette?", "pos": 4585499}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Oh! by the way, she told me that you spent last night with her, and that you had been her lover and her sister’s at the same time.", "pos": 4585544}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "It is true, but she is very indiscreet to say anything about it.", "pos": 4585677}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "We must forgive her, though. She told me that she only consented to sleep with you on the assurance that I was really your niece. I am sure she only made this confession out of vanity, and in the hope of gaining my favour, which would be naturally bestowed on a woman you love.", "pos": 4585744}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "I wish you had the right to be jealous of her; and I swear that if she does not comport herself with the utmost obedience to you in every respect, I will send her packing, in despite of our relations. As for you, you may not be able to love me, and I have no right to complain; but I will not have you degrade yourself by becoming my submissive victim.", "pos": 4586024}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "A very pleasant young man, who is coming to dine with us to-morrow, paid me great attention.", "pos": 4590074}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "The same, I suppose, that did so yesterday?", "pos": 4590181}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Yes. Amongst other pretty things he told me that if I liked he would go to Marseilles and ask my hand of my father. I said nothing, but I thought to myself that if the poor young man gave himself all this trouble he would be woefully misled, as he would not see me.", "pos": 4590227}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 4590495}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "Because I should be in a nunnery. My kind good father will forgive me, but I must punish myself.", "pos": 4590506}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "That is a sad design, which I hope you will abandon. You have all that would make the happiness of a worthy husband. The more I think it over, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I say. My dear child, your tears weary me. You are only here to amuse me, and if you can’t do that, you had better go.", "pos": 4590605}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "My dear niece, tell her to behave better or else I will send her back to her mother’s.", "pos": 4591853}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Who told you about it?", "pos": 4592494}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "I have just been at the coffee-house, where everybody is talking of it. It was a wonderful victory, for those biribanti are knaves of the first water. Your adventure is making a great noise, for everyone says that you could not have broken their bank unless you had made an agreement with the man that kept the bag.", "pos": 4592519}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "My dear fellow, I am tired of you. Here, take this piece of money for your wife and be off.", "pos": 4592837}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "Three thousand sequins! that is a grand haul indeed.", "pos": 4593656}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Quite so.", "pos": 4593727}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "The funny part of it is that the man who keeps the bag is in the pay of the others.", "pos": 4593739}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "What strikes you as funny in that?", "pos": 4593825}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "Why, he gained half without any risk, otherwise he would not have been likely to have entered into an agreement with you.", "pos": 4593862}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "You think, then, that it was a case of connivance?", "pos": 4593986}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "Everybody says so; indeed what else could it be? The rascal has made his fortune without running any risk. All the Greeks in Genoa are applauding him and you.", "pos": 4594039}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "As the greater rascal of the two?", "pos": 4594200}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "They don’t call you a rascal; they say you’re a great genius; you are praised and envied.", "pos": 4594236}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "I am sure I ought to be obliged to them.", "pos": 4594328}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "I heard it all from a gentleman who was there. He says that the second and the third time the man with the bag gave you the office.", "pos": 4594371}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "And you believe this?", "pos": 4594505}
{"speaker": "Count Rinaldi", "text": "I am sure of it. No man of honour in your position could have acted otherwise. However, when you come to settle up with the fellow I advise you to be very careful, for there will be spies on your tracks. If you like, I will do the business for you.", "pos": 4594529}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "My dear chevalier, you ought to laugh at it, and I should not advise you to take the trouble to refute the calumny.", "pos": 4595701}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Then you advise me to confess openly that I am a rogue?", "pos": 4595819}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for only fools will think that of you. Despise them, unless they tell you you are a rogue to your face.", "pos": 4595877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should like to know the name of the nobleman who was present and sent this report about the town.", "pos": 4595987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know who it is. He was wrong to say anything, but you would be equally wrong in taking any steps against him, for I am sure he did not tell the story with any intention of giving offence; quite the contrary.", "pos": 4596089}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am lost in wonder at his course of reasoning. Let us suppose that the facts were as he told them, do you think they are to my honour?", "pos": 4596308}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Neither to your honour nor shame. Such are the morals and such the maxims of gamesters. The story will be laughed at, your skill will be applauded, and you will be admired, for each one will say that in your place he would have done likewise!", "pos": 4596446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you?", "pos": 4596691}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly. If I had been sure that the ball would have gone to the harlequin, I would have broken the rascal’s bank, as you did. I will say honestly that I do not know whether you won by luck or skill, but the most probable hypothesis, to my mind, is that you knew the direction of the ball. You must confess that there is something to be said in favour of the supposition.", "pos": 4596704}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess that there is, but it is none the less a dishonourable imputation on me, and you in your turn must confess that those who think that I won by sleight of hand, or by an agreement with a rascal, insult me grievously.", "pos": 4597080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That depends on the way you look at it. I confess they insult you, if you think yourself insulted; but they are not aware of that, and their intention being quite different there is no insult at all in the matter. I promise you no one will tell you to your face that you cheated, but how are you going to prevent them thinking so?", "pos": 4597307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, let them think what they like, but let them take care not to tell me their thoughts.", "pos": 4597640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shew him in.", "pos": 4599052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The man with the bag!", "pos": 4599113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 4599137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sir, I am come to ask you to help me. I am a family man, and it is thought that . . .", "pos": 4599172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have never refused to aid the unfortunate,", "pos": 4599286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Clairmont, give him ten sequins. Leave the room.", "pos": 4599341}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I went to the bank to change the piece of gold you gave me. It was weighed, and found to be ten carats under weight. I was told to name the person from whom I got it, but of course I did not do so. I then had to go to prison, and if you do not get me out of the scrape I shall be prosecuted, though of course I am not going to get myself hanged for anybody.", "pos": 4600305}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is a very serious matter, for it may end in the gallows for the man who clipped the coin.", "pos": 4600757}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then they can hang the biribanti! That won’t hurt me much.", "pos": 4600854}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, that won’t do; it would compromise Madame Isola-Bella, as biribi is strictly forbidden. Leave it all to me, I will speak to the State Inquisitors about it. Tell Possano to persevere in his silence, and that you will see him safely through. The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated.", "pos": 4600915}
{"speaker": "Clairmont", "text": "a priest who would not give his name wanted to speak to me.", "pos": 4606186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The story of my misfortunes would be only too long. Take me into your room, and I will sit down and tell you the whole story.", "pos": 4607139}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "First of all, answer my questions. How long have you been here?", "pos": 4607267}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Since yesterday.", "pos": 4607333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who told you that I was here?", "pos": 4607352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Count B----, at Milan.", "pos": 4607384}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who told you that the count knew me?", "pos": 4607409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I found out by chance. I was at M. de Bragadin’s a month ago, and on his table I saw a letter from the count to you.", "pos": 4607448}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did you tell him you were my brother?", "pos": 4607567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had to when he said how much I resembled you.", "pos": 4607607}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He made a mistake, for you are a blockhead.", "pos": 4607657}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He did not think so, at all events, for he asked me to dinner.", "pos": 4607703}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must have cut a pretty figure, if you were in your present state.", "pos": 4607768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He gave me four sequins to come here; otherwise, I should never have been able to do the journey.", "pos": 4607840}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then he did a very foolish thing. You’re a mere beggar, then; you take alms. Why did you leave Venice? What do you want with me? I can do nothing for you.", "pos": 4607940}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! do not make me despair, or I shall kill myself.", "pos": 4608097}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s the very best thing you could do; but you are too great a coward. I ask again why you left Venice, where you could say mass, and preach, and make an honest living, like many priests much better than you?", "pos": 4608151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is the kernel of the whole matter. Let us go in and I will tell you.", "pos": 4608364}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; wait for me here. We will go somewhere where you can tell me your story, if I have patience to listen to it. But don’t tell any of my people that you are my brother, for I am ashamed to have such a relation. Come, take me to the place where you are staying.", "pos": 4608440}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must tell you that at my inn I am not alone, and I want to have a private interview with you.", "pos": 4608704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is with you?", "pos": 4608802}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will tell you presently, but let us go into a coffeehouse.", "pos": 4608821}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you in company with a band of brigands? What are you sighing at?", "pos": 4608884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must confess it, however painful it may be to my feelings. I am with a woman.", "pos": 4608955}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A woman! and you a priest!", "pos": 4609037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forgive me. I was blinded by love, and seduced by my senses and her beauty, so I seduced her under a promise to marry her at Geneva. I can never go back to Venice, for I took her away from her father’s house.", "pos": 4609066}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What could you do at Geneva? They would expel you after you had been there three or four days. Come, we will go to the inn and see the woman you have deceived. I will speak to you afterwards.", "pos": 4609277}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Are you the brother of this liar and monster who has deceived me so abominably?", "pos": 4609849}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes. I have the honour.", "pos": 4609931}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "A fine honour, truly. Well, have the kindness to send me back to Venice, for I won’t stop any longer with this rascal whom I listened to like the fool I was, who turned my head with his lying tales. He was going to meet you at Milan, and you were to give us enough money to go to Geneva, and there we were to turn Protestants and get married. He swore you were expecting him at Milan, but you were not there at all, and he contrived to get money in some way or another, and brought me here miserably enough. I thank Heaven he has found you at last, for if he had not I should have started off by myself and begged my way. I have not a single thing left; the wretch sold all I possessed at Bergamo and Verona. I don’t know how I kept my senses through it all. To hear him talk, the world was a paradise outside Venice, but I have found to my cost that there is no place like home. I curse the hour when I first saw the miserable wretch. He’s a beggarly knave; always whining. He wanted to enjoy his rights as my husband when we got to Padua, but I am thankful to say I gave him nothing. Here is the writing he gave me; take it, and do what you like with it. But if you have any heart, send me back to Venice or I will tramp there on foot.", "pos": 4609967}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise to send you back to Venice with a respectable woman to look after you; but you will be unfortunate if you carry back with you the results of your amours.", "pos": 4612439}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "What results? Did I not tell you that we were going to be married at Geneva?", "pos": 4612605}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but in spite of that . . .", "pos": 4612684}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I understand you, sir, but I am quite at ease on that point, as I am happy to say that I did not yield to any of the wretch’s desires.", "pos": 4612718}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "Remember, the oath you took to be mine for ever. You swore it upon the crucifix.", "pos": 4612855}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are too malicious, my dear, the poor devil is only unhappy because you have made him in love with you.", "pos": 4613310}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "If he is it’s his own fault, I should never have thought of him but for his coming to me and fooling me, I shall never forgive him till he is out of my sight. That’s not the first blow I have given him; I had to begin at Padua.", "pos": 4613429}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "Yes, but you are excommunicated, for I am a priest.", "pos": 4613659}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "It’s little I care for the excommunication of a scoundrel like you, and if you say another word I will give you some more.", "pos": 4613730}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Calm yourself, my child, you have cause to be angry, but you should not beat him. Take up your things and follow me.", "pos": 4613855}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "Where are you going to take her?", "pos": 4613984}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To my own house, and I should advise you to hold your tongue. Here, take these twenty sequins and buy yourself some clean clothes and linen, and give those rags of yours to the beggars. I will come and talk to you to-morrow, and you may thank your stars that you found me here. As for you, mademoiselle, I will have you conducted to my lodging, for Genoa must not see you in my company after arriving here with a priest. We must not have any scandal. I shall place you under the charge of my landlady, but whatever you do don’t tell her this sad story. I will see that you are properly dressed, and that you want for nothing.", "pos": 4614044}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "May Heaven reward you!", "pos": 4614672}
{"speaker": "Casanova's niece", "text": "There is nothing of the kind, and Rosalie thinks with you.", "pos": 4616450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then tell him by word of mouth that you give your consent, and will expect to see him at Marseilles.", "pos": 4616523}
{"speaker": "Casanova's niece", "text": "Very good; as you think so, I will tell him tomorrow.", "pos": 4616626}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I seem to have suddenly passed from hell to Paradise.", "pos": 4617643}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Indeed, you look like an angel.", "pos": 4617699}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You called me a little devil this morning. But here is a fair angel, we don’t see such in Venice.", "pos": 4617733}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is my treasure.", "pos": 4617866}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I am this gentleman’s niece, and he is taking me back to Marseilles, where my home is. Then you would have been my niece too, if I had married his brother. I wish I had such a pretty niece.", "pos": 4618200}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go to bed, my dear. I will come to you directly.", "pos": 4619445}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Do you want to marry me?", "pos": 4619794}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I am married already.", "pos": 4619821}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "That’s a lie, I know, but it doesn’t matter. Send me back to Venice, and the sooner the better. I don’t want to be anybody’s concubine.", "pos": 4619849}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I admire your sentiments, my dear, they do you honour.", "pos": 4619987}
{"speaker": "my niece", "text": "My dear uncle, would you believe it? This sly Venetian has violated me.", "pos": 4620852}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is a rude shock to the respect which your uncle has had for your prejudices,", "pos": 4621191}
{"speaker": "my niece", "text": "The sports of two girls cannot tempt a man who has just left the arms of Annette.", "pos": 4621283}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are wrong, and perhaps you know it, for I am more than tempted.", "pos": 4621367}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "How is Marcoline?", "pos": 4622154}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very well, and you needn’t trouble yourself any more about her. She is well lodged, well dressed, and well fed, and sleeps with my niece’s maid.", "pos": 4622205}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "I didn’t know I had a niece.", "pos": 4622352}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There are many things you don’t know. In three or four days she will return to Venice.", "pos": 4622383}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "I hope, dear brother, that you will ask me to dine with you to-day.", "pos": 4622472}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, dear brother. I forbid you to set foot in my house, where your presence would be offensive to Marcoline, whom you must not see any more.", "pos": 4622542}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "Yes, I will; I will return to Venice, if I have to hang for it.", "pos": 4622693}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What good would that be? She won’t have you.", "pos": 4622759}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "She loves me.", "pos": 4622806}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She beats you.", "pos": 4622822}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "She beats me because she loves me. She will be as gentle as a lamb when she sees me so well dressed. You do not know how I suffer.", "pos": 4622839}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can partly guess, but I do not pity you, for you are an impious and cruel fool. You have broken your vows, and have not hesitated to make a young girl endure misery and degradation to satisfy your caprice. What would you have done, I should like to know, if I had given you the cold shoulder instead of helping you?", "pos": 4622972}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "I should have gone into the street, and begged for my living with her.", "pos": 4623292}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She would have beaten you, and would probably have appealed to the law to get rid of you.", "pos": 4623365}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "But what will you do for me, if I let her go back to Venice without following her.", "pos": 4623457}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will take you to France, and try to get you employed by some bishop.", "pos": 4623542}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "Employed! I was meant by nature to be employed by none but God.", "pos": 4623615}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You proud fool! Marcoline rightly called you a whiner. Who is your God? How do you serve Him? You are either a hypocrite or an idiot. Do you think that you, a priest, serve God by decoying an innocent girl away from her home? Do you serve Him by profaning the religion you do not even understand? Unhappy fool! do you think that with no talent, no theological learning, and no eloquence, you can be a Protestant minister. Take care never to come to my house, or I will have you expelled from Genoa.", "pos": 4623681}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "Well, well, take me to Paris, and I will see what my brother Francis can do for me; his heart is not so hard as yours.", "pos": 4624182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good! you shall go to Paris, and we will start from here in three or four days. Eat and drink to your heart’s content, but remain indoors; I will let you know when we are going. I shall have my niece, my secretary, and my valet with me. We shall travel by sea.", "pos": 4624303}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "The sea makes me sick.", "pos": 4624571}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That will purge away some of your bad humours.", "pos": 4624596}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I hate him! but I forgive him, since it is through him I know you.", "pos": 4624706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I forgive him, too, because unless it had been for him I should never have seen you. But I love you, and I shall die unless you satisfy my desires.", "pos": 4624787}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Never; for I know I should be madly in love with you, and then you would leave me, and I should be miserable again.", "pos": 4624941}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will never leave you.", "pos": 4625059}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "If you will swear that, take me into France and make me all your own. Here you must continue living with Annette; besides, I have got your niece to make love to.", "pos": 4625085}
{"speaker": "the master", "text": "The wind fell dead at Savona, sir;", "pos": 4629556}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you should have rowed instead of idling.", "pos": 4629633}
{"speaker": "the master", "text": "We were afraid of waking you. You shall be at Antibes by tomorrow.", "pos": 4629681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thought the game was forbidden in Genoa. I play harlequin,", "pos": 4630079}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There isn’t one.", "pos": 4630596}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What’s the bank?", "pos": 4630615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There it is. We play for small stakes here, and those two hundred louis are quite sufficient. You can bet as low as you like, and the highest stake is of a louis.", "pos": 4630634}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s all very well, but my louis is full weight.", "pos": 4630799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think ours are, too.", "pos": 4630852}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you sure?", "pos": 4630877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 4630893}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I won’t play,", "pos": 4630899}
{"speaker": "the banker", "text": "You are right; bring the scales.", "pos": 4630956}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "You have put in on account of the bad weather, I suppose?", "pos": 4632760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, prince, and if your highness will allow me I will spend the whole day in your delicious villa.", "pos": 4632829}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "As you please. The princess as well as myself likes it better than our place at Monaco, so we live here by preference.", "pos": 4632965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be grateful if your highness would present me to the princess.", "pos": 4633086}
{"speaker": "the page", "text": "The Princess,", "pos": 4633301}
{"speaker": "The girl", "text": "O Monaco O monaca.", "pos": 4634108}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 4634601}
{"speaker": "The young Frenchman", "text": "Parbleu! I am no longer surprised. I will go and tell his highness, and I shall soon have the honour of dining with you at the castle.", "pos": 4635666}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I beg you will thank his highness, and at the same time ask him to excuse us. The weather has improved, and I want to be off as soon as we have taken a hasty morsel.", "pos": 4636079}
{"speaker": "The young Frenchman", "text": "I have already ordered the table to be laid for two more, as I shall have the honour of being of the party. In a quarter of an hour, ladies, the prince will be here.", "pos": 4636696}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but as the prince is coming I must go to the felucca and fetch a capital pie of which the prince is very fond, I know. Come, ladies.", "pos": 4636864}
{"speaker": "The young Frenchman", "text": "You can leave them here, sir. I will undertake to keep them amused.", "pos": 4637020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no doubt you would, but they have some things to get from the felucca as well.", "pos": 4637090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you will allow me to come too.", "pos": 4637178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly with pleasure.", "pos": 4637216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing, sir, I have just received orders to serve you in everything, and to take no money from you.", "pos": 4637316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The prince is really magnificent!", "pos": 4637419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall have some fun at dinner,", "pos": 4637801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but what are we going to do on the felucca?", "pos": 4637852}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are leaving. Say nothing.", "pos": 4637898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Leaving?", "pos": 4637929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Immediately.", "pos": 4637940}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a jest! it is worth its weight in gold.", "pos": 4637955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Directly?", "pos": 4638215}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, this moment.", "pos": 4638227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the abbé and your secretary are gone for a walk, and two of my men are on shore, too.", "pos": 4638247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s no matter; we shall pick them up again at Antibes; it’s only ten leagues, and they have plenty of money. I must go, and directly. Make haste.", "pos": 4638339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right.", "pos": 4638490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It means that I am going to Antibes and I shall be very glad to take you there for nothing.", "pos": 4638636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is a fine jest! You are joking, surely?", "pos": 4638730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your company will be very pleasant on the journey.", "pos": 4638777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardieu! put me ashore, for with your leave, ladies, I cannot go to Antibes.", "pos": 4638830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Put the gentleman ashore,", "pos": 4638909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he does not seem to like our company.", "pos": 4638959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s not that, upon my honour. These ladies are charming, but the prince would think that I was in the plot to play this trick upon him, which you must confess is rather strong.", "pos": 4638999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I never play a weak trick.", "pos": 4639179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what will the prince say?", "pos": 4639208}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He may say what he likes, and I shall do as I like.", "pos": 4639240}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, it’s no fault of mine. Farewell, ladies! farewell, sir!", "pos": 4639294}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, and you may thank the prince for me for paying my bill.", "pos": 4639358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At last the hour of my happiness has come!", "pos": 4640593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And mine too, dearest.", "pos": 4640637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yours? Have you not continually repulsed me?", "pos": 4640662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never! I always loved you, and your indifference has been a bitter grief to me.", "pos": 4640709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the first night we left Milan you preferred being alone to sleeping with me.", "pos": 4640791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could I do otherwise without passing in your eyes for one more a slave to sensual passion than to love? Besides you might have thought I was giving myself to you for the benefits I had received; and though gratitude be a noble feeling, it destroys all the sweet delights of love. You ought to have told me that you loved me and subdued me by those attentions which conquer the hearts of us women. Then you would have seen that I loved you too, and our affection would have been mutual. On my side I should have known that the pleasure you had of me was not given out of a mere feeling of gratitude. I do not know whether you would have loved me less the morning after, if I had consented, but I am sure I should have lost your esteem.", "pos": 4640874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you are not jealous?", "pos": 4642245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for her happiness is mine too, and I know she will make you happy.", "pos": 4642281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My skin is delicate,", "pos": 4642715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "so I am all blistered. But God’s will be done! I do not think any of His servants have endured greater torments than mine during this journey. My body is sore, and so is my soul.", "pos": 4642747}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How I pity you, dear uncle!", "pos": 4643081}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When we came back from our walk we were greatly astonished not to find the felucca any more. We went to the inn, where I knew you had ordered dinner; but the inn-keeper knew nothing except that he was expecting the prince and a young officer to dine with you. I told him he might wait for you in vain, and just then the prince came up in a rage, and told the inn-keeper that now you were gone he might look to you for his payment. ‘My lord,’ said the inn-keeper, ‘the gentleman wanted to pay me, but I respected the orders I had received from your highness and would not take the money.’ At this the prince flung him a louis with an ill grace, and asked us who we were. I told him that we belonged to you, and that you had not waited for us either, which put us to great trouble. ‘You will get away easily enough,’ said he; and then he began to laugh, and swore the jest was a pleasant one. He then asked me who the ladies were. I told him that the one was your niece, and that I knew nothing of the other; but the abbé interfered, and said she was your cuisine. The prince guessed he meant to say ‘cousin,’ and burst out laughing, in which he was joined by the young officer. ‘Greet him from me,’ said he, as he went away, ‘and tell him that we shall meet again, and that I will pay him out for the trick he has played me.’ The worthy host laughed, too, when the prince had gone, and gave us a good dinner, saying that the prince’s Louis would pay for it all. When we had dined we hired two horses, and slept at Nice. In the morning we rode on again, being certain of finding you here.", "pos": 4643524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord,", "pos": 4643956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the gentleman wanted to pay me, but I respected the orders I had received from your highness and would not take the money.", "pos": 4643988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Friend,", "pos": 4645774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I make you a present of the article.", "pos": 4645792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t want your present. I want the ten louis you owe me.", "pos": 4645831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You won’t get the ten louis. I will see you further first.", "pos": 4645893}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will see about that;", "pos": 4645954}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then the man could bequeath his claim to his heir.", "pos": 4646455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe he could oblige you to withdraw it, or to allow it to be sold to defray expenses.", "pos": 4646508}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, sir, and I wish to spare him that trouble. I make him a present of the carriage.", "pos": 4646602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s fair enough. Friend, the carriage is yours.", "pos": 4646700}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But sir,", "pos": 4646753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is not enough; the carriage is not worth ten louis, and I want the surplus.", "pos": 4646784}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are in the wrong. I wish you a pleasant journey, sir, and I hope you will forgive the ignorance of these poor people, who would like to shape the laws according to their needs.", "pos": 4646865}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "'Tis he, then, who shall make me young again. So has my genius assured me night after night. Ask Paralis if the presents I have prepared are good enough for Semiramis to present to the head of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross.", "pos": 4652422}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I almost think you are right, and it is certain that I have made many happy, and have never brought misfortune to any girl.", "pos": 4657613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God will reward you, my dear friend.", "pos": 4657749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Possibly I am not worth His taking the trouble!", "pos": 4657788}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I am afraid, that the rascal has followed me here, and will be annoying me.", "pos": 4659205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t be afraid,", "pos": 4659296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will see what I can do.", "pos": 4659327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s all this? Are you ill?", "pos": 4659497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I have got something which will teach me to be wiser for the future.", "pos": 4659529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s rather late for this kind of thing at sixty.", "pos": 4659605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Better late than never.", "pos": 4659657}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are an old fool. You stink of mercury.", "pos": 4659683}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall not leave my room.", "pos": 4659728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This will harm you with the marchioness, who believes you to be the greatest of adepts, and consequently above such weaknesses.", "pos": 4659757}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Damn the marchioness! Let me be.", "pos": 4659887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean by pestering Marcoline at the theatre yesterday?", "pos": 4660070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I went to remind her of her duty, and to warn her that I would not be her complaisant lover.", "pos": 4660138}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have insulted me and her too, fool that you are! You owe all to Marcoline, for if it had not been for her, I should never have given you a second glance; and yet you behave in this disgraceful manner.", "pos": 4660233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have ruined myself for her sake, and I can never shew my face in Venice again. What right have you to take her from me?", "pos": 4660440}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The right of love, blockhead, and the right of luck, and the right of the strongest! How is it that she is happy with me, and does not wish to leave me?", "pos": 4660564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have dazzled her.", "pos": 4660719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another reason is that with you she was dying of misery and hunger.", "pos": 4660743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but the end of it will be that you will abandon her as you have done with many others, whereas I should have married her.", "pos": 4660813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Married her! You renegade, you seem to forget that you are a priest. I do not propose to part with her, but if I do I will send her away rich.", "pos": 4660942}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well, do as you please; but still I have the right to speak to her whenever I like.", "pos": 4661087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have forbidden you to do so, and you may trust me when I tell you that you have spoken to her for the last time.", "pos": 4661179}
{"speaker": "Advocate", "text": "You can do so, as he is a foreigner, but you will have to pay caution-money. You can have him put under arrest at his inn, and you can make him pay unless he is able to prove that he owes you nothing. Is the sum a large one?", "pos": 4661459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Twelve louis.", "pos": 4661686}
{"speaker": "Advocate", "text": "You must come with me before the magistrate and deposit twelve louis, and from that moment you will be able to have him arrested. Where is he staying?", "pos": 4661702}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the same hotel as I am, but I do not wish to have him arrested there, so I will get him to the ‘Ste. Baume,’ and put him under arrest. Here are the twelve louis caution-money, so you can get the magistrate’s order, and we will meet again to-morrow.", "pos": 4661855}
{"speaker": "Advocate", "text": "Give me his name, and yours also.", "pos": 4662109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Follow me,", "pos": 4662259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am going to take you to Marcoline, and you shall have an explanation in her presence.", "pos": 4662280}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 4662370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must start for Lyons to-morrow, but you will first write me out an I O U for twelve louis.", "pos": 4663506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why?", "pos": 4663603}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I say so. If you do so I will give you twelve louis and tear up the document before your face.", "pos": 4663610}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no choice in the matter.", "pos": 4663715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right.", "pos": 4663749}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "The reason is, that I am sure you are going to lay hands on twenty or thirty thousand crowns in gold and diamonds, which the marchioness meant me to have.", "pos": 4664433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be, but it is not for you to know anything about it. I may tell you that it rests entirely with me to prevent your getting anything. If you think you can succeed go to the marchioness and make your complaints to her. I will do nothing to prevent you.", "pos": 4664601}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "Then you think I am going to help you in your imposture for nothing; you are very much mistaken. I want a thousand louis, and I will have it, too.", "pos": 4664863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then get somebody to give it you,", "pos": 4665012}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "He was an idiot; but how about Querilinthos?", "pos": 4665226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After dinner Paralis will tell us all about him. I have strong suspicions that there is something to be cleared up.", "pos": 4665273}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "So have I. The man seems changed. Where is he?", "pos": 4665391}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is in bed, ill of a disease which I dare not so much as name to you.", "pos": 4665440}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "That is a very extraordinary circumstance; I have never heard of such a thing before. It must be the work of an evil genius.", "pos": 4665514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have never heard of such a thing, either; but now let us dine. We shall have to work hard to-day at the consecration of the tin.", "pos": 4665641}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "All the better. We must offer an expiatory sacrifice to Oromasis, for, awful thought! in three days he would have to regenerate me, and the operation would be performed in that condition.", "pos": 4665774}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us eat now,", "pos": 4665964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I fear lest the hour of Jupiter be over-past.", "pos": 4665994}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Fear nothing, I will see that all goes well.", "pos": 4666042}
{"speaker": "Madame Audibert", "text": "The worthy man thinks himself under great obligations to you. He adores his daughter, and he knows you have cared for her like a father. His daughter has drawn your portrait in very favourable colors, and he would be extremely pleased to make your acquaintance. Tell me when you can sup with me; the father will be here to meet you, though unaccompanied by his daughter.", "pos": 4668069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted at what you tell me, for the young man’s esteem for his future wife will only be augmented when he finds that I am her father’s friend. I cannot come to supper, however; I will be here at six and stop till eight.", "pos": 4668466}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "M. Bono, pay to M. Possano, on sight, to himself, and not to order, the sum of one hundred louis, if these presents are delivered to you on the 30th day of April, in the year 1763; and after the day aforesaid my order to become null and void.", "pos": 4670495}
{"speaker": "Possano", "text": "You’re an infamous traitor, but as Madame d’Urfe knows of the disgraceful state you are in she would not so much as read your letter. I have read it, and by way of reward I give you two alternatives which you must decide on immediately. I am in a hurry. You will either go to the hospital--for we can’t have pestiferous fellows like you here--or start for Lyons in an hour. You must not stop on the way, for I have only given you sixty hours, which is ample to do forty posts in. As soon as you get to Lyons present this to M. Bono, and he will give you a hundred louis. This is a present from me, and afterwards I don’t care what you do, as you are no longer in my service. You can have the carriage I bought for you at Antibes, and there is twenty-five louis for the journey: that is all. Make your choice, but I warn you that if you go to the hospital I shall only give you a month’s wages, as I dismiss you from my service now at this instant. he would go to Lyons, though it would be at the risk of his life, for he was very ill. You must reap the reward of your treachery, and if you die it will be a good thing for your family, who will come in for what I have given you, but not what I should have given you if you had been a faithful servant.", "pos": 4670826}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "for, everybody is asking who and what I am, and my landlord’s niece is quite angry with me because I will not let her tell the truth. I will do whatever you wish, dearest.", "pos": 4673236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good! then listen to me. I will get you a disguise which will make you look like a smart footman, and in that costume you will call on the marchioness with whom I live, at the hour I shall name to you, and you will give her a note. Have you sufficient courage for that?", "pos": 4673591}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Certainly. Will you be there?", "pos": 4673868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. She will speak, but you must pretend to be dumb, as the note you bring with you will tell us; as also that you have come to wait upon us while we are bathing. She will accept the offer, and when she tells you to undress her from head to foot you will do so. When you have done, undress yourself, and gently rub the marchioness from the feet to the waist, but not higher. In the meanwhile I shall have taken off my clothes, and while I hold her in a close embrace you must stand so that I can see all your charms.", "pos": 4673900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Further, sweetheart, when I leave you you must gently wash her generative organs, and afterwards wipe them with a fine towel. Then do the same to me, and try to bring me to life again. I shall proceed to embrace the marchioness a second time, and when it is over wash her again and embrace her, and then come and embrace me and kiss in your Venetian manner the instrument with which the sacrifice is consummated. I shall then clasp the marchioness to my arms a third time, and you must caress us till the act is complete. Finally, you will wash us for the third time, then dress, take what she gives you and come here, where I will meet you in the course of an hour.", "pos": 4674419}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You may reckon on my following all your instructions, but you must see that the task will be rather trying to my feelings.", "pos": 4675088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not more trying than to mine. I could do nothing with the old woman if you were not present.", "pos": 4675213}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Is she very old?", "pos": 4675308}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nearly seventy.", "pos": 4675327}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "My poor sweetheart! I do pity you. But after this painful duty is over you must sup here and sleep with me.", "pos": 4675345}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 4675455}
{"speaker": "Father of Niece", "text": "He doesn’t ask anything about the dower, a wonderful thing these days, but I will give her a hundred and fifty thousand francs, for the marriage is an excellent one, above all after my poor simpleton’s escape. All Marseilles knows the father of her future husband, and to-morrow I mean to tell the whole story to my wife, and I am sure she will forgive the poor girl as I have done.", "pos": 4676041}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am dumb but not deaf. I am come from the Rhone to bathe you. The hour of Oromasis has begun.", "pos": 4679259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is the note you are to give to the marchioness,", "pos": 4679356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "when you appear before her.", "pos": 4679419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must take care,", "pos": 4679851}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that the bath be here beside your bed, and that Brougnole does not interrupt us.", "pos": 4679882}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "I will tell her to go out. But Selenis promised to send an Undine.", "pos": 4679965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True, but I have not yet seen such a being.", "pos": 4680034}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Ask the oracle.", "pos": 4680080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Willingly.", "pos": 4680098}
{"speaker": "Oracle", "text": "The commands of Oromasis change not, and in that you have doubted them you have sinned.", "pos": 4680281}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "To-morrow, Galtinardus, you will be my spouse and my father.", "pos": 4680624}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Don’t be afraid. I will make no mistakes.", "pos": 4681249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are still in the hour of Mars, that of the sun has not yet commenced.", "pos": 4682928}
{"speaker": "Oracle", "text": "That which is written in water must be read in water.", "pos": 4683595}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "I understand now,", "pos": 4683651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am dumb, but not deaf. I am come from the Rhone to bathe you. The hour of Oromasis has begun.", "pos": 4683773}
{"speaker": "Semiramis", "text": "Then bathe me, divine being,", "pos": 4683871}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "O divine being, wipe the feet of Semiramis, and be the witness of my union with her, to the glory of the immortal Horomadis, King of the Salamanders.", "pos": 4684405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We must now await the hour of Venus.", "pos": 4685054}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I was not born to wear the breeches. Here, take the beautiful necklace the madwoman gave me!", "pos": 4688938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will sell it, fair Undine, and you shall have the proceeds.", "pos": 4689033}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Is it worth much?", "pos": 4689097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At least a thousand sequins. By the time you get back to Venice you will be worth at least five thousand ducats, and you will be able to get a husband and live with him in a comfortable style.", "pos": 4689117}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Keep it all, I don’t want it; I want you. I will never cease to love you; I will do whatever you tell me, and I promise never to be jealous. I will care for you--yes, as if you were my son.", "pos": 4689312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not let us say anything more about it, fair Marcoline, but let us go to bed, for you have never inspired me with so much ardour as now.", "pos": 4689504}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "But you must be tired.", "pos": 4689645}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but not exhaustion, for I was only able to perform the distillation once.", "pos": 4689670}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I thought you sacrificed twice on that old altar. Poor old woman! she is still pretty, and I have no doubt that fifty years ago she was one of the first beauties in France. How foolish of her to be thinking of love at that age.", "pos": 4689751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You excited me, but she undid your work even more quickly.", "pos": 4689981}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Are you always obliged to have a girl beside you when you make love to her?", "pos": 4690042}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; before, there was no question of making a son.", "pos": 4690120}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "What? you are going to make her pregnant? That’s ridiculous! Does she imagine that she has conceived?", "pos": 4690173}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; and the hope makes her happy.", "pos": 4690277}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "What a mad idea! But why did you try to do it three times?", "pos": 4690320}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought to shew my strength, and that if I gazed on you I should not fail; but I was quite mistaken.", "pos": 4690381}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I pity you for having suffered so much. You will renew my strength.", "pos": 4690486}
{"speaker": "Semiramis", "text": "To thee, beloved Galtinardus, I owe all my happiness,", "pos": 4691343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am happy to have contributed to it, divine Semiramis, but you must remember I am only the agent of the genii.", "pos": 4691429}
{"speaker": "Semiramis", "text": "Marry me, you will then be able to be governor of the child, who will be your son. In this manner you will keep all my property for me, including what I shall have from my brother M. de Pontcarre, who is old and cannot live much longer. If you do not care for me in February next, when I shall be born again, into what hands shall I fall! I shall be called a bastard, and my income of twenty-four thousand francs will be lost to me. Think over it, dear Galtinardus. I must tell you that I feel already as if I were a man. I confess I am in love with the Undine, and I should like to know whether I shall be able to sleep with her in fourteen or fifteen years’ time. I shall be so if Oromasis will it, and then I shall be happy indeed. What a charming creature she is? Have you ever seen a woman like her? What a pity she is dumb!", "pos": 4691685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She, no doubt, has a male water-spirit for a lover. But all of them are dumb, since it is impossible to speak in the water. I wonder she is not deaf as well. I can’t think why you didn’t touch her. The softness of her skin is something wonderful--velvet and satin are not to be compared to it! And then her breath is so sweet! How delighted I should be if I could converse with such an exquisite being.", "pos": 4692529}
{"speaker": "Semiramis", "text": "Dear Galtinardus, I beg you will consult the oracle to find out where I am to be brought to bed, and if you won’t marry me I think I had better save all I have that I may have some provision when I am born again, for when I am born I shall know nothing, and money will be wanted to educate me. By selling the whole a large sum might be realized which could be put out at interest. Thus the interest would suffice without the capital being touched.", "pos": 4692934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The oracle must be our guide,", "pos": 4693384}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will be my son, and I will never allow anyone to call you a bastard.", "pos": 4693424}
{"speaker": "Semiramis", "text": "Then, the bottles must be filled here, for the other French ports are farther off. I will go as soon as ever I can leave my bed, and will wait for you at Lyons; for as you have to perform expiatory sacrifices to Saturn in this place, you cannot come with me.", "pos": 4697170}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "If you want to get rid of me, send me back to Venice, but don’t talk to me about marrying.", "pos": 4703609}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Calm yourself, my angel! I get rid of you? What an idea! Has my behaviour led you to suppose that you are in my way? This handsome, well-educated, and rich young man has come under my notice. I see he loves you and you like him, and as I love you and wish to see you sheltered from the storms of fortune, and as I think this pleasant young Frenchman would make you happy, I have pointed out to you these advantages, but instead of being grateful you scold me. Do not weep, sweetheart, you grieve my very soul!", "pos": 4703714}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I am weeping because you think that I can love him.", "pos": 4704226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It might be so, dearest, and without my honour taking any hurt; but let us say no more about it and get into bed.", "pos": 4704280}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "What you said last night is a sufficient guide for me for the future.", "pos": 4704757}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The proposal is a very agreeable one to me, and I would willingly give her thirty thousand francs as a dowry, but I can have nothing to do with the matter personally. I will send her to you; and if you can win her over you may count on my word, but do not say that you are speaking on my behalf, for that might spoil everything.", "pos": 4705645}
{"speaker": "Madame Audibert", "text": "I will come for her, and if you like she shall dine with me, and you can take her to the play in the evening.", "pos": 4705990}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She spoke to me so kindly and so sensibly, but I contented myself with saying that I would never marry till you told me to do so. All the same I thank you with all my heart for the ten thousand crowns you are willing to give me. You have tossed the ball to me and I have sent it back. I will go back to Venice whenever you please if you will not take me to England with you, but I will never marry. I expect we shall see no more of the young gentleman, though if I had never met you I might have loved him.", "pos": 4707101}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I won’t go to Venice, till you send me there.", "pos": 4708674}
{"speaker": "Gentleman", "text": "if she were my daughter.", "pos": 4711905}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "she was my cousin, and that we were both Venetians.", "pos": 4711967}
{"speaker": "Uglier Lady", "text": "Fancy not teaching them French!", "pos": 4713354}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is certainly very wrong, but in my country young ladies are neither taught foreign languages nor round games. These important branches of education are attended to afterwards.", "pos": 4713388}
{"speaker": "Uglier Lady", "text": "Then you are a Venetian, too?", "pos": 4713569}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, madam.", "pos": 4713601}
{"speaker": "Uglier Lady", "text": "Really, I should not have thought so. I see that the young lady understands French, she laughs exactly in the right place.", "pos": 4713615}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, she understands it, and as for her laughter it was due to the fact that she knows me to be like all other Venetians.", "pos": 4714023}
{"speaker": "Uglier Lady", "text": "Possibly, but it is easy to see that you have lived a long time in France.", "pos": 4714147}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Yes, madam,", "pos": 4714224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your ladyship must have lived in Venice to speak the language with so much correctness.", "pos": 4714904}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "No, I have never been there, but I have associated a good deal with Venetians.", "pos": 4714994}
{"speaker": "countess", "text": "Never mind; if there be a mistake I shall be the gainer.", "pos": 4717367}
{"speaker": "Gentleman", "text": "but she hopes that whenever you are in these parts you will honour her and her house by your company, whether you are alone or with friends.", "pos": 4718060}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Capitally. The countess is charming, and we amused ourselves all night with the tricks of two amorous women.", "pos": 4718672}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she pretty or old?", "pos": 4718795}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She is only thirty-three, and, I assure you, she is as pretty as my friend Mdlle. Crosin. I can speak with authority for we saw each other in a state of nature.", "pos": 4718819}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a singular creature; you were unfaithful to me for a woman, and left me to pass the night by myself.", "pos": 4718982}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You must forgive me, and I had to sleep with her as she was the first to declare her love.", "pos": 4719093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really? How was that?", "pos": 4719186}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "When I gave her the first of my kisses she returned it in the Florentine manner, and our tongues met. After supper, I confess, I was the first to begin the suggestive caresses, but she met me half-way. I could only make her happy by spending the night with her. Look, this will shew you how pleased she was.", "pos": 4719210}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Truly, this woman is fond of pleasure and deserves to have it. But. I can’t think why she did not want me to see her; I think she has treated me rather cavalierly.", "pos": 4719622}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "No, I think the reason was that she was ashamed to be seen by my lover after having made me unfaithful to him; I had to confess that we were lovers.", "pos": 4719916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Maybe. At all events you have been well paid; that ring is worth two hundred louis.", "pos": 4720067}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "But I may as well tell you that I was well enough paid for the pleasure I gave by the pleasure I received.", "pos": 4720153}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s right; I am delighted to see you happy.", "pos": 4720262}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "If you want to make me really happy, take me to England with you. My uncle will be there, and I could go back to Venice with him.", "pos": 4720311}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you have an uncle in England? Do you really mean it? It sounds like a fairy-tale. You never told me of it before.", "pos": 4720443}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I have never said anything about it up to now, because I have always imagined that this might prevent your accomplishing your desire.", "pos": 4720565}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is your uncle a Venetian? What is he doing in England? Are you sure that he will welcome you?", "pos": 4720701}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 4720797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is his name? And how are we to find him in a town of more than a million inhabitants?", "pos": 4720804}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "He is ready found. His name is Mattio Boisi, and he is valet de chambre to M. Querini, the Venetian ambassador sent to England to congratulate the new king; he is accompanied by the Procurator Morosini. My uncle is my mother’s brother; he is very fond of me, and will forgive my fault, especially when he finds I am rich. When he went to England he said he would be back in Venice in July, and we shall just catch him on the point of departure.", "pos": 4720897}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Are we at Avignon now?", "pos": 4722006}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, dearest.", "pos": 4722031}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Then I conscientiously discharge the trust which the countess placed in me when she embraced me for the last time this morning. She made me swear not to say a word about it till we got to Avignon.", "pos": 4722047}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All this puzzles me, dearest; explain yourself.", "pos": 4722246}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She gave me a letter for you.", "pos": 4722296}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A letter?", "pos": 4722328}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Will you forgive me for not placing it in your hands sooner?", "pos": 4722340}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you passed your word to the countess; but where is this letter?", "pos": 4722403}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Wait a minute. This is my certificate of baptism.", "pos": 4722483}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see you were born in 1746.", "pos": 4722598}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "This is a certificate of ‘good conduct.’", "pos": 4722629}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Keep it, it may be useful to you.", "pos": 4722672}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "This is my certificate of virginity.", "pos": 4722708}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s no use. Did you get it from a midwife?", "pos": 4722747}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "No, from the Patriarch of Venice.", "pos": 4722795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did he test the matter for himself?", "pos": 4722831}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "No, he was too old; he trusted in me.", "pos": 4722869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, let me see the letter.", "pos": 4722909}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I hope I haven’t lost it.", "pos": 4722946}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope not, to God.", "pos": 4722974}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Here is your brother’s promise of marriage; he wanted to be a Protestant.", "pos": 4722996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may throw that into the fire.", "pos": 4723072}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "What is a Protestant?", "pos": 4723108}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you another time. Give me the letter.", "pos": 4723132}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Praised be God, here it is!", "pos": 4723184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s lucky; but it has no address.", "pos": 4723214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Cruel Henriette, you saw me and would not let me see you. No doubt you thought your charms would not have their old power, and feared lest I should discover that after all you were but mortal. And yet I love you with all the ardour of my early passion. Why did you not let me learn from your own mouth that you were happy? That is the only question I should have asked you, cruel fair one. I should not have enquired whether you loved me still, for I feel my unworthiness, who have loved other women after loving the most perfect of her sex. Adorable Henriette, I will fly to you to-morrow, since you told me that I should be always welcome. No, your behaviour proves that you do not wish to see me now, and your wishes shall be respected; but I must see you once before I die.", "pos": 4723882}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "that he remembered my tastes, and had got me a delicious supper.", "pos": 4724959}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Do you know, you quite frightened me? You were as pale and still as a dead man, and remained for a quarter of an hour in a kind of swoon, the like of which I have never seen. What is the reason? I knew that the countess was acquainted with you, but I should never have thought that her name by itself could have such an astonishing effect.", "pos": 4725134}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, it is strange; but how did you find out that the countess knew me?", "pos": 4725488}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She told me as much twenty times over in the night, but she made me promise to say nothing about it till I had given you the letter.", "pos": 4725563}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What did she say to you about me?", "pos": 4725698}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She only repeated in different ways what she has written for an address.", "pos": 4725734}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What a letter it is! Her name, and nothing more.", "pos": 4725809}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "It is very strange.", "pos": 4725860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, but the name tells all.", "pos": 4725882}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She told me that if I wanted to be happy I should always remain with you. I said I knew that well; but that you wanted to send me back to Venice, though you were very fond of me. I can guess now that you were lovers. How long ago was it?", "pos": 4725913}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sixteen or seventeen years.", "pos": 4726153}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She must have been very young, but she cannot have been prettier than she is now.", "pos": 4726183}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be quiet, Marcoline.", "pos": 4726267}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Did your union with her last long?", "pos": 4726290}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We lived together four months in perfect happiness.", "pos": 4726327}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I shall not be happy for so long as that.", "pos": 4726381}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes you will, and longer, too; but with another man, and one more suitable to you in age. I am going to England to try to get my daughter from her mother.", "pos": 4726425}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Your daughter? The countess asked me if you were married, and I said no.", "pos": 4726582}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You were right; she is my illegitimate daughter. She must be ten now, and when you see her you will confess that she must belong to me.", "pos": 4726657}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "My dear papa!", "pos": 4727086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you doing here, fair Irene?", "pos": 4727446}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "We have been here for the last fortnight. Good heavens! how lucky I am to find you again. I am quite weak. Will you allow me to sit down, madam?", "pos": 4727485}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, yes, my dear, sit down;", "pos": 4727632}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "they were waiting for her at supper,", "pos": 4727750}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "I won’t take any supper;", "pos": 4727802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When we have done, you must tell us what chance has brought you to Avignon.", "pos": 4728015}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "it would have been a mistake if she had not taken any supper.", "pos": 4728210}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I hope, that if she doesn’t mind she will sleep with me.", "pos": 4729460}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go to bed and leave us alone. Leave me alone, dearest, the punch has got into your head, and you don’t know what you are doing.", "pos": 4732431}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "We have enjoyed ourselves, and time that is given to enjoyment is never lost.", "pos": 4734282}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "I am quite ready.", "pos": 4734878}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, dear Irene, you shall not go; you shall dine with your friend, and your driver can wait. Make him do so, Count Rinaldi; my niece will pay, will you not, Marcoline?", "pos": 4734898}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Certainly. I should like to dine here, and still better to put off our departure till the next day.", "pos": 4735078}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Do you know, that if it had been in my power I should have taken her from her parents. I believe she is your daughter, though she is not like you.", "pos": 4735819}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can she be my daughter when I have never known her mother?", "pos": 4735980}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "She told me that certainly.", "pos": 4736045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Didn’t she tell you anything else?", "pos": 4736075}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Yes, she told me that you lived with her for three days and bought her maidenhead for a thousand sequins.", "pos": 4736112}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so, but did she tell you that I paid the money to her father?", "pos": 4736220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, the little fool doesn’t keep anything for herself. I don’t think I should ever be jealous of your mistresses, if you let me sleep with them. Is not that a mark of a good disposition? Tell me.", "pos": 4736289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have, no doubt, a good disposition, but you could be quite as good without your dominant passion.", "pos": 4736488}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is not a passion. I only have desires for those I love.", "pos": 4736592}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who gave you this taste?", "pos": 4736653}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nature. I began at seven, and in the last ten years I have certainly had four hundred sweethearts.", "pos": 4736680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You begin early. But when did you begin to have male sweethearts?", "pos": 4736781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At eleven.", "pos": 4736849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me all about it.", "pos": 4736862}
{"speaker": "M. Bono", "text": "Let us go and breakfast at a coffee-house, we will have some discussion together.", "pos": 4753973}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be a great fool, if I gave the knave more money to escape from the hands of justice. Let him go if he likes, I won’t prevent him; but he had better not expect me to give him anything. He will have a writ out against him to-morrow. I should like to see him branded by the hangman. He has slandered me, his benefactor, too grievously; let him prove what he says, or be dishonoured before all men.", "pos": 4754317}
{"speaker": "M. Bono", "text": "His abandoning the proceedings, would in my opinion amount to the same thing as his failing to prove his charges, and you would do well to prefer it to a trial which would do your reputation no good, even if you were completely successful. And the hundred louis is nothing in comparison with the costs of such a trial.", "pos": 4754733}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "M. Bono, I value your advice very highly, and still more highly the kindly feelings which prompt you, but you must allow me to follow my own opinion in this case.", "pos": 4755070}
{"speaker": "Bono", "text": "Will that do?", "pos": 4755965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So well that I forgive him, but I wonder he did not insist on the hundred Louis.", "pos": 4755990}
{"speaker": "Bono", "text": "My dear sir, I gave him the money with pleasure, to prevent a scandalous affair which would have done us all harm in becoming public. If I had told you nothing, you couldn’t have taken any steps in the matter, and I felt myself obliged to repair the mischief I had done in this way. You would have known nothing about it, if you had said that you were not satisfied. I am only too glad to have been enabled to shew my friendship by this trifling service. We will say no more about it.", "pos": 4756073}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, we will say no more, but please to receive the assurance of my gratitude.", "pos": 4756560}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Farewell, fair Marcoline!", "pos": 4757533}
{"speaker": "M. Morosini", "text": "Your excellency is well aware, that nothing is sweeter than forbidden fruit.", "pos": 4758520}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I come from Rome, where I had some converse with the Holy Father, whom I knew before, and I am going through Paris on my way to London.", "pos": 4758667}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "Call on me here, if you have time, I have a little commission to give you.", "pos": 4758818}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall always have time to serve your excellency in. Are you stopping here for long?", "pos": 4758895}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "Three or four days.", "pos": 4758983}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "You have a very pretty young lady with you. What have I done to deserve this honour?", "pos": 4759723}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Because. I have the honour of knowing his excellency M. Querini.", "pos": 4759954}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "What are you doing with M. Casanova?", "pos": 4760073}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "He is my uncle.", "pos": 4760112}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To the ‘Hotel du Parc’. We have three or four days before us, in which we can contrive how to communicate with your uncle Mattio. I must commend you highly for kissing M. Querini’s hand. That was a masterstroke indeed. All will go off well; but I hope you will be merry, for sadness I abhor.", "pos": 4760225}
{"speaker": "M. Memmo", "text": "May I ask you, mademoiselle, how you came to know M. Querini?", "pos": 4761373}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "It’s a mystery, sir.", "pos": 4761449}
{"speaker": "M. Memmo", "text": "A mystery, is it? What fun we shall have tomorrow! I have come, to ask you to dine with us to-morrow, and you must bring your charming niece.", "pos": 4761472}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you like to go, Marcoline?", "pos": 4761653}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "‘Con grandissimo piacere’! We shall speak Venetian, shall we not?", "pos": 4761689}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 4761756}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "‘E viva’! I cannot learn French.", "pos": 4761770}
{"speaker": "M. Memmo", "text": "M. Querini is in the same position,", "pos": 4761804}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Put on your best dress to-morrow, and do not forget your jewels. Be agreeable to everybody, but pretend not to see your Uncle Mattio, who will be sure to wait at table.", "pos": 4762010}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You may be sure I shall follow your advice to the letter.", "pos": 4762191}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I mean to make the recognition a scene worthy of the drama. I intend that you shall be taken back to Venice by M. Querini himself, while your uncle will take care of you by his special orders.", "pos": 4762251}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I shall be delighted with this arrangement, provided it succeeds.", "pos": 4762450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may trust to me for that.", "pos": 4762518}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "The Procurator Morosini is very sorry not to have been able to take a last leave of Mdlle. Charpillon.", "pos": 4762737}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where shall I find her?", "pos": 4762842}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "I really don’t know. If you find her, give her the letter; if not, it doesn’t matter. That’s a dazzling beauty you have with you, Casanova.", "pos": 4762868}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, she has dazzled me.", "pos": 4763010}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "But how did she know Querini?", "pos": 4763038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She has seen him at Venice, but she has never spoken to him.", "pos": 4763070}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "I thought so; we have been laughing over it, but Querini is hugely pleased. But how did you get hold of her? She must be very young, as Memmo says she cannot speak French.", "pos": 4763133}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It would be a long story to tell, and after all we met through a mere chance.", "pos": 4763307}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "She is not your niece.", "pos": 4763387}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nay, she is more--she is my queen.", "pos": 4763412}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "You will have to teach her French, as when you get to London--", "pos": 4763449}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not going to take her there; she wants to return to Venice.", "pos": 4763514}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "I pity you if you are in love with her! I hope she will dine with us?", "pos": 4763581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, yes! she is delighted with the honour.", "pos": 4763653}
{"speaker": "Morosini", "text": "And we are delighted to have our poor repast animated by such a charming person.", "pos": 4763698}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will find her worthy of your company; she is full of wit. I will draw you out of the difficulty,", "pos": 4763781}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Then you don’t like the French. I like them well enough so far as I know them, but I am only acquainted with their exterior, as I don’t speak or understand the language.", "pos": 4765553}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I hope, that M. de Seingalt will not bring me into the society of people with whom I cannot exchange ideas. I know I shall never be able to learn French. That may be, gentlemen, though I do not see why a niece should not love her uncle. But I have never loved anyone else but the hero of the tale, and I cannot see what difference there can be between one kind of love and another.", "pos": 4766366}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "There are five kinds of love known to man. The love of one’s neighbour, the love of God, which is beyond compare, the highest of all, love matrimonial, the love of house and home, and the love of self, which ought to come last of all, though many place it in the first rank. Poveretta, you are an angel!", "pos": 4767148}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dear heart, you have not shewn me all your perfections till now, when we are about to part; you make me regret you are going back to Venice. Today you won all hearts.", "pos": 4768846}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Keep me then, with you, and I will ever be as I have been to-day. By the way, did you see my uncle?", "pos": 4769025}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think so. Was it not he who was in continual attendance?", "pos": 4769127}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Yes. I recognized him by his ring. Did he look, at me?", "pos": 4769188}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the time, and with an air of the greatest astonishment. I avoided catching his eye, which roved from you to me continually.", "pos": 4769245}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I should like to know what the good man thinks! You will see him again to-morrow. I am sure he will have told M. Querini that, I am his niece, and consequently not yours.", "pos": 4769375}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I expect so, too.", "pos": 4769547}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "And if M. Querini says as much to me to-morrow, I expect I shall have to, admit the fact. What do you think?", "pos": 4769567}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must undoubtedly tell him the truth, but frankly and openly, and so as not to let him think that you have need of him to return to Venice. He is not your father, and has no right over your liberty.", "pos": 4769678}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "Certainly not. Very good. You must also agree that I am not your uncle, and that the bond between us is of the most tender description. Will, there be any difficulty is that?", "pos": 4769881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can you ask me such a question? The link between us makes me feel proud, and will ever do so.", "pos": 4770060}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "Well, well, I say no more. I trust entirely in your tact. Remember that Querini and no other must take you back to Venice; he must treat you as if you were his daughter. If he will not consent, you shall not return at all.", "pos": 4770160}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would to God it were so!", "pos": 4770385}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "We are getting on. I am very glad that things have taken this turn, for when you come back you can tell me the whole story, and I can regulate my conduct accordingly.", "pos": 4770549}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "I have a confidence to make to you, M. Casanova, but first I want you to do me the same favor.", "pos": 4770937}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can have no secrets from your excellency.", "pos": 4771046}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "I am obliged to you, and will try to deserve your good opinion. I beg that you will tell me sincerely whether you know the young person who is with you, for no one believes that she is your niece.", "pos": 4771092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is true that she is not my niece, but not being acquainted with her relations or family I cannot be said to know her in the sense which your excellency gives to the word. Nevertheless, I am proud to confess that I love her with an affection which will not end save with my life.", "pos": 4771291}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "I am delighted to hear you say so. How long have you had her?", "pos": 4771575}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nearly two months.", "pos": 4771639}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Very good! How did she fall into your hands?", "pos": 4771660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is a point which only concerns her, and you will allow me not to answer that question.", "pos": 4771707}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Good! we will go on. Though you are in love with her, it is very possible that you have never made any enquiries respecting her family.", "pos": 4771801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has told me that she has a father and a mother, poor but honest, but I confess I have never been curious enough to enquire her name. I only know her baptismal name, which is possibly not her true one, but it does quite well for me.", "pos": 4771939}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "She has given you her true name.", "pos": 4772177}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your excellency surprises me! You know her, then?", "pos": 4772212}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Yes; I did not know her yesterday, but I do now. Two months . . . Marcoline . . . yes, it must be she. I am now certain that my man is not mad.", "pos": 4772264}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your man?", "pos": 4772410}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Yes, she is his niece. When we were at London he heard that she had left the paternal roof about the middle of Lent. Marcoline’s mother, who is his sister, wrote to him. He was afraid to speak to her yesterday, because she looked so grand. He even thought he must be mistaken, and he would have been afraid of offending me by speaking to a grand lady at my table. She must have seen him, too.", "pos": 4772422}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t think so, she has said nothing about it to me.", "pos": 4772817}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "It is true that he was standing behind her all the time. But let us come to the point. Is Marcoline your wife, or have you any intention of marrying her?", "pos": 4772874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I love her as tenderly as any man can love a woman, but I cannot make her a wife; the reasons are known only to herself and me.", "pos": 4773030}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "I respect your secret; but tell me if you would object to my begging her to return to Venice with her uncle?", "pos": 4773160}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think Marcoline is happy, but if she has succeeded in gaining the favour of your excellency, she is happier still; and I feel sure that if she were to go back to Venice under the exalted patronage of your excellency, she would efface all stains on her reputation. As to permitting her to go, I can put no stumbling-block in the way, for I am not her master. As her lover I would defend her to the last drop of my blood, but if she wants to leave me I can only assent, though with sorrow.", "pos": 4773271}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "You speak with much sense, and I hope you will not be displeased at my undertaking this good work. Of course I shall do nothing without your consent.", "pos": 4773763}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I respect the decrees of fate when they are promulgated by such a man as you. If your excellency can induce Marcoline to leave me, I will make no objection; but I warn you that she must be won mildly. She is intelligent, she loves me, and she knows that she is independent; besides she reckons on me, and she has cause to do so. Speak to her to-day by herself; my presence would only be in your way. Wait till dinner is over; the interview might last some time.", "pos": 4773915}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "My dear Casanova, you are an honest man. I am delighted to have made your acquaintance.", "pos": 4774379}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do me too much honour. I may say that Marcoline will hear nothing of all this.", "pos": 4774469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must execute a masterly stroke, dearest,", "pos": 4774708}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to persuade M. Querini that I did not lie in saying that you had not seen your uncle. As soon as you see him, you must give a shout of surprise, exclaim, ‘My dear uncle!’ and rush to his arms. This would be a splendid and dramatic situation, which would do you honour in the eyes of all the company.", "pos": 4774763}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You may be sure that I shall play the part very well, although my heart be sad. My uncle?", "pos": 4775065}
{"speaker": "Mattio", "text": "Yes, my dear niece.", "pos": 4775615}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I knew you had left Venice, dear uncle, but I did not know you were in his excellency’s service. I am so glad to see you again! You will tell my father and mother about me? You see I am happy. Where were you yesterday?", "pos": 4775743}
{"speaker": "Mattio", "text": "Here.", "pos": 4775964}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "And you didn’t see me?", "pos": 4775972}
{"speaker": "Mattio", "text": "Yes; but your uncle there . . .", "pos": 4775997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 4776031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "let us know each other, cousin, and be good friends. Marcoline, I congratulate you on having such an honest man for an uncle.", "pos": 4776057}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "That is really very fine,", "pos": 4776185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very affecting, very affecting indeed!", "pos": 4776255}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I must be the judge of that,", "pos": 4777021}
{"speaker": "M. Morosini", "text": "Yes, but it is a good thing to have recourse to the advice of discreet persons who are interested in the happiness of both parties.", "pos": 4777062}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Excuse me, but I do not think so. If I ever marry, my husband will have to please me first.", "pos": 4777196}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Who has taught you this maxim?", "pos": 4777290}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "My uncle, Casanova, who has, I verily believe, taught me everything that can be learnt in the two months I have been happy enough to live with him.", "pos": 4777337}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "I congratulate the master and the pupil, but you are both too young to have learnt all the range of science. Moral science cannot be learnt in two months.", "pos": 4777487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What his excellency has just said,", "pos": 4777644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is perfectly correct. In affairs of marriage both parties should rely to a great extent on the advice of friends, for mere marriages of inclination are often unhappy.", "pos": 4777711}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "That is a really philosophical remark, my dear Marcoline, but tell me the qualities which in your opinion are desirable in a husband.", "pos": 4777880}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I should be puzzled to name them, but they would all become manifest in the man that pleased me.", "pos": 4778032}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "And supposing he were a worthless fellow?", "pos": 4778131}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "He would certainly not please me, and that’s the reason why I have made up my mind never to marry a man whom I have not studied.", "pos": 4778175}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Supposing you made a mistake?", "pos": 4778306}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Then I would weep in secret.", "pos": 4778338}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "How if you were poor?", "pos": 4778369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She need never fear poverty, my lord,", "pos": 4778393}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has an income of fifty crowns a month for the remainder of her life.", "pos": 4778441}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Oh, that’s a different matter. If that is so, sweetheart, you are privileged. You will be able to live at Venice in perfect independence.", "pos": 4778516}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I think that to live honourably there I only need the protection of a lord like your excellency.", "pos": 4778656}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "As to that, Marcoline, I give you my word that I will do all in my power for you if you come to Venice. But let me ask you one question, how are you sure of your income of fifty crowns a month? You are laughing.", "pos": 4778755}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I laugh because I am such a silly little thing. I don’t have any heed for my own business. My friend there will tell you all about it.", "pos": 4778969}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "You have not been joking, have you?", "pos": 4779106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Marcoline,", "pos": 4779175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "has not only capital which will produce a larger sum than that which I have named, but she has also valuable possessions. Your excellency will note her wisdom in saying that she would need your lordship’s protection at Venice, for she will require someone to look after the investment of her capital. The whole amount is in my hands, and if she likes Marcoline can have it all in less than two hours.", "pos": 4779196}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Very good; then you must start for Venice the day after to-morrow. Mattio is quite ready to receive you.", "pos": 4779599}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I have the greatest respect and love for my uncle, but it is not to his care that your excellency must commend me if I resolve to go.", "pos": 4779706}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Then to whom?", "pos": 4779842}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "To your own care, my lord. Your excellency has called me dear daughter two or three times, lead me, then, to Venice, like a good father, and I will come willingly; otherwise I protest I will not leave the man to whom I owe all I have. I will start for London with him the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 4779858}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "We must adore the decrees of Divine Providence, but after the issue, since mortals are not able to discern the future, whether it be good or whether it be evil.", "pos": 4780796}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "What does that reflection relate to, my dear daughter? and why do you kiss my hand now?", "pos": 4780959}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I kiss your hand because you have called me your dear daughter for the fourth time. It was an inspiration, and the result of self-examination. I am well; I have learned something of life; I am only seventeen, and in the course of two months I have become rich by honest means. I am all happy, and yet I owe my happiness to the greatest error a maiden can commit. Thus I humble myself before the decrees, of Providence and adore its wisdom.", "pos": 4781068}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "You are right, but, none the less you ought to repent of what you have done.", "pos": 4781679}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "That’s where I am puzzled; for before I can repent; I must think of it, and when I think of it I find nothing for which to repent. I suppose I shall have to consult some great theologian on the point.", "pos": 4781758}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "That will not be necessary; you are, intelligent, and your heart is good, and I will give you the necessary instruction on the way. When one repents there is no need to think of the pleasure which our sins have given us. I have just been speaking to her; and if you would like to come, all is arranged. You shall sleep with her, and dine with us till we get to Venice, and then I will deliver you into your mother’s keeping, in the presence of your uncle. What do you say?", "pos": 4781961}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "I will come with pleasure.", "pos": 4782775}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Come and see Dame Veneranda.", "pos": 4782804}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Willingly.", "pos": 4782835}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "Come with us, Casanova.", "pos": 4782848}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "I shall have to put my steward in another carriage, as the calash only holds two.", "pos": 4783382}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That will not be necessary,", "pos": 4783485}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for Marcoline has her carriage, and Mistress Veneranda will find it a very comfortable one. It will hold her luggage as well.", "pos": 4783527}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "You want to give me your carriage. You are too good to me.", "pos": 4783655}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "Are you not afraid, of getting into trouble with the State Inquisitors for recommending M. Casanova?", "pos": 4784298}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "Reflect, that it is not I who am leaving you, but you who are sending me away; that I long to spend the rest of my days with you, and that you have only got to say a word to keep me.", "pos": 4785540}
{"speaker": "M. Querini", "text": "Good heavens!", "pos": 4786168}
{"speaker": "M. Morosini", "text": "I will give her a thousand Venetian ducats, or three thousand francs for it.", "pos": 4786484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You might give her double that amount,", "pos": 4786562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for it is worth three thousand ducats.", "pos": 4786611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will arrange all that,", "pos": 4786652}
{"speaker": "Querini", "text": "It will be a considerable addition to the capital she proposes to invest.", "pos": 4786710}
{"speaker": "Marcoline", "text": "how I could be my own executioner;", "pos": 4787735}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Sir, I have come to ask you to do me a favour which will cost you but little, while it will be of immense service to my daughter and myself.", "pos": 4791518}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can I do for you? I am leaving Lyons at day-break to-morrow.", "pos": 4791661}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "I know it, for you said so at dinner; but we shall be ready at any hour. Be kind enough to give my daughter a seat in your carriage. I will, of course, pay for a third horse, and will ride post.", "pos": 4791729}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You cannot have seen the carriage.", "pos": 4791926}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Excuse me, I have done so. It is, I know, only meant for one, but she could easily squeeze into it. I know I am troubling you, but if you were aware of the convenience it would be to me I am sure you would not refuse. All the places in the diligence are taken up to next week, and if I don’t get to Paris in six days I might as well stay away altogether. If I were a rich man I would post, but that would cost four hundred francs, and I cannot afford to spend so much. The only course open to me is to leave by the diligence tomorrow, and to have myself and my daughter bound to the roof. You see, sir, the idea makes her weep, and I don’t like it much better myself.", "pos": 4791963}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This girl,", "pos": 4792951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "may be so charming that I should fall in love with her if I yield to the father’s request, and I do not wish for any such result.", "pos": 4792982}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I sympathize with you sincerely; but I really don’t see what I can do for you without causing myself the greatest inconvenience.", "pos": 4793149}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Perhaps you think that I shall not be able to ride so many posts in succession, but you needn’t be afraid on that score.", "pos": 4793280}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The horse might give in; you might have a fall, and I know that I should feel obliged to stop, and I am in a hurry. If that reason does not strike you as a cogent one, I am sorry, for to me it appears unanswerable.", "pos": 4793403}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Let us run the risk, sir, at all events.", "pos": 4793620}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is a still greater risk of which I can tell you nothing. In brief, sir, you ask what is impossible.", "pos": 4793663}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "In Heaven’s name, sir, rescue me from that dreadful journey on the roof of the diligence! The very idea makes me shudder; I should be afraid of falling off all the way; besides, there is something mean in travelling that way. Do but grant me this favour, and I will sit at your feet so as not to discomfort you.", "pos": 4793771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is too much! You do not know me, mademoiselle. I am neither cruel nor impolite, especially where your sex is concerned, though my refusal must make you feel otherwise. If I give way you may regret it afterwards, and I do not wish that to happen. A post-chaise costs six Louis. Here they are; take them. I will put off my departure for a few hours, if necessary, to answer for the chaise, supposing you are not known here, and an extra horse will cost four Louis; take them. As to the rest, you would have spent as much in taking two places in the diligence.", "pos": 4794168}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "You are very kind, sir, but I cannot accept your gift. I am not worthy of it, and I should be still less worthy if I accepted the money. Adele, let us go. Forgive us, sir, if we have wasted half an hour of your time. Come, my poor child.", "pos": 4794774}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Wait a moment, father.", "pos": 4795014}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Calm yourself, mademoiselle. It shall never be said that I remained unmoved while beauty wept. I yield to your request, for if I did not I should not be able to sleep all night. But I accede on one condition, and that is that you sit at the back of the carriage.", "pos": 4795235}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Certainly; but what is to become of your servant?", "pos": 4795534}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will ride on in front. Everything is settled. Go to bed now, and be ready to start at six o’clock.", "pos": 4795586}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Certainly, but you will allow me to pay for the extra horse?", "pos": 4795690}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You shall pay nothing at all; it would be a shame if I received any money from you. You have told me you are poor, and poverty is no dishonour; well, I may tell you that I am rich, and riches are no honour save when they are used in doing good. Therefore, as I said, I will pay for all.", "pos": 4795753}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Very good, but I will pay for the extra horse in the carriage.", "pos": 4796042}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly not, and let us have no bargaining, please; it is time to go to bed. I will put you down at Paris without the journey costing you a farthing, and then if you like you may thank me; these are the only conditions on which I will take you. Look! Mdlle. Adele is laughing, that’s reward enough for me.", "pos": 4796107}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "I am laughing for joy at having escaped that dreadful diligence roof.", "pos": 4796417}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see, but I hope you will not weep in my carriage, for all sadness is an abomination to me.", "pos": 4796489}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. Do you prefer any particular route?", "pos": 4797224}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "If I went through Nevers I might be able to collect a small account.", "pos": 4797273}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then we will go by the Bourbonnais. No, you had better take a seat.", "pos": 4797344}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can I imprison the rascal? I should like to have the satisfaction of doing so, were it to cost me two Louis.", "pos": 4798879}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Two Louis! Your honour shall be attended to in a moment.", "pos": 4799016}
{"speaker": "Police official", "text": "How much is your time worth, sir?", "pos": 4799253}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Five louis.", "pos": 4799302}
{"speaker": "Police official", "text": "Your man will be in prison in the next ten minutes.", "pos": 4799475}
{"speaker": "Moreau", "text": "I am perfectly ready to swear that he did the damage,", "pos": 4799825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You saw him, did you?", "pos": 4799890}
{"speaker": "Moreau", "text": "No, but that’s of no consequence, as everybody is sure he did it.", "pos": 4799914}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "My good sir, take pity on us, for he is our only support. Do a good deed and set him free, for he would stay in prison all his days unless we sold our beds to pay you.", "pos": 4801093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My worthy woman, I forgive him completely. Hand this document to the police magistrate and all will be well.", "pos": 4801263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, your daughter has shewn me her black breeches.", "pos": 4802298}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "It’s uncommonly lucky for her that she didn’t shew you something else.", "pos": 4802376}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "You are very kind, but it is quite a mistake for you to think that you would disturb me by talking. Allow me to tell you that you are concealing the real cause of your silence.", "pos": 4803288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know the real cause?", "pos": 4803482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I think I do.", "pos": 4803512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, what is it?", "pos": 4803533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have changed since you saw my breeches.", "pos": 4803553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, this black attire has clothed my soul with gloom.", "pos": 4803599}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very sorry, but you must allow that in the first place I was not to suppose that you were going to see my breeches, and in the second place that I could not be aware that the colour would be distasteful to you.", "pos": 4803666}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True again, but as I chanced to see the articles you must forgive my disgust. This black has filled my soul with funereal images, just as white would have cheered me. Do you always wear those dreadful breeches?", "pos": 4803884}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am wearing them for the first time to-day.", "pos": 4804097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you must allow that you have committed an unbecoming action.", "pos": 4804144}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Unbecoming?", "pos": 4804212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, what would you have said if I had come down in petticoats this morning? You would have pronounced them unbecoming. You are laughing.", "pos": 4804226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forgive me, but I never heard anything so amusing. But your comparison will not stand; everyone would have seen your petticoats, whereas no one has any business to see my breeches.", "pos": 4804366}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Then you don’t like night travelling?", "pos": 4805658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shouldn’t mind it if I were not afraid of going to sleep and falling on you.", "pos": 4805706}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Why, I should like it. A pretty girl like you is an agreeable burden.", "pos": 4805787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I thought you could eat a roast fowl with as good an appetite as mine, I would dine here.", "pos": 4806075}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Try me, I will endeavour to match you.", "pos": 4806170}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "I hope the black colour has given you no funereal thoughts this time.", "pos": 4807874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The hue of the rose, dear Adele, can only inspire me with delicious fancies.", "pos": 4807946}
{"speaker": "Moreau", "text": "If you had told me before, we would have gone on to Nevers and slept there. You are too kind. I mean to ride the three and a half stages. The riding will do me good, and I like it. I leave my daughter in your care. She will not be so near you as in the carriage.", "pos": 4809107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, we will be very discreet, you may be sure!", "pos": 4809374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shan’t be offended,", "pos": 4809511}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "It would be very wrong of me,", "pos": 4809544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to give you such a proof of my want of confidence.", "pos": 4809590}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "You are frightened of me, I think?", "pos": 4809966}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are wrong, but you surprised me. Come back, I want to see you fall asleep in my arms.", "pos": 4810003}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Come and see me sleep.", "pos": 4810095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you sleep all the time?", "pos": 4810120}
{"speaker": "Adele", "text": "Of course I shall.", "pos": 4810151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will see about that.", "pos": 4810172}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "My genius told me at day-break that Galtinardus was starting from Fontainebleau, and that he will come and dine with me to-day.", "pos": 4812840}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "I want to consult the oracle on a matter of the greatest importance, and I hope you will come and see me tomorrow.", "pos": 4814415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 4815344}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will see him before long, for it is near supper-time; and as eating and drinking are the chief concerns of his life, he will not fail to put in an appearance.", "pos": 4815359}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What has he done?", "pos": 4815524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everything that a good-for-nothing can do; but I hear him coming, and I will tell you all about it in his presence.", "pos": 4815544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All that an honest man can have against a monster. I have read the letter you wrote to Possano, in which I am styled a cheat, a spy, a coiner, and a poisoner. What does the abbé think of that?", "pos": 4815819}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When this fine gentleman first came here, my wife and I gave him a most cordial welcome. I allowed him a nice room, and told him to look upon my house as his own. Possibly with the idea of interesting us in his favour, he began by saying that you were the greatest rascal in the world. To prove it he told us how he had carried off a girl from Venice with the idea of marrying her, and went to you at Genoa as he was in great necessity. He confesses that you rescued him from his misery, but he says that you traitorously took possession of the girl, associating her with two other mistresses you had at that time. In fine, he says that you lay with her before his eyes, and that you drove him from Marseilles that you might be able to enjoy her with greater freedom.", "pos": 4816084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He finished his story by saying that as he could not go back to Venice, he needed our help till he could find some means of living on his talents or through his profession as a priest. I asked him what his talents were, and he said he could teach Italian; but as he speaks it vilely, and doesn’t know a word of French, we laughed at him. We were therefore reduced to seeing what we could do for him in his character of priest, and the very next day my wife spoke to M. de Sauci, the ecclesiastical commissioner, begging him to give my brother an introduction to the Archbishop of Paris, who might give him something that might lead to his obtaining a good benefice. He would have to go to our parish church, and I spoke to the rector of St. Sauveur, who promised to let him say mass, for which he would receive the usual sum of twelve sols. This was a very good beginning, and might have led to something worth having; but when we told the worthy abbé of our success, he got into a rage, saying that he was not the man to say mass for twelve sols, nor to toady the archbishop in the hope of being taken into his service. No, he was not going to be in anyone’s service. We concealed our indignation, but for the three weeks he has been here he has turned everything upside down. My wife’s maid left us yesterday, to our great annoyance, because of him; and the cook says she will go if he remains, as he is always bothering her in the kitchen. We are therefore resolved that he shall go, for his society is intolerable to us. I am delighted to have you here, as I think we ought to be able to drive him away between us, and the sooner the better.", "pos": 4816853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing easier,", "pos": 4818501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if he likes to stay in Paris, let him do so. You can send off his rags to some furnished apartments, and serve him with a police order not to put foot in your house again. On the other hand if he wants to go away, let him say where, and I will pay his journey-money this evening.", "pos": 4818527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing could be more generous. What do you say, abbé?", "pos": 4818809}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I say that this is the way in which he drove me from Marseilles. What intolerable violence!", "pos": 4818866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give God thanks, monster, that instead of thrashing you within an inch of your life as you deserve, I am going to give you some money! You thought you would get me hanged at Lyons, did you?", "pos": 4818960}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Where is Marcoline?", "pos": 4819152}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that to you? Make haste and choose between Rome and Paris, and remember that if you choose Paris you will have nothing to live on.", "pos": 4819174}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Then I will go to Rome.", "pos": 4819315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good! The journey only costs twenty louis, but I will give you twenty-five.", "pos": 4819341}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Hand them over.", "pos": 4819419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Patience. Give me pens, ink and paper.", "pos": 4819437}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "What are you going to write?", "pos": 4819478}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bills of exchange on Lyons, Turin, Genoa, Florence, and Rome. Your place will be paid as far as Lyons, and there you will be able to get five louis, and the same sum in the other towns, but as long as you stay in Paris not one single farthing will I give you. I am staying at the ‘Hotel Montmorenci;’ that’s all you need know about me.", "pos": 4819509}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "Sir, everybody is still asleep, but who are you? I have instructions.", "pos": 4820523}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I am the Chevalier de Seingalt.", "pos": 4820595}
{"speaker": "porter", "text": "Kindly come into my lodge, and amuse yourself with my niece. I will soon be with you.", "pos": 4820629}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Mademoiselle, your uncle has told me to come and amuse myself with you.", "pos": 4820774}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "He is a rascal, for he consulted neither of us.", "pos": 4820858}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, but he knew well enough that there could be no doubt about my opinion after I had seen you.", "pos": 4820908}
{"speaker": "Niece", "text": "You are very flattering, sir, but I know the value of compliments.", "pos": 4821007}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, I suppose that you often get them, and you well deserve them all. What is the matter, my pretty maid? You don’t seem to be in a good humour.", "pos": 4821076}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "You would have done better to come at noon; it is not nine o’clock yet, and madame did not come home till three o’clock this morning. I am just going to wake her, and I am sorry for her.", "pos": 4821475}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "Raton, give us the writing materials, and go away. Don’t come till I call you, and if anyone asks for me, I am asleep.", "pos": 4821820}
{"speaker": "Raton", "text": "Very good, madam, and I will go to sleep also.", "pos": 4821953}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "My dear M. Casanova, how is it that the oracle has deceived us? M. du Rumain is still alive, and he ought to have died six months ago. It is true that he is not well, but we will not go into all that again. The really important question is this: You know that music is my favourite pursuit, and that my voice is famous for its strength and compass; well, I have completely lost it. I have not sung a note for three months. The doctors have stuffed me with remedies which have had no effect: It makes me very unhappy, for singing was the one thing that made me cling to life. I entreat you to ask the oracle how I can recover my voice. How delighted I should be if I could sing by to-morrow. I have a great many people coming here, and I should enjoy the general astonishment. If the oracle wills it I am sure that it might be so, for I have a very strong chest. That is my question; it is a long one, but so much the better; the answer will be long too, and I like long answers.", "pos": 4822002}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "for, the oracle knew that I should catch cold if the window were open. I will do everything the oracle bids me, but I hope you will get me everything necessary for the ceremonies.", "pos": 4824390}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I will not only take care that you have all the requisites, but as a proof of my zeal for you, I will come and do the suffumigations myself that you may learn how it is done.", "pos": 4824612}
{"speaker": "Aranda", "text": "We will both give her the pleasure of seeing us. Certainly, but as you are going on to London, how shall I come back?", "pos": 4826324}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "By yourself, dressed as a postillion.", "pos": 4826457}
{"speaker": "Aranda", "text": "What shall I ride post? How delightful!", "pos": 4826519}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "You must only cover eight or ten posts a day, for you have no need to risk your life by riding all night.", "pos": 4826561}
{"speaker": "Aranda", "text": "Yes, yes; but I am to dress like a postillion, am I not?", "pos": 4826669}
{"speaker": "Madame d'Urfe", "text": "Yes; I will have a handsome jacket and a pair of leather breeches made for you, and you shall have a flag with the arms of France on it.", "pos": 4826728}
{"speaker": "Aranda", "text": "They will take me for a courier going to London.", "pos": 4826867}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "I should never have been unhappy if I had never known you.", "pos": 4828135}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, you would, only in some other way; your misfortunes are the result of your bad conduct. But tell me what are your misfortunes.", "pos": 4828196}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "As I could not stay in Turin after you had dishonoured me . . .", "pos": 4828330}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "You came to dishonour yourself here, I suppose. Drop that tone, or else I will leave you. Then, you are at present the victim of a fearful disease, heavily in debt, likely to be turned out of doors and imprisoned by your creditors. What do you propose to do?", "pos": 4828396}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "Do! Why, throw myself in the Seine, to be sure; that’s all that is left for me to do. I have not a farthing left.", "pos": 4828915}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "And what would you do if you had some money?", "pos": 4829031}
{"speaker": "Corticelli", "text": "I would put myself under the doctor’s hands, in the first place, and then if any money was left I would go to Bologna and try to get a living somehow. Perhaps I should have learnt a little wisdom by experience.", "pos": 4829078}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Poor girl, I pity you! and in spite of your bad treatment of me, which has brought you to this pass, I will not abandon you. Here are four louis for your present wants, and to-morrow I will tell you where you are to go for your cure. When you have got well again, I will give you enough money for the journey. Dry your tears, repent, amend your ways, and may God have mercy on you! Certainly; but the girl is poor, and I am doing it out of charity.", "pos": 4829291}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "You will take in the person who brings you this note and three hundred francs, and in six weeks you will send her back cured, if it please God. The person has reasons for not wishing to be known.", "pos": 4830321}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I don’t want to hear anything about it; make your choice, Paris or Rome.", "pos": 4830827}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Give me the journey-money, I will remain at Paris; but I will give a written engagement not to trouble you or your brother again. That should be sufficient.", "pos": 4830902}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "It is not for you to judge of that. Begone! I have neither the time nor the wish to listen to you. Remember, Paris without a farthing, or Rome with twenty-five louis.", "pos": 4831061}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "Take care that the Chevalier de Seingalt is able to come into my room at five o’clock to-morrow.", "pos": 4833219}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Rome or Paris, which is it to be?", "pos": 4835130}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Rome,", "pos": 4835166}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Wait in the antechamber. I will do your business for you. Welcome! You are come just in time to see me deal with the abbé, who has resolved at last to go to Rome and to follow my directions.", "pos": 4835198}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Who is to assure me that these bills will be honoured?", "pos": 4835728}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I assure you, blockhead. If you don’t like them you can leave them.", "pos": 4835785}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "But I may dine with you, surely?", "pos": 4835961}
{"speaker": "Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "No, I have done with you. Go and dine with Possano, as you are his accomplice in the horrible attempt he made to murder me. Clairmont, shew this man out, and never let him set foot here again.", "pos": 4836005}
{"speaker": "sister-in-raw", "text": "What did you do with the girl he eloped with?", "pos": 4836797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I sent her back to Venice with the ambassadors the better by thirty thousand francs, some fine jewels, and a perfect outfit of clothes. She travelled in a carriage I gave her which was worth more than two hundred louis.", "pos": 4836868}
{"speaker": "sister-in-raw", "text": "That’s all very fine, but you must make some allowance for the abbé’s grief and rage at seeing you sleep with her.", "pos": 4837090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fools, my dear sister, are made to suffer such grief, and many others besides. Did he tell you that she would not let him have anything to do with her, and that she used to box his ears?", "pos": 4837207}
{"speaker": "sister-in-raw", "text": "On the the contrary, he was always talking of her love for him.", "pos": 4837396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He made himself a fine fellow, I have no doubt, but the truth is, it was a very ugly business.", "pos": 4837462}
{"speaker": "sister-in-law", "text": "I am no more his wife now, than I was the night before our marriage.", "pos": 4837769}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! Still a maid?", "pos": 4837852}
{"speaker": "sister-in-law", "text": "As much a maid as at the moment I was born. They tell me I could easily obtain a dissolution of the marriage, but besides the scandal that would arise, I unhappily love him, and I should not like to do anything that would give him pain.", "pos": 4837874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a wonderful woman, but why do you not provide a substitute for him?", "pos": 4838113}
{"speaker": "sister-in-law", "text": "I know I might do so, without having to endure much remorse, but I prefer to bear it.", "pos": 4838191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are very praiseworthy, but in the other ways you are happy?", "pos": 4838279}
{"speaker": "sister-in-law", "text": "He is overwhelmed with debt, and if I liked to call upon him to give me back my dowry he would not have a shirt to his back. Why did he marry me? He must have known his impotence. It was a dreadful thing to do.", "pos": 4838345}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but you must forgive him for it.", "pos": 4838558}
{"speaker": "Madame du Rumain", "text": "I should think, that the careful living prescribed by the cabala must have a good effect on my health.", "pos": 4840709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Most certainly,", "pos": 4840830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and if you continue to observe the rules you will keep both your health and your voice.", "pos": 4840856}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will see about it after dinner.", "pos": 4841651}
{"speaker": "d'Aranda", "text": "But you can find out in a moment whether she is here or not?", "pos": 4841688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but there is no hurry.", "pos": 4841751}
{"speaker": "d'Aranda", "text": "And what will you do if she is not here?", "pos": 4841781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We will go on till we meet her on the way. In the meanwhile let us go and see the famous manufactory of M. Varobes before dinner.", "pos": 4841824}
{"speaker": "d'Aranda", "text": "Go by yourself. I am tired, and I will sleep till you come back.", "pos": 4841956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 4842023}
{"speaker": "innkeeper", "text": "He started for Paris riding post, five minutes after you left. He said he was going after some dispatches you had left at Paris.", "pos": 4842198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you don’t get him back I will ruin you with law-suits; you had no business to let him have a horse without my orders.", "pos": 4842384}
{"speaker": "innkeeper", "text": "I will capture the little rascal, sir, before he has got to Amiens.", "pos": 4842507}
{"speaker": "postillion", "text": "I would catch him up, even if he had four hours start. You shall have him here at six o’clock.", "pos": 4842658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will give you two louis.", "pos": 4842766}
{"speaker": "postillion", "text": "I would catch him for that, though he were a very lark.", "pos": 4842795}
{"speaker": "d'Aranda", "text": "I will come with you, I give you my word of honour; but you must let me ride on before you. Otherwise, with this dress of mine, I should be ashamed to go. I don’t want it to be thought that you had to give chase to me, as if I had robbed you.", "pos": 4843702}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I accept your word of honour, but be careful to keep it. Embrace me, and order another saddle-horse.", "pos": 4843947}
{"speaker": "mine host", "text": "It’s the courier of the Duke of Bedford, the English ambassador, he announces the approach of his master, and is disputing with the captain of the packet. He says he hired the boat by letter, and that the captain had no right to let it to you. The master maintains that he has received no such letter, and no one can prove that he is telling a lie.", "pos": 4845720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord duke may dispose of the whole of the packet, with the exception of the space necessary for my own accommodation, that of two other persons, and my luggage. I am delighted to have the opportunity of obliging the English ambassador.", "pos": 4846513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell him that it is out of the question, as the boat is paid for already.", "pos": 4846903}
{"speaker": "Valet", "text": "He will give you the six guineas.", "pos": 4846979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell your master that I cannot allow him to pay. I do not buy to sell again.", "pos": 4847015}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "However, there is a middle course, let us adopt it, and I shall be just as much indebted to you.", "pos": 4847194}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that, my lord?", "pos": 4847305}
{"speaker": "duke", "text": "We will each pay half.", "pos": 4847330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My desire to oblige you, my lord, will not allow me to refuse, but it is I who will be indebted to you for the honour your lordship does me. We will start as soon as you like, and I can make my arrangements accordingly.", "pos": 4847355}
{"speaker": "Madame Rancour", "text": "This apartment and the two servants are for you, and I, too, am your most humble servant.", "pos": 4850818}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is your room?", "pos": 4851206}
{"speaker": "Clairmont", "text": "Near the roof, and I am to share it with one of those two louts you saw.", "pos": 4851249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take your trunk there.", "pos": 4851418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shall I open yours?", "pos": 4851443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No. We will see what can be done to-morrow.", "pos": 4851465}
{"speaker": "Young gentleman", "text": "How is my sister Sophie?", "pos": 4851924}
{"speaker": "Madame Rancour", "text": "Her name is Sophie, is it? She is only known as Miss Cornelis. She is a beauty, a perfect prodigy, she plays at sight on several instruments, dances like Terpsichore, speaks English, French, and Italian equally well--in a word, she is really wonderful. She has a governess and a maid. Unfortunately, she is rather short for her age; she is eight.", "pos": 4851977}
{"speaker": "My lord Cornelis", "text": "at what hour they were to sup.", "pos": 4852463}
{"speaker": "duenna", "text": "At ten o’clock and not before, for Madame Cornelis is always engaged till then. She is always with her lawyer, on account of an important law-suit she has against Sir Frederick Fermer.", "pos": 4852495}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "Quite so, but I am quoting from Boccaccio, and one should be exact in quotations.", "pos": 4853833}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "I apologize, sir; I see you are a man of letters.", "pos": 4853928}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "Well, in a small way. My name is Martinelli.", "pos": 4853980}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "Then you are in a great way indeed. I know you by repute, and if I am not mistaken you are a relation of Calsabigi, who has spoken of you to me. I have read some of your satires.", "pos": 4854027}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "May I ask to whom I have the honour of speaking?", "pos": 4854208}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "My name is Seingalt. Have you finished your edition of the Decameron?", "pos": 4854259}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "I am still at work on it, and trying to increase the number of my subscribers.", "pos": 4854331}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "If you will be so kind I should be glad to be of the number.", "pos": 4854412}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "You do me honour. You will experience some trouble in finding your way back, allow me to accompany you.", "pos": 4854475}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "But you go there.", "pos": 4855097}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "Yes, but I can say with Juvenal: Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. The rogues can’t hurt me; I know them and they know me; we never trouble each other.", "pos": 4855117}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "You have been a long time in London, I suppose.", "pos": 4855279}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "Five years.", "pos": 4855329}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "I presume you know a good many people.", "pos": 4855343}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "Yes, but I seldom wait on anyone but Lord Spencer. I am occupied with literary work and live all by myself. I don’t make much, but enough to live on. I live in furnished apartments, and have twelve shirts and the clothes you see on my back, and that is enough for my happiness. Nec ultra deos lacesso. You will be given an inventory of the goods, and as soon as you get a surety your house will be your castle.", "pos": 4855384}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "I like the idea, but how shall I find such a house?", "pos": 4856129}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "That is easily done. That’s all we have to do.", "pos": 4856197}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "He is very tired, like myself, and considering that we are travellers in need of rest you have kept us waiting a long time.", "pos": 4858690}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "It was to have been my daughter, but I left her behind, as when I told her that you and her brother had arrived she asked me if you were well.", "pos": 4859189}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "And you have punished her for doing so?", "pos": 4859334}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Certainly, for in my opinion she ought to have asked for her brother first and then for you. Don’t you think I was right?", "pos": 4859376}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "Poor Sophie! I am sorry for her. Gratitude has evidently more influence over her than blood relationship.", "pos": 4859500}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "It is not a question of sentiment, but of teaching young persons to think with propriety.", "pos": 4859608}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "Propriety is often far from proper.", "pos": 4859700}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "And how am I to help you, my dear mother?", "pos": 4859930}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I give twelve balls and twelve suppers to the nobility, and the same number to the middle classes in the year. I have often as many as six hundred guests at two guineas a head. The expenses are enormous, and alone as I am I must be robbed, for I can’t be in two places at once. Now that you are here you can keep everything under lock and key, keep the books, pay and receive accounts, and see that everyone is properly attended to at the assemblies; in fine, you will perform the duties of the master.", "pos": 4859974}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "And do you think that I can do all that?", "pos": 4860479}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "You will easily learn it.", "pos": 4860522}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "I think it will be very difficult.", "pos": 4860550}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "One of my secretaries will come and live with you, and instruct you in everything. During the first year you will only have to acquire the English language, and to be present at my assemblies, that I may introduce you to the most distinguished people in London. You will get quite English before long.", "pos": 4860587}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "I would rather remain French.", "pos": 4860891}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "That’s mere prejudice, my dear, you will like the sound of Mister Cornelis by-and-bye.", "pos": 4860923}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "Cornelis?", "pos": 4861012}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Yes; that is your name.", "pos": 4861024}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "It’s a very funny one.", "pos": 4861050}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will write it down, so that you may not forget it.", "pos": 4861075}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I am very much afraid, that we shall have to begin his education all over again. What has he learnt in the last six years?", "pos": 4861359}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "He might have learnt a great deal, for he went to the best boarding school in Paris; but he only learnt what he liked, and what he liked was not much. He can play the flute, ride, fence, dance a minuet, change his shirt every day, answer politely, make a graceful bow, talk elegant trifles, and dress well. As he never had any application, he doesn’t know anything about literature; he can scarcely write, his spelling is abominable, his arithmetic limited, and I doubt whether he knows in what continent England is situated.", "pos": 4861496}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "He has used the six years well, certainly.", "pos": 4862024}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "Say, rather, he has wasted them; but he will waste many more.", "pos": 4862069}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "My daughter will laugh at him; but then it is I who have had the care of her education. He will be ashamed when he finds her so well instructed though she is only eight.", "pos": 4862133}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "He will never see her at eight, if I know anything of reckoning; she is fully ten.", "pos": 4862305}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I think I ought to know the age of my own daughter. She knows geography, history, languages, and music; she argues correctly, and behaves in a manner which is surprising in so young a child. All the ladies are in love with her. I keep her at a school of design all day; she shews a great taste for drawing. She dines with me on Sundays, and if you would care to come to dinner next Sunday you will confess that I have not exaggerated her capacities. You are just in time, to witness the last assembly of the year; for in a few weeks all the nobility will leave town in order to pass the summer in the country. I can’t give you a ticket, as they are only issued to the nobility, but you can come as my friend and keep close to me. You will see everything. If I am asked who you are, I will say that you have superintended the education of my son in Paris, and have brought him back to me.", "pos": 4862390}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "You do me too much honour.", "pos": 4863495}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I confess, that you have often given me a thousand pounds at a time, but that was a friendly gift, and nothing to be wondered at in a rich Englishman, considering that we were lovers and lived together. This suit, dishonours Fermer.", "pos": 4864213}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "I should think it did, but you surely don’t think it honours you.", "pos": 4864727}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Certainly I do.", "pos": 4864795}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "I don’t quite understand how you make that out.", "pos": 4864813}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I will explain it all to you.", "pos": 4864863}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "We will talk it over again.", "pos": 4864895}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I never have a penny to spare.", "pos": 4865214}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "You are not going to stay with me, then?", "pos": 4865984}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "No, your mother doesn’t know how to welcome or to treat me.", "pos": 4866036}
{"speaker": "Young Cornelis", "text": "I think you are right. I shall go back to Paris.", "pos": 4866098}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "Don’t do anything so silly. Remember that here you are at home, and that in Paris you might not find a roof to shelter you. Farewell; I shall see you on Sunday.", "pos": 4866149}
{"speaker": "The queen", "text": "M. Querini amused me extremely, he called me a little devil.", "pos": 4869993}
{"speaker": "Seingalt", "text": "He meant to say that your highness is as witty as an angel.", "pos": 4870074}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "It was all news to me, for I went there to-day for the first time.", "pos": 4872807}
{"speaker": "Sir Joseph Cornelis", "text": "Have you seen the king?", "pos": 4872886}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "My dear, you should not ask such questions,", "pos": 4872938}
{"speaker": "Sir Joseph Cornelis", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 4873001}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Because the gentleman may not wish to answer them.", "pos": 4873012}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "On the contrary, madam, I like being questioned. I have been teaching your son for the last six years to be always asking something, for that is the way to acquire knowledge. He who asks nothing knows nothing.", "pos": 4873065}
{"speaker": "Sir Joseph Cornelis", "text": "You have not told me yet, whether you saw the king.", "pos": 4873344}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, my man, I saw the king and the queen, and both their majesties did me the honour to speak to me.", "pos": 4873414}
{"speaker": "Sir Joseph Cornelis", "text": "Who introduced you?", "pos": 4873518}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "The French ambassador.", "pos": 4873540}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "I think you will agree with me, that last question was a little too much.", "pos": 4873565}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Certainly it would be if it were addressed to a stranger, but not to me who am his friend. You will notice that the reply he extracted from me did me honour. If I had not wished it to be known that I had been at Court, I should not have come here in this dress.", "pos": 4873660}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Very good; but as you like to be questioned, may I ask you why you were not presented by your own ambassador?", "pos": 4873924}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Because the Venetian ambassador would not present me, knowing that his Government have a bone to pick with me.", "pos": 4874036}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Say something to M. de Seingalt,", "pos": 4874234}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I don’t know what to say. Tell M. de Seingalt to ask me some questions, and I will answer to the best of my ability.", "pos": 4874286}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Well, Sophie, tell me in what studies you are engaged at the present time.", "pos": 4874421}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I am learning drawing; if you like I will shew you some of my work.", "pos": 4874498}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "I will look at it with pleasure; but tell me how you think you have offended me; you have a guilty air.", "pos": 4874568}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I, sir? I do not think I have done anything amiss.", "pos": 4874674}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Nor do I, my dear; but as you do not look at me when you speak I thought you must be ashamed of something. Are you ashamed of your fine eyes? You blush. What have you done?", "pos": 4874727}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "You are embarrassing her. Tell him, my dear, that you have done nothing, but that a feeling of modesty and respect prevents you from gazing at the persons you address.", "pos": 4874902}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, but if modesty bids young ladies lower their eyes, politeness should make them raise them now and again. I won’t look at anything, Sophie, unless you will look at me.", "pos": 4875091}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Come, look at the gentleman.", "pos": 4875451}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Now. I know you again, and perhaps you may remember having seen me.", "pos": 4875578}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Yes, although it is six years ago since we met, I recognized you directly.", "pos": 4875658}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "And yet you did not look me in the face! If you knew how impolite it was to lower your eyes when you are addressing anyone, you would not do it. Who can have given you such a bad lesson?", "pos": 4875735}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "They all rob me, but I have to put up with it. What I want is a sharp man to help me and watch over my interests; if I had such an one I should make an immense fortune in a comparatively short time; for when it is a question of pleasure, the English do not care what they spend.", "pos": 4878012}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "In the meanwhile, we will begin by letting you see all the nobility at Madame Cornelis’s on Thursday next. I can give you a ticket to admit to ball and supper. It is two guineas.", "pos": 4880409}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Is this formality necessary, my lady?", "pos": 4880691}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Yes; or else they would ask you for the money at the doors.", "pos": 4880731}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes. I have one which I intend to present to-morrow. It is a singular letter, being merely a portrait.", "pos": 4880995}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Have you got it about you?", "pos": 4881110}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, my lady.", "pos": 4881139}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "May I see it?", "pos": 4881155}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Certainly. Here it is.", "pos": 4881171}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "It is the Duchess of Northumberland. We will go and give it her.", "pos": 4881196}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "With pleasure!", "pos": 4881263}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Just wait till they have marked the game. My dear duchess, here is a letter of introduction which this gentleman begs to present to you.", "pos": 4881280}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Northumberland", "text": "I know, it is M. de Seingalt. My son has written to me about him. I am delighted to see you, Chevalier, and I hope you will come and see me. I receive thrice a week.", "pos": 4881526}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Will your ladyship allow me to present my valuable letter in person?", "pos": 4881694}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Northumberland", "text": "Certainly. You are right.", "pos": 4881765}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "You paid in gold. I suppose you had no bank notes about you?", "pos": 4881998}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes, my lady, I have notes for fifty and a hundred pounds.", "pos": 4882073}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Then you must change one of them or wait till another time to play, for in England to pay in gold is a solecism only pardonable in a stranger. Perhaps you noticed that the lady smiled?", "pos": 4882134}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Yes; who is she?", "pos": 4882321}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Lady Coventry, sister of the Duchess of Hamilton.", "pos": 4882340}
{"speaker": "M. de Seingalt", "text": "Ought I to apologize?", "pos": 4882392}
{"speaker": "Lady Harrington", "text": "Not at all, the offence is not one of those which require an apology. She must have been more surprised than offended, for she made fifteen shillings by your paying her in gold.", "pos": 4882416}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you ill?", "pos": 4884203}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "soup is only fit for invalids.", "pos": 4884229}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had been a week in my new home without seeing Martinelli.", "pos": 4884965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He came on a Monday morning, and I asked him to dine with me.", "pos": 4885025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was there that I made the acquaintance of Dr. Mati, of whom I shall speak in due course.", "pos": 4885235}
{"speaker": "A voice from the pit", "text": "On your knees.", "pos": 4887055}
{"speaker": "A thousand voices", "text": "On your knees,", "pos": 4887106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I asked him whom he had been speaking to.", "pos": 4887640}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "That’s the brother of Earl Ferrers, who was hanged a couple of months ago for murdering one of his people.", "pos": 4887682}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And you speak to his brother?", "pos": 4887802}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "Why shouldn’t I?", "pos": 4887834}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he not dishonoured by the execution of his relative?", "pos": 4887853}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "Dishonoured! Certainly not; even his brother was not dishonoured. He broke the law, but he paid for it with his life, and owed society nothing more. He’s a man of honour, who played high and lost; that’s all. I don’t know that there is any penalty in the statute book which dishonours the culprit; that would be tyrannical, and we would not bear it. I may break any law I like, so long as I am willing to pay the penalty. It is only a dishonour when the criminal tries to escape punishment by base or cowardly actions.", "pos": 4887911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 4888432}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "To ask for the royal mercy, to beg forgiveness of the people, and the like.", "pos": 4888451}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about escaping from justice?", "pos": 4888529}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "That is no dishonour, for to fly is an act of courage; it continues the defiance of the law, and if the law cannot exact obedience, so much the worse for it. It is an honour for you to have escaped from the tyranny of your magistrates; your flight from The Leads was a virtuous action. In such cases man fights with death and flees from it. ‘Vir fugiens denuo pugnabit’.", "pos": 4888564}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you think of highway robbers, then?", "pos": 4888937}
{"speaker": "Sir Augustus Hervey", "text": "I detest them as wretches dangerous to society, but I pity them when I reflect that they are always riding towards the gallows. You go out in a coach to pay a visit to a friend three or four miles out of London. A determined and agile-looking fellow springs upon you with his pistol in his hand, and says, ‘Your money or your life.’ What would you do in such a case?", "pos": 4888983}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I had a pistol handy I would blow out his brains, and if not I would give him my purse and call him a scoundrelly assassin.", "pos": 4889352}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "You would be wrong in both cases. If you killed him, you would be hanged, for you have no right to take the law into your own hands; and if you called him an assassin, he would tell you that he was no assassin as he attacked you openly and gave you a free choice. Nay, he is generous, for he might kill you and take your money as well. You might, indeed, tell him he has an evil trade, and he would tell you that you were right, and that he would try to avoid the gallows as long as possible. He would then thank you and advise you never to drive out of London without being accompanied by a mounted servant, as then no robber would dare to attack you. We English always carry two purses on our journeys; a small one for the robbers and a large one for ourselves.", "pos": 4889481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How could that be?", "pos": 4890757}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "The Crown asked the Duc de Nivernois to extradite him, and Louis XV. granted the request to make England assent to some articles of the peace. It was an act unworthy of a king, for it violates the right of nations. It is true that the man is a wretch, but that has nothing to do with the principle of the thing.", "pos": 4890787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course they have got back the seventy thousand pounds?", "pos": 4891101}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Not a shilling of it.", "pos": 4891161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How was that?", "pos": 4891185}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Because no money was found on him. He has most likely left his little fortune to his wife, who can marry again as she is still young and pretty.", "pos": 4891201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wonder the police have not been after her.", "pos": 4891348}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Such a thing is never thought of. What could they do? It’s not likely that she would confess that her husband left her the stolen money. The law says robbers shall be hanged, but it says nothing about what they have stolen, as they are supposed to have made away with it. Then if we had to take into account the thieves who had kept their theft and thieves who had spent it, we should have to make two sets of laws, and make all manner of allowances; the end of it would be inextricable confusion. It seems to us Englishmen that it would not be just to ordain two punishments for theft. The robber becomes the owner of what he has stolen; true, he got it by violence, but it is none the less his, for he can do what he likes with it. That being the case, everyone should be careful to keep what he has, since he knows that once stolen he will never see it again. I have taken Havana from Spain: this was robbery on a large scale.", "pos": 4891395}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "No, sir, my lord has not deceived you, and you can have as many as you like.", "pos": 4897731}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s what I came for. Sir, I don’t like the looks of this girl.", "pos": 4897821}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Give her a shilling and send her away. We don’t trouble ourselves about ceremonies in London.", "pos": 4898130}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I’ll see no more girls, let me have a good dinner. I think the procurer must have been making game of me for the sake of the shillings.", "pos": 4898461}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "It’s very likely; indeed it often happens so when a gentleman does not give the name and address of the wench he wants.", "pos": 4898617}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was not in London. I returned from Bath to-day.", "pos": 4899864}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "We shall see each other again; we must be careful.", "pos": 4900413}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have told you my name, madam. Do you not remember me?", "pos": 4901168}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I remember you perfectly, but a piece of folly is not a title of acquaintance.", "pos": 4901226}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "I am surprised, my dear elder, to see you in London.", "pos": 4902276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nor did I know that you were here. I came to town after the close of the opera. How is it that you are not living with your husband?", "pos": 4902406}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Because he games, loses, and despoils me of all I possess. Besides, a woman of my condition, if she be married, cannot hope that a rich lover will come and see her, while if she be alone she can receive visits without any constraint.", "pos": 4902541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shouldn’t have thought they would be afraid of Binetti; he used to be far from jealous.", "pos": 4902777}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Nor is he jealous now; but you must know that there is an English law which allows the husband to arrest his wife and her lover if he finds them in ‘flagrante delicto’. He only wants two witnesses, and it is enough that they are sitting together on a bed. The lover is forced to pay to the husband the half of all he possesses. Several rich Englishmen have been caught in this way, and now they are very shy of visiting married women, especially Italians.", "pos": 4902869}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So you have much to be thankful for. You enjoy perfect liberty, can receive any visitors you like, and are in a fair way to make a fortune.", "pos": 4903327}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Alas! my dear friend, you do not know all. When he has information from his spies that I have had a visitor, he comes to me in a sedan-chair at night, and threatens to turn me out into the street if I do not give him all the money I have. He is a terrible rascal!", "pos": 4903469}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "You can’t live here, without a pretty girl, and those who know that you keep bachelor’s hall are of opinion that you are very wise, and will save a great deal of useless expense.", "pos": 4904637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you keep a girl, my lord?", "pos": 4904828}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "No, for I am unfortunate enough to be disgusted with a woman after I have had her for a day.", "pos": 4904859}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you require a fresh one every day?", "pos": 4904954}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Yes, and without being as comfortable as you I spend four times as much. You must know that I live in London like a stranger. I never dine at my own house. I wonder at your dining alone.", "pos": 4904996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t speak English. I like soup and good wine, and that is enough to keep me from your taverns.", "pos": 4905185}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I expect so, with your French tastes.", "pos": 4905286}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will confess that they are not bad tastes.", "pos": 4905326}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "You are right, for, good Englishman as I am, I get on very well in Paris. I did not tell you what names to send for, and I was wrong.", "pos": 4905375}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, you ought to have told me.", "pos": 4905658}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "But even if I did they wouldn’t have come, for they are not at the orders of the procurers. If you will promise to pay them as I do, I will give you some tickets which will make them come.", "pos": 4905692}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can I have them here?", "pos": 4905883}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Just as you like.", "pos": 4905907}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That will be most convenient for me. Write out the tickets and let them know French if you can.", "pos": 4905927}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "That’s the difficulty; the prettiest only speak English.", "pos": 4906025}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never mind, we shall understand each other well enough for the purpose I dare say. She is doubly pretty, is she?", "pos": 4906084}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Not exactly, but she has cuckolded a duke of Great Britain who keeps her, and only uses her once or twice a month.", "pos": 4906300}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would you do me the honour of testing the skill of my cook?", "pos": 4906417}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Certainly, but I can’t make an appointment.", "pos": 4906479}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And supposing I am out.", "pos": 4906525}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I’ll go to the tavern.", "pos": 4906551}
{"speaker": "Young person", "text": "How much will you give me at dessert?", "pos": 4907314}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Three guineas.", "pos": 4907354}
{"speaker": "Young person", "text": "Come along.", "pos": 4907371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, there’s not a trace of beard on your face.", "pos": 4908167}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "There never is. I get myself shaved three times a day.", "pos": 4908227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Three times?", "pos": 4908295}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Yes, when I change my shirt I wash my hands; when I wash my hands I have to wash my face, and the proper way to wash a man’s face is with a razor.", "pos": 4908310}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When do you make these three ablutions?", "pos": 4908459}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "When I get up, when I dress for dinner, and when I go to bed, for I should not like the woman who is sleeping with me to feel my beard.", "pos": 4908501}
{"speaker": "Madame Binetti", "text": "if she were not in the way, she would be glad to dine with me. I was really doing her a great service, as her husband would suffer the torments of hell in trying to find out with whom she had dined.", "pos": 4909054}
{"speaker": "Madame Binetti", "text": "I never would have anything to do with him, because he is the greatest profligate in all England; and it’s a pity, because he is a kindhearted nobleman.", "pos": 4910092}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I am sorry for you, when I think of you being alone every day.", "pos": 4910478}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are you laughing at, my worthy woman?", "pos": 4913385}
{"speaker": "Old housekeeper", "text": "Because this notice is a laughing matter.", "pos": 4913430}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose you think I shall have no applications?", "pos": 4913474}
{"speaker": "Old housekeeper", "text": "Not at all, the doorstep will be crowded from morn to night, but I shall leave it all to Fanny. Only tell me how much to ask.", "pos": 4913526}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will arrange about the rent in my interview with the young lady. I don’t think I shall have so many enquiries, for the young lady is to speak French and English, and also to be respectable. She must not receive any visits, not even from her father and mother, if she has them.", "pos": 4913654}
{"speaker": "Old housekeeper", "text": "But there will be a mob in front of the house reading the notice.", "pos": 4913935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All the better. Nothing is the worse for being a little odd.", "pos": 4914003}
{"speaker": "St. James's Chronicle", "text": "The landlord of the second and third floors probably occupies the first floor himself. He must be a man of the world and of good taste, for he wants a young and pretty lodger; and as he forbids her to receive visits, he will have to keep her company himself. The landlord should take care lest he become his own dupe, for it is very likely that the pretty lodger would only take the room to sleep in, and possibly only to sleep in now and then; and if she chose she would have a perfect right to refuse to receive the proprietor’s visits.", "pos": 4914434}
{"speaker": "Martinelli", "text": "for, there are plenty of women in London who would come and lodge with you to be your ruin.", "pos": 4915496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In that case, it would be a case of Greek meeting Greek; however, we shall see. If I am taken in, people will have the fullest right to laugh at me, for I have been warned.", "pos": 4915601}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "I hoped I would let her have a room on the third floor, and that she would gladly submit to all my conditions.", "pos": 4916584}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may only make use of one room if you like, but all the floor will belong to you.", "pos": 4916696}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "Although the notice says the rooms will be let cheaply, I shall not be able to afford more than one room. Two shillings a week is all I can spend.", "pos": 4916783}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s exactly what I want for the whole suite of rooms; so you see you can use them all. My maid will wait on you, get you whatever food you may require, and wash your linen as well. You can also employ her to do your commissions, so that you need not go out for trifles.", "pos": 4916932}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "Then I will dismiss my maid, she robs me of little, it is true, but still too much for my small means. I will tell your maid what food to buy for me every day, and she shall have six sols a week for her pains.", "pos": 4917207}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That will be ample. I should advise you to apply to my cook’s wife, who will get your dinner and supper for you as cheaply as you could buy it.", "pos": 4917431}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "I hardly think so, for I am ashamed to tell you how little I spend.", "pos": 4917577}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Even if you only spend two sols a day, she will give you two sols’ worth. All the same I advise you to be content with what you get from the kitchen, without troubling about the price, for I usually have provision made for four, though I dine alone, and the rest is the cook’s perquisite. I merely advise you to the best of my ability, and I hope you will not be offended at my interest in your welfare.", "pos": 4917647}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "Really, sir, you are too generous.", "pos": 4918053}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wait a moment, and you will see how everything will be settled comfortably. For how much could you provide dinner and supper for this young lady who is not rich, and only wants to eat to live?", "pos": 4918090}
{"speaker": "Cook's wife", "text": "I can do it very cheaply; for you usually eat alone, and have enough for four.", "pos": 4918372}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; then I hope you will treat her very well for the sum she gives you.", "pos": 4918453}
{"speaker": "Fair lady", "text": "I can only afford five sols a day.", "pos": 4918534}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That will do nicely. You can go out when you like, and without rendering an account to anybody of your movements.", "pos": 4918571}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Against what? If I fall in love with her, so much the better; that is just what I want. What name did she give you?", "pos": 4919577}
{"speaker": "Old housekeeper", "text": "Mistress Pauline. She was quite pale when she came, and she went away covered with blushes.", "pos": 4919695}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "When she finished she shut herself up to write, and wished me good evening with much politeness.", "pos": 4920688}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is she going to take in the morning?", "pos": 4920787}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "I asked her, and she said she would only take a little bread.", "pos": 4920831}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you had better tell her that it is the custom of the house for the cook to serve everybody with coffee, chocolate, or tea, according to taste, in the morning, and that I shall be pained if she refuses to fare like the rest of us. But don’t tell her I said so. Here’s a crown for you, and you shall have one every week if you will wait upon and care for her properly.", "pos": 4920895}
{"speaker": "Cornelis", "text": "Mamma hasn’t allowed me to come. I have tried to do so a score of times without her leave. Read this letter, and you will find something which will surprise you.", "pos": 4921733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yesterday a bailiff waited for my door to be opened and slipped in and arrested me. I was obliged to go with him, and I am now in the sponging-house, and if I can’t get bail by to-day he will take me to Kings Bench Prison. The bail I require is to the amount of two hundred pounds, to pay a bill which has fallen due. Dear friend, come and succour me or else my other creditors will get wind of my imprisonment and I shall be ruined. You surely will not allow that to happen, if not for my sake at least for the sake of my innocent children. You cannot bail me yourself, but you can easily get a householder to do so. If you have the time come and call on me, and I will shew you that I could not help doing the bill, otherwise I could not have given my last ball, as the whole of my plate and china was pledged.", "pos": 4921938}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I am immensely obliged, for all your goodness to me.", "pos": 4923333}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Say nothing of that, madam; it is I who have need of your goodness.", "pos": 4923400}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "What can I do to shew my gratitude?", "pos": 4923470}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could you trouble yourself to take your meals with me? When I am alone I eat like an ogre, and my health suffers. If you do not feel inclined to grant me that favour, do not hesitate to refuse, and I assure you you shall fare just as well as if you had acceded to my request.", "pos": 4923508}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I shall be delighted to dine and sup with you; sir, whenever you are alone and you like to send for me. Nevertheless, I am not sure that my society will amuse you.", "pos": 4923786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, I am grateful to you, and I promise you you shall never repent of your kindness. I will do my best to amuse you, and I hope I shall succeed, for you have inspired me with the liveliest interest. We will dine at one to-day.", "pos": 4923952}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Nature, has favoured me with such a good constitution that I have never had the least sickness in my life, except on the sea.", "pos": 4924912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have made a voyage, then.", "pos": 4925055}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I must have done so to come to England.", "pos": 4925087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You might be an Englishwoman.", "pos": 4925129}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Yes, for the English language has been familiar to me from my childhood. Yes, and pretty well too from what they tell me.", "pos": 4925161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we will have a game together; my blunders will amuse you.", "pos": 4925435}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I think you may conquer me,", "pos": 4925900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What happiness for me!", "pos": 4925940}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Interruptions are often extremely inconvenient,", "pos": 4926019}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell them that I am at dinner, and that I shall not be disengaged till three o’clock.", "pos": 4926311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dine with us, dear Sophie,", "pos": 4926768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be the more likely to do what you wish.", "pos": 4926805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It shall be so if you please, but only for your sake, for that woman Rancour deserves that I should leave her standing at the door to punish her for her impertinence to me when I came to London.", "pos": 4927017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would wager that you don’t love her much.", "pos": 4927591}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I respect, but I cannot love her, for I am always afraid. I never see her without fearing her.", "pos": 4927637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you weep, then, at her fate?", "pos": 4927734}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "I pity her, and her family still more, and the expressions she used in sending me to you were very affecting.", "pos": 4927772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What were these expressions?", "pos": 4927884}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Go, said she, ‘kneel before him, for you and you alone can soften his heart.’", "pos": 4927916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you knelt before me because your mother told you to do so.", "pos": 4927997}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Yes, for if I had followed my own inclination I should have rushed to your arms.", "pos": 4928063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You answer well. But are you sure of persuading me?", "pos": 4928146}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "No, for one can never be sure of anything; but I have good hopes of success, remembering what you told me at the Hague. My mother told me that I was only three then, but I know I was five. She it was who told me not to look at you when I spoke to you, but fortunately you made her remove her prohibition. Everybody says that you are my father, and at the Hague she told me so herself; but here she is always dinning it into my ears that I am the daughter of M. de Monpernis.", "pos": 4928200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, Sophie dear, your mother does wrong in making you a bastard when you are the legitimate daughter of the dancer Pompeati, who killed himself at Vienna.", "pos": 4928677}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Then I am not your daughter?", "pos": 4928835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Clearly, for you cannot have two fathers, can you?", "pos": 4928866}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "But how is it that I am your image?", "pos": 4928919}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a mere chance.", "pos": 4928957}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "You deprive me of a dream which has made me happy. dear mamma,", "pos": 4928979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you give her the money,", "pos": 4929500}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "she will be able to sleep to-night in the fine house where she gave me such a poor reception.", "pos": 4929537}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "It makes me unhappy to think of it, but you must forgive her.", "pos": 4929633}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, Sophie; but out of love for you.", "pos": 4929697}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Write to her to the effect that it is to me you give the money, not to her; I dare not tell her so myself.", "pos": 4929737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not do that, my dear; it would be insulting her in her affliction. Do you understand that?", "pos": 4929846}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "Yes, quite well.", "pos": 4929947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may tell her that whenever she sends you to dine or sup with me, she will please me very much.", "pos": 4929966}
{"speaker": "Sophie", "text": "But you can write that down without wounding her, can you not? Do so, I entreat you. Dear mamma, ask papa to do so, and then I will come and dine with you sometimes.", "pos": 4930067}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "It’s a long time since I have laughed so much, and I don’t think I have ever had such an agreeable meal. That child is a perfect treasure. She is unhappy, poor little girl, but she would not be so if I were her mother. I wonder what she will say when Sophie tells her that she found you at table with your wife. She won’t believe it, as she knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony. How is that? I hate it because it is the grave of love. Not always.", "pos": 4930682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nine or ten months,", "pos": 4931439}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I really can’t say, my return to my country depends on my getting a letter.", "pos": 4931514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May I ask you what country you come from?", "pos": 4931608}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I see I shall soon have no secrets from you, but let me have a little time. I have only made your acquaintance to-day, and in a manner which makes me have a very high opinion of you.", "pos": 4931652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall try my best to deserve the good opinions you have conceived of my character.", "pos": 4931837}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "You have shewn yourself to me in a thoroughly estimable light.", "pos": 4931924}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give me your esteem, I desire it earnestly, but don’t say anything of respect, for that seems to shut out friendship; I aspire to yours, and I warn you that I shall do my best to gain it.", "pos": 4931989}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I have no doubt you are very clever in that way, but you are generous too, and I hope you will spare me. If the friendship between us became too ardent, a parting would be dreadful, and we may be parted at any moment, indeed I ought to be looking forward to it.", "pos": 4932179}
{"speaker": "Madame Binetti", "text": "He is a detestable fellow, he would like to have a fresh wife every day! What do you think of such conduct?", "pos": 4932917}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I envy him his happiness.", "pos": 4933039}
{"speaker": "Madame Binetti", "text": "He enjoys it because all women are such fools. He caught me through meeting me at your house; he would never have done so otherwise. What are you laughing at?", "pos": 4933067}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because if he has caught you, you have also caught him; you are therefore quits.", "pos": 4933228}
{"speaker": "Madame Binetti", "text": "You don’t know what you are talking about.", "pos": 4933311}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "I should very much like to see your boarder,", "pos": 4934006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I daresay, my lord, but I can’t gratify your curiosity just now, for the lady likes to be alone, and only puts up with my company because she can’t help it.", "pos": 4934062}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my lord, not to-day.", "pos": 4934474}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "I understand. Well, it’s very natural; bring the affair to a happy conclusion.", "pos": 4934501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do my best.", "pos": 4934582}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Then she is not your wife?", "pos": 4936156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; such happiness is not for me. It was a joke of mine, and the lady amused herself at the expense of your credulity.", "pos": 4936185}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Well, I should like to sleep with her.", "pos": 4936306}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Really? When?", "pos": 4936347}
{"speaker": "Madame Cornelis", "text": "Whenever mamma will let me. We must first ascertain, what the lady thinks of the arrangement.", "pos": 4936363}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "She needn’t fear a refusal, giving the child a kiss.", "pos": 4936480}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you shall have her with pleasure, madam. I will get her governess to fetch her away to-morrow.", "pos": 4936549}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At three o’clock,", "pos": 4936651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for she must dine with us.", "pos": 4936679}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "In prudence. I cannot go out unless I am alone.", "pos": 4937036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then shall we stay here?", "pos": 4937098}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "We could not do better.", "pos": 4937125}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Are you married, Pauline? Yes. Do you know what it is to be a mother? No, but I can partly imagine what happiness it must be. Are you separated from your husband? Yes, by circumstances and against our will. We were separated before we had cohabited together. Is he at London? No, he is far away, but please don’t say anything more about it. Only tell me whether my loss will be his gain. Yes, and I promise not to leave you till I have to leave England--that is, unless you dismiss me--and I shall leave this happy island to be happy with the husband of my choice. But I, dear Pauline, will be left unhappy, for I love you with all my heart, and am afraid to give you any proof of my love. Be generous and spare me, for I am not my own mistress, and have no right to give myself to you; and perhaps, if you were so ungenerous as to attack me, I should not have the strength to resist. I will obey, but I shall still languish. I cannot be unhappy unless I forfeit your favour. I have duties to perform, my dear friend, and I cannot neglect them without becoming contemptible in my own eyes and yours too. I should deem myself the most miserable of men if I despised a woman for making me happy. Well, I like you too well to think you capable of such conduct, but let us be moderate, for we may have to part to-morrow. You must confess that if we yielded to desire, this parting would be all the more bitter. If you are of another opinion, that only shews that your ideas of love and mine are different. Then tell me of what sort of love is that with which I am happy enough to have inspired you? It is of such a kind that enjoyment would only increase it, and yet enjoyment seems to me a mere accident. Then what is its essence? To live together in perfect unity. That’s a blessing we can enjoy from morning to eve, but why should we not add the harmless accident which would take so short a time, and give us such peace and tranquillity. You must confess, Pauline, that the essence cannot exist long without the accident. Yes, but you in your turn, you will agree that the food often proves in time to be deadly. No, not when one loves truly, as I do. Do you think that you will not love me so well after having possessed me? No, it’s because I think quite otherwise, that I dread to make the moment of parting so bitter. I see I must yield to your logic. I should like to see the food on which you feed your brain, otherwise your books. Will you let me come upstairs? Certainly, but you will be caught. How? Come and see. Your selection gives me a high idea of your mental qualities, but tell me, why do you give such a preference to Camoens and all these Portuguese authors? For a very good reason, I am Portuguese myself. You Portuguese? I thought you were Italian. And so you already know five languages, for you doubtless know Spanish. Yes, although Spanish is not absolutely necessary. What an education you have had! I am twenty-two now, but I knew all these languages at eighteen. Tell me who you are, tell me all about yourself. I am worthy of your confidence. I think so too, and to give you a proof of my trust in you I am going to tell you my history, for since you love me you can only wish to do me good. What are all these manuscripts? My history, which I have written down myself. Let us sit down.", "pos": 4938303}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "My mother had me brought up in a convent where her sister was abbess. I had all kinds of masters, especially an Italian from Leghorn, who in six years taught me all that he thought proper for me to know. He would answer any questions I chose to put him, save on religious matters, but I must confess that his reserve made me all the fonder of him, for in leaving me to reflect on certain subjects by myself he did a great deal to form my judgment. I was eighteen when my grandfather removed me from the convent, although I protested that I would gladly stay there till I got married. I was fondly attached to my aunt, who did all in her power after my mother’s death to make me forget the double loss I had sustained. My leaving the convent altered the whole course of my existence, and as it was not a voluntary action I have nothing to repent of. My grandfather placed me with his sister-in-law, the Marchioness X----o, who gave me up half her house. I had a governess, a companion, maids, pages, and footmen, all of whom, though in my service, were under the orders of my governess, a well-born lady, who was happily honest and trustworthy. A year after I had left the convent my grandfather came and told me in the presence of my governess that Count Fl---- had asked my hand for his son, who was coming from Madrid end would arrive that day. What answer did you give him, dear grandfather?", "pos": 4942405}
{"speaker": "Pauline's Grandfather", "text": "That the marriage would be acceptable to the whole of the nobility, and also to the king and royal family.", "pos": 4943808}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "But are you quite sure that the young count will like me and that I shall like the count?", "pos": 4943918}
{"speaker": "Pauline's Grandfather", "text": "That, my dear daughter, is a matter of course, and there need be no discussion on the subject.", "pos": 4944011}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "But it is a question in which I am strongly interested, and I should like to consider it very carefully. We shall see how matters arrange themselves.", "pos": 4944109}
{"speaker": "Pauline's Grandfather", "text": "You can see each other before deciding, but you must decide all the same.", "pos": 4944262}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I hope so, but let us not be too certain. We shall see. As soon as my grandfather had gone I told my governess that I had made up my mind never to give my hand save where I had given my heart, and that I should only marry a man whose character and tastes I had carefully studied. My governess gave me no answer, and on my pressing her to give me her opinion, she replied that she thought her best course would be to keep silence on such a delicate question. This was as much as to tell me that she thought I was right; at least I persuaded myself that it was so. The next day I went to the convent, and told the story to my aunt, the abbess, who listened to me kindly and said it was to be hoped that I should fall in love with him and he with me, but that even if it were otherwise she was of opinion that the marriage would take place, as she had reasons for believing that the scheme came from the Princess of Brazil, who favoured Count Fl----. Though this information grieved me, I was still glad to hear it, and my resolution never to marry save for love was all the more strongly confirmed. In the course of a fortnight the count arrived, and my grandfather presented him to me, several ladies being in the company. Nothing was said about marrying, but there was a deal of talk about the strange lands and peoples the new arrival had seen. I listened with the greatest attention, not opening my mouth the whole time. I had very little knowledge of the world, so I could not make any comparisons between my suitor and other men, but my conclusion was that he could never hope to please any woman, and that he would certainly never be mine. He had an unpleasant sneering manner, joked in bad taste, was stupid, and a devotee, or rather a fanatic. Furthermore he was ugly and ill-shapen, and so great a fop that he was not ashamed to relate the story of his conquests in France and Italy. I went home hoping with all my heart that he had taken a dislike to me, and a week which passed away without my hearing anything on the subject confirmed me in this belief, but I was doomed to be disappointed. My great-aunt asked me to dinner, and when I went I found the foolish young man and his father present, together with my grandfather, who formally introduced him to me as my future husband, and begged me to fix the wedding day. I made up my mind that I would rather die than marry him, and answered politely but coldly that I would name the day when I had decided on marrying, but I should require time to think it over. The dinner went off silently, and I only opened my mouth to utter monosyllables in reply to questions which I could not avoid. After the coffee had been served I left the house, taking no notice of anyone besides my aunt and my grandfather. Some time elapsed; and I again began to hope that I had effectually disgusted my suitor, but one morning my governess told me that Father Freire was waiting to speak to me in the ante-chamber. I ordered him to be sent in. He was the confessor of the Princess of Brazil, and after some desultory conversation he said the princess had sent him to congratulate me on my approaching marriage with Count Fl----. I did not evince any surprise, merely replying that I was sensible of her highness’s kindness, but that nothing had been decided so far, as I was not thinking of getting married.", "pos": 4944339}
{"speaker": "Father Freire", "text": "that I was at that happy age when I had no need to think of anything, as my kind friends and relations did all my thinking for me.", "pos": 4947795}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl’s coyness. Foreseeing the persecution to which I should be subjected, I went the next day to my aunt the abbess, who could not refuse me her advice. I began by stating my firm resolve to die rather than wed a being I detested.", "pos": 4947927}
{"speaker": "Pauline's Aunt", "text": "that the count had been introduced to her, and that to tell the truth she thought him insufferable; all the same, she said she was afraid I should be made to marry him.", "pos": 4948303}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "These words were such a shock to me that I turned the conversation, and spoke of other subjects for the remainder of my visit. But when I got back to my house I pursued an extraordinary course. I shut myself up in my closet and wrote a letter to the executioner of my unhappy father, the pitiless Oeiras, telling him the whole story, and imploring him to protect me and to speak to the king in my favour; for, as you have made me an orphan it is your duty before God to care for me. I begged him to shelter me from the anger of the Princess of Brazil, and to leave me at liberty to dispose of my hand according to my pleasure. Though I did not imagine Oeiras to be a humane man, yet I thought he must have some sort of a heart; besides, by this extraordinary step and the firmness of my language, I hoped to appeal to his pride and to interest him in my favour. I felt sure that he would do me justice, if only to prove that he had not been unjust to my father. I was right, as will be seen, and although I was but an inexperienced girl my instinct served me well. Two days elapsed before I was waited on by a messenger from Oeiras, who begged the honour of a private interview with me. The messenger told me that the minister wished me to reply to all who pressed me to marry that I should not decide until I was assured that the princess desired the match. The minister begged me to excuse his not answering my letter, but he had good reasons for not doing so. The messenger assured me that I could count on his master’s support. His message delivered, the gentleman took leave with a profound bow, and went back without waiting for an answer. I must confess that the young man’s looks had made a great impression on me. I cannot describe my feelings, but they have exerted great influence on my conduct, and will no doubt continue to do so for the rest of my life. This message put me quite at ease, for he would never have given me the instructions he did without being perfectly sure that the princess would not interfere any farther with my marriage; and so I gave myself up entirely to the new sentiments which possessed my heart. Though strong, the flame would no doubt soon have died down if it had not received fresh fuel every day, for when I saw the young messenger a week later in church I scarcely recognized him. From that moment, however, I met him everywhere; out walking, in the theatre, in the houses where I called, and especially when I was getting in or out of my carriage he was ever beside me, ready to offer his hand; and I got so used to his presence that when I missed his face I felt a void at my heart that made me unhappy. Almost every day I saw the two Counts Fl---- at my great-aunt’s, but as there was no longer any engagement between us their presence neither joyed me nor grieved me. I had forgiven them but I was not happy. The image of the young messenger, of whom I knew nothing, was ever before me, and I blushed at my thoughts though I would not ask myself the reasons. Such was my state of mind, when one day I heard a voice, which was unknown to me, in my maid’s room. I saw a quantity of lace on a table and proceeded to examine it without paying any attention to a girl who was standing near the table and curtsying to me. I did not like any of the lace, so the girl said that she would bring me some more to choose from the next day, and as I raised my eyes I was astonished to see that she had the face of the young man who was always in my thoughts. My only resource was to doubt their identity and to make myself believe that I had been deceived by a mere chance likeness. I was reassured on second thoughts; the girl seemed to me to be taller than the young man, whom I hesitated to believe capable of such a piece of daring. The girl gathered up her lace and went her way without raising her eyes to mine, and this made me feel suspicious again. Do you know that girl?", "pos": 4948473}
{"speaker": "Pauline's Maid", "text": "that she had never seen her before.", "pos": 4952457}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I went away without another word, not knowing what to think. I thought it over and resolved to examine the girl when she came on the following day, and to unmask her if my suspicions proved to be well founded. I told myself that she might be the young man’s sister, and that if it were otherwise it would be all the more easy to cure myself of my passion. A young girl who reasons on love falls into love, especially if she have no one in whom to confide. The pretended lace-seller duly came the next day with a box of lace. I told her to come into my room, and then speaking to her to force her to raise her eyes I saw before me the being who exerted such a powerful influence over me. It was such a shock that I had no strength to ask her any of the questions I had premeditated. Besides, my maid was in the room, and the fear of exposing myself operated, I think, almost as strongly as emotion. I set about choosing some pieces of lace in a mechanical way, and told my maid to go and fetch my purse. No sooner had she left the room than the lace-seller fell at my feet and exclaimed passionately,", "pos": 4952493}
{"speaker": "Lace-seller", "text": "Give me life or death, madam, for I see you know who I am.", "pos": 4953597}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Yes, I do know you, and I think you must have gone mad.", "pos": 4953659}
{"speaker": "Lace-seller", "text": "Yes, that may be; but I am mad with love. I adore you.", "pos": 4953718}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Rise, for my maid will come back directly.", "pos": 4953776}
{"speaker": "Lace-seller", "text": "She is in my secret.", "pos": 4953822}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "What! you have dared-- He got up, and the maid came in and gave him his money with the utmost coolness. He picked up his lace, made me a profound bow, and departed. It would have been natural for me to speak to my maid, and still more natural if I had dismissed her on the spot. I had no courage to do so, and my weakness will only astonish those rigorous moralists who know nothing of a young girl’s heart, and do not consider my painful position, passionately in love and with no one but myself to rely on. I did not follow at once the severe dictates of duty; afterwards it was too late, and I easily consoled myself with the thought that I could pretend not to be aware that the maid was in the secret. I determined to dissemble, hoping that I should never see the adventurous lover again, and that thus all would be as if it had never happened.", "pos": 4953846}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "What has become of the girl who sold me this kerchief?", "pos": 4956014}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "to be sure he had not dared to come again, fearing that I had found out his disguise.", "pos": 4956235}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. I found it out directly, but I was astonished to hear that you knew this lace-seller was a young man.", "pos": 4956323}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I did not think I should offend you, madam, I know him well.", "pos": 4956452}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is he?", "pos": 4956516}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "Count d’Al----; you ought to know him, for he paid you a visit about four months ago.", "pos": 4956529}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, and it is possible that I did not know him, but why did you tell a lie when I asked you, “Do you know that girl?”", "pos": 4956618}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "I lied to spare your feelings, madam, and I was afraid you would be angry at the part I had taken.", "pos": 4956741}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You would have honoured me more by supposing the contrary. When you went out, and I told him he was mad, and that you would find him on his knees when you returned, he told me you were in the secret.", "pos": 4956843}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "If it be a secret, but it seems to me a mere joke.", "pos": 4957046}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wished to think so too, but nevertheless it seemed of such weight to me, that I resolved to be silent that I might not be obliged to send you away.", "pos": 4957100}
{"speaker": "Woman", "text": "My idea was that you would have been amused, but as you take it seriously I am sorry that I have failed in my strict duty.", "pos": 4957253}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If, the count is offended with me for calling him a madman, he can have no delicacy and no discretion; he is unworthy of my love.", "pos": 4958479}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "Shall I shew her in?", "pos": 4959052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you crazy?", "pos": 4959091}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "Shall I send her away?", "pos": 4959108}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, I will go and speak to him myself.", "pos": 4959134}
{"speaker": "Count Al----", "text": "It is enough for me, that you will incur no danger, my visits will be set down to the account of your maid.", "pos": 4959842}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I am afraid for you, your disguise is a crime in itself; your reputation will suffer, and that will not tend to bring the wish of your heart nearer.", "pos": 4959977}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As soon as we get to England,", "pos": 4962621}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "we will get married, and can resume our several dresses. This marriage will efface whatever shame may be attached to our flight; they will say, perhaps, that the count carried me off; but a girl is not carried off against her will, and Oeiras surely will not persecute me for having made the fortune of his favourite. As to our means of subsistence, till I get my rents, I can sell my diamonds, and they will realize an ample sum.", "pos": 4962664}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "'Tis I.", "pos": 4964421}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "This letter comes from Count Oeiras, and enjoins me, on my life, not to let any Portuguese young lady land, unless she be known to me. I am to take her back to Lisbon after having executed my various commissions. There is neither wife nor maid on my frigate, except the countess your wife. If you can prove that she is really your wife she may land with you; otherwise, you see, I cannot disobey the minister’s orders.", "pos": 4967616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is my wife, but as I could not foresee this accident I have no papers to prove the fact.", "pos": 4968038}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "I am sorry to hear it, as in that case she must go back to Lisbon. You may be sure I will treat her with all possible respect.", "pos": 4968152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But a wife may not be parted from her husband.", "pos": 4968282}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Quite so, but I cannot disobey orders. If you like you can return to Lisbon in the corvette; you will be there before us.", "pos": 4968332}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why cannot I return in this frigate?", "pos": 4968457}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Because I have distinct orders to put you on land. And now I come to think of it, how was it that there was not a word about your wife in the letter you gave me when we started? If the lady is not the person meant by the minister, you may be sure she will be sent back to join you in London.", "pos": 4968496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will allow me to go and speak to her?", "pos": 4968791}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Certainly, but in my presence.", "pos": 4968835}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "we must needs submit, and that we should see each other again in a couple of months.", "pos": 4969181}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Trust in all things to the worthy captain, and let us not fear at all.", "pos": 4969783}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Who are the people, who desire a companion? You shall sup with them if you like,", "pos": 4970401}
{"speaker": "My fair Portuguese", "text": "The next day I was clothed like a poor girl who desires to escape notice. I spoke English well enough to seem a native of the country, and I knew how I must behave if I wished to be let alone. Although the landlady was a worthy woman, her house was not exactly suitable for me; my stay in England might be protracted, and if I came to destitution I should be wretched indeed; so I resolved to leave the house. I received no visitors, but I could not prevent the inquisitive from hovering round my door, and the more it became known that I saw no one, the more their curiosity increased. The house was not quiet enough. It was near the Exchange, and the neighborhood swarmed with young men who came to dine on the first floor of the house, and did their best to cure me of my sadness, as they called it, though I had not shewn any signs of wishing to be cured.", "pos": 4971262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I made up my mind not to spend more than a guinea a week, and resolved to sell my ring if I could have the money paid to me at intervals. An old jeweler who lodged next door, and for whose honesty my landlady answered, told me it was worth a hundred and fifty guineas, and asked me to let him have it if I had no better offer. I had not thought it to be so valuable, and I sold it to him on condition that he would pay me four guineas a month, and that I should be at liberty to buy it back if I could do so before all the payments had been made.", "pos": 4972123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wanted to keep my ready money, which I still have by me, so as to be able to go back to Lisbon by land when I can do so in safety, for I could not face the horrors of a sea voyage a second time.", "pos": 4972671}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told my case to my worthy landlady who still befriends me, and she helped me to get another lodging, but I had to procure a servant to fetch me my food; I could not summon up courage to have my meals in a coffee-house. However, all my servants turned out ill; they robbed me continually, and levied a tax on all their purchases.", "pos": 4972869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The temperance I observed--for I almost lived on bread and water--made me get thinner every day, still I saw no way of mending my existence till chance made me see your singular announcement. I laughed at it; and then drawn by some irresistible power, or perhaps by the curiosity that falls to the lot of most of us women, I could not resist going in and speaking to you. Instinct thus pointed out the way to improve my lot without increasing my expenditure.", "pos": 4973201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I got back I found a copy of the Advertiser on my landlady’s table; it contained some editorial fun on the notice I had just read. The writer said that the master of the house was an Italian, and had therefore nothing to fear from feminine violence. On my side I determined to hazard everything, but I feel I have been too hasty, and that there are certain attacks which it is pleasant not to resist. I was brought up by an Italian, a clever and good man, and I have always had a great respect for your fellow-countrymen.", "pos": 4973661}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Really, your history has amused me very much; it has all the air of a romance.", "pos": 4974251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so,", "pos": 4974332}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but it is a strictly historical romance. But the most amusing thing to me is that you have listened to it without weariness.", "pos": 4974354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is your modesty, madam; not only, has your tale interested me, but now that I know you are a Portuguese I am at peace with the nation.", "pos": 4974481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Were you at war with us, then?", "pos": 4974623}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have never forgiven you for letting your Portuguese Virgil die miserably two hundred years ago.", "pos": 4974656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You mean Camoens. But the Greeks treated Homer in the same way.", "pos": 4974756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but the faults of others are no excuse for our own.", "pos": 4974822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; but how can you like Camoens so much if you do not know Portuguese?", "pos": 4974881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have read a translation in Latin hexameters so well done that I fancied I was reading Virgil.", "pos": 4974966}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is that truly so?", "pos": 4975064}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would never lie to you.", "pos": 4975084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I make a vow to learn Latin.", "pos": 4975112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is worthy of you, but it is of me that you must learn the language. I will go to Portugal and live and die there, if you will give me your heart.’", "pos": 4975148}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My heart! I have only one, and that is given already. Since I have known you I have despised myself, for I am afraid I have an inconstant nature.", "pos": 4975301}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It will be enough for me if you will love me as your father, provided I may sometimes take my daughter to my arms. But go on with your story, the chief part is yet untold. What became of your lover, and what did your relations do when they found out your flight?", "pos": 4975449}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Three days after I arrived in this vast city I wrote to the abbess, my aunt, and told her the whole story, begging her to protect my lover, and to confirm me in my resolution never to return to Lisbon till I could do so in security, and have no obstacles placed in the way of my marriage. I also begged her to write and inform me of all that happened, addressing her letters to ‘Miss Pauline,’ under cover of my landlady.", "pos": 4975714}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I sent my letter by Paris and Madrid, and I had to wait three months before I got an answer. My aunt told me that the frigate had only returned a short time, and that the captain immediately on his arrival wrote to the minister informing him that the only lady who was in his ship when he sailed was still on board, for he had brought her back with him, despite the opposition of Count Al----, who declared she was his wife. The captain ended by asking his excellency for further orders with respect to the lady aforesaid.", "pos": 4976137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oeiras, feeling sure that the lady was myself, told the captain to take her to the convent of which my aunt was abbess, with a letter he had written. In this letter he told my aunt that he sent her her niece, and begged her to keep the girl securely till further orders. My aunt was extremely surprised, but she would have been still more surprised if she had not got my letter a few days before. She thanked the captain for his care, and took the false niece to a room and locked her up. She then wrote to Oeiras, telling him that she had received into her convent a person supposed to be his niece, but as this person was really a man in woman’s dress she begged his excellency to remove him as soon as possible.", "pos": 4976661}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When the abbess had written this curious letter she paid a visit to the count, who fell on his knees before her. My good aunt raised him, and shewed him my letter. She said that she had been obliged to write to the minister, and that she had no doubt he would be removed from the convent in the course of a few hours. The count burst into tears, and begging the abbess to protect us both gave her my jewel-casket, which the worthy woman received with great pleasure. She left him, promising to write to me of all that happened.", "pos": 4977377}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The minister was at one of his country estates, and did not receive the abbess’s letter till the next day, but hastened to reply in person. My aunt easily convinced his excellency of the need for keeping the matter secret, for a man had been sent into the convent, which would be to her dishonour. She shewed the proud minister the letter she had had from me, and told him how the honest young man had given her my jewel-casket. He thanked her for her open dealing, and begged her pardon with a smile for sending a fine young man to her nunnery.", "pos": 4977906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The secret,", "pos": 4978454}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is of the greatest importance; we must see that it goes no farther. I will relieve you of your false niece, and take her away in my carriage.", "pos": 4978477}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My aunt took him at his word and brought out the young recluse, who drove away with the minister. The abbess tells me that from that day she has heard nothing about him, but that all Lisbon is talking over the affair, but in a wholly distorted manner. They say that the minister first of all put me under the care of my aunt, but soon after took me away, and has kept me in some secret place ever since. Count Al---- is supposed to be in London, and I in the minister’s power, and probably we are supposed to have entered into a tender relationship. No doubt his excellency is perfectly well informed of my doings here, for he knows my address and has spies everywhere.", "pos": 4978621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the advice of my aunt I wrote to Oeiras a couple of months ago, telling him that I am ready to return to Lisbon, if I may marry Count Al---- and live in perfect liberty. Otherwise, I declared, I would stay in London, where the laws guaranteed my freedom. I am waiting for his answer every day, and I expect it will be a favourable one, for no one can deprive me of my estates, and Oeiras will probably be only too glad to protect me to lessen the odium which attaches to his name as the murderer of my father.", "pos": 4979292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If my sufferings serve to increase your charms,", "pos": 4980558}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you ought not to let me die, for a dead man has no suffering.", "pos": 4980616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you think that your sufferings are due to your love for me?", "pos": 4980680}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 4980745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There may be something in it, but, believe me, the tender passion does not destroy the appetite nor take away the power of sleep. Your indisposition is undoubtedly due to the sedentary life you have been leading of late. If you love me, give me a proof of it; go out for a ride.", "pos": 4980758}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot refuse you anything, dearest Pauline, but what then?", "pos": 4981039}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you shall find me grateful to you, you will have a good appetite, and will sleep well.", "pos": 4981103}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A horse, a horse! Quick! My boots!", "pos": 4981197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll wager it is nothing more than a sprain. I only wish it was put out that I might have some chance of shewing my skill.", "pos": 4982537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am delighted,", "pos": 4982662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "not to be in a position to call for that amount of talent, but I shall have a high opinion of you if you set me up in a short time.", "pos": 4982688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Unhappy wretch that I am!", "pos": 4983103}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "’tis I that have brought you to this.", "pos": 4983173}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Divine being!", "pos": 4983283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is nothing; only a sprain.", "pos": 4983339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What pain that foolish old woman has given me!", "pos": 4983371}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God be praised that it is no worse! Feel my heart.", "pos": 4983419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes! I felt it with delight. It was a happy fall for me.", "pos": 4983472}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you laughing at, sweetheart?", "pos": 4983728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At the craft of love, which always triumphs at last.", "pos": 4983768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where have you been?", "pos": 4983823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I went to my old jeweler’s to redeem my ring, that you might have a souvenir of me; here it is.", "pos": 4983846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pauline! Pauline! a little love would have been much more precious to me than this beautiful ring.", "pos": 4983944}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have both. Till the time of my departure, which will come only too soon, we will live together like man and wife; and to-night shall be our wedding night, and the bed the table for the feast.", "pos": 4984045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What sweet news you give me, Pauline! I cannot believe it till my happiness is actually accomplished.", "pos": 4984249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may doubt, if you like; but let it be a slight doubt, or else you will do me wrong. I am tired of living with you as a lover and only making you wretched, and the moment I saw you on horseback I determined to belong to you. Consequently I went to redeem the ring directly you left, and I do not intend to leave you until I receive the fatal message from Lisbon. I have dreaded its arrival every day for the last week.", "pos": 4984353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May the messenger that brings it be robbed on the way.", "pos": 4984777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No such luck, I am afraid.", "pos": 4984834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dearest, one can love and yet be wise; the door is open.", "pos": 4984977}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dearest, you might make yourself worse; let us wait till your sprain is cured.", "pos": 4987349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are we to wait till I am cured for the consummation of our marriage?", "pos": 4987430}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose so, for if I am not mistaken the thing can’t be done without a certain movement.", "pos": 4987501}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are wrong, dear Pauline, but it would make no difference to me even if it were so. You may be sure I would not put it off till to-morrow, even if it cost me my leg. Besides, you shall see that there are ways and means of satisfying our passions without doing me any harm. Is that enough for you?", "pos": 4987594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well, as it is written that a wife should obey her husband, you will find me docile.", "pos": 4987895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When?", "pos": 4987988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After supper.", "pos": 4987996}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we will have no supper. We shall dine with all the better appetite to-morrow. Let us begin now.", "pos": 4988012}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for the suspicions of the servants might be aroused. Love has its rules of decency like everything else.", "pos": 4988115}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You talk as wisely as Cato, and I am obliged to confess that you are right in all you say.", "pos": 4988226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, sweetheart, you dressed and undressed for a fortnight before your betrothed.", "pos": 4988938}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Yes, but he was always lying in his hammock with his back towards me at night, and in the morning he never turned round and wished me good day till he knew I was dressed.", "pos": 4989032}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, he never turned?", "pos": 4989205}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I never let him take any liberties.", "pos": 4989230}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Such virtue is incomprehensible to me.", "pos": 4989268}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "You see the count was to be my husband, and I was to be his wife, and in such cases a young woman is careful. Besides, I believe that if one will but refrain from taking the first step, continence is easy. Then the count was naturally timid, and would never have taken any liberties without my encouraging him, which I took care not to do. For this once, you will allow me to sleep with you in my clothes.", "pos": 4989309}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, if you wish me to be dressed also, otherwise it would be unbearable for both of us.", "pos": 4989717}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "You are very cruel.", "pos": 4989814}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, dearest, are you not ashamed of these foolish scruples?", "pos": 4989836}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Well, well, put out the candles, and in a minute I will be beside you.", "pos": 4989899}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; though the want of light will deprive me of a great pleasure. Quick, out with them!", "pos": 4989972}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "What are you thinking of, dearest?", "pos": 4992051}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am trying to convince myself that my happiness is not a dream, and if it be real I want it to last for ever. I am the happy mortal to whom you have given up your great treasure, of which I am unworthy, though I love you tenderly.", "pos": 4992088}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Sweetheart, you are worthy of all my devotion and affection, if you have not ceased to respect me.", "pos": 4992322}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can you doubt it, Pauline?", "pos": 4992423}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "No, dearest, I think you love me, and that I shall never repent having trusted in you. If the loss of shame is the result of knowledge, how was it that our first parents were not ashamed till they had acquired knowledge?", "pos": 4992452}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know, dearest, but tell me, did you ever ask your learned Italian master that same question?", "pos": 4992860}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Yes, I did.", "pos": 4992963}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What did he say?", "pos": 4992977}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "That their shame arose not from their enjoyment, but from disobedience; and that in covering the parts which had seduced them, they discovered, as it were, the sin they had committed. Whatever may be said on the subject, I shall always think that Adam was much more to blame than Eve.", "pos": 4992996}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How is that?", "pos": 4993283}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Because Adam had received the prohibition from God, while Eve had only received it from Adam.", "pos": 4993298}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thought that both of them received the prohibition directly from God.", "pos": 4993394}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "You have not read Genesis, then.", "pos": 4993468}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are laughing at me.", "pos": 4993503}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Then you have read it carelessly, because it is distinctly stated that God made Eve after he had forbidden Adam to eat of the fruit.", "pos": 4993529}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wonder that point has not been remarked by our commentators; it seems a very important one to me.", "pos": 4993664}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "They are a pack of knaves, all sworn enemies of women.", "pos": 4993766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, no, they give proofs of quite another feeling only too often.", "pos": 4993823}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "We won’t say anything more about it. My teacher was an honest man.", "pos": 4993891}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Was he a Jesuit?", "pos": 4993960}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "Yes, but of the short robe.", "pos": 4993979}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 4994009}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "We will discuss the question another time.", "pos": 4994029}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; I should like to have it proved to me that a man can be a Jesuit and honest at the same time.", "pos": 4994074}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "There are exceptions to all rules.", "pos": 4994181}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "I have found out too late, that chance alone can make a marriage, contracted for such physical reasons, happy.", "pos": 4997094}
{"speaker": "Pauline", "text": "We must part, dear friend, and try to forget one another, for my honour obliges me to become the wife of the count as soon as I arrive in Lisbon. The first fancy of my heart, which you have almost effaced, will regain all its old force when I see you no longer, and I am sure I shall love my husband, for he is a goodhearted, honest, and pleasant young man; that much I know from the few days we lived together. Now I have a favour to ask of you, which I am sure you will grant. Promise me never to come to Lisbon without my permission. I hope you will not seek to know my reasons; you would not, I am sure, come to trouble my peace, for if I sinned I should be unhappy, and you would not desire that for me. I have dreamed we have lived together as man and wife, and now we are parted I shall fancy myself a widow about to undertake another marriage.", "pos": 4999846}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "Sir, the old woman wants to know whether she is to put up the notice again.", "pos": 5003680}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The old hag! Does she want me to choke her?", "pos": 5003769}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "Good heavens-no, sir! She is very fond of you, seeing you seemed so sad, she thought . . . .", "pos": 5003815}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and tell her never to think such things again, and as for you . . . .", "pos": 5003910}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "I will do as you wish, sir.", "pos": 5003985}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then leave me.", "pos": 5004015}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tommy has committed suicide, and he was wise, for he was in such a state that he could only expect unhappiness for the rest of his life.", "pos": 5004775}
{"speaker": "the other", "text": "You are quite mistaken. I was one of his creditors myself, and on making an inventory of his effects I feel satisfied that he has done a very foolish and a very childish thing; he might have lived on comfortably, and not killed himself for fully six months.", "pos": 5004913}
{"speaker": "the banker", "text": "He’s worth a hundred thousand,", "pos": 5005592}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And who is that other man over there?", "pos": 5005642}
{"speaker": "the banker", "text": "He’s not worth a ten-pound note.", "pos": 5005682}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I don’t want to hear what they are worth; it’s their names I want.", "pos": 5005717}
{"speaker": "the banker", "text": "I really don’t know.", "pos": 5005790}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can you tell how much they are worth, not knowing their names?", "pos": 5005813}
{"speaker": "banker", "text": "Names don’t go for anything here. What we want to know about a man is how much he has got? Besides; what’s in a name? Ask me for a thousand pounds and give me a proper receipt, and you can do it under the name of Socrates or Attila, for all I care. You will pay me back my money as Socrates or Attila, and not as Seingalt; that is all. But how about signing bills of exchange? That’s another thing; I must use the name which the drawer gives me. I don’t understand that. Well, you see, you are not English, nor are you a business man.", "pos": 5005882}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Come again in an hour. I have no money by me just now. Take back your note; you shall give it to me when I hand you the money. Don’t be so foolish. If you left me the note I should certainly decline to hand over the money, if only for the sake of giving you a lesson. I don’t believe you are capable of such dishonesty. Nor am I, but when it comes to such a simple thing as putting a bank note in your pocket, the most honest man in the world would never dream of having such a thing in his possession without having paid the money for it, and the least slip of memory might lead to a dispute in which you would infallibly come off second best. I feel the force of your arguments, especially in a town where so much business is carried on. My Lord Pembroke has seen her, and thought her charming. What? Where could he have seen her? In a carriage with you driving fast along the Rochester road. It is three or four days ago. Then I may tell you that I was taking her to Calais; I shall never see her face again. Will you let the room again in the same way? No, never again, though the god of love has been propitious to me. I shall be glad to see you at my house whenever you like to come. Shall I send you a note to warn you? Not at all. Not at all, for then they might be recognized; whereas in exposing their posteriors they run no such risk; besides the sight makes squeamish persons turn away. You are right, but you will confess that the whole thing strikes a stranger as very revolting. Yes, there is nothing so ineradicable as national prejudice. You may have noticed that when an Englishman wants to ease his sluices in the street, he doesn’t run up an alley or turn to the wall like we do. Yes, I have noticed them turning towards the middle of the street, but if they thus escape the notice of the people in the shops and on the pavement they are seen by everybody who is driving in a carriage, and that is as bad. The people in the carriages need not look. That is true. I feel rather curious about it, and perhaps I may come and keep you company to-day. That’s a curious sight for you; you can enter it amidst your remarks on English manners. What is it? A man at the point of death from a blow he has received in boxing with another sturdy fellow. Cannot anything be done? There is a surgeon there who would bleed him, if he were allowed. Who could prevent him? That’s the curious part of it. Two men have betted on his death or recovery. One says, ‘I’ll bet twenty guineas he dies,’ and the other says, ‘Done.’ Number one will not allow the surgeon to bleed him, for if the man recovered his twenty guineas would be gone. Poor man! what pitiless betters! The English are very strange in their betting proclivities; they bet about everything. There is a Betting Club to which I will introduce you, if you like. Do they speak French there? Most certainly, for it is composed of men of wit and mark. What do they do? They talk and argue, and if one man brings forward a proposition which another denies, and one backs his opinion, the other has to bet too, on pain of a fine which goes to the common fund. Introduce me to this delightful club, by all means; it will make my fortune, for I shall always take care to be on the right side. You had better be careful; they are wary birds. But to return to the dying man; what will be done to his antagonist? His hand will be examined, and if it is found to be just the same as yours or mine it will be marked, and he will be let go. I don’t understand that, so kindly explain. How do they recognize a dangerous hand? If it is found to be marked already, it is a proof that he has killed his man before and has been marked for it, with the warning, ‘Take care not to kill anyone else, for if you do you will be hanged.’ But supposing such a man is attacked? He ought to shew his hand, and then his adversary would let him alone. But if not? Then he is defending himself; and if he kills his man he is acquitted, provided he can bring witnesses to swear that he was obliged to fight. Since fighting with the fist may cause death, I wonder it is allowed. It is only allowed for a wager. If the combatants do not put one or more pieces of money on the ground before the fight, and there is a death, the man is hanged. What laws! What manners!", "pos": 5006678}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "But supposing they ask me a question? Evade it. Certainly not. They are noblemen, philosophers, and epicures; but they are pitiless where a bet is concerned. Far from it; they are all ashamed to pay a fine, and prefer to bet. Who will introduce you? Quite so; through Lord Spencer, who is a member. I would not become one. Because I don’t like argument. My taste runs the other way, so I shall try to get in. By the way, M. de Seingalt, do you know that you are a very extraordinary man? For what reason, my lord? You shut yourself up for a whole month with a woman who spent fourteen months in London without anybody making her acquaintance or even discovering her nationality. All the amateurs have taken a lively interest in the affair. Because several persons saw her in the house of a worthy widow where she spent the first month. She would never have anything to say to any advances, but the bill in your window worked wonders. Yes, and all the worse for me, for I feel as if I could never love another woman. Oh, that’s childish indeed! You will love another woman in a week--nay, perhaps to-morrow, if you will come and dine with me at my country house. A perfect French beauty has asked me to dine with her. I have told some of my friends who are fond of gaming. Does the charming Frenchwoman like gaming? No, but her husband does. What’s his name? He calls himself Count de Castelbajac. Ah! Castelbajac? Yes. He is a Gascon? Yes. Tall, thin, and dark, and marked with the smallpox? Exactly! I am delighted to find you know him. You will agree with me that his wife is very pretty? I really can’t say. I knew Castelbajac, as he calls himself, six years ago, and I never heard he was married. I shall be delighted to join you, however. I must warn you not to say anything if he seems not to know me; he may possibly have good reasons for acting in that manner. Before long I will tell you a story which does not represent him in a very advantageous manner. I did not know he played. I shall take care to be on my guard at the Betting Club, and I advise you, my lord, to be on your guard in the society of Castelbajac. I will not forget the warning.", "pos": 5013092}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "No, no! papa dear; In spite of your affection, you treat her with insufferable tyranny. Send her to a boarding-school for a couple of years, and let her associate with girls of good family. Tell her this evening that she is to go to school, and see if she does not get better. Yes, but a good boarding-school costs a hundred guineas a year, including masters. If I approve of the school you select I will pay a year in advance. Come and tell the news to your daughter now. I should like to watch her face when she hears it. Certainly. My dear Sophie, your mother agrees with me that if you had a change of air you would get better, and if you would like to spend a year or two in a good school I will pay the first year in advance. Of course, I will obey my dear mother. There is no question of obedience. Would you like to go to school? Tell me truly. But would my mother like me to go? Yes, my child, if it would please you. Then, mamma, I should like to go very much. No, but it is only ten o’clock. Yes, but we have twenty miles to go. Twenty miles? Certainly, the house is at St. Albans. It’s very strange Pembroke never told me; how did you find out the address? He left it when he went away. Just like an Englishman.", "pos": 5016388}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "What have we here, my lord? A cock. I see it is, but why do you chain it? Because it is savage. It is very amorous, and if it were loose it would go after the hens, and kill all the cocks on the country-side. But why do you condemn him to celibacy? To make him fiercer. Here, this is the list of his conquests.", "pos": 5018795}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "The bird cost me a hundred guineas, but I would not sell him for a thousand. Has he any offspring? He tries his best, but there are difficulties.", "pos": 5020148}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "My uncle wore it on the day of his death, and the King of Prussia allowed me to keep it as a noble memorial of my kinsman. Yes, but the coat-pocket is not the place for a thing like that.", "pos": 5021060}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will bring me ill-luck,", "pos": 5022656}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know nothing about business,", "pos": 5024818}
{"speaker": "Castelbajac", "text": "I am the backer, and that ought to be enough, I think.", "pos": 5024986}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "For, if that Gascon were to be half as insolent to me as he was to you, I should shew him out by the window.", "pos": 5025670}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think, that those four notes of theirs can be forgeries?", "pos": 5025854}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "It’s very possible.", "pos": 5025930}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What would you advise my doing to clear the matter up?", "pos": 5025952}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "I would send them to the bank.", "pos": 5026009}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if they should be forgeries?", "pos": 5026042}
{"speaker": "Pembroke", "text": "I would have patience, or I would arrest the rascals.", "pos": 5026077}
{"speaker": "banker", "text": "These notes are bad, sir.", "pos": 5026250}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Be kind enough to examine them closely.", "pos": 5026278}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s no good, they are evident forgeries. Return them to the person from whom you got them, and he will be only too glad to cash them.", "pos": 5026320}
{"speaker": "Castelbajac", "text": "I haven’t got any money, and what you say astonishes me very much. I can only return them to the persons who gave them to me, if the are really the same notes that we gave you yesterday.", "pos": 5026866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know that my wife lives here, and that she is rich. I shall easily find out where she lives, and you know that as I am her husband all that is hers is mine.", "pos": 5033529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was not aware of that.", "pos": 5033690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you don’t know the laws of this country?", "pos": 5033717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 5033765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry to hear it, but such is the case. I am going to her house, and I shall turn her out of doors with nothing else than the dress on her back, for the furniture, clothes, jewels, linen--in fact, all her possessions, belong to me. May I ask you to be with me when I perform this exploit?", "pos": 5033779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are the first person to whom I have disclosed my intentions.", "pos": 5034152}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has only robbed me of my honour, sir, and she left me, taking her talents with her. She must have made a great fortune here, and have I not a right to take it from her, were it only for vengeance sake?", "pos": 5034522}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That may be, but I ask you what you would think of me if I agreed to join you in an undertaking which seems a cruel one to me, however good your reasons may be. Besides I may know your wife, she may even be a friend of mine.", "pos": 5034730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will tell you her name.", "pos": 5034957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I beg of you not to do so, although I do not know any Madame Constantini.", "pos": 5034985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has changed her name to Calori, and she sings at the ‘Haymarket.’", "pos": 5035065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know who she is now. I am sorry you have told me.", "pos": 5035137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no doubt you will keep my secret, and I am now going to find out where she lives; for that is the principal thing.", "pos": 5035191}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where does she come from?", "pos": 5035764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From Vicenza.", "pos": 5035792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is she married?", "pos": 5035808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t think so.", "pos": 5035826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They have arrested me for my wife’s debts,", "pos": 5036863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and they tell me I must pay them because I am her husband.", "pos": 5036917}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a trick your wife has played on you; she must have found out you were in London.", "pos": 5036978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She saw me through the window.", "pos": 5037066}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you delay putting your project into execution?", "pos": 5037099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I meant to carry it out this morning, but how was I to know that she had debts?", "pos": 5037156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nor has she any debts; these bills are shams. They must have been ante-dated, for they were really executed yesterday. It’s a bad business, and she may have to pay dearly for it.", "pos": 5037238}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But in the meanwhile I am in prison.", "pos": 5037419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind, trust to me, I will see you again tomorrow.", "pos": 5037458}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s enough,", "pos": 5038075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "don’t trouble yourself any more about it.", "pos": 5038101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 5038318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all. The lover of his wife, foreseeing the storm that was about to burst over their heads, got round the fellow, and made him leave the country by means of a sum more or less large.", "pos": 5038332}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "My name was Anspergher when I saw you, but now it is Charpillon; and considering that we only met once, and that I was only thirteen at the time, I do not wonder at your not recollecting me. I have been in London with my mother and aunts for the last four years.", "pos": 5039988}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But where had I the pleasure of speaking to you?", "pos": 5040268}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "At Paris.", "pos": 5040319}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In what part of Paris?", "pos": 5040331}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "In the Bazaar. You were with a charming lady, and you gave me these buckles and you also did me the honour to kiss me.", "pos": 5040356}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now I remember you, but I do not recognize your aunt.", "pos": 5040631}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "This is the sister of the one you saw, but if you will take tea with us you will see her.", "pos": 5040697}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where do you live?", "pos": 5040789}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "In Denmark Street, Soho. What! a letter from the dear ambassador Morosini. How delighted I am to have it! And you have actually been all these months in London without giving it me?", "pos": 5040810}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I confess I am to blame, but, as you see, the note has no address on it. I am grateful for the chance which has enabled me to discharge my commission to-day.", "pos": 5041274}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Come and dine with us to-morrow.", "pos": 5041434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot do so, as I am expecting Lord Pembroke to dinner.", "pos": 5041469}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Will you be alone?", "pos": 5041530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I expect so.", "pos": 5041551}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I am glad to hear it; you will see my aunt and myself appearing on the scene.", "pos": 5041566}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here is my address; and I shall be delighted if you will come and see me.", "pos": 5041646}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Then you are the Italian, who put up that notice that amused all the town?", "pos": 5041797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am.", "pos": 5041886}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "They say the joke cost you dear.", "pos": 5041894}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite the reverse; it resulted in the greatest happiness.", "pos": 5041929}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "But now that the beloved object has left you, I suppose you are unhappy?", "pos": 5041989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am; but there are sorrows so sweet that they are almost joys.", "pos": 5042064}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Nobody knows who she was, but I suppose you do?", "pos": 5042130}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5042180}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Do you make a mystery of it?", "pos": 5042187}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Surely, and I would rather die than reveal it.", "pos": 5042218}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Ask my aunt if I may take some rooms in your house; but I am afraid my mother would not let me.", "pos": 5042267}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you want to lodge cheaply?", "pos": 5042365}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I don’t want to lodge cheaply, but I should like to punish the audacious author of that notice.", "pos": 5042401}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How would you punish me?", "pos": 5042499}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "By making you fall in love with me, and then tormenting you. It would have amused me immensely.", "pos": 5042526}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you think that you can inspire me with love, and at the same time form the dreadful plan of tyrannising over the victim of your charms. Such a project is monstrous, and unhappily for us poor men, you do not look a monster. Nevertheless, I am obliged to you for your frankness, and I shall be on my guard.", "pos": 5042624}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Then you must take care never to see me, or else all your efforts will be in vain.", "pos": 5042936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She will have no charm, when I have once possessed her, and that will not be long in coming.", "pos": 5044985}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I once took a violent fancy for the little hussy. It was one evening when I was at Vauxhall, and I offered her twenty guineas if she would come and take a little walk with me in a dark alley. She said she would come if I gave her the money in advance, which I was fool enough to do. She went with me, but as soon as we were alone she ran away, and I could not catch her again, though I looked for her all the evening.", "pos": 5046097}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You ought to have boxed her ears before everybody.", "pos": 5046528}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I should have got into trouble, and people would have laughed at me besides. I preferred to despise her and the money too. Are you in love with her?", "pos": 5046581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; but I am curious, as you were.", "pos": 5046732}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Take care! she will do all in her power to entrap you.", "pos": 5046769}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Another time. I shall not escape you.", "pos": 5047102}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Perhaps not, my dear, for another time I shall take care not to pay in advance.", "pos": 5047155}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Oh, fie! you degrade yourself by talking about paying.", "pos": 5047237}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "I suppose I honour you.", "pos": 5047294}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "We never talk of such things.", "pos": 5047320}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am delighted to see you again,", "pos": 5048569}
{"speaker": "Charpillon's mother", "text": "I recollect you, sir; that rascal Bolome . . . .", "pos": 5048645}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will discuss that subject another time. I see you are ill.", "pos": 5048696}
{"speaker": "Charpillon's mother", "text": "I have been at death’s door, but I am better now. My daughter did not tell me your proper name.", "pos": 5048760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, she did. My name is Seingalt as well as Casanova. I was known by the latter name at Paris when I made your daughter’s acquaintance, though I did not know then that she was your daughter.", "pos": 5048858}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I have come to breakfast with you, and to discuss a certain question,", "pos": 5050594}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you tell me your business now, or after breakfast?", "pos": 5050705}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "After breakfast; for we must be alone.", "pos": 5050763}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What would she do with the money?", "pos": 5051026}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "She would make the Balm of Life, of which she possesses the secret, and no doubt she would make her fortune, too.", "pos": 5051062}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will give you a decided answer after supper.", "pos": 5051501}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Farewell, till this evening.", "pos": 5051853}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "At least, let us have a game of whist,", "pos": 5052433}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It seems to me, that you don’t feel very anxious to hear my reply.", "pos": 5052484}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "You have made up your mind, I suppose?", "pos": 5052567}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have, follow me.", "pos": 5052608}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Then please to give the money to my aunt, otherwise these gentlemen might think I got it from you by some improper means.", "pos": 5052771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will do so.", "pos": 5052895}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "You will get nothing from me either by money or violence; but you can hope for all when I find you really nice and quiet.", "pos": 5053002}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As documents have to be executed, it will take some time; we will talk of it again.", "pos": 5053634}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Won’t you fix the time?", "pos": 5053732}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The time depends entirely on you.", "pos": 5053821}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; I would have given you the hundred guineas if your niece had treated me as a friend, but she refused me favours a vestal might have granted, and you must be aware that she is by no means a vestal.", "pos": 5055205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t mind my laughing. My niece is an innocent, giddy girl; she loves you, but she is afraid you have only a passing whim for her. She is in bed now with a bad cold, and if you will come and see her I am sure you will be satisfied.", "pos": 5055415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come now, and give one knock.", "pos": 5055900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, then you may expect me shortly.", "pos": 5055932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come back in a quarter of an hour; she has been ordered a bath, and is just going to take it.", "pos": 5056289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is another imposture. You’re as bad a liar as she is.", "pos": 5056385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are cruel and unjust, and if you will promise to be discreet, I will take you up to the third floor where she is bathing.", "pos": 5056446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; take me.", "pos": 5056574}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Give me the towels, aunt. Begone!", "pos": 5056849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You needn’t exert your voice, for I am not going to be duped.", "pos": 5057156}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Begone!", "pos": 5057220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not so, give me a little time to collect myself.", "pos": 5057230}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I tell you, go!", "pos": 5057281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Calm yourself, and don’t be afraid of my shewing you any violence; that would suit your game too well.", "pos": 5057299}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "My aunt shall pay dearly for this.", "pos": 5057404}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She will find me her friend. I won’t touch you, so shew me a little more of your charms.", "pos": 5057441}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "More of my charms?", "pos": 5057532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; put yourself as you were when I came in.", "pos": 5057553}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Certainly not. Leave the room.", "pos": 5057601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have told you I am not going, and that you need not fear for your . . . . well, for your virginity, we will say.", "pos": 5057634}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Please, leave me; I will not fail to shew my gratitude.", "pos": 5057846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 5058645}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am perfectly satisfied to know you and your niece. Here is the reward.", "pos": 5058660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, thank you,", "pos": 5059834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I prefer supper.", "pos": 5059862}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Then I will take some too, and you will give it me, won’t you, just to shew that you bear no malice?", "pos": 5059881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do so, but first give me one little proof of your love.", "pos": 5060495}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Most certainly not.", "pos": 5060560}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "for, the girl would have made you more and more in love with her, and in the end she would have seduced you to beggary.", "pos": 5061438}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must think me a great fool. If I had found her kind I should have been grateful, but without squandering all my money; and if she had been cruel, instead of ridiculous, I might have given her what I have already given her every day, without reducing myself to beggary.", "pos": 5061571}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I congratulate you; it shews that you are well off. But have you made up your mind not to see her again?", "pos": 5061846}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 5061953}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Then you are not in love with her?", "pos": 5061966}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been in love, but I am so no longer; and in a few days she will have passed completely out of my memory. I had almost forgotten her when I met her with you at Vauxhall.", "pos": 5062003}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "You are not cured. The way to be cured of an amour does not lie in flight, when the two parties live in the same town. Meetings will happen, and all the trouble has to be taken over again.", "pos": 5062181}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then do you know a better way?", "pos": 5062372}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Certainly; you should satiate yourself. It is quite possible that the creature is not in love with you, but you are rich and she has nothing. You might have had her for so much, and you could have left her when you found her to be unworthy of your constancy. You must know what kind of a woman she is.", "pos": 5062405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have tried this method gladly, but I found her out.", "pos": 5062709}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "You could have got the best of her, though, if you had gone to work in the proper way. You should never have paid in advance. I know everything.", "pos": 5062772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 5062919}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I know she has cost you a hundred guineas, and that you have not won so much as a kiss from her. Why, my dear sir, you might have had her comfortably in your own bed for as much! She boasts that she took you in, though you pride yourself on your craft.", "pos": 5062939}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was an act of charity towards her aunt.", "pos": 5063194}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Yes, to make her Balm of Life; but you know if it had not been for the niece the aunt would never have had the money.", "pos": 5063239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps not, but how come you who are of their party to be talking to me in this fashion?", "pos": 5063359}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I swear to you I only speak out of friendship for you, and I will tell you how I came to make the acquaintance of the girl, her mother, her grandmother and her two aunts, and then you will no longer consider me as of their party. Sixteen months ago I saw M. Morosini walking about Vauxhall by himself. He had just come to England to congratulate the king on his accession to the throne, on behalf of the Republic of Venice. I saw how enchanted he was with the London beauties, and I went up to him and told him that all these beauties were at his service. This made him laugh, and on my repeating that it was not a jest he pointed out one of the girls, and asked if she would be at his service. I did not know her, so I asked him to wait awhile, and I would bring him the information he required. There was no time to be lost, and I could see that the girl was not a vestal virgin, so I went up to her and told her that the Venetian ambassador was amorous of her, and that I would take her to him if she would receive his visits. The aunt said that a nobleman of such an exalted rank could only bring honour to her niece. I took their address, and on my way back to the ambassador I met a friend of mine who is learned in such commodities, and after I had shewed him the address he told me it was the Charpillon.", "pos": 5063451}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And it was she?", "pos": 5064767}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "It was. My friend told me she was a young Swiss girl who was not yet in the general market, but who would soon be there, as she was not rich, and had a numerous train to support. I rejoined the Venetian, and told him that his business was done, and asked him at what time I should introduce him the next day, warning him that as she had a mother and aunts she would not be alone.", "pos": 5064785}
{"speaker": "M. Morosini", "text": "I am glad to hear it, and also that she is not a common woman.", "pos": 5065168}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I told the ladies at what hour I should have the pleasure of introducing the great man to them, and after warning them that they must appear not to know him I went home.", "pos": 5065303}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "When the ambassador had gone, the Charpillon, finding herself at liberty once more, had Lord Baltimore, Lord Grosvenor, and M. de Saa, the Portuguese ambassador, in turn, but no titular lover. I insisted on having my night with her according to agreement, but both mother and daughter laughed at me when I spoke of it. I cannot arrest her, because she is a minor, but I will have the mother imprisoned on the first opportunity, and you will see how the town will laugh. Now you know why I go to their house; and I assure you you are wrong if you think I have any part in their councils. Nevertheless, I know they are discussing how they may catch you, and they will do so if you do not take care.", "pos": 5066579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell the mother that I have another hundred guineas at her service if she will let me have her daughter for a single night.", "pos": 5067278}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Do you mean that?", "pos": 5067404}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Assuredly, but I am not going to pay in advance.", "pos": 5067424}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "That’s the only way not to be duped. I shall be glad to execute your commission.", "pos": 5067475}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I don’t want you to give me any breakfast, I want an explanation, and to introduce Miss Lorenzi to you.", "pos": 5068260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What explanation do you require?", "pos": 5068420}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Sir, is it a fact that you charged the Chevalier Goudar to tell my mother that you would give a hundred guineas to spend the night with me?", "pos": 5068698}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, not to spend a night with you, but after I had passed it. Isn’t the price enough?", "pos": 5068863}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "No jesting, sir, if you please. There is no question of bargaining; all I want to know is whether you think you have a right to insult me, and that I am going to bear it?", "pos": 5068951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you think yourself insulted, I may, perhaps, confess I was wrong; but I confess I did not think I should have to listen to any reproaches from you. Goudar is one of your intimate friends, and this is not the first proposal he has taken to you. I could not address you directly, as I know your arts only too well.", "pos": 5069124}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I shall not pay any attention to your abuse of my self; I will only remind you of what I said ‘that neither money nor violence were of any use,’ and that your only way was to make me in love with you by gentle means. Shew me where I have broken my word! It is you that have foresworn yourself in coming into my bath-room, and in sending such a brutal message to my mother. No one but a rascal like Goudar would have dared to take such a message.", "pos": 5069442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Goudar a rascal, is he? Well, he is your best friend. You know he is in love with you, and that he only got you for the ambassador in the hope of enjoying you himself. The document in his possession proves that you have behaved badly towards him. You are in his debt, discharge it, and then call him a rascal if you have the conscience to do so. You need not trouble to weep, for I knew the source of those tears; it is defiled.", "pos": 5069890}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "You know nothing of it. I love you, and it is hard to have you treat me so.", "pos": 5070321}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You love me? You have not taken the best way to prove it!", "pos": 5070399}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "As good a way as yours. You have behaved to me as if I were the vilest of prostitutes, and yesterday you seemed to think I was a brute beast, the slave of my mother. You should have written to me in person, and without the intervention of so vile an agent; I should have replied in the same way, and you need not have been afraid that you would be deceived.", "pos": 5070459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Supposing I had written, what would your answer have been?", "pos": 5070819}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I should have put all money matters out of question. I should have promised to content you on the condition that you would come and court me for a fortnight without demanding the slightest favour. We should have lived a pleasant life; we should have gone to the theatre and to the parks. I should have become madly in love with you. Then I should have given myself up to you for love, and nothing but love. I am ashamed to say that hitherto I have only given myself out of mere complaisance. Unhappy woman that I am! but I think nature meant me to love, and I thought when I saw you that my happy star had sent you to England that I might know the bliss of true affection. Instead of this you have only made me unhappy. You are the first man that has seen me weep; you have troubled my peace at home, for my mother shall never have the sum you promised her were it for nothing but a kiss. I am sorry to have injured you, though I did not intend to do so; but I really don’t know what I can do. Come and see us, and keep your money, which I despise. If you love me, come and conquer me like a reasonable and not a brutal lover; and I will help you, for now you cannot doubt that I love you.", "pos": 5070880}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "Oh, fie!", "pos": 5074336}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "The Charpillon, has not got a fever, but is covered with bruises. What grieves the old woman most is that she has not got the hundred guineas. has not got a fever, but is covered with bruises. What grieves the old woman most is that she has not got the hundred guineas. She would have had them the next morning, if her daughter had been tractable. Her mother had made her swear that she would not be tractable, and you need not hope to possess her without the mother’s consent. Why won’t she consent? Because she thinks that you will abandon the girl as soon as you have enjoyed her. Possibly, but she would have received many valuable presents, and now she is abandoned and has nothing. Have you made up your mind not to have anything more to do with her? Quite. That’s your wisest plan, and I advise you to keep to it, nevertheless I want to shew you something which will surprise you. I will be back in a moment. What should I do with it? It is not a very attractive piece of furniture. Nevertheless, the price of it is a hundred guineas. I would not give three. Get the fair Charpillon to sit in this chair, and your business is done. I won’t buy it, but I shall be obliged if you will leave it here till to-morrow. I can’t leave it here an hour unless you will buy it; the owner is waiting close by to hear your answer. Then take it away and come back to dinner.", "pos": 5078825}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I suppose the marks of the blows you gave me make my face so repulsive? You lie; I never struck you. No, but your tiger-like claws have left bruises all over me. Look here. No, you needn’t be afraid that what you see may prove too seductive; besides, it will have no novelty for you.", "pos": 5084638}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I know it is, for if I had been tractable as I ought to have been, you would have been loving instead of cruel. But repentance effaces sin, and I am come to beg pardon. May I hope to obtain it? Certainly; I am angry with you no longer, but I cannot forgive myself. Now go, and trouble me no more. I will if you like, but there is something you have not heard, and I beg you will listen to me a moment. As I have nothing to do you can say what you have got to say, I will listen to you. She might have relieved herself of what she had to say in a quarter of an hour, but by dint of tears, sighs, groans, digressions, and so forth, she took two hours to tell me that her mother had made her swear to pass the night as she had done. She ended by saying that she would like to be mine as she had been M. Morosini’s, to live with me, and only to go out under my escort, while I might allow her a monthly sum which she would hand over to her mother, who would, in that case, leave her alone.", "pos": 5085660}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Your daughter will have a house at Chelsea,", "pos": 5088048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "where I can go and see her whenever I like, and also fifty guineas a month to do what she likes with.", "pos": 5088116}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I don’t care what you give her a month, but before I let her leave my house she must give me the hundred guineas she was to have had when she slept with you.", "pos": 5088219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is your fault that she didn’t have them; however, to cut the matter short, she shall give them to you.", "pos": 5088394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And in the meanwhile, till you have found the house, I hope you will come and see me.", "pos": 5088502}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5088590}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell her to begone as fast as she likes,", "pos": 5090766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and to keep out of my sight for ever.", "pos": 5090817}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "The mother has engaged me to mediate, and if you will leave her alone, she will do you no harm. I will carry your message, but I pity you; for you are going into their nets again, and will end in utter ruin.", "pos": 5091982}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5095142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What!", "pos": 5095293}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "are you not going to spend the night with me?", "pos": 5095311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 5095359}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But we shall see each other to-morrow?", "pos": 5095365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope so. Good night.", "pos": 5095406}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell her that I can’t see her.", "pos": 5095670}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I haven’t got them about me; but why do you want me to return them to you?", "pos": 5095908}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I hope you will come and see me again when you are once more yourself.", "pos": 5097543}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I have just been at the Charpillons, they were all in high spirits. I tried in vain to turn the conversation on you, but not a word would they utter.", "pos": 5098799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I despise them entirely,", "pos": 5098963}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t want to have anything more to do with them.", "pos": 5099002}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "I should not have come to beg you to give me a dinner if I had known that you would have so many guests, and if I am at all in the way I will go.", "pos": 5101287}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two carriages,", "pos": 5102464}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "holding four each, shall be ready at eight o’clock, and we shall be exactly eight.", "pos": 5102489}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "No, nine, for I am coming, and I hope you will not drive me away.", "pos": 5102574}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, that would be impolite, I will ride in front on horseback.", "pos": 5102694}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "Oh, not at all! Emilie shall sit on my lap.", "pos": 5102759}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can begin your vengeance,", "pos": 5103166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "by returning my bills of exchange.", "pos": 5103206}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "You shall have them to-morrow, but you had better try and make me forget the insult you have put on me.", "pos": 5103243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! you would deceive me again.", "pos": 5106239}
{"speaker": "Charpillon", "text": "No, no but we have done enough now. I promise to spend the night in your arms in your own house. Do as you like. I only ask you to leave me my life, but after you have satisfied yourself I will not leave the spot; I will not enter your carriage unless you carry me by force, and everybody shall know the reason.", "pos": 5106275}
{"speaker": "Charpillon's mother", "text": "Sir,--I am exceedingly surprised at your addressing yourself to me about the bills you handed to my daughter. She tells me she will give you them back in person when you shew more discretion, and have learnt to respect her.", "pos": 5108358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go away,", "pos": 5110718}
{"speaker": "Charpillon's mother", "text": "I have not got them; my daughter keeps them.", "pos": 5110836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Call her.", "pos": 5110883}
{"speaker": "Maids", "text": "My poor daughter alone in the streets of London at midnight! My dear niece, alas! alas! she is lost. Cursed be the hour when you came to England to make us all unhappy!", "pos": 5111102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go and look for her at the neighbours’ houses,", "pos": 5111400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "no doubt you will find her. When you tell me she is safe, you shall have a guinea apiece.", "pos": 5111473}
{"speaker": "Servants", "text": "We have looked for her everywhere, but we can’t find her.", "pos": 5111869}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "I made haste to come and tell you, not for the sake of your two guineas, but because I saw you were so unhappy.", "pos": 5113266}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know that,", "pos": 5113810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but where did she pass the night?", "pos": 5113833}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "At a shop which she found open, and where she was known from having bought various articles there. She is in bed with a fever, and I am afraid it may have serious consequences as she is in her monthly period.", "pos": 5113869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s impossible, for I caught her in the act with her hairdresser.", "pos": 5114080}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "Oh, that proves nothing! the poor young man does not look into things very closely.", "pos": 5114151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she is in love with him.", "pos": 5114237}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "I don’t think so, though she has spent several hours in his company.", "pos": 5114268}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you say that she loves me!", "pos": 5114339}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "Oh, that has nothing to do with it! It is only a whim of hers with the hairdresser.", "pos": 5114372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell her that I am coming to pass the day beside her bed, and bring me her reply.", "pos": 5114458}
{"speaker": "Maid", "text": "I will send the other girl if you like.", "pos": 5114542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, she only speaks English.", "pos": 5114584}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "There’s Seingalt, there’s Seingalt! He’s going to kill me. Help! help! For God’s sake, sir, go away!", "pos": 5114906}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "The fright you gave her has arrested her periods; she is in a terrible state.", "pos": 5115617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "O, fatal hairdresser!", "pos": 5115697}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "That was a mere youthful folly; you should have pretended not to have seen anything.", "pos": 5115734}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You think that possible, you old witch, do you? Do not let her lack for anything; take that.", "pos": 5115821}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Did you see her? No, they said she could see no one. Do you think it is all true? I don’t know what to think; but one of the maids, who tells me the truth as a rule, assured me that she had become mad through her courses being stopped, while she has also a fever and violent convulsions. It is all credible enough, for these are the usual results of a shock when a woman is in such a situation. The girl told me it was all your fault. if I did not take care I should lose my reason or my life.", "pos": 5116291}
{"speaker": "Minister of the Gospel", "text": "we must resign ourselves to the will of God.", "pos": 5117587}
{"speaker": "Charpillon's mother", "text": "The doctor is no good now, he is a minister of the Gospel, and there is another of them upstairs. My poor daughter! In another hour she will be no more.", "pos": 5117686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is true that my hand dealt the blow, but her death lies at your door.", "pos": 5117981}
{"speaker": "Sir Edgar", "text": "Where are you going? Come with me, unless you are going to deliver some captive. Come along, we shall have a pleasant party.", "pos": 5119817}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t come, my dear fellow, let me go.", "pos": 5119944}
{"speaker": "Sir Edgar", "text": "What’s the matter? I hardly recognized you, you looked so solemn.", "pos": 5119987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing is the matter.", "pos": 5120055}
{"speaker": "Sir Edgar", "text": "Nothing? You should look at your face in the glass. Now I feel quite sure that you are going to commit a foolish action.", "pos": 5120080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 5120203}
{"speaker": "Sir Edgar", "text": "It’s no good denying it.", "pos": 5120217}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I tell you there’s nothing the matter with me. Good bye, I shall see you again.", "pos": 5120244}
{"speaker": "Sir Edgar", "text": "It’s no good, I won’t leave you. Come along, we will walk together. You are going to fight a duel; I should like to see it. I won’t interfere with the affair, but neither will I leave you.", "pos": 5120326}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Very good, then I hope my society is as pleasant to you as yours is to me; I won’t leave you. After we have taken a walk we will go and dine at the ‘Canon.’ I will get two girls to come and join us, and we shall have a gay little party of four.", "pos": 5120790}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear friend, you must excuse me; I am in a melancholy mood, and I want to be alone to get over it.", "pos": 5121051}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "You can be alone to-morrow, if you like, but I am sure you will be all right in the next three hours, and if not, why I will share your madness. Where did you think of dining?", "pos": 5121154}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nowhere; I have no appetite. I have been fasting for the last three days, and I can only drink.", "pos": 5121332}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Ah! I begin to see daylight. Something has crossed you, and you are going to let it kill you as it killed one of my brothers. I must see what can be done.", "pos": 5121430}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A day longer will not matter, I can do the deed when he leaves me, and I shall only have to bear with life a few hours longer.", "pos": 5121652}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "I reckoned on your keeping your word,", "pos": 5122645}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You did not think that I would break my word of honour.", "pos": 5122694}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "That’s all right; I see you are on the way to recovery.", "pos": 5122752}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She can’t be the Charpillon, she is some other girl like her, and my enfeebled senses have led me astray.", "pos": 5126972}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This young man, is my good genius, my guardian angel, my familiar spirit, who has taken the form of Edgar to restore me to my senses again.", "pos": 5128171}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Why, you are laughing! your sadness has departed, then?", "pos": 5129145}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, good genius, but I am hungry, and I want you to do me a favour, if you have no other pressing engagements.", "pos": 5129214}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "I am free till the day after to-morrow, and till then you can do what you like with me.", "pos": 5129328}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I owe my life to you, but to make your gift complete I want you to spend this night and the whole of the next day with me.", "pos": 5129418}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Done.", "pos": 5129543}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then let us go home.", "pos": 5129551}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "With all my heart; come along.", "pos": 5129574}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I am quite sure that the girl you know of is very far from dying, as she has gone to Ranelagh with Lord Grosvenor.", "pos": 5130337}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I have just come from Denmark Street, and I only saw the grandmother, who was weeping bitterly, and an attorney, whom no doubt she was consulting.", "pos": 5133233}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you have heard what has happened?", "pos": 5133394}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Yes, I came up a minute after you had gone and I stayed till the three old sluts made up their minds to go with the constable. They resisted and said he ought to leave them till the next day, when they would be able to find someone to bail them. The two bravos drew their swords to resist the law, but the other constable disarmed them one after the other, and the three women were led off. The Charpillon wanted to accompany them, but it was judged best that she should remain at liberty, in order to try and set them free.", "pos": 5133435}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where have you been hiding all this time? I have been looking for you everywhere.", "pos": 5135229}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Love has been keeping me a prisoner. I have got some money for you.", "pos": 5135323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "For me? From what quarter?", "pos": 5135404}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "On behalf of the Ansperghers. Give me a receipt and the necessary declaration, for I am going to restore them myself to the poor Charpillon, who has been weeping for the last fortnight.", "pos": 5135433}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I daresay she has, I have seen her weep myself; but I like the way in which she has chosen the being who delivered me from her chains as a protector. Does she know that I owe my life to you?", "pos": 5135621}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "She only knew that I was with you at Ranelagh when you saw her dancing instead of dying, but I have told her the whole story since.", "pos": 5135814}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No doubt she wants you to plead with me in her favour.", "pos": 5135948}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "By no means. She has just been telling me that you are a monster of ingratitude, for she loved you and gave you several proofs of her affection, but now she hates you.", "pos": 5136005}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Thank Heaven for that! The wretched woman! It’s curious she should have selected you as her lover by way of taking vengeance on me, but take care! she will punish you.", "pos": 5136175}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "It may be so, but at all events it’s a pleasant kind of punishment.", "pos": 5136345}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope you may be happy, but look to yourself; she is a mistress in all sorts of deceit.", "pos": 5136415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good night, Seingalt.", "pos": 5138811}
{"speaker": "One of the Men", "text": "In the king’s name!", "pos": 5138974}
{"speaker": "The Men", "text": "To take him to Newgate, for Sunday makes no difference to criminals.", "pos": 5139052}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what crime have I committed?", "pos": 5139123}
{"speaker": "The Men", "text": "You will hear that in prison.", "pos": 5139158}
{"speaker": "The Negro", "text": "My master has a right to know his crime before he goes to prison,", "pos": 5139190}
{"speaker": "The Men", "text": "Yes, but the magistrate’s abed.", "pos": 5139274}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then drive to that city, and have done with it.", "pos": 5139511}
{"speaker": "Unknown Man", "text": "Be of good courage, Mr. Fielding is a just and equitable magistrate.", "pos": 5141548}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Signor Casanova, be kind enough to step forward. I wish to speak to you.", "pos": 5141860}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Eccomi, Signore.", "pos": 5142108}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Signor de Casanova, of Venice, you are condemned to perpetual confinement in the prisons of His Majesty the King of Great Britain.", "pos": 5142170}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to know, sir, for what crime I am condemned. Would you be kind enough to inform me as to its nature?", "pos": 5142303}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Your demand is a reasonable one, for with us no one is condemned without knowing the cause of his condemnation. You must know, then, that the accusation (which is supported by two witnesses) charges you with intending to do grievous bodily harm to the person of a pretty girl; and as this pretty girl aforesaid goes in dread of you, the law decrees that you must be kept in prison for the rest of your days.", "pos": 5142420}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, this accusation is a groundless calumny; to that I will take my oath! It is very possible indeed that the girl may fear my vengeance when she comes to consider her own conduct, but I can assure you that I have had no such designs hitherto, and I don’t think I ever shall.", "pos": 5142830}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "She has two witnesses.", "pos": 5143109}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then they are false ones. But may I ask your worship the name of my accuser?", "pos": 5143134}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Miss Charpillon.", "pos": 5143213}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thought as much; but I have never given her aught but proofs of my affection.", "pos": 5143232}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Then you have no wish to do her any bodily harm?", "pos": 5143314}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly not.", "pos": 5143365}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Then I congratulate you. You can dine at home; but you must find two sureties. I must have an assurance from the mouths of two householders that you will never commit such a crime.", "pos": 5143382}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Whom shall I find to do so?", "pos": 5143565}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fielding", "text": "Two well-known Englishmen, whose friendship you have gained, and who know that you are incapable of such an action. Send for them, and if they arrive before I go to dinner I will set you at liberty.", "pos": 5143595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How much will he want?", "pos": 5144753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then say that I should like to see Newgate.", "pos": 5144884}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know me, sir?", "pos": 5149079}
{"speaker": "Bottarelli", "text": "No, sir, I do not.", "pos": 5149102}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am Casanova, against whom you bore false witness; whom you tried to cast into Newgate.", "pos": 5149123}
{"speaker": "Bottarelli", "text": "I am very sorry, but look around you and say what choice have I? I have no bread to give my children. I will do as much in your favour another time for nothing.", "pos": 5149214}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you not afraid of the gallows?", "pos": 5149377}
{"speaker": "Bottarelli", "text": "No, for perjury is not punished with death; besides it is very difficult to prove.", "pos": 5149414}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have heard you are a poet.", "pos": 5149499}
{"speaker": "Bottarelli", "text": "Yes. I have lengthened the Didone and abridged the Demetrio.", "pos": 5149530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are a great poet, indeed!", "pos": 5149593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Charpillon is a bigger wh--e than her mother.", "pos": 5151169}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "The teacher of the parrot has no doubt made the bird an instrument of his vengeance, and has displayed his wit in doing so; he ought to be an Englishman.", "pos": 5153447}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Because it delights all who know anything about the object of the slander,", "pos": 5153689}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Indeed. I remember two other daughters of yours robbing me of a snuff-box and two watches at Stuttgart.", "pos": 5154581}
{"speaker": "Pocchini", "text": "You lie!", "pos": 5154697}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell him to come out, and do you escort him to the Green Park, and I shall have the pleasure of giving him a caning in your presence, unless you would like to fight for him; if so, you must let me go home and get my sword. But do you know this man whom you call your friend?", "pos": 5155017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, but he is an officer, and it is I that brought him here.", "pos": 5155293}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, I will fight to the last drop of my blood; but I warn you your friend is a thief. But go; I will await you.", "pos": 5155356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Scoundrel, draw your sword, unless you want me to give you a thrashing!", "pos": 5155741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will never draw upon a defenceless man.", "pos": 5155815}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Come along, sir, I see you know the gentleman.", "pos": 5156127}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Unfortunately. I am in love with one of his daughters.", "pos": 5156386}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did you come to know these ladies?", "pos": 5156597}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Their father the captain, has sold me jewels; he introduced me to them.", "pos": 5156646}
{"speaker": "Daughter", "text": "Where did you leave our father?", "pos": 5156735}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In Hyde Park, after giving him a caning.", "pos": 5156780}
{"speaker": "Daughter", "text": "You served him quite right.", "pos": 5156823}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I have just been to Pocchini’s, but the landlord tells me he has not been in since yesterday. The girl he has gone with is a pretty one, from what the man tells me, and they have taken ship from London. I am sorry he went away before I could pay him for the watch; I am dreading every moment to meet the individual from whom it was stolen.", "pos": 5157971}
{"speaker": "Clergyman", "text": "Sir, no one can give a positive answer to that question, for every week some sect dies and some new one is brought into being. All that is necessary is for a man of good faith, or some rogue desirous of money or notoriety, to stand in some frequented place and begin preaching. He explains some texts of the Bible in his own fashion, and if he pleases the gapers around him they invite him to expound next Sunday, often in a tavern. He keeps the appointment and explains his new doctrines in a spirited manner. Then people begin to talk of him; he disputes with ministers of other sects; he and his followers give themselves a name, and the thing is done. Thus, or almost thus, are all the numerous English sects produced.", "pos": 5159398}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madam is not English, then?", "pos": 5163018}
{"speaker": "Girl", "text": "No, sir, I am a Swiss, and a friend of yours.", "pos": 5163070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Charming Sara,", "pos": 5164106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you have so enchanted me that I cannot help asking you a couple of questions, which if you value my peace of mind you will answer. Do you remember what happened at Berne?", "pos": 5164131}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5164304}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And do you repent of what you did?", "pos": 5164311}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "No.", "pos": 5164348}
{"speaker": "M---- F----", "text": "I accept your kind offer, on the condition that you allow me to occupy the chair.", "pos": 5165910}
{"speaker": "Madame M---- F----", "text": "We wanted to go on the day after next, and to-morrow we shall have to leave our present rooms to their new occupants. A matter of business which my husband was not able to conclude will oblige us to stay for another week, and to-morrow we shall have the double task of moving and finding new apartments.", "pos": 5166394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you have not yet got new rooms?", "pos": 5166712}
{"speaker": "Madame M---- F----", "text": "No, but my husband says he is certain to find some to-morrow morning.", "pos": 5166751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Furnished, I suppose, for as you intend to leave you will be selling your furniture.", "pos": 5166823}
{"speaker": "Madame M---- F----", "text": "Yes, and we shall have to pay the expenses of carriage to the buyer.", "pos": 5166910}
{"speaker": "M---- F----", "text": "I am going to try and get a couple of rooms,", "pos": 5168539}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are already found,", "pos": 5168595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My house is at your service, and you must give me the preference. Let us come upstairs.", "pos": 5168632}
{"speaker": "M---- F----", "text": "Everybody is in bed.", "pos": 5168722}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind,", "pos": 5168745}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll wager, now, that this is the work of some fierce creditor.", "pos": 5170624}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "You are right, but I am sure of discharging the debt in five or six days, and that’s why I put off my departure.", "pos": 5170690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you were arrested after you had sent on your trunks.", "pos": 5170828}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Just after.", "pos": 5170888}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what have you done?", "pos": 5170902}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "I have sent for bail.", "pos": 5170928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did you not send to me?", "pos": 5170952}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Thank you, I am grateful for your kindness, but you are a foreigner, and sureties have to be householders.", "pos": 5170982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you ought to have told me what had happened, for I have got you an excellent supper, and I am dying of hunger.", "pos": 5171091}
{"speaker": "Bailiff", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 5171478}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall pay me the money before you leave England.", "pos": 5171657}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "You are right, but, nevertheless, there is no pleasure so great as the consciousness of having paid one’s debts.", "pos": 5173421}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must not sell anything, for as I am going to Switzerland with you I can pay your debts, and you shall repay me when you can.", "pos": 5173548}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "I did not think you were speaking seriously,", "pos": 5173766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Perfectly seriously, and here is the object of my vows.", "pos": 5173823}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "If he had been by himself, he could have lived here comfortably enough with only one servant, but with a family to provide for the two thousand crowns per annum provided by the Government are quite insufficient. My old father has succeeded in persuading the State to discharge my husband’s debts, but to make up the extra expense they will not employ a Charge d’affaires; a banker with the title of agent will collect the interest on their English securities.", "pos": 5174360}
{"speaker": "M. M---- F----", "text": "My wife, has told me of your intentions, and I take it as a great honour, I assure you; but I cannot give you my Sara, as she is promised to M. de W----, and family reasons prevent me from going back from my word. Besides my old father, a strict Calvinist, would object to the difference in religion. He would never believe that his dear little grandchild would be happy with a Roman Catholic.", "pos": 5175708}
{"speaker": "M---- F----", "text": "marriage", "pos": 5176229}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, divine Sara, do you oppose my loving ecstasy?", "pos": 5177199}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Dearest, I entreat of you not to ask for any more than I am willing to give.", "pos": 5177262}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you no longer love me?", "pos": 5177341}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Cruel man, I adore you!", "pos": 5177371}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then why do you treat me to a refusal, after having once surrendered unreservedly?", "pos": 5177397}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "I have given myself to you, and we have both been happy, and I think that should be enough for us.", "pos": 5177482}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There must be some reason for this change. If you love me, dearest Sara, this renunciation must be hard for you to bear.", "pos": 5177583}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "I confess it, but nevertheless I feel it is my duty. I have made up my mind to subdue my passion from no weak motive, but from a sense of what I owe to myself. I am under obligations to you, and if I were to repay the debt I have contracted with my body I should be degraded in my own eyes. When we enjoyed each other before only love was between us--there was no question of debit and credit. My heart is now the thrall of what I owe you, and to these debts it will not give what it gave so readily to love.", "pos": 5177706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is a strange philosophy, Sara; believe me it is fallacious, and the enemy of your happiness as well as mine. These sophisms lead you astray and wound me to the heart. Give me some credit for delicacy of feeling, and believe me you owe me nothing.", "pos": 5178217}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "You must confess that if you had not loved me you would have done nothing for my father.", "pos": 5178471}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly I will confess nothing of the kind; I would readily do as much, and maybe more, out of regard for your worthy mother. It is quite possible, indeed, that in doing this small service for your father I had no thoughts of you at all.", "pos": 5178562}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "It might be so; but I do not believe it was so. Forgive me, dearest, but I cannot make up my mind to pay my debts in the way you wish.", "pos": 5178804}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It seems to me that if you are grateful to me your love ought to be still more ardent.", "pos": 5178941}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "It cannot be more ardent than it is already.", "pos": 5179030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know how grievously you make me suffer?", "pos": 5179077}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Alas! I suffer too; but do not reproach me; let us love each other still.", "pos": 5179126}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your mother, has promised me that hers shall not be wanting.", "pos": 5181076}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "I have shewn you how well I love you, and I am sure I should be very happy as your wife. You may be sure that your wishes will be mine, and that, however far you lead me, Switzerland shall claim no thought of mine.", "pos": 5181434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will drive me to despair! Have you reflected that this resistance may cost me my life? Can you love, and yet entertain this fatal prejudice? And yet I am sure you love me, and pleasure too.", "pos": 5181967}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "Yes, dearest one, I do love you, and amorous pleasure with you; but you must respect my delicacy. You have just given a true proof of the sincerity of your affection.", "pos": 5182163}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did you think, sweetheart, that I was vile enough to abuse your weakness? Could I enjoy a pleasure in which you had no share?", "pos": 5182748}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "I did not think you would do such a thing, but I should not have resisted, though it is possible that I should not have loved you afterwards.", "pos": 5182876}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sara, though you do not know, you charm my soul out of my body.", "pos": 5183020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "After a silence of twenty-one years . . .", "pos": 5186528}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "A Hanoverian lady, a widow and the mother of five daughters, came to England two months ago with her whole family. She lives close by, and is occupied in soliciting compensation from the Government for any injury that was done her by the passage of the Duke of Cumberland’s army. The mother herself is sick and and never leaves her bed; she sends her two eldest daughters to petition the Government, and they are the two young ladies you have just seen. They have not met with any success. The eldest daughter is twenty-two, and the youngest fourteen; they are all pretty and can speak English, French, and German equally well, and are always glad to see visitors. I had been to visit them myself, but as I gave them nothing I do not care to go there alone a second time. If you like, however, I can introduce you.", "pos": 5188118}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You irritate my curiosity. Come along, but if the one that pleases me is not complaisant she shall have nothing.", "pos": 5188935}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They will not even allow one to take them by the hand.", "pos": 5189049}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are Charpillons, I suppose.", "pos": 5189106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It looks like it. But you won’t see any men there.", "pos": 5189141}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "We have come at a sad time. That man is a bailiff who has come to take the mother to prison if she can’t pay her landlord the twenty guineas’ rent she owes him, and they haven’t got a farthing. When the mother has been sent to prison the landlord will no doubt turn the girls out of doors.", "pos": 5189477}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They can live with their mother for nothing.", "pos": 5189769}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Not at all. If they have got the money they can have their meals in prison, but no one is allowed to live in a prison except the prisoners.", "pos": 5189816}
{"speaker": "One of the girls", "text": "They have gone out, to look for money, for the landlord won’t accept any surety, and we have nothing to sell.", "pos": 5190002}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All this is very sad; what does your mother say?", "pos": 5190114}
{"speaker": "One of the girls", "text": "She only weeps, and yet, though she is ill and cannot leave her bed, they are going to take her to prison. By way of consolation the landlord says he will have her carried.", "pos": 5190165}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is very hard. But your looks please me, mademoiselle, and if you will be kind I may be able to extricate you from the difficulty.", "pos": 5190340}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "I do not know what you mean by ‘kind.’", "pos": 5190475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your mother will understand; go and ask her.", "pos": 5190516}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "Sir, you do not know us; we are honest girls, and ladies of position besides.", "pos": 5190563}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "It is M. the Chevalier de Seingalt.", "pos": 5191198}
{"speaker": "M. the Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "Himself, mademoiselle, and sorely grieved at your misfortune.", "pos": 5191236}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "Be kind enough to come in again for a moment.", "pos": 5191300}
{"speaker": "M. the Chevalier de Seingalt", "text": "I am sorry to say that I have an important engagement.", "pos": 5191348}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "I will not keep you for longer than a quarter of an hour. We have nothing to sell, and all our resources consist of two shillings, which we shall have to spend on bread, on which we live.", "pos": 5191405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are your friends? How can they abandon you at such a time?", "pos": 5191978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t believe it,", "pos": 5192168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I know the two last noblemen to be both rich and generous. There must be some good reason for their conduct, since you are beautiful; and for these gentlemen beauty is a bill to be honoured on sight.", "pos": 5192198}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "Yes, there is a reason. These rich noblemen abandon us with contempt. They refuse to take pity on us because we refuse to yield to their guilty passion.", "pos": 5192404}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is to say, they have taken a fancy to you, and as you will not have pity on them they refuse to have pity on you. Is it not so?", "pos": 5192559}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "That is exactly the situation.", "pos": 5192694}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I think they are in the right.", "pos": 5192727}
{"speaker": "One of the sisters", "text": "In the right?", "pos": 5192765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I am quite of their opinion. We leave you to enjoy your sense of virtue, and we spend our money in procuring those favours which you refuse us. Your misfortune really is your prettiness, if you were ugly you would get twenty guineas fast enough. I would give you the money myself, and the action would be put down to benevolence; whereas, as the case stands, if I were to give you anything it would be thought that I was actuated by the hope of favours to come, and I should be laughed at, and deservedly, as a dupe.", "pos": 5192781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I saw you at Richmond with the Charpillon.", "pos": 5193497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She cost me two thousand guineas, and I got nothing for my money; but I have profited by the lesson, and in future I shall never pay in advance.", "pos": 5193542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madam,", "pos": 5194351}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "what can I do for you?", "pos": 5194369}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Sir. I have heard the whole of your conversations with my daughters, and you must confess that you have not talked to them in a very fatherly manner.", "pos": 5194394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quite so, but the only part which I desire to play with them is that of lover, and a fatherly style would not have been suitable to the part. If I had the happiness of being their father, the case would be altered. What I have said to your daughters is what I feel, and what I think most likely to bring about the end I have in view. I have not the slightest pretence to virtue, but I adore the fair sex, and now you and they know the road to my purse. If they wish to preserve their virtue, why let them; nobody will trouble them, and they, on their side, must not expect anything from men. Good-bye, madam; you may reckon on my never addressing your daughters again.", "pos": 5194561}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Wait a moment, sir. My husband was the Count of----, and you see that my daughters are of respectable birth. Have you not pity for our situation?", "pos": 5195232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pity you extremely, and I would relieve you in an instant if your daughters were ugly, but as it is they are pretty, and that alters the case.", "pos": 5195382}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "What an argument!", "pos": 5195529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a very strong one with me, and I think I am the best judge of arguments which apply to myself. You want twenty guineas; well, you shall have them after one of your five countesses has spent a joyous night with me.", "pos": 5195549}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "What language to a woman of my station! Nobody has ever dared to speak to me in such a way before.", "pos": 5195771}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pardon me, but what use is rank without a halfpenny? Allow me to retire.", "pos": 5195872}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "To-day we have only bread to eat.", "pos": 5195946}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, certainly that is rather hard on countesses.", "pos": 5195982}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You are laughing at the title, apparently.", "pos": 5196035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I am; but I don’t want to offend you. If you like, I will stop to dinner, and pay for all, yourself included.", "pos": 5196080}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You are an eccentric individual. My girls are sad, for I am going to prison. You will find their company wearisome.", "pos": 5196197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is my affair.", "pos": 5196315}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You had much better give them the money you would spend on the dinner.", "pos": 5196336}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, madam. I must have at least the pleasures of sight and sound for my money. I will stay your arrest till to-morrow, and afterwards Providence may possibly intervene on your behalf.", "pos": 5196409}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "The landlord will not wait.", "pos": 5196595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Leave me to deal with him.", "pos": 5196625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But this is all I can do for you,", "pos": 5197498}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your daughters are charming, and I have obtained a day’s respite for you all without asking for anything in return; I shall dine, sup, and pass the night with them without asking so much as a single kiss, but if your ideas have not changed by to-morrow you will be in exactly the same position as you were a few minutes ago, and I shall not trouble you any more with my attentions.", "pos": 5197556}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "What do you mean my ‘changing my ideas’?", "pos": 5197940}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I need not tell you, for you know perfectly well what I mean.", "pos": 5197983}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "My daughters shall never become prostitutes.", "pos": 5198047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will proclaim their spotless chastity all over London--but I shall spend my guineas elsewhere.", "pos": 5198094}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You are a cruel man.", "pos": 5198193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess I can be very cruel, but it is only when I don’t meet with kindness.", "pos": 5198216}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Am I to withdraw my bail, countess?", "pos": 5200070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can do what you like, but I do not think you capable of such an action.", "pos": 5200108}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You are mistaken. You have doubtless made a deep study of the human heart; but you either know little of the human mind, or else you think you have a larger share than any other person. All your daughters have inspired me with love, but were it a matter of life and death I would not do a single thing for them or you before you have done me the only favour that is in your power. I leave you to your reflections, and more especially to your virtues.", "pos": 5200186}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "They came whining to me yesterday, and I not only would not give them anything, but I laughed them to scorn. They have got about twelve guineas out of me on false pretences; they are as cunning sluts as the Charpillon. I had the same idea myself, but I cried off, and I don’t think you’ll succeed, as Lord Baltimore offered them forty apiece; that is two hundred guineas in all, and the bargain has fallen through because they want the money to be paid in advance. They paid him a visit yesterday, but found him pitiless, for he has been taken in several times by them.", "pos": 5200992}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall see what will happen when the mother is under lock and key; I’ll bet we shall have them cheaply.", "pos": 5201756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will find me insensible,", "pos": 5202388}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "unless you are willing to adopt my plan. If you wish to hear it, kindly follow me into the next room.", "pos": 5202427}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "These are yours; but you know on what terms?", "pos": 5202659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have rooms, beds, and good fires,", "pos": 5203592}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but first let me see you eat.", "pos": 5203646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your melancholy and your abstinence displeases me,", "pos": 5203811}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "go upstairs and you will find everything necessary for your comfort, but take care to be gone at seven in the morning and not to let me see your faces again.", "pos": 5203892}
{"speaker": "Eldest girl", "text": "What will you do for us, if I consent to share your couch?", "pos": 5204303}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will give you twenty guineas, and I will lodge and board you as long as you give me satisfaction.", "pos": 5204376}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must all leave my house to-morrow,", "pos": 5204792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I am ill pleased with you. Instead of giving yourself up for love you have prostituted yourself. I blush for you.", "pos": 5204841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 5205166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "coldly.", "pos": 5205193}
{"speaker": "Second daughter", "text": "I want you to take pity on us, and shelter us in your house for a few days longer. I will be very grateful. My sister has told me all, you are displeased with her, but you must forgive her, for her heart is not her own. She is in love with an Italian who is in prison for debt.", "pos": 5205202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And I suppose you are in love with someone else?", "pos": 5205482}
{"speaker": "Second daughter", "text": "No, I am not.", "pos": 5205533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could you love me?", "pos": 5205549}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "You have conquered. My name is Victoire.", "pos": 5205709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I like it, and I will prove the omen a true one.", "pos": 5205753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest Victoire, I am wholly throe. Let your mother be brought here as soon as she is free. Here are twenty guineas for you.", "pos": 5205991}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How much does the marquis owe?", "pos": 5207805}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "Twenty guineas.", "pos": 5207838}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And the Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum? I can’t believe it.", "pos": 5207856}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "The ambassador won’t have anything to do with him, because he left Naples without the leave of the Government.", "pos": 5207966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell your sister that if the ambassador assures me that her lover’s name is really the Marquis de Petina, I will get him out of prison immediately.", "pos": 5208079}
{"speaker": "Marquis of Caraccioli", "text": "The young man is really what he professes to me, but I will neither receive him nor give him any money till I hear from my Government that he has received leave to travel.", "pos": 5208550}
{"speaker": "Marquis Petina", "text": "I had done a wise thing, as he felt sure the time would come when he would repay me a hundredfold.", "pos": 5211781}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lady, allow me to kiss your delightful daughter.", "pos": 5213939}
{"speaker": "Marquis of Caraccioli", "text": "Mademoiselle, it is true that your lover is really a marquis, but he is very poor and will never have any money; and if he goes back to Naples he will be imprisoned, and if he is released from the State prison his creditors will put him in the Vittoria.", "pos": 5214561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s amusing, make her come down. Certainly; but have you a man’s riding suit or a woman’s costume?", "pos": 5215044}
{"speaker": "Hippolyta", "text": "No.", "pos": 5215265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then we must put off the excursion till to-morrow.", "pos": 5215271}
{"speaker": "Gabrielle", "text": "Because I can ride on horseback as well as my sister.", "pos": 5216584}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, then you shall ride the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 5216640}
{"speaker": "Hippolyta", "text": "Why, because I never learnt anywhere; my only masters were courage and some natural skill.", "pos": 5216896}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And has your sister learnt?", "pos": 5216989}
{"speaker": "Gabrielle", "text": "No, but I can ride just as well.", "pos": 5217019}
{"speaker": "Lord Pembroke", "text": "Very good, may I come and see you?", "pos": 5219223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 5219271}
{"speaker": "Gabrielle", "text": "How easy it is, to be happy when one is rich, and how sad it is to see happiness out of one’s reach for lack of a little money. Yesterday I was the happiest of beings, and why should I not be as happy all my days? I would gladly agree that my life should be short provided that it should be a happy one.", "pos": 5219576}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "As I feel sure that you have all the love of a father for my daughters, I wish you to become their father in reality! I offer you my hand and heart; become my husband, you will be their father, their lord and mine. What do you say to this?", "pos": 5221136}
{"speaker": "Mistress of Marquis Petina", "text": "He will easily obtain the royal pardon. You, and you alone, can help us in the matter, and I commend myself to your kindness.", "pos": 5222738}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t give you any counsel, in a matter which only concerns your own heart and your own interests.", "pos": 5223748}
{"speaker": "Augusta's mother", "text": "I was the wisest and most virtuous of men. she was perfectly certain of it, as otherwise she could not have given her consent, as her daughters were countesses, and too good to be any man’s mistresses.", "pos": 5223970}
{"speaker": "Sir Frederick", "text": "It is important that I should be informed on that point, for the persons who are going to discount the bill want me to put my signature to it.", "pos": 5225646}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir. I certainly am acquainted with the marquis, but I know nothing about his fortune. However, the Neapolitan ambassador assured me that he was the Marquis Petina.", "pos": 5225803}
{"speaker": "Sir Frederick", "text": "If the persons who have the matter in hand should drop it, would you discount the bill? You shall have it cheap.", "pos": 5225983}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never meddle with these speculations. Good day, Sir Frederick. Who is M. du Claude?", "pos": 5226098}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "The famous Jesuit Lavalette, who was concerned in the great bankruptcy case which ruined the Society in France. He fled to England under a false name. I advise you to listen to him, for he must have plenty of money.", "pos": 5226265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "A Jesuit and a bankrupt; that does not sound very well.", "pos": 5226483}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Well, I have met him in good houses, and knowing that I was acquainted with you he addressed himself to me. After all, you run no risk in listening to what he has to say.", "pos": 5226541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well, you can take me to him; it will be easier to avoid any entanglement than if he came to see me.", "pos": 5226714}
{"speaker": "M. du Claude", "text": "The young man wants me to discount it, and says you can give me the necessary information.", "pos": 5227127}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "Not to-night, this terrible news would keep her awake.", "pos": 5228346}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "When does she intend to leave?", "pos": 5230721}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In three or four days.", "pos": 5230754}
{"speaker": "Victoire", "text": "And is she going without telling me, as if she were leaving an inn after paying her bill?", "pos": 5230779}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "On the contrary, she wishes to have a private talk with you.", "pos": 5230871}
{"speaker": "Augusta's mother", "text": "I thank you from my heart, for all the kindness you have shewn my girls, and I am going to take the three I have left away, lest I lose them as I have lost the two eldest. If you like, you may come too and stay with us as long as you like in my pretty country house near the capital.", "pos": 5231145}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thank you, for the solitary man grows weary of his company.", "pos": 5234263}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "Let us have a wager of a guinea, and spend it on oysters and champagne.", "pos": 5234912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want to win your money, and I will give you your revenge up to a hundred guineas.", "pos": 5235397}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "Let us go on,", "pos": 5235602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear baron, the luck’s against you; you might lose a large sum of money. I really think we have had enough.", "pos": 5235627}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "I will pay you when I come back.", "pos": 5235915}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "I am sure you have been regarding me as your partner at play.", "pos": 5235988}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you have guessed that, you will also have guessed that I think you charming.", "pos": 5236052}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "Yes, I think I have.", "pos": 5236134}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you angry with me?", "pos": 5236157}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "Not in the least.", "pos": 5236182}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You shall have the fifty guineas as soon as he has paid me.", "pos": 5236202}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "Very good, but the baron must know nothing about it.", "pos": 5236264}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course not.", "pos": 5236319}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "I have been to a merchant to discount this bill of exchange, and though it is drawn on one of the best house in Cadiz, and made out by a good house in London, he would not have anything to do with it.", "pos": 5236970}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If the signatures are known. I don’t understand why the man won’t discount it. Why don’t you take it to your banker?", "pos": 5237375}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "I haven’t got one. I came to England with a thousand gold pieces in my pocket, and I have spent them all. As I have not got any letters of credit I cannot pay you unless the bill is discounted. If you have got any friends on the Exchange, however, you could get it done.", "pos": 5237504}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If the names prove good ones I will let you have the money to-morrow morning.", "pos": 5237777}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "Then I will make it payable to your order.", "pos": 5237857}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you in love with her?", "pos": 5238566}
{"speaker": "Baron Stenau", "text": "No; I have plenty of others, and if you like her you can have her for ten guineas.", "pos": 5238602}
{"speaker": "English girl", "text": "as a reward for the way in which I kept my promise I could sup with her whenever I liked to spend six guineas.", "pos": 5239076}
{"speaker": "Daturi", "text": "If you will listen to me. I can set you right; my mother has told me the story a hundred times.", "pos": 5240047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on,", "pos": 5240156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will listen;", "pos": 5240173}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "text": "The bill of exchange I discounted for you is a forgery, so please to send me at your earliest convenience the five hundred and twenty guineas; and if the man who has cheated you will not reimburse the money, have him arrested. For Heaven’s sake do not force me to have you arrested to-morrow, and whatever you do make haste, for this may prove a hanging matter.", "pos": 5241896}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "Sir. I should like to remain in your service, and I will rejoin you wherever you please. When are you leaving?", "pos": 5244157}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In an hour’s time; but say not a word, or it will cost me my life.", "pos": 5244281}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "Why can’t you take me with you?", "pos": 5244350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I want you to bring my linen which is at the wash, and my clothes which the tailor is making. I will give you sufficient money for the journey.", "pos": 5244384}
{"speaker": "Jarbe", "text": "I don’t want anything. You shall pay me what I have spent when I rejoin you. Wait a moment. Wait a moment; Take this, sir, I entreat you, my credit is good for as much more in case of need.", "pos": 5244538}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thank you, my good fellow, but I will not take your money, but be sure I will not forget your fidelity.", "pos": 5244798}
{"speaker": "S----", "text": "She is wonderfully well, and I hope we shall have the pleasure of seeing you to dinner tomorrow.", "pos": 5247544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To the Comte de St. Germain, the adept, who has been here a month, and never goes out. Everybody who passes through the place wants to see him; but he is invisible.", "pos": 5249121}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "The gravity of my occupation compels me to exclude everyone, but you are an exception. Come whenever you like, you will be shewn in. You need not mention my name nor your own. I do not ask you to share my repast, for my food is not suitable to others--to you least of all, if your appetite is what it used to be. She poisoned herself, by taking too strong a dose of the Universal Medicine, and her will shews that she thought herself to be with child. If she had come to me, I could have really made her so, though it is a difficult process, and science has not advanced far enough for us to be able to guarantee the sex of the child.", "pos": 5249476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is very fine,", "pos": 5251193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but what good is all this?", "pos": 5251220}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "I cannot tell you; that is my secret. Wait a moment, let it get cool; Take it; it is yours,", "pos": 5251249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is really very wonderful, but another time you should warn me what you are going to do, so that the operation might be attentively watched, and the piece of money noted before being placed on the burning coal.", "pos": 5252051}
{"speaker": "Comte de St. Germain", "text": "Those that are capable of entertaining doubts of my art, are not worthy to speak to me.", "pos": 5252266}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "Good Heavens! how thin you have become!", "pos": 5259786}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have just recovered from a dangerous illness, and I am starting for Brunswick at day-break tomorrow.", "pos": 5259903}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "So are we,", "pos": 5260018}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Hardly, I think, unless the lady-mother has changed her principles since I knew her.", "pos": 5260156}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "I am always the same,", "pos": 5260256}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Really, chevalier, this maxim of yours is anti-social; you must play. Take your revenge, there are four hundred pounds here.", "pos": 5260641}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want to lose as much as that, but I will risk fifty pounds to amuse you.", "pos": 5260921}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Why, there’s the Chevalier Seingalt all alone in a most comfortable carriage,", "pos": 5261600}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "How many people will your carriage hold?", "pos": 5261716}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only two.", "pos": 5261759}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "Then it’s out of the question, for I never let my daughter travel alone with anybody.", "pos": 5261771}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "I have laughed, and laugh still, when I think of what my mother will say at this freak of mine. I had no intentions in getting into the carriage, and I am sure you cannot have told the postillion to drive on.", "pos": 5263630}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may be quite sure of that.", "pos": 5263853}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "All the same my mother will believe it to be a deeply-laid plan, and that strikes me as amusing.", "pos": 5263886}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So it is; I am quite satisfied, certainly. Now you are here you had better come on with me to Brunswick; you will be more comfortable than in a villainous stage coach.", "pos": 5263985}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "I should be delighted, but that would be pushing matters too far. No, we will stop at the first stage and wait for the coach.", "pos": 5264155}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may do so if you please, but you will excuse my waiting.", "pos": 5264283}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "What! you would leave me all alone?", "pos": 5264346}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You know, dear Redegonde, that I have always loved you, and I am ready to take you with me to Brunswick; what more can I say?", "pos": 5264384}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "If you love me you will wait with me and restore me to my mother, who must be in despair.", "pos": 5264512}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In spite of my devotion I am afraid I cannot do so.", "pos": 5264604}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "That’s all very well; but you can’t deny, you little slut, that you have been sleeping with him.", "pos": 5266784}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "Oh, there’s no harm in that, for you know, dear mamma, nobody does anything asleep.", "pos": 5266883}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "I must either have the money or the surety, and if you refuse I will have you arrested; your character is well known.", "pos": 5271494}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "You are leaving Brunswick, chevalier?", "pos": 5272027}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In two or three days, your highness.", "pos": 5272067}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "I heard this morning that a Jew has brought a complaint against you for beating him because he asked you to give him security for a bill of exchange which he was afraid of.", "pos": 5272106}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, I cannot answer for the effects of my indignation against a rascal who dared to come and insult me in my own house, but I do know that if I had given him security I should have impugned my own honour. The impertinent scoundrel threatened to have me arrested, but I know that a just Government rules here, and not arbitrary power.", "pos": 5272281}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "You are right; it would be unjust to have you arrested, but he is afraid for his ducats.", "pos": 5272622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He need not be afraid, my lord, for the bill is drawn by a person of honour and of high station in society.", "pos": 5272713}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "I am delighted to hear it. The Jew said he would never have discounted the bill if you had not mentioned my name.", "pos": 5272823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a lie! Your highness’ name never passed, my lips.", "pos": 5272939}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "He also says that you endorsed the bill with a false name.", "pos": 5272998}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then he lies again, for I signed myself Seingalt, and that name is mine.", "pos": 5273059}
{"speaker": "the prince", "text": "In short, it is a case of a Jew who has been beaten, and is afraid of being duped. I pity such an animal, and I must see what I can do to prevent his keeping you here till he learns the fate of the bill at Amsterdam. As I have not the slightest doubt as to the goodness of the bill, I will take it up myself, and this very morning: thus you will be able to leave when you like. Farewell, chevalier! I wish you a pleasant journey.", "pos": 5273133}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps, indeed, this is exactly what the prince does think. Is it the Jew or me that he pities? If the latter, I think I must give him a lesson, though I do not wish to cause him any humiliation.", "pos": 5274433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I stay,", "pos": 5275090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the Jew will be adjudged to be in the right; and if I go the duke will think I have profited by his favour, and so to speak, by his present of fifty louis if the bill were protested. I will not let anyone enjoy a satisfaction which is no one due.", "pos": 5275121}
{"speaker": "the Jew", "text": "I am ordered to come here, sir, to apologize for suspecting the authenticity of the bill of exchange you gave me. I have been punished by being fined the amount of my commission.", "pos": 5278205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish that had been your only punishment,", "pos": 5278386}
{"speaker": "Redegonde", "text": "I shall not be in my mother’s company, but in that of a young lady of your acquaintance, whom, I am sure, you will be glad to see once more.", "pos": 5278747}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This arrangement,", "pos": 5282203}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "may suit you, but for the present it will not suit me. I want to dine in my own room, but I don’t want to pay double; I will therefore pay as if I were in the public room, but if you like you need only send me up half the number of dishes.", "pos": 5282231}
{"speaker": "Madame Rufin", "text": "I agree, on the condition that you sup with me; we will not put it in the accounts, and you will only meet friends at my little suppers.", "pos": 5282473}
{"speaker": "Calsabigi", "text": "'Tis a good omen, and without any superstition I believe that the good genius of the lottery has brought me to Berlin just now.", "pos": 5287483}
{"speaker": "Mdlle. Belanger", "text": "His real wife is still alive, so I have not the misfortune of occupying that position, but everyone in Berlin thinks I am his lawful wife. Three years ago I was deprived of my mother and the means of livelihood at one stroke, for my mother had an annuity. None of my relations were rich enough to help me, and wishing to live virtuously above all things I subsisted for two years on the sale of my mother’s furniture, boarding with a worthy woman who made her living by embroidery. I learnt her art, and only went out to mass on Sundays. I was a prey to melancholy, and when I had spent all I had I went to M. Brea, a Genoese, on whom I thought I could rely. I begged him to get me a place as a mere waiting-maid, thinking that I was tolerably competent for such a position. He promised to do what he could for me, and five or six days afterwards he made me the following proposal: He read me a letter from Calsabigi, of whom I had never heard, in which he charged him to send a virtuous young lady to Berlin. She must be of good birth, good education, and pleasant appearance, as when his aged and infirm wife died he intended to marry her.", "pos": 5288950}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "With such fine promises did Brea persuade me to leave my native country to come and dishonour myself here, for though everybody treats me as if I were his wife, it is probably known that I am only his mistress. I have been here for six months, and I have never had an instant’s happiness.", "pos": 5291152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has he not kept the conditions you have mentioned?", "pos": 5291443}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "Conditions! Calsabigi’s state of health will kill him long before his wife, and in that case I shall have nothing, for he is loaded with debt, and his creditors would have the first claim on the estate. Besides, I do not like him; and the reason is that he loves me too much. You can understand that; his devotion worries me.", "pos": 5291496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "At all events, you can return to Paris in six months’ time, or, in fact, do anything you like when the term stipulated has expired. You will get your hundred louis, and can lay in a pretty stock of linen.", "pos": 5291824}
{"speaker": "The lady", "text": "If I go to Paris I shall be dishonoured, and if I remain here I shall be dishonoured. In fact, I am very unhappy, and Brea is the cause of my woe. Nevertheless, I can’t blame him, as he could not have been aware that his friend’s property only consisted of debts. And now the king has withdrawn his countenance, the lottery will fail, and Calsabigi will inevitably become a bankrupt. I have thought it over, but to do that I have need of a friend; of course, I do not expect to dispose of it save at a great loss.", "pos": 5292031}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "I knew it would be so, and I am only too happy to have got quit of it so cheaply.", "pos": 5296094}
{"speaker": "Lord Keith", "text": "When you speak to him, you may say that you know me, and the king will doubtless address me on the subject, and you may be sure what I say shall not be to your disadvantage.", "pos": 5297917}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, my lord, how can I write to a monarch of whom I know nothing, and who knows nothing of me? I should not have thought of such a step.", "pos": 5298119}
{"speaker": "Lord Keith", "text": "I daresay, but don’t you wish to speak to him?", "pos": 5298259}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 5298308}
{"speaker": "Lord Keith", "text": "That is enough. Your letter will make him aware of your desire and nothing more.", "pos": 5298321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But will he reply?", "pos": 5298404}
{"speaker": "Lord Keith", "text": "Undoubtedly; he replies to everybody. He will tell you when and where he will see you. His Majesty is now at Sans-Souci. I am curious to know the nature of your interview with the monarch who, as you can see, is not afraid of being imposed on.", "pos": 5298425}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have not come to admire these masterpieces, but to see the king, who informed me in writing that I should find him in the garden.", "pos": 5299351}
{"speaker": "Curator", "text": "He is now at a concert playing the flute; he does so every day after dinner. Did he name any time?", "pos": 5299498}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, four o’clock, but he will have forgotten that.", "pos": 5299599}
{"speaker": "Curator", "text": "The king never forgets anything; he will keep the appointment, and you will do well to go into the garden and await him.", "pos": 5299653}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Well, speak out. Are you not the person who wrote to me?", "pos": 5300089}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, sire, but I have forgotten everything now. I thought that I should not be awed by the majesty of a king, but I was mistaken. My lord-marshal should have warned me.", "pos": 5300148}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Then he knows you? Let us walk. What is it that you want? What do you think of my garden? But, the gardens of Versailles are much finer.", "pos": 5300319}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, sire, but that is chiefly on account of the fountains.", "pos": 5300816}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "True, but it is not my fault; there is no water here. I have spent more than three hundred thousand crowns to get water, but unsuccessfully.", "pos": 5300878}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Three hundred thousand crowns, sire! If your majesty had spent them all at once, the fountains should be here.", "pos": 5301021}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Oh, oh! I see you are acquainted with hydraulics.", "pos": 5301134}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Twenty men-of-war, sire, and a number of galleys.", "pos": 5301600}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "What are the land forces?", "pos": 5301652}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Seventy thousand men, sire; all of whom are subjects of the Republic, and assessing each village at one man.", "pos": 5301680}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "That is not true; no doubt you wish to amuse me by telling me these fables. Give me your opinions on taxation. That’s what I want, for the practice is no business of yours.", "pos": 5301791}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There are three kinds of taxes, considered as to their effects. The first is ruinous, the second a necessary evil, and the third invariably beneficial.", "pos": 5302369}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Good! Go on.", "pos": 5302523}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The ruinous impost is the royal tax, the necessary is the military, and the beneficial is the popular. The royal tax, sire, is that which deplenishes the purses of the subject to fill the coffers of the king.", "pos": 5302538}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "And that kind of tax is always ruinous, you think.", "pos": 5302895}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Always, sire; it prevents the circulation of money--the soul of commerce and the mainstay of the state.", "pos": 5302948}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "But if the tax be levied to keep up the strength of the army, you say it is a necessary evil.", "pos": 5303054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, it is necessary and yet evil, for war is an evil.", "pos": 5303150}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Quite so; and now about the popular tax.", "pos": 5303207}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is always a benefit, for the monarch takes with one hand and gives with the other; he improves towns and roads, founds schools, protects the sciences, cherishes the arts; in fine, he directs this tax towards improving the condition and increasing the happiness of his people.", "pos": 5303250}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "There is a good deal of truth in that. I suppose you know Calsabigi?", "pos": 5303533}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I ought to, your majesty, as he and I established the Genoa Lottery at Paris seven years ago.", "pos": 5303604}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "In what class would you put this taxation, for you will agree that it is taxation of a kind?", "pos": 5303700}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, sire, and not the least important. It is beneficial when the monarch spends his profits for the good of the people.", "pos": 5303795}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "But the monarch may lose?", "pos": 5303924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Once in fifty.", "pos": 5303952}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Is that conclusion the result of a mathematical calculation?", "pos": 5303969}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, sire.", "pos": 5304032}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Such calculations often prove deceptive.", "pos": 5304045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not so, may it please your majesty, when God remains neutral.", "pos": 5304088}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "What has God got to do with it?", "pos": 5304152}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, sire, we will call it destiny or chance.", "pos": 5304186}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Good! I may possibly be of your opinion as to the calculation, but I don’t like your Genoese Lottery. It seems to me an elaborate swindle, and I would have nothing more to do with it, even if it were positively certain that I should never lose.", "pos": 5304235}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your majesty is right, for the confidence which makes the people risk their money in a lottery is perfectly fallacious.", "pos": 5304482}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Do you know that you are a fine man?", "pos": 5304741}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is it possible that, after the scientific conversation we have had, your majesty should select the least of the qualities which adorn your life guardsmen for remark?", "pos": 5304780}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "As you know Marshal Keith, I will speak to him of you.", "pos": 5304984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You could not be more,", "pos": 5310420}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for I was only ten; and nevertheless, I fell in love with you, and never have I forgotten the kiss you gave me by your father’s order in return for some trifling present I made you.", "pos": 5310456}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "Be quiet; you gave me a beautiful ring, and I kissed you of my own free will. You wore the cassock then. I have never forgotten you. But can it really be you?", "pos": 5310640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is indeed.", "pos": 5310801}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "I am delighted to see you again. But I could never have recognized you, and I suppose you would not have recognized me.", "pos": 5310817}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I should not have known you, unless I had heard your name mentioned.", "pos": 5310939}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "One alters in twenty years, you know.", "pos": 5311014}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, one cannot expect to have the same face as at six.", "pos": 5311054}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "You can bear witness that I am not more than twenty-six, though some evil speakers give me ten years more.", "pos": 5311112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You should not take any notice of such calumnies, my dear. You are in the flower of your age, and made for the service of love. For my part, I congratulate myself on being able to tell you that you are the first woman that inspired me with a real passion.", "pos": 5311221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you deserve to have a real lover; I cannot conceive how you can do without one.", "pos": 5312791}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "I assure you I don’t trouble myself about it. I am subject to convulsions, which are the plague of my life. I want to try the Teplitz waters, which are said to be excellent for all nervous affections; but the king has refused his permission, which I, nevertheless, hope to obtain next year.", "pos": 5312877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you be annoyed,", "pos": 5313264}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "if I call upon you frequently?", "pos": 5313295}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "If you don’t mind I will call myself your niece, or your cousin, and then we can see each other.", "pos": 5313328}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know that that may possibly be true? I would not swear that you were not my sister.", "pos": 5313427}
{"speaker": "Joseph da Loglio", "text": "We knew each other at Padua, at Dr. Gozzi’s, my name is Joseph da Loglio.", "pos": 5315025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I remember you,", "pos": 5315113}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in those days you were violoncello at the Russian chapel.", "pos": 5315142}
{"speaker": "Joseph da Loglio", "text": "Exactly; and now I am returning to my native land to leave it no more. I have the honour to introduce you to my wife, who was born at St. Petersburg, but is a daughter of Modonis the violinist, whose reputation is European. In a week I shall be at Dresden, where I hope to have the honour of seeing Madame Casanova, your mother.", "pos": 5315202}
{"speaker": "Da Loglio", "text": "Fortunately, this was a contingency I had long provided against, and I am in a position to spend the rest of my days in comfort in Italy.", "pos": 5315944}
{"speaker": "Madame Denis", "text": "A week ago a Piedmontese, named Audar, was introduced to me. He had been a chief mover in the conspiracy, and the empress gave him a present of a hundred thousand roubles and an order to leave Russia immediately.", "pos": 5316124}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "The king is riding up.", "pos": 5321428}
{"speaker": "Frederick the Great", "text": "Whose bed is this?", "pos": 5321961}
{"speaker": "Cadet", "text": "Mine, sire,", "pos": 5322001}
{"speaker": "Frederick the Great", "text": "Good! but it is not you I am angry with; where is your governor?", "pos": 5322043}
{"speaker": "Lambert", "text": "Madam, my name is Lambert, I come from Lorraine, and I wish to lodge here.", "pos": 5323436}
{"speaker": "Madame Rufin", "text": "Very good, sir, but you must pay for your board and lodging every day.", "pos": 5323513}
{"speaker": "Lambert", "text": "That, madam, is out of the question, for I have not got a farthing, but I shall have some money when I discover who I am.", "pos": 5323586}
{"speaker": "Madame Rufin", "text": "I am afraid I cannot put you up on those conditions, sir.", "pos": 5323710}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stay,", "pos": 5323860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will pay for you to-day.", "pos": 5323876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have you got in that little bundle?", "pos": 5323937}
{"speaker": "Lambert", "text": "Two shirts, a score of mathematical books, and some other trifles.", "pos": 5323988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I come from Strasburg,", "pos": 5324182}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and a cadet of a regiment stationed there having given me a blow in a coffee-house I paid him a visit the next day in his own room and stabbed him there.", "pos": 5324219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After this I went home, made up my bundle, and left the town. I walked all the way and lived soberly, so that my money lasted till this morning. To-morrow I shall write to my mother, who lives at Luneville, and I am sure she will send me some money.", "pos": 5324374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what do you think of doing?", "pos": 5324626}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want to become a military engineer, but if needs must I am ready to enlist as a private soldier.", "pos": 5324660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can give you board and lodging till you hear from your mother.", "pos": 5324761}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Heaven has sent you in my way,", "pos": 5324828}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be a piece of good fortune for me,", "pos": 5325553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and to shew my gratitude I will gladly wait on you as a servant during the journey.", "pos": 5325611}
{"speaker": "Lambert", "text": "Poverty, is a rascally teacher, that gives a man some bad lessons. I am not a liar by disposition, but I have nevertheless told you a lie on another and a more important matter. I don’t expect any money whatever from my poor mother, who rather needs that I should send money to her. So forgive me, and be sure I shall be a faithful servant to you.", "pos": 5326664}
{"speaker": "Frederick", "text": "In five or six days, if your majesty has no objection. I wish you a pleasant journey; but what do you hope to do in that land?", "pos": 5327602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What I hoped to do in this land, namely, to please the sovereign.", "pos": 5327733}
{"speaker": "Frederick", "text": "Have you got an introduction to the empress?", "pos": 5327801}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, but I have an introduction to a banker.", "pos": 5327848}
{"speaker": "Frederick", "text": "Ah! that’s much better. If you pass through Prussia on your return I shall be delighted to hear of your adventures in Russia.", "pos": 5327894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Farewell, sire.", "pos": 5328022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am no merchant,", "pos": 5329517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and you will get nothing out of me.", "pos": 5329545}
{"speaker": "Israelite", "text": "I have the right to examine your effects, and I mean to make use of it.", "pos": 5329583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a madman,", "pos": 5329682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can easily get one from the Jews,", "pos": 5331775}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry to have caused so much trouble,", "pos": 5332035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 5332088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the masked ball will be much more relished by the people.", "pos": 5332114}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "I have only ducats, and therefore I cannot profit by your offer. I know it sir, and you give them away very cheaply.", "pos": 5332618}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From a philosopher like your highness,", "pos": 5339656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not afraid to take money, for it may be more useful to me than jewels.", "pos": 5339708}
{"speaker": "Prince Charles de Biron", "text": "I cannot offer you a lodging, because I have hardly enough room for myself, but I will see that you get a comfortable apartment somewhere.", "pos": 5341190}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "I have lived for ten years, with that woman. Betty, whom you admired so much, is not my daughter, the others are my children by my Englishwoman. I have left St. Petersburg for two years, and I live here well enough, and have pupils who do me credit. I play with the prince, sometimes winning and sometimes losing, but I never win enough to enable me to satisfy a wretched creditor I left at St. Petersburg, who persecutes me on account of a bill of exchange. He may put me in prison any day, and I am always expecting him to do so.", "pos": 5343798}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is the bill for a large sum?", "pos": 5344343}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "Five hundred roubles.", "pos": 5344374}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is only two thousand francs.", "pos": 5344398}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "Yes, but unfortunately I have not got it.", "pos": 5344434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You ought to annul the debt by paying small sums on account.", "pos": 5344478}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "The rascal won’t let me.", "pos": 5344541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then what do you propose doing?", "pos": 5344568}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "Win a heavy sum, if I can, and escape into Poland. The Baron de St. Heleine will run away, too if he can, for he only lives on credit. The prince is very useful to us, as we are able to play at his house; but if we get into difficulty he could not extricate us, as he is heavily in debt himself. He always loses at play. His mistress is expensive, and gives him a great deal of trouble by her ill-humour.", "pos": 5344602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why is she so sour?", "pos": 5345010}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "She wants him to keep his word, for he promised to get her married at the end of two years; and on the strength of this promise she let him give her two children. The two years have passed by and the children are there, and she will no longer allow him to have anything to do with her for fear of having a third child.", "pos": 5345032}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Can’t the prince find her a husband?", "pos": 5345353}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "He did find her a lieutenant, but she won’t hear of anybody under the rank of major.", "pos": 5345392}
{"speaker": "Peter, Duke of Holstein", "text": "Very good, but now it is your turn; and if you don’t do your best I will drive you from St. Petersburg.", "pos": 5353990}
{"speaker": "D'Aragon", "text": "My lord, your highness shall be obeyed. I shall not allow you to touch me once, but I hope you will deign to take me under your protection.", "pos": 5354113}
{"speaker": "D'Aragon", "text": "With the naked sword I fence in quite another style, and you are quite right not to fear anyone, for you fence very well.", "pos": 5355367}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless, if your excellency wills it I will turn back; but I shall complain to Marshal Braun, who gave me the passport for posting, knowing that I had not the political passport.", "pos": 5358373}
{"speaker": "masquer", "text": "There’s the czarina.", "pos": 5362415}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "One would think you were a Venetian,", "pos": 5363654}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "So I am.", "pos": 5363718}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Like myself.", "pos": 5363729}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "I am not jesting.", "pos": 5363744}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No more am I.", "pos": 5363764}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "Then let us speak in Venetian.", "pos": 5363780}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you begin, and I will reply. Quite so,", "pos": 5363813}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "I thought Bernadi was the only Venetian besides myself in St. Petersburg.", "pos": 5364120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You see you are mistaken.", "pos": 5364196}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "My name is Count Volpati di Treviso.", "pos": 5364224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give me your address, and I will come and tell you who I am, for I cannot do so here.", "pos": 5364263}
{"speaker": "Count Volpati di Treviso", "text": "Here it is.", "pos": 5364351}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am your friend of the ‘Hotel d’Elbeuf.’ Gilbert Baret, Rue des Prouveres. I was your lover, and a fortunate one, too, but before I tell you my name, with whom are you, and how are you?", "pos": 5365190}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "Very well; but pray do not divulge what I tell you. I left Paris with M. d’Anglade, counsellor in the Court of Rouen. I lived happily enough for some time with him, and then left him to go with a theatrical manager, who brought me here as an actress under the name of de l’Anglade, and now I am kept by Count Rzewuski, the Polish ambassador. And now tell me who you are? My good angel has brought you to St. Petersburg.", "pos": 5365653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 5366171}
{"speaker": "Madame Baret", "text": "Rzewuski is obliged to go back to Poland, and now I count on you to get me out of the country, for I can no longer continue in a station for which I was not intended, since I can neither sing nor act.", "pos": 5366190}
{"speaker": "hairdresser", "text": "But sir, the first Sunday was yesterday; we are at Monday now.", "pos": 5367285}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Monday?", "pos": 5367361}
{"speaker": "hairdresser", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 5367377}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Venetian would have kept his promise, if he had not had a long sleep of twenty-seven hours. I am the Venetian, and am delighted to continue our acquaintance.", "pos": 5368412}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about his honour?", "pos": 5370493}
{"speaker": "Baron Lefort", "text": "It is not affected by the non-payment of gaming debts. It is an understood thing in Russia that one who plays on credit and loses may pay or not pay as he wishes, and the winner only makes himself ridiculous by reminding the loser of his debt.", "pos": 5370517}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then the holder of the bank has the right to refuse to accept bets which are not backed by ready money.", "pos": 5370763}
{"speaker": "Baron Lefort", "text": "Certainly; and nobody has a right to be offended with him for doing so. Gaming is in a very bad state in Russia. I know young men of the highest rank whose chief boast is that they know how to conquer fortune; that is, to cheat. One of the Matuschkins goes so far as to challenge all foreign cheats to master him. He has just received permission to travel for three years, and it is an open secret that he wishes to travel that he may exercise his skill. He intends returning to Russia laden with the spoils of the dupes he has made.", "pos": 5370869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Drugoi!", "pos": 5375801}
{"speaker": "Roccolini", "text": "I am astonished that you have not met the fair Madame Prote at the chief huntsman’s, for she is the darling of his heart. Come and take coffee with me to-morrow, and you shall see a wonder.", "pos": 5378077}
{"speaker": "Prote", "text": "Prote.", "pos": 5378574}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am glad to hear it, madam,", "pos": 5378583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for you thereby promise to be mine.", "pos": 5378622}
{"speaker": "Prote", "text": "How so?", "pos": 5378660}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "So you see, the matter is quite simple.", "pos": 5380990}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How simple?", "pos": 5381051}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "Why, yes; only a hundred roubles.", "pos": 5381065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And supposing me to be inclined to give that sum?", "pos": 5381101}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "Then she would be your servant, and you could do anything you liked with her, except kill her.", "pos": 5381153}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And supposing she is not willing?", "pos": 5381250}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "That never happens, but if it did you could have beaten her.", "pos": 5381286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, if she is satisfied and I enjoy her, can I still continue to keep her?", "pos": 5381349}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "You will be her master, I tell you, and can have her arrested if she attempts to escape, unless she can return the hundred roubles you gave for her.", "pos": 5381428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What must I give her per month?", "pos": 5381579}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "Nothing, except enough to eat and drink. You must also let her go to the baths on Saturday and to the church on Sunday.", "pos": 5381613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can I make her come with me when I leave St. Petersburg?", "pos": 5381735}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "No, unless you obtain permission and find a surety, for though the girl would be your slave she would still be a slave to the empress.", "pos": 5381794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; then will you arrange this matter for me? I will give the hundred roubles, and I promise you I will not treat her as a slave. But I hope you will care for my interests, as I do not wish to be duped.", "pos": 5381931}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "I promise you you shall not be duped; I will see to everything. Would you like her now?", "pos": 5382143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, to-morrow.", "pos": 5382233}
{"speaker": "Zinowieff", "text": "Very good; then to-morrow it shall be.", "pos": 5382250}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 5382547}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "one is enough.", "pos": 5382561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must tell me,", "pos": 5386426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in what way I can be of use to you.", "pos": 5386477}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By admitting us to your company, and introducing us to your friends.", "pos": 5386515}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I am a stranger here, and I will come and see you, and you can come and see me, and I shall be delighted; but I never dine at home. As to my friends, you must feel that, being a stranger, I could not introduce you and the lady. Is she your wife? People will ask me who you are, and what you are doing at St. Petersburg. What am I to say? I wonder Prince Charles did not send you to someone else.", "pos": 5386586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am a gentleman of Lorraine, and Madame la Riviere is my mistress, and my object in coming to St. Petersburg is to amuse myself.", "pos": 5386990}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I don’t know to whom I could introduce you under the circumstances; but I should think you will be able to find plenty of amusement without knowing anyone. The theatres, the streets, and even the Court entertainments, are open to everyone. I suppose you have plenty of money?", "pos": 5387122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s exactly what I haven’t got, and I don’t expect any either.", "pos": 5387405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I have not much more, but you really astonish me. How could you have been so foolish as to come here without money?", "pos": 5387473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, my mistress said we could do with what money we got from day to day. She induced me to leave Paris without a farthing, and up to now it seems to me that she is right. We have managed to get on somehow.", "pos": 5387597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then she has the purse?", "pos": 5387807}
{"speaker": "Madame la Riviere", "text": "My purse, is in the pockets of my friends.", "pos": 5387833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand, and I am sure you have no difficulty in finding the wherewithal to live. If I had such a purse, it should be opened for you, but I am not a rich man.", "pos": 5387890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My master has not sent me away, but beaten me; therefore he loves me, and I ought to be attached to him.", "pos": 5394951}
{"speaker": "Papanelopulo", "text": "If you do not beat him, he will end by beating you;", "pos": 5395389}
{"speaker": "Russian", "text": "You mean that she issued a ukase to the effect that she had done it, and if she had liked she could have travelled more quickly still; it was only a question of the wording of the ukase.", "pos": 5403825}
{"speaker": "Papanelopulo", "text": "Taci!", "pos": 5404864}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "The music of that opera has given the greatest pleasure to everyone, so of course I am delighted with it; but it wearies me, nevertheless. Music is a fine thing, but I cannot understand how anyone who is seriously occupied can love it passionately. I will have Buranello here, and I wonder whether he will interest me in music, but I am afraid nature did not constitute me to feel all its charms.", "pos": 5407467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have had dinner; you have come too late.", "pos": 5411307}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you said pneuma agion, then you would cross yourself like us, and if we said sancti spiritus we should cross ourselves like you.", "pos": 5412653}
{"speaker": "my interlocutor", "text": "The adjective, should always precede the substantive, for we should never utter the name of God without first giving Him some honourable epithet.", "pos": 5412804}
{"speaker": "the empress", "text": "No emblem at all, only the name of God in large letters.", "pos": 5413992}
{"speaker": "Rinaldi", "text": "I will put a triangle.", "pos": 5414051}
{"speaker": "the empress", "text": "No triangle at all; but only the name of God in whatever language you like, and nothing more.", "pos": 5414076}
{"speaker": "Melissino", "text": "May you die when you become rich.", "pos": 5417432}
{"speaker": "General Orloff", "text": "May you never die till I slay you!", "pos": 5417699}
{"speaker": "the minister", "text": "This is news indeed. The Emperor of the Romans has died suddenly. Full court mourning, which your highness will observe for three months longer than the empress.", "pos": 5420103}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 5420312}
{"speaker": "the minister", "text": "Because, as Duke of Holstein, your highness has a right to attend the diet of the empire, a privilege, which Peter the Great desired in vain.", "pos": 5420333}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be sorry to do so, but as I can’t find anyone to present me to her, I must be resigned.", "pos": 5424958}
{"speaker": "the czarina", "text": "From what I can make out, the secret of the matter is that my worthy aunt was imposed on, and indeed she did not trouble herself much about such trifles. But I hope you have seen other things in Russia less ridiculous than these statues?", "pos": 5426204}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "Yes, in your country it is eleven days older.", "pos": 5429173}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Would it not be worthy of your majesty to put Russia on an equality with the rest of the world in this respect, by adopting the Gregorian calendar? All the Protestants have done so, and England, who adopted it fourteen years ago, has already gained several millions. All Europe is astonished that the old style should be suffered to exist in a country where the sovereign is the head of the Church, and whose capital contains an academy of science. It is thought that Peter the Great, who made the year begin in January, would have also abolished the old style if he had not been afraid of offending England, which then kept trade and commerce alive throughout your vast empire.", "pos": 5429233}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "You know, that Peter the Great was not exactly a learned man.", "pos": 5429914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He was more than a man of learning, the immortal Peter was a genius of the first order. Instinct supplied the place of science with him; his judgment was always in the right. His vast genius, his firm resolve, prevented him from making mistakes, and helped him to destroy all those abuses which threatened to oppose his great designs.", "pos": 5430011}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "I shall be delighted to reply to you at another time. All the letters sent to foreign countries and all the important State records are marked with both dates.", "pos": 5430509}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I must point out to your majesty that by the end of the century the difference will be of twelve days, not eleven.", "pos": 5430927}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "Not at all; we have seen to that. The last year of this century will not be counted as a leap year. It is fortunate that the difference is one of eleven days, for as that is the number which is added every year to the epact. Our epacts are almost the same. As to the celebration of Easter, that is a different question. Your equinox is on March the 21st, ours on the 10th, and the astronomers say we are both wrong; sometimes it is we who are wrong and sometimes you, as the equinox varies. You know you are not even in agreement with the Jews, whose calculation is said to be perfectly accurate; and, in fine, this difference in the time of celebrating Easter does not disturb in any way public order or the progress of the Government.", "pos": 5431048}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your majesty’s words fill me with admiration, but the Festival of Christmas----", "pos": 5431787}
{"speaker": "czarina", "text": "I suppose you are going to say that we do not celebrate Christmas in the winter solstice as should properly be done. We know it, but it seems to me a matter of no account. I would rather bear with this small mistake than grievously afflict vast numbers of my subjects by depriving them of their birthdays. If I did so, there would be no open complaints uttered, as that is not the fashion in Russia; but they would say in secret that I was an Atheist, and that I disputed the infallibility of the Council of Nice. You may think such complaints matter for laughter, but I do not, for I have much more agreeable motives for amusement.", "pos": 5431870}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you well pleased to have died suddenly?", "pos": 5434730}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "What a foolish question! Such might be the wish of one driven to despair, or of someone suffering from a long and grievous malady. Such was not my position, for I enjoyed the blessings of happiness and good health; no worse fate could have happened to me. My sudden death prevented me from concluding several designs which I might have brought to a successful issue if God had granted me the warning of a slight illness. But it was not so; I had to set out on the long journey at a moment’s notice, without the time to make any preparations. Is my death any the happier from my not foreseeing it? Do you think me such a coward as to dread the approach of what is common to all? I tell you that I should have accounted myself happy if I had had a respite of but a day. Then I should not complain of the Divine justice.", "pos": 5434802}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Does your highness accuse God of injustice, then?", "pos": 5435622}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "What boots it, since I am a lost soul? Do you expect the damned to acknowledge the justice of the decree which has consigned them to eternal woe?", "pos": 5435674}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No doubt it is a difficult matter, but I should have thought that a sense of the justice of your doom would have mitigated the pains of it.", "pos": 5435822}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "Perhaps so, but a damned soul must be without consolation for ever.", "pos": 5435964}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In spite of that there are some philosophers who call you happy in your death by virtue of its suddenness.", "pos": 5436034}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "Not philosophers, but fools, for in its suddenness was the pain and woe.", "pos": 5436143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well said; but may I ask your highness if you admit the possibility of a happy eternity after an unhappy death, or of an unhappy doom after a happy death?", "pos": 5436218}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "Such suppositions are inconceivable. The happiness of futurity lies in the ecstasy of the soul in feeling freed from the trammels of matter, and unhappiness is the doom of a soul which was full of remorse at the moment it left the body. But enough, for my punishment forbids my farther speech.", "pos": 5436375}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell me, at least, what is the nature of your punishment?", "pos": 5436671}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "An everlasting weariness. Farewell.", "pos": 5436731}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "I had forgotten to ask you, if you believe the new calculation of the calendar to be exempt from error?", "pos": 5437313}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, your majesty; but the error is so minute that it will not produce any sensible effect for the space of nine or ten thousand years.", "pos": 5437443}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "I thought so; and in my opinion Pope Gregory should not have acknowledged any mistake at all. The Pope, however, had much less difficulty in carrying out his reform than I should have with my subjects, who are too fond of their ancient usages and customs.", "pos": 5437580}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless, I am sure your majesty would meet with obedience.", "pos": 5437838}
{"speaker": "empress", "text": "No doubt, but imagine the grief of my clergy in not being able to celebrate the numerous saints’ days, which would fall on the eleven days to be suppressed. You have only one saint for each day, but we have a dozen at least. I may remark also that all ancient states and kingdoms are attached to their ancient laws. I have heard that your Republic of Venice begins the year in March, and that seems to me, as it were, a monument and memorial of its antiquity--and indeed the year begins more naturally in March than in January--but does not this usage cause some confusion? None at all, your majesty. The letters M V, which we adjoin to all dates in January and February, render all mistakes impossible. Venice is also noteworthy for its peculiar system of heraldry, by the amusing form under which it portrays its patron saint, and by the five Latin words with which the Evangelist is invoked, in which, as I am told, there is a grammatical blunder which has become respectable by its long standing. But is it true that you do not distinguish between the day and night hours? Such is the force of custom, which makes us admire what other nations think ridiculous. You see no inconvenience in your division of the day, which strikes me as most inconvenient. Yes, but for this one advantage you have over us, we have two over you. We know that at twelve o’clock it is either mid-day or midnight. I have been asked, to allow the lottery to be established in my own dominions; but I should never permit it except on the condition that no stake should be below a rouble, and then the poor people would not be able to risk their money in it.", "pos": 5437904}
{"speaker": "Valville", "text": "No, thank God! I am a Parisian, and an actress by occupation. My name is Valville; but I don’t wonder I am unknown to you, for I have been only a month here, and have played but once. Because I was so unfortunate as to fail to win the czarina’s favour. However, as I was engaged for a year, she has kindly ordered that my salary of a hundred roubles shall be paid monthly. At the end of the year I shall get my passport and go. Very likely; but she does not remember that I am forgetting how to act all this time. I only wish she would give me an audience. No, I haven’t. They say the incredible often happens.", "pos": 5441136}
{"speaker": "Valville", "text": "As I have the knack of putting an end to an intrigue when it has ceased to amuse me, I have no hesitation in accepting your proposal. As to the sentiments with which you say I have inspired you, I will do my best to share them, and to make you happy. Your supper shall be ready, and later on we will settle the price of the dessert. I shall be delighted to accept the place in your carriage if you can obtain my expenses to Paris as well as my passport. And finally, I hope you will find my plain speaking on a match with yours. Good bye, till the evening. I shall be delighted to travel with you, but I don’t think you will be able to get my passport. I will surely do so. Nothing more than that? Not a word. You say nothing about the passport, and nothing about the journey-money. I am not a rich woman. Oh, that would be too much! I will copy it out myself, for I can write a good enough hand. Indeed, it almost seems as if I had composed it; it is exactly my style. I believe you are a better actor than I am, and from this evening I shall call myself your pupil. Come, let us have some supper, that you may give me my first lesson.", "pos": 5442645}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "I thought, it was like what is done at Paris, where a girl goes into the chorus or the ballet without having learnt to sing or dance. What else could I think, after an actor like Clerval had assured me I had a talent for acting and had offered me a good engagement? All he required of me was that I should learn by heart and repeat certain passages which I rehearsed in his presence. He said I made a capital soubrette, and he certainly could not have been trying to deceive me, but the fact is he was deceived himself. A fortnight after my arrival I made my first appearance, and my reception was not a flattering one. Perhaps you were nervous? Nervous? not in the least. Clerval said that if I could have put on the appearance of nervousness the empress, who is kindness itself, would certainly have encouraged me. I shall present it to-day,", "pos": 5445892}
{"speaker": "Zaira", "text": "Very good. I will give you a plain answer when you come back.", "pos": 5448874}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "Long live the petition! I waited for the empress to come out of her private chapel. I respectfully presented my petition, which she read as she walked along, and then told me with a kindly smile to wait a moment. I waited, and her majesty returned me the petition initialled in her own hand, and bade me take it to M. Ghelagin. This gentleman gave me an excellent reception, and told me that the sovereign hand ordered him to give me my passport, my salary for a year, and a hundred ducats for the journey. The money will be forwarded in a fortnight, as my name will have to be sent to the Gazette.", "pos": 5449005}
{"speaker": "Zaira", "text": "It seems to me that I am worth more than I was, for I have all your presents, and I know Italian.", "pos": 5450161}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "You are right, dear, but I don’t want it to be said that I have made a profit on you; besides, I intend to make you a present of the hundred roubles.", "pos": 5450261}
{"speaker": "Zaira", "text": "As you are going to make me such a handsome present, why not send me back to my father’s house? That would be still more generous. If M. Rinaldi really loves me, he can come and talk it over with my father. You have no objection to his paying me whatever sum I like to mention.", "pos": 5450413}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "Not at all. On the contrary, I shall be very glad to serve your family, and all the more as Rinaldi is a rich man.", "pos": 5450693}
{"speaker": "Zaira", "text": "Very good; you will be always dear to me in my memory. You shall take me to my home to-morrow; and now let us go to bed.", "pos": 5450810}
{"speaker": "Prince Adam", "text": "That’s the king.", "pos": 5458510}
{"speaker": "Prince Adam", "text": "Chevalier, your place will always be at my father’s table.", "pos": 5463578}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you take my silence for consent to your extravagant eulogium of Horace, you are mistaken; for in my opinion the ‘nec cum venari volet poemata panges’, of which you think so much, is to my mind a satire devoid of delicacy.", "pos": 5466107}
{"speaker": "Abbé Guigiotti", "text": "Satire and delicacy are hard to combine.", "pos": 5466344}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not for Horace, who succeeded in pleasing the great Augustus, and rendering him immortal as the protector of learned men. Indeed other sovereigns seem to vie with him by taking his name and even by disguising it.", "pos": 5466387}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "What sovereigns have adopted a disguised form of the name Augustus?", "pos": 5466681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The first king of Sweden, who called himself Gustavus, which is only an anagram of Augustus.", "pos": 5466751}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "That is a very amusing idea, and worth more than all the tales we have told. Where did you find that?", "pos": 5466846}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In a manuscript at Wolfenbuttel.", "pos": 5466950}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Can you cite any passage of Horace (not in manuscript) where he shews his talent for delicacy and satire?", "pos": 5467099}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, I could quote several passages, but here is one which seems to me very good: ‘Coram rege’ sua de paupertate tacentes, plus quam pocentes ferent.”", "pos": 5467207}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "True indeed,", "pos": 5467376}
{"speaker": "Bishop Kraswiski", "text": "They that speak not of their necessities in the presence of a king, gain more than they that are ever asking.", "pos": 5467584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tempora quoeram", "pos": 5467948}
{"speaker": "Stanislas Augustus", "text": "Thank no one but Horace, and don’t tell anyone about it.", "pos": 5468152}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Never mind, come in my box.", "pos": 5479617}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "It seems to me I have come at a bad time; it looks as if you loved this lady.", "pos": 5481021}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, my lord; does not your excellency consider her as worthy of love?", "pos": 5481101}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Quite so; but as it happens I love her too, and I am not the man to bear any rivals.", "pos": 5481180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As I know that, I shall love her no more.", "pos": 5481267}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Then you give her up?", "pos": 5481311}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With all my heart; for everyone must yield to such a noble as you are.", "pos": 5481335}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Very good; but I call a man that yields a coward.", "pos": 5481408}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Isn’t that rather a strong expression?", "pos": 5481460}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Venetian coward.", "pos": 5481726}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "perhaps a Venetian coward might kill a brave Pole outside the theatre;", "pos": 5481833}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "Where is your head to-night?", "pos": 5483644}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, it is four leagues away.", "pos": 5483675}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "A respectable man ought to have his head in the game, and not at a distance of four leagues.", "pos": 5483711}
{"speaker": "Prince Gaspard Lubomirski", "text": "I am sorry for you, but Branicki was drunk, and you really shouldn’t count what he said as an insult.", "pos": 5484573}
{"speaker": "Lubomirski", "text": "What has happened?", "pos": 5484688}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "What has taken place between you and Branicki?", "pos": 5484934}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you the whole story, my lord, in private after supper.", "pos": 5484983}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "You had good reasons for being absent-minded at cards.", "pos": 5485291}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I presume to ask your excellency’s advice?", "pos": 5485348}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "I never give advice in these affairs, in which you must do every-thing or nothing.", "pos": 5485397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My Lord,--Yesterday evening your excellency insulted me with a light heart, without my having given you any cause or reason for doing so. This seems to indicate that you hate me, and would gladly efface me from the land of the living. I both can and will oblige you in this matter. Be kind enough, therefore, to drive me in your carriage to a place where my death will not subject your lordship to the vengeance of the law, in case you obtain the victory, and where I shall enjoy the same advantage if God give me grace to kill your lordship. I should not make this proposal unless I believe your lordship to be of a noble disposition. I have the honour to be, etc.", "pos": 5486125}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Sir,--I accept your proposal, and shall be glad if you will have the kindness to inform me when I shall have the honour of seeing you. I remain, sir, etc. Sir,--You will greatly oblige me by coming now. I have sent my carriage. I have the honour to be, etc.", "pos": 5487044}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Don’t be afraid. I am not come to assassinate you, but merely to say that I accept your proposal, on condition only that the duel shall take place to-day. If not, never!", "pos": 5488244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is out of the question. I have letters to write, and some business to do for the king.", "pos": 5488427}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "That will do afterwards. In all probability you will not fall, and if you do I am sure the king will forgive you. Besides, a dead man need fear no reproaches.", "pos": 5488519}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I want to make my will.", "pos": 5488680}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Come, come, you needn’t be afraid of dying; it will be time enough for you to make your will in fifty years.", "pos": 5488706}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But why should your excellency not wait till tomorrow?", "pos": 5488817}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I don’t want to be caught.", "pos": 5488874}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have nothing of the kind to fear from me.", "pos": 5488903}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I daresay, but unless we make haste the king will have us both arrested.", "pos": 5488951}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How can he, unless you have told him about our quarrel?", "pos": 5489026}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Ah, you don’t understand! Well, I am quite willing to give you satisfaction, but it must be to-day or never.", "pos": 5489084}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. This duel is too dear to my heart for me to leave you any pretext for avoiding it. Call for me after dinner, for I shall want all my strength.", "pos": 5489195}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Certainly. For my part I like a good supper after, better than a good dinner before.", "pos": 5489351}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Everyone to his taste.", "pos": 5489438}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "True. By the way, why did you send me the length of your sword? I intend to fight with pistols, for I never use swords with unknown persons.", "pos": 5489463}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you mean? I beg of you to refrain from insulting me in my own house. I do not intend to fight with pistols, and you cannot compel me to do so, for I have your letter giving me the choice of weapons.", "pos": 5489606}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Strictly speaking, no doubt you are in the right; but I am sure you are too polite not to give way, when I assure you that you will lay me under a great obligation by doing so. Very often the first shot is a miss, and if that is the case with both of us, I promise to fight with swords as long as you like. Will you oblige me in the matter?", "pos": 5489815}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, for I like your way of asking, though, in my opinion, a pistol duel is a barbarous affair. I accept, but on the following conditions: You must bring two pistols, charge them in my presence, and give me the choice. If the first shot is a miss, we will fight with swords till the first blood or to the death, whichever you prefer. Call for me at three o’clock, and choose some place where we shall be secure from the law.", "pos": 5490158}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Very good. You are a good fellow, allow me to embrace you. Give me your word of honour not to say a word about it to anyone, for if you did we should be arrested immediately.", "pos": 5490585}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You need not be afraid of my talking; the project is too dear to me.", "pos": 5490762}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Good. Farewell till three o’clock.", "pos": 5490833}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Take this packet to the king, if I happen to be killed. You may guess, perhaps, what is going to happen, but do not say a word to anyone, or you will have me for your bitterest enemy, as it would mean loss of honour to me.", "pos": 5491019}
{"speaker": "Campioni", "text": "I understand. You may reckon on my discretion, and I hope the affair may be ended honourably and prosperously for you. But take a piece of friendly advice--don’t spare your opponent, were it the king himself, for it might cost you your life. I know that by experience.", "pos": 5491254}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will not forget. Farewell.", "pos": 5491525}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "You might want them, they had better come along.", "pos": 5492434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I had as many as you, I would certainly agree to your proposition; but as it is I shall do still better without any at all. If need be, your excellency will see that I am tended by your own servants. Does your excellency intend spending the spring at Warsaw?", "pos": 5492502}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I had thought of doing so, but you may possibly send me to pass the spring somewhere else.", "pos": 5493123}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, I hope not!", "pos": 5493216}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Have you seen any military service?", "pos": 5493234}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes; but may I ask why your excellency asks me the question, for--", "pos": 5493272}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I had no particular reason; it was only for the sake of saying something. Choose your weapon, sir.", "pos": 5493341}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Is this a duel, sir?", "pos": 5493930}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5493953}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "You cannot fight here; you are within the ban.", "pos": 5493960}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "No matter.", "pos": 5494009}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "It does matter; and I, at all events, refuse to be a witness. I am on guard at the castle, and you have taken me by surprise.", "pos": 5494022}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Be quiet; I will answer for everything. I owe this gentleman satisfaction, and I mean to give it him here.", "pos": 5494150}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "M. Casanova, you cannot fight here.", "pos": 5494259}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then why have I been brought here? I shall defend myself wherever I am attacked.", "pos": 5494317}
{"speaker": "General", "text": "Lay the whole matter before the king, and you shall have my voice in your favour.", "pos": 5494400}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am quite willing to do so, general, if his excellency will say that he regrets what passed between us last night. General, you can bear witness that I have done all in my power to avoid this duel. I am going to try its goodness on your head,", "pos": 5494484}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Scoundrels! have some respect for a man of honour.", "pos": 5496235}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "You have killed me, so make haste away, as you are in danger of the gibbet. The duel was fought in the ban, and I am a high court officer, and a Knight of the White Eagle. So lose no time, and if you have not enough money take my purse.", "pos": 5497062}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope, that your wound will not be mortal, and I am deeply grieved at your obliging me to fight. Warszawa?", "pos": 5497480}
{"speaker": "Prince Lubomirski", "text": "After this exploit, he seized me by the throat and held a pistol to my head, threatening to blow out my brains if I did not take him in safety to the court where his horse was, so that he might get away from the house without any attack being made on him by Tomatis’s servants; and I did so immediately. Moszczinski is in the doctor’s hands, and will be laid up for some time. As soon as it was reported that Branicki was killed, his Uhlans began to ride about the town swearing to avenge their colonel, and to slaughter you. It is very fortunate that you took refuge here. The chief marshal has had the monastery surrounded by two hundred dragoons, ostensibly to prevent your escape, but in reality to defend you from Branicki’s soldiers. The doctors say that the postoli is in great danger if the ball has wounded the intestines, but if not they answer for his recovery. His fate will be known tomorrow. He now lies at the lord chamberlain’s, not daring to have himself carried to his apartments at the palace. The king has been to see him, and the general who was present told his majesty that the only thing that saved your life was your threat to aim at Branicki’s head. This frightened him, and to keep your ball from his head he stood in such an awkward position that he missed your vital parts. Otherwise he would undoubtedly have shot you through the heart, for he can split a bullet into two halves by firing against the blade of a knife. It was also a lucky thing for you that you escaped Bininski, who never thought of looking for you in the wretched sleigh.", "pos": 5501746}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, the most fortunate thing for me is that I did not kill my man outright. Otherwise I should have been cut to pieces just as I went to his help by three of his servants, who stood over me with drawn swords. However, the postoli ordered them to leave me alone. I am sorry for what has happened to your highness and Count Moszczinski; and if Tomatis was not killed by the madman it is only because the pistol was only charged with powder.", "pos": 5503353}
{"speaker": "Prince Lubomirski", "text": "That’s what I think, for no one heard the bullet; but it was a mere chance.", "pos": 5503800}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so.", "pos": 5503878}
{"speaker": "Palatin", "text": "Read what the king says to me, and sleep well.", "pos": 5503990}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Branicki, my dear uncle, is dangerous wounded. My surgeons are doing all they can for him, but I have not forgotten Casanova. You may assure him that he is pardoned, even if Branicki should die.", "pos": 5504075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, gentlemen, you have mustered in great strength; why is this? Gentlemen, you seem to have a great many solid scientific reasons for cutting off my hand; but one thing you have not got, and that is my consent. My hand is my own, and I am going to keep it.", "pos": 5506045}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "Sir, it is certainly gangrened; by to-morrow the arm will begin to mortify, and then you will have to lose your arm.", "pos": 5506745}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; if that prove so you shall cut off my arm, but I happen to know something of gangrene, and there is none about me.", "pos": 5506864}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "You cannot know as much about it as we do.", "pos": 5506992}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Possibly; but as far as I can make out, you know nothing at all.", "pos": 5507037}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "That’s rather a strong expression.", "pos": 5507104}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t care whether it be strong or weak; you can go now.", "pos": 5507141}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, they are not deceived themselves, but they want to deceive me.", "pos": 5508029}
{"speaker": "Lubomirski", "text": "Why should they?", "pos": 5508103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To make themselves agreeable to Branicki, who is in a dangerous state, and might possibly get better if he heard that my hand had been taken off.", "pos": 5508122}
{"speaker": "Lubomirski", "text": "Really that seems an incredible idea to me!", "pos": 5508270}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What will your highness say on the day when I am proved to be right?", "pos": 5508316}
{"speaker": "Lubomirski", "text": "I shall say you are deserving of the highest praise, but the day must first come.", "pos": 5508387}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall see this evening, and I give you my word that if any gangrene has attacked the arm, I will have it cut off to-morrow morning.", "pos": 5508471}
{"speaker": "Jesuit father", "text": "I have come from my lord-bishop, to absolve you from the ecclesiastical censure, which you have incurred by duelling.", "pos": 5510330}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am always delighted to receive absolution, father, but only after I have confessed my guilt. In the present case I have nothing to confess; I was attacked, and I defended myself. Pray thank my lord for his kindness. If you like to absolve me without confession, I shall be much obliged.", "pos": 5510461}
{"speaker": "Jesuit father", "text": "If you do not confess, I cannot give you absolution, but you can do this: ask me to absolve you, supposing you have fought a duel.", "pos": 5510752}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; I shall be glad if you will absolve me, supposing I have fought a duel.", "pos": 5510885}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Take care not to catch another.", "pos": 5511446}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have come here, my lord, to offer you my service, and to assure you how I regret that I did not pass over a few trifling words of yours.", "pos": 5512608}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "You have no reason to reproach yourself, M. Casanova.", "pos": 5512760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your excellency is very kind. I am also come to say that by fighting with me you have done me an honour which completely swallows up all offence, and I trust that you will give me your protection for the future.", "pos": 5512816}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I confess I insulted you, but you will allow that I have paid for it. As to my friends, I openly say that they are my enemies unless they treat you with respect. Bininski has been cashiered, and his nobility taken from him; he is well served. As to my protection you have no need of it, the king esteems you highly, like myself, and all men of honour. Sit down; we will be friends. A cup of chocolate for this gentleman. You seem to have got over your wound completely.", "pos": 5513030}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so, my lord, except as to the use of my fingers, and that will take some time.", "pos": 5513502}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "You were quite right to withstand those rascally surgeons, and you had good reason for your opinion that the fools thought to please me by rendering you one-handed. They judged my heart by their own. I congratulate you on the preservation of your hand, but I have not been able to make out how my ball could have wounded you in the hand after striking your stomach.", "pos": 5513588}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your excellency will allow me to assume the position I was in as I received your fire.", "pos": 5514383}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Pray do so.", "pos": 5514472}
{"speaker": "A lady", "text": "You should have put your hand behind your body.", "pos": 5514581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Excuse me, madam, but I thought it better to put my body behind my hand.", "pos": 5514631}
{"speaker": "Branicki's sister", "text": "You wanted to kill my brother, for you aimed at his head.", "pos": 5514767}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "God forbid, madam! my interest lay in keeping him alive to defend me from his friends.", "pos": 5514827}
{"speaker": "Branicki's sister", "text": "But you said you were going to fire at his head.", "pos": 5514916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a mere figure of speech, just as one says, ‘I’ll blow your brains out.’ The skilled duellist, however, always aims at the middle of the body; the head does not offer a large enough surface.", "pos": 5514967}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "Yes, your tactics were superior to mine, and I am obliged to you for the lesson you gave me.", "pos": 5515166}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your excellency gave me a lesson in heroism of far greater value.", "pos": 5515278}
{"speaker": "Branicki's sister", "text": "You must have had a great deal of practice with the pistol,", "pos": 5515346}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, madam, I regard the weapon with detestation. This unlucky shot was my first; but I have always known a straight line, and my hand has always been steady.", "pos": 5515430}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "That’s all one wants. I have those advantages myself, and I am only too well pleased that I did not aim so well as usual.", "pos": 5515598}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your ball broke my first phalanges. Here it is you see, flattened by my bone. Allow me to return it to you.", "pos": 5515739}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "I am sorry to say I can’t return yours, which I suppose remains on the field of battle. You seem to be getting better, thank God!", "pos": 5515849}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The wound is healing painfully. If I had imitated you I should no longer be in the land of the living; I am told you made an excellent dinner? Yes, my lord, I was afraid I might never have another chance of dining again.", "pos": 5515983}
{"speaker": "Branicki", "text": "If I had dined, your ball would have pierced my intestines; but being empty it yielded to the bullet, and let it pass by harmlessly.", "pos": 5516208}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Lord, if my enemy kill me, I shall be damned; deign, therefore, to preserve me from death. Amen.", "pos": 5516652}
{"speaker": "Count Bielinski", "text": "What can I do for you?", "pos": 5517164}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have come to kiss the hand of the kindly man that signed my pardon, and to promise your excellency to be more discreet in future.", "pos": 5517189}
{"speaker": "Count Bielinski", "text": "I advise you to be more discreet indeed. As for your pardon, thank the king; for if he had not requested me especially to grant it you, I should have had you beheaded.", "pos": 5517323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In spite of the extenuating circumstances, my lord?", "pos": 5517493}
{"speaker": "Count Bielinski", "text": "What circumstances? Did you or did you not fight a duel.", "pos": 5517547}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is not a proper way of putting it; I was obliged to defend myself. You might have charged me with fighting a duel if Branicki had taken me outside the ban, as I requested, but as it was he took me where he willed and made me fight. Under these circumstances I am sure your excellency would have spared my head.", "pos": 5517606}
{"speaker": "Count Bielinski", "text": "I really can’t say. The king requested that you should be pardoned, and that shews he believes you to be deserving of pardon; I congratulate you on his good will. I shall be pleased if you will dine with me tomorrow.", "pos": 5517924}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My lord, I am delighted to accept your invitation. What a comfort it would have been to your excellency’s friend, if he could have lived to see his son crowned King of Poland.", "pos": 5518143}
{"speaker": "Count Bielinski", "text": "He would never have consented.", "pos": 5518541}
{"speaker": "The palatin", "text": "Political reasons, prevented me from visiting you at the monastery; but you must not think I had forgotten you, for you were constantly in my thoughts. I am going to lodge you here, for my wife is very fond of your society; but the rooms will not be ready for another six weeks.", "pos": 5518757}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall take the opportunity, my lord, of paying a visit to the Palatin of Kiowia, who has honoured me with an invitation to come and see him.", "pos": 5519049}
{"speaker": "The palatin", "text": "Who gave you the invitation?", "pos": 5519194}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Count Bruhl, who is at Dresden; his wife is daughter of the palatin.", "pos": 5519225}
{"speaker": "The palatin", "text": "This journey is an excellent idea, for this duel of yours has made you innumerable enemies, and I only hope you will have to fight no more duels. I give you fair warning; be on your guard, and never go on foot, especially at night.", "pos": 5519296}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, sire, for his patrician pride would have prevented his complying, and I should have had my pains for my trouble.", "pos": 5519980}
{"speaker": "The king", "text": "Then what would you have done?", "pos": 5520099}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sire, I should have contained myself, though if a noble Venetian were to insult me in a foreign country he would have to give me satisfaction. What has she against me?", "pos": 5520132}
{"speaker": "Prince Moszczinski", "text": "She is afraid of you, because she was the cause of the duel, and now Branicki who was her lover will have nothing more to say to her. She hoped he would serve you as he served Tomatis, and instead of that you almost killed her bravo. She lays the fault on him for having accepted your challenge, but he has resolved to have done with her.", "pos": 5520439}
{"speaker": "Prince Zamoiski", "text": "I would give all my goods, to be cured.", "pos": 5522696}
{"speaker": "Another officer", "text": "Venice and St. Mark.", "pos": 5524224}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "St. Mark, is the patron saint and protector of Venice,", "pos": 5524247}
{"speaker": "The door-keeper", "text": "If you like the girl, why don’t you go the proper way to work?", "pos": 5526476}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What way is that?", "pos": 5526541}
{"speaker": "The door-keeper", "text": "Speak to her father, who is at hand, and arrange the matter amicably.", "pos": 5526561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know Polish. Will you carry the thing through?", "pos": 5526633}
{"speaker": "The door-keeper", "text": "Certainly. I suppose you will give fifty florins?", "pos": 5526690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are laughing at me. I will give a hundred willingly, provided she is a maid and is as submissive as a lamb.", "pos": 5526742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is the girl?", "pos": 5527270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want to see her face.", "pos": 5527299}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind about the face, if the rest is all right.", "pos": 5527325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The face is the essential part for me,", "pos": 5527380}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and the rest I look upon as an accessory.", "pos": 5527432}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We did not expect to see you here again. Why did you come back?", "pos": 5528220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To pay my debts.", "pos": 5528286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At Princess Strasnikowa’s,", "pos": 5528976}
{"speaker": "General Roniker", "text": "and M. Casanova was there.", "pos": 5529023}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then why did you not answer my question?", "pos": 5529052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I am very sorry to have been there. His majesty neither spoke to me nor looked at me. I see I am in disgrace, but for the life of me I know not why.", "pos": 5529120}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have I done?", "pos": 5529467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing; but the Poles are always inconstant and changeable. ‘Sarmatarum virtus veluti extra ipsos’. This inconstancy will cost us dear sooner or later. Your fortune was made, but you missed the turn of the tide, and I advise you to go.", "pos": 5529487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will certainly do so, but it seems to me rather hard.", "pos": 5529726}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "I cannot take such a message as that. I shall simply tell the king that I have executed his orders, and no more; but of course you must follow your own judgment.", "pos": 5531226}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My creditors, sire, will forgive me for leaving Poland without paying my debts, when they learn that I have only done so because your majesty gave me no choice.", "pos": 5531546}
{"speaker": "Count Moszczinski", "text": "Give it to me. I will place it in the king’s hands.", "pos": 5531916}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "Yes, sir. I have come to offer myself as governess for her three daughters.", "pos": 5537132}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! Governess at your age?", "pos": 5537225}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "Alas! sir, age has nothing to do with necessity. I have neither father nor mother. My brother is a poor lieutenant who cannot help me; what can I do? I can only get a livelihood by turning my good education to account.", "pos": 5537256}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What will your salary be?", "pos": 5537477}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "Fifty wretched crowns, enough to buy my dresses.", "pos": 5537505}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s very little.", "pos": 5537556}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "It is as much as people give.", "pos": 5537576}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are you living now?", "pos": 5537608}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "With a poor aunt, where I can scarce earn enough bread to keep me alive by sewing from morning till night.", "pos": 5537636}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you liked to become my governess instead of becoming a children’s governess, I would give you fifty crowns, not per year, but per month.", "pos": 5537745}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "Your governess? Governess to your family, you mean, I suppose?", "pos": 5537887}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no family; I am a bachelor, and I spend my time in travelling. I leave at five o’clock to-morrow morning for Dresden, and if you like to come with me there is a place for you in my carriage. I am staying at such an inn. Come there with your trunk, and we will start together.", "pos": 5537952}
{"speaker": "the pretty girl", "text": "You are joking; besides, I don’t know you.", "pos": 5538237}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am not jesting; and we should get to know each other perfectly well in twenty-four hours; that is ample time.", "pos": 5538282}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about your belongings?", "pos": 5541991}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "Belongings? They were not worth the trouble of gathering together. All I have is included in that small package, which contains a chemise, a pair of stockings, some handkerchiefs, and a few nicknacks.", "pos": 5542020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What will your lover say?", "pos": 5542223}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "Alas! I haven’t got one to say anything.", "pos": 5542251}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot credit that.", "pos": 5542294}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "I have had two lovers; the first one was a rascal, who took advantage of my innocence to seduce me, and then left me when I ceased to present any novelty for him; my second was an honest man, but a poor lieutenant with no prospects of getting on. He has not abandoned me, but his regiment was ordered to Stetin, and since then--", "pos": 5542318}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And since then?", "pos": 5542649}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "We were too poor to write to one another, so we had to suffer in silence.", "pos": 5542667}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted,", "pos": 5544647}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He asked smilingly if the lady took a siesta too,", "pos": 5547844}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I replied that we usually took it together.", "pos": 5547898}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he asked us both to dine with him the next day.", "pos": 5547999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I replied that I never took Maton out anywhere, but that he would be welcome to come and take pot-luck with us every day if he liked.", "pos": 5548047}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "Oh, he is like all officers with girls; but I don’t think he is more in love with me than any other girl.", "pos": 5549163}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, but didn’t he come to call on me this morning?", "pos": 5549271}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "Certainly not; and if he had come the maid would have told him you were out.", "pos": 5549324}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did you not notice him walking up and down under the windows?", "pos": 5549403}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "No.", "pos": 5549467}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "Yes, two rooms, both looking on the street.", "pos": 5550068}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Tell the landlord that I will take them both.", "pos": 5550114}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "They were taken yesterday evening.", "pos": 5550162}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By whom?", "pos": 5550199}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "By a Swiss officer, who is entertaining a party of friends to supper here this evening.", "pos": 5550210}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You shall have my room, and I will have yours; I can read there, and see the people going by.", "pos": 5550785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Wretch, you have poisoned me; but nobody shall know it, as it is by my own fault, and I am ashamed of it. Get up, and you shall see how generous I can be.", "pos": 5552573}
{"speaker": "Maton", "text": "What am I to do here? I don’t know anyone.", "pos": 5553317}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you like to return to Breslau I will pay your expenses there.", "pos": 5553362}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry for them, but it’s their own fault; why didn’t they take more care?", "pos": 5554237}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "But the girl came to Dresden with you.", "pos": 5554318}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and I sent her about her business. It was enough for me to keep them off while she was under my charge. Tell them that if they complain of me they are wrong, and still more wrong to publish their shame. Let them learn discretion and get themselves cured in secrecy, if they do not want sensible men to laugh at them. Don’t you think I am right?", "pos": 5554359}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "The adventure is not a very honourable one for you.", "pos": 5554711}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it, and that’s why I say nothing; I am not such a fool as to proclaim my shame from the housetops. These friends of yours must be simpletons indeed; they must have known that I had good reasons for sending the girl away, and should consequently have been on their guard. They deserve what they got, and I hope it may be a lesson to them.", "pos": 5554765}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "They are all astonished at your being well.", "pos": 5555112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may comfort them by saying that I have been as badly treated as they, but that I have held my tongue, not wishing to pass for a simpleton.", "pos": 5555158}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You saw yourself when I supped with you, how his majesty completely ignored me. Your highness will be going to Paris next year; you will meet me there and you can write to the king that if I had been burnt in effigy I should not venture to shew myself.", "pos": 5555863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 5557834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can scarcely believe it, for she is not pretty, and she has not the look nor the manners of a princess.", "pos": 5557860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps you are not a good judge of princesses.", "pos": 5557968}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have seen enough of them anyhow, and to prove that I am a good judge I say that it is you who ought to be the princess; I would willingly give a hundred ducats to spend the night with you.", "pos": 5558018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A hundred ducats! What would you do if I were to take you at your word?", "pos": 5558211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Try me. I lodge at the same hotel as you, and if you can contrive ways and means, I will give you the money in advance, but not till I am sure of my prize, for I don’t like being taken in.", "pos": 5558285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good. Say not a word to anyone, but try to speak with me either before or after supper. If you are brave enough to face certain risks, we will spend the night together.", "pos": 5558476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is your name?", "pos": 5558652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Caroline.", "pos": 5558673}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You mean Caroline, I expect?", "pos": 5559196}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5559227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is waiting on the princess, but she will be out in half an hour.", "pos": 5559234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Without any light?", "pos": 5559837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course, or else the people of the house would notice it, and I should not like that.", "pos": 5559858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot do anything without light, charming Caroline; and besides, this closet is not a very nice place to pass five or six hours. There is another alternative, the first room above is mine. I shall be alone, and I swear to you that no one shall come in; come up and make me happy; I have got the hundred ducats here.", "pos": 5559948}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impossible! I dare not go upstairs for a million ducats.", "pos": 5560269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So much the worse for you, as I am not going to stay in this hole which has only a chair in it, if you offer me a million and a half. Farewell, sweet Caroline.", "pos": 5560328}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wait a moment; let me go out first.", "pos": 5560490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good night, Caroline, you see it was no use.", "pos": 5560737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas! count, I am that Casanova, and here is my arm still in a sling.", "pos": 5561334}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I congratulate you, my dear fellow; I should like to hear about it.", "pos": 5561406}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; I heard something about it in the papers. So this is the hero of the tale. Delighted to make your acquaintance.", "pos": 5561568}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What, madam, you here!", "pos": 5562409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, to my sorrow. I have been here for the last three weeks, and have seen you several times, but you have always avoided us.", "pos": 5562434}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are ‘us’?", "pos": 5562563}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Schwerin and myself.", "pos": 5562579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Schwerin is here, is he?", "pos": 5562602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; and in prison on account of a forged bill. I am sure I do not know what they will do to the poor wretch. He would have been wise to have fled, but it seems as if he wanted to get hanged.", "pos": 5562629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you have been with him ever since you left England? that is, three years ago.", "pos": 5562823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly. Our occupation is robbing, cheating, and escaping from one land to another. Never was a woman so unhappy as I.", "pos": 5562907}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For how much is the forged bill?", "pos": 5563029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For three hundred crowns. Do a generous action M. Casanova, and let bygones be bygones; deliver the poor wretch from the gallows and me from death, for if he is hanged I shall kill myself.", "pos": 5563064}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed, madam, he may hang for me, for he did his best to send me to the gallows with his forged bills; but I confess I pity you. So much, indeed, that I invite you to come to Dresden with me the day after to-morrow, and I promise to give you three hundred crowns as soon as Schwerin has undergone the extreme penalty of the law. I can’t understand how a woman like you can have fallen in love with a man that has neither face, nor talents, nor wit, nor fortune, for all that he has to boast of is his name of Schwerin.", "pos": 5563255}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess, to my shame, that I never loved him. Ever since the other rogue, Castelbajac--who, by the way, was never married to me--made me know him, I have only lived with him by force, though his tears and his despairs have excited my compassion. If destiny had given me an honest man in his stead, I would have forsaken him long ago, for sooner or later he will be the death of me.", "pos": 5563777}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where do you live?", "pos": 5564162}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "Nowhere. I have been turned out into the street with nothing but the clothes on my back. Have compassion on me.", "pos": 5564183}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "Indeed, if you were to give me the hundred ducats this moment, and I used them to free Schwerin, I should be no better off than before; so I accept your generous offer thankfully. I see, that either out of liking or for politeness’ sake you will ask me for those favours which I should be only too happy to grant, but if I allowed that it would be a bad return indeed for your kindness. Look at my linen, and behold in what a state that unhappy wretch has left me!", "pos": 5565871}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "Alas! that’s what he was most afraid of. It’s all up with him. The King of Prussia will pay his debts, but he will end his days at Spandau. Why didn’t they put him there before I ever knew him?", "pos": 5567673}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "I have relations there, who will be glad to see me, and I hope that my husband will let me return to him. I am the Prodigal Son, and I hope to find in him the forgiving father.", "pos": 5569437}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "Who are you, madam?", "pos": 5570389}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "My name is Blasin.", "pos": 5570411}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "Who is this gentleman?", "pos": 5570432}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "You had better ask him.", "pos": 5570457}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "What are you doing at Vienna?", "pos": 5570483}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "Taking coffee. I should have thought you could have seen that for yourselves.", "pos": 5570515}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "If the gentleman is not your husband, you will leave the town within twenty-four hours.", "pos": 5570595}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "The gentleman is my friend, and not my husband; and I shall leave Vienna exactly when I choose, unless you make me go away by force.", "pos": 5570685}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "Very good. We are aware, sir, that you have a separate room, but that makes no difference.", "pos": 5570820}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you want here?", "pos": 5570978}
{"speaker": "Policeman", "text": "I am looking at your bed, and I can see you have not slept in it. That’s enough.", "pos": 5571011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The devil! What business have you here at all, and who authorizes such disgraceful proceedings? Dress yourself, and tell the French ambassador the whole story. Tell him that you are a milliner, Blasin by name, and that all you want is to go from here to Strasburg, and from there to Montpellier.", "pos": 5571094}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "I am quite ready to change my room,", "pos": 5572146}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is the lady to sup alone?", "pos": 5572218}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I have received no instructions on that point.", "pos": 5572255}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I will sup with her, and I hope you will treat us well.", "pos": 5572304}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You shall be well served, sir.", "pos": 5572367}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are mistaken. I am quite ready to pay.", "pos": 5578607}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see it.", "pos": 5581107}
{"speaker": "Statthalter", "text": "If you are at Vienna at that time to-morrow I shall have you expelled from the city.", "pos": 5581119}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why do you give me such an unjust order?", "pos": 5581206}
{"speaker": "Statthalter", "text": "In the first place, I am not here to give you accounts or reasons for my actions. However, I may tell you that you are expelled for playing at games of chance, which are forbidden by the laws under pain of the galleys. Do you recognize that purse and these cards? In fine, you will obey my order to leave the town, and you must tell me where you are going.", "pos": 5581249}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you that when I have made up my mind to go.", "pos": 5582115}
{"speaker": "Statthalter", "text": "What? You dare to tell me that you will not obey?", "pos": 5582173}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You yourself have said that if I do not go I shall be removed by force.", "pos": 5582225}
{"speaker": "Statthalter", "text": "Very good. I have heard you have a strong will, but here it will be of no use to you. I advise you to go quietly, and so avoid harsh measures.", "pos": 5582299}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I request you to return me that document.", "pos": 5582444}
{"speaker": "Statthalter", "text": "I will not do so. Begone!", "pos": 5582488}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have received my order to go, but I shall not obey. I implore your highness to give me your protection, and to help me to bring my plea to the foot of the throne.", "pos": 5583240}
{"speaker": "Prince Kaunitz", "text": "Write out your petition, and I will see that the empress gets it. But I advise you to ask her majesty for a respite, for if you say that you won’t obey, she will be predisposed against you.", "pos": 5583407}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But if the royal grace does not place me in security, I shall be driven away by violence.", "pos": 5583613}
{"speaker": "Prince Kaunitz", "text": "Then take refuge with the ambassador of your native country.", "pos": 5583705}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Alas, my lord, my country has forsaken me. An act of legal though unconstitutional violence has deprived me of my rights as a citizen. My name is Casanova, and my country is Venice.", "pos": 5583768}
{"speaker": "Prince Kaunitz", "text": "It’s a pity, that you cannot claim the protection of any ambassador.", "pos": 5584070}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "I could claim his protection, as my whole family, myself included, had served the prince his master.", "pos": 5584238}
{"speaker": "Prince Kaunitz", "text": "That is Count Vitzthum. Write to the empress, and I will forward your petition immediately. If there is any delay in the answer, go to the count; you will be safe with him, until you like to leave Vienna.", "pos": 5584397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! shall I be obliged to leave Vienna to-morrow?", "pos": 5586686}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "No, no, the empress cannot possibly refuse you the week’s delay.", "pos": 5586740}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 5586807}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "Oh! no one could refuse such an appeal as that. Even the prince could not help smiling as he was reading it in his cold way. After reading it he passed it on to me, and then to the Venetian ambassador, who asked him if he meant to give it to the empress as it stood.", "pos": 5586818}
{"speaker": "Prince Kaunitz", "text": "This petition, might be sent to God, if one knew the way;", "pos": 5587086}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "We talked of you for the rest of dinner, and I had the pleasure of hearing the Venetian ambassador say that no one could discover any reason for your imprisonment under the Leads. Your duel was also discussed, but on that point we only knew what has appeared in the newspapers. Oblige me by giving me a copy of your petition; that phrase of Schrotembach and the slipper pleased me vastly.", "pos": 5587260}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no time to lose. I shall have justice done me, my assassins will be condemned, my purse will be returned with the two hundred ducats in it, and not in the condition in which it was shewn to me by the infamous Schrotembach, who will be punished by dismissal, at least.", "pos": 5589283}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "However. I have come to see you on a different matter.", "pos": 5590273}
{"speaker": "Countess of Salmor", "text": "Yes, I know, but I will have nothing to do with it. You are all as bad as Tomatis.", "pos": 5590341}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "This is what Prince Kaunitz asked me to tell you. But you need not be afraid of any violence, and you can go when you like.", "pos": 5591785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I am to be robbed of two hundred ducats with impunity. The empress might at least reimburse me if she does nothing more. Please to ask the prince whether I can ask the sovereign to give me that satisfaction; the least I can demand.", "pos": 5591911}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "I will tell him what you say.", "pos": 5592150}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If not, I shall leave; for what can I do in a town where I can only drive, and where the Government keeps assassins in its pay?", "pos": 5592182}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "You are right. We are all sure that Pocchini has calumniated you. The girl who recites Latin verses is well known, but none know her address. I must advise you not to publish your tale as long as you are in Vienna, as it places Schrotembach in a very bad light, and you see the empress has to support him in the exercise of his authority.", "pos": 5592312}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see the force of your argument, and I shall have to devour my anger. I will leave Vienna as soon as the washerwoman sends home my linen, but I will have the story printed in all its black injustice.", "pos": 5592653}
{"speaker": "Count Vitzthum", "text": "The empress is prejudiced against you, I don’t know by whom.", "pos": 5592856}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know, though; it is that infernal old hag, Countess Salmor.", "pos": 5592919}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "I thought her much more amusing than Schrotembach.", "pos": 5593903}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No,", "pos": 5596846}
{"speaker": "Anna Midel", "text": "I see you do not remember me?", "pos": 5597034}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You remind me of Anna Midel,", "pos": 5597220}
{"speaker": "Anna Midel", "text": "Alas, I was Anna Midel once. I am no longer an object fit for love, but that is your fault.", "pos": 5597259}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Mine?", "pos": 5597353}
{"speaker": "Anna Midel", "text": "Yes; the four hundred florins you gave me made Count Fugger’s coachman marry me, and he not only abandoned me but gave me a disgusting disease, which was like to have been my death. I recovered my health, but I never shall recover my good looks.", "pos": 5597361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very sorry to hear all this; but tell me what has become of Gertrude?", "pos": 5597608}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Then you don’t know that you are going to a ball at her house to-night?", "pos": 5597685}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Her house?", "pos": 5597759}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "Yes. After her father’s death she married a well-to-do and respectable man, and I expect you will be pleased with the entertainment.", "pos": 5597772}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she pretty still?", "pos": 5597907}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "She is just as she used to be, except that she is six years older and has had children.", "pos": 5597930}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she gallant?", "pos": 5598020}
{"speaker": "Anna", "text": "I don’t think so.", "pos": 5598038}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The countess will be delivered of a child if we do not make haste.", "pos": 5599827}
{"speaker": "the canon", "text": "Quick! coachman, quick!", "pos": 5600339}
{"speaker": "Rzewuski", "text": "What a diet! What plots! What counterplots! What misfortunes! Happy are they who have nothing to do with it!", "pos": 5601788}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "MY LORD,--I hope your highness will either burn this letter after reading it, or else preserve it with the greatest care. It will be better, however, to make a copy in cypher, and to burn the original. My attachment to you is not my only motive in writing; I confess my interest is equally concerned. Allow me to say that I do not wish your highness to esteem me alone for any qualities you may have observed in me; I wish you to become my debtor by the inestimable secret I am going to confide to you. This secret relates to the making of gold, the only thing of which your highness stands in need. If you had been miserly by nature you would be rich now; but you are generous, and will be poor all your days if you do not make use of my secret. Your highness told me at Riga that you would like me to give you the secret by which I transmuted iron into copper; I never did so, but now I shall teach you how to make a much more marvellous transmutation. I should point out to you, however, that you are not at present in a suitable place for the operation, although all the materials are easily procurable. The operation necessitates my presence for the construction of a furnace, and for the great care necessary, far the least mistake will spoil all. The transmutation of Mars is an easy and merely mechanical process, but that of gold is philosophical in the highest degree. The gold produced will be equal to that used in the Venetian sequins. You must reflect, my lord, that I am giving you information which will permit you to dispense with me, and you must also reflect that I am confiding to you my life and my liberty. The step I am taking should insure your life-long protection, and should raise you above that prejudice which is entertained against the general mass of alchemists. My vanity would be wounded if you refuse to distinguish me from the common herd of operators. All I ask you is that you will wait till we meet before undertaking the process. You cannot do it by yourself, and if you employ any other person but myself, you will betray the secret. I must tell you that, using the same materials, and by the addition of mercury and nitre, I made the tree of projection for the Marchioness d’Urfe and the Princess of Anhalt. Zerbst calculated the profit as fifty per cent. My fortune would have been made long ago, if I had found a prince with the control of a mint whom I could trust. Your character enables me to confide in you. However, we will come to the point. You must take four ounces of good silver, dissolve in aqua fortis, precipitate secundum artem with copper, then wash in lukewarm water to separate the acids; dry, mix with half an ounce of sal ammoniac, and place in a suitable vessel. Afterwards you must take a pound of alum, a pound of Hungary crystals, four ounces of verdigris, four ounces of cinnabar, and two ounces of sulphur. Pulverise and mix, and place in a retort of such size that the above matters will only half fill it. This retort must be placed over a furnace with four draughts, for the heat must be raised to the fourth degree. At first your fire must be slow so as to extract the gross phlegm of the matter, and when the spirit begins to appear, place the receiver under the retort, and Luna with the ammoniac salts will appear in it. All the joinings must be luted with the Philosophical Luting, and as the spirit comes, so regulate your furnace, but do not let it pass the third degree of heat. So soon as the sublimation begins then boldly open your forth vent, but take heed that that which is sublimed pass not into the receiver where is your Luna, and so you must shut the mouth of the retort closely, and keep it so for twenty-four hours, and then take off your fastenings, and allow the distillation to go on. Then you must increase your fire so that the spirits may pass, over, until the matter in the retort is quite desiccated. After this operation has been performed three times, then you shall see the gold appear in the retort. Then draw it forth and melt it, adding your corpus perfectum. Melt with it two ounces of gold, then lay it in water, and you shall find four ounces of pure gold. Such my lord, is the gold mine for your mint of Mitau, by which, with the assistance of a manager and four men, you can assure yourself a revenue of a thousand ducats a week, and double, and quadruple that sum, if your highness chooses to increase the men and the furnaces. I ask your highness to make me your manager. But remember it must be a State secret, so burn this letter, and if your highness would give me any reward in advance, I only ask you to give me your affection and esteem. I shall be happy if I have reason to believe that my master will also be my friend. My life, which this letter places in your power, is ever at your service, and I know not what I shall do if I ever have cause to repent having disclosed my secret. I have the honour to be, etc.", "pos": 5603791}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, sir, his highness, your sovereign, has listened to reason at last, and this letter informs me of a reparation which is in every way satisfactory. The duke has created me his private secretary, with a salary of twelve hundred a year. But I have waited for it a long time. God knows what has become of the three officers!", "pos": 5610403}
{"speaker": "Wurtemburg officer", "text": "They are all at Louisburg, and ------ is now a colonel.", "pos": 5610756}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, they will be surprised to hear my news, and they will hear it to-morrow, for I am leaving this place in an hour. If they are at Louisburg, I shall have a triumph; but I am sorry not to be able to accompany you, however we shall see each other the day after tomorrow.", "pos": 5610814}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What victory?", "pos": 5612659}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "Your appearance here has filled the hearts of all your friends with joy.", "pos": 5612675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I certainly am in the duke’s service, but how did you find it out?", "pos": 5612750}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "It’s the common talk. The courier who gave you the letter has spread it all abroad, and the officer who was present and arrived here yesterday morning confirmed it. But you cannot imagine the consternation of your three foes. However, we are afraid that you will have some trouble with them, as they have kept your letter of defiance given from Furstenberg.", "pos": 5612825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why didn’t they meet me, then?", "pos": 5613185}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "Two of them could not go, and the third arrived too late.", "pos": 5613218}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. If the duke has no objection I shall be happy to meet them one after another, not three all at once. Of course, the duel must be with pistols; a sword duel is out of the question with my arm in a sling.", "pos": 5613278}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "We will speak of that again. My daughter wants to make peace before the duke comes, and you had better consent to arrangements, for there are three of them, and it isn’t likely that you could kill the whole three one after the other.", "pos": 5613494}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your daughter must have grown into a beauty.", "pos": 5613730}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "You must stop with us this evening; you will see her, for she is no longer the duke’s mistress. She is going to get married.", "pos": 5613777}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If your daughter can bring about an arrangement I would gladly fall in with it, provided it is an honourable one for me.", "pos": 5613904}
{"speaker": "Madame Toscani", "text": "How is it that you are wearing the sling after all these months?", "pos": 5614027}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am quite cured, and yet my arm swells as soon as I let it swing loose. You shall see it after dinner, for you must dine with me if you want me to sup with you.", "pos": 5614094}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your elocution is admirable, and your expression full of spirit, but what a pity it is that you do not pronounce the dentals.", "pos": 5616605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a beauty, not a defect,", "pos": 5616783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It makes her acting soft and delicate; other actresses envy her the privilege of what you call a defect.", "pos": 5616825}
{"speaker": "Madame Vestri", "text": "Do you think I am taken in by all that?", "pos": 5616979}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you are much too sensible to believe such nonsense.", "pos": 5617031}
{"speaker": "Madame Vestri", "text": "I prefer a man to say honestly, ‘what a pity,’ than to hear all that foolish flattery. But I am sorry to say that there is no remedy for the defect.", "pos": 5617093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No remedy?", "pos": 5617244}
{"speaker": "Madame Vestri", "text": "No.", "pos": 5617257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Time is an excellent doctor,", "pos": 5627686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and it has cured me of a passion which left behind it the sting of remorse.", "pos": 5627727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Should only serve as a place wherein to confess our sins of the past, and to implore grace to sin no more.", "pos": 5627838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "May the Lord save me from repentance, the only source of which is a prejudice! I shall leave Cologne to-morrow.", "pos": 5627947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not tell you to go.", "pos": 5628061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If there is no hope, it is no place for me. May I hope?", "pos": 5628088}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never.", "pos": 5628146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You scoundrelly journalist.", "pos": 5628644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am the adventurer Casanova whom you slandered in your miserable sheet four months ago.", "pos": 5628685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is this letter?", "pos": 5629078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall have it in a moment.", "pos": 5629102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I haven’t got one.", "pos": 5631344}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the better. Send away your carriage.", "pos": 5631365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where shall I send it?", "pos": 5631408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will see that it is housed safely.", "pos": 5631433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How much am I to pay?", "pos": 5631472}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing; and if you are not too particular, we should like you to share our meals.", "pos": 5631496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I accept your offer thankfully.", "pos": 5631581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s not within the limits of possibility, for the niece to be uglier than they, but if they allow her to sleep thus in the same room with the first comer, she must be proof against all temptation.", "pos": 5632284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forty louis at the least.", "pos": 5637852}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A gentleman wants me to give him twenty louis for it, on the condition that I return it to-morrow if he brings me twenty-two.", "pos": 5637880}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I advise you to accept his offer.", "pos": 5638008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I haven’t got the money.", "pos": 5638049}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will lend it you with pleasure.", "pos": 5638076}
{"speaker": "Mistress of the house", "text": "for, we are not rich people, and we only allow ourselves this luxury on a Sunday.", "pos": 5638492}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought trade was good with you.", "pos": 5638826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The stuff is not ours, and we have debts; besides, the expenses are very great. We have sold very little up to now.", "pos": 5638863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you only sell hats?", "pos": 5638981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, we have silk handkerchiefs, Paris stockings, and lace ruffs, but they say everything is too dear.", "pos": 5639006}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will buy some things for you, and will send all my friends here. Leave it to me; I will see what I can do for you.", "pos": 5639110}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "Mercy, fetch down one or two packets of those handkerchiefs and some stockings, large size, for the gentleman has a big leg.", "pos": 5639229}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "We are cousins-german,", "pos": 5640023}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he rich?", "pos": 5640060}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "Yes, in debts.", "pos": 5640074}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why?", "pos": 5640091}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "Because he is unfortunate, like most honest people.", "pos": 5640098}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about his wife?", "pos": 5640152}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "Her careful economy keeps him above water.", "pos": 5640174}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you know the niece?", "pos": 5640219}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "Yes; she’s a good girl, but very pious. Her silly scruples keep customers away from the shop.", "pos": 5640244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do you think she should do to attract customers?", "pos": 5640340}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "She should be more polite, and not play the prude when anyone wants to give her a kiss.", "pos": 5640396}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is like that, is she?", "pos": 5640486}
{"speaker": "Armourer", "text": "Try her yourself and you will see. Last week she gave an officer a box on the ear. My cousin scolded her, and she wanted to go back to Liege; however, the wife soothed her again. She is pretty enough, don’t you think so?", "pos": 5640514}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly I do, but if she is as cross-grained as you say, the best thing will be to leave her alone.", "pos": 5640737}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "She will have to change her ways, or I will keep her no longer.", "pos": 5641952}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she the same with all men?", "pos": 5642018}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "With all.", "pos": 5642050}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then she has never been in love.", "pos": 5642062}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "She says she has not, but I don’t believe her.", "pos": 5642097}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I wonder she can sleep so comfortably with a man at a few feet distant.", "pos": 5642146}
{"speaker": "Aunt", "text": "She is not afraid.", "pos": 5642220}
{"speaker": "Mercy", "text": "good night, she would go to bed.", "pos": 5642263}
{"speaker": "Mercy", "text": "what I wanted.", "pos": 5643291}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "that I only wanted to wish her a good day and to have a little talk.", "pos": 5643344}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must feel, that if I complied with your request the adventure would become public to the damage of my honour and your business, and your niece would not be able to pass for a devotee any longer.", "pos": 5645723}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "It will be yours, if the owner does not bring me two hundred and twenty Louis in a week’s time.", "pos": 5646674}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I consent to give the sum required if the owner is ready to give me a receipt.", "pos": 5646953}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "I will do so myself in the presence of witnesses.", "pos": 5647034}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. You shall have the money in the course of an hour; I am going to have the stone taken out first. That will make no difference to the owner, as I shall have it reset at my own expense. If he redeems it, the twenty Louis shall be yours.", "pos": 5647086}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "I must ask him whether he has any objection to the stone being taken out.", "pos": 5647334}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but you can tell him that if he will not allow it to be done he will get nothing for it. Have you weighed it?", "pos": 5647410}
{"speaker": "jeweller", "text": "No, but I am quite sure it weighs over six carats.", "pos": 5647660}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you can lend the money on it?", "pos": 5647713}
{"speaker": "jeweller", "text": "I cannot command such a sum.", "pos": 5647750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can you tell me why the owner objects to the stone being taken out and put in at my expense?", "pos": 5647780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I can’t; but he does object.", "pos": 5647875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then he may take his ring somewhere else.", "pos": 5647910}
{"speaker": "Mercy", "text": "In sleeping in the closet. I obeyed my aunt’s orders, and in striking you (for which I am very sorry) I was but defending my honour; and I cannot admit that every man who sees me is at liberty to lose his reason. I think you will allow that your duty is to respect, and mine to defend, my honour.", "pos": 5648589}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If that is your line of argument, I acknowledge that you are right; but you had nothing to complain of, for I bore your blow in silence, and by my leaving the house you might know that it was my intention to respect you for the future. Did you come to hear me say this? If so, you are satisfied. But you will not be offended if I laugh at your excuses, for after what you have said I cannot help thinking them very laughable.", "pos": 5648900}
{"speaker": "Mercy", "text": "What have I said?", "pos": 5649328}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That you only did your duty in flattening my nose. If so, do you think it is necessary to apologize for the performance of duty?", "pos": 5649348}
{"speaker": "Mercy", "text": "I ought to have defended myself more gently. But forget everything and forgive me; I will defend myself no more in any way. I am yours and I love you, and I am ready to prove my love.", "pos": 5649479}
{"speaker": "Marquis Don Antonio della Croce", "text": "I have fifty thousand francs in gold, and as much again in jewellery and various possessions. It is my intention to give suppers here and hold a bank, but if I play without correcting the freaks of fortune I am sure to lose.", "pos": 5651158}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When the stone is removed,", "pos": 5652407}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we shall see what it really is. Listen to my proposal: if it weighs twenty-six grains, I will give you, not two but three hundred louis, but in its present condition I shall give nothing at all.", "pos": 5652444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have no business to doubt my word; you insult me by doing so.", "pos": 5652641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all, I have no intentions of the kind. I simply propose a wager to you. If the stone be found to weigh twenty-six grains, I shall lose two hundred Louis, if it weighs much less you will lose the ring.", "pos": 5652709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s a scandalous proposal; it’s as much as to tell me that I am a liar.", "pos": 5652919}
{"speaker": "General Roniker", "text": "If anyone were to give me the ring I should not have the stone taken out, because one should not look a gift horse in the mouth; but if it came to a question of buying or lending I would not give a crown for it, were the owner an emperor, before the stone was taken out; and I am very much surprised at your refusing to let this be done.", "pos": 5653306}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why didn’t you give him his ring?", "pos": 5653742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I have advanced him fifty Louis on it; but if he does not redeem it to-morrow I will have the stone taken out before a judge, and afterwards I shall sell it by auction.", "pos": 5653786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t like the man’s manners, and I hope you will never bring anyone to my rooms again.", "pos": 5653965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will not follow you,", "pos": 5654614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "the matter can be settled here?", "pos": 5654650}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are observed.", "pos": 5654684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the better. Make haste and draw your sword first.", "pos": 5654703}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The advantage is with you.", "pos": 5654759}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know it, and so it ought to be. If you do not draw I will proclaim you to be the coward I am sure you are.", "pos": 5654788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he would take his revenge at another time.", "pos": 5655164}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "For the future I mean to trust to my skill in play, and thus I am sure of a comfortable living.", "pos": 5657803}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does she know that your revenue is fed solely by the purses of dupes?", "pos": 5657901}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "She knows that I am a gamester; and as she adores me, her will is as mine. I am thinking of marrying her at Warsaw before she is confined. If you are in any want of money, look upon my purse as your own.", "pos": 5657973}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "My friend. I have two alternatives, I can kill myself this instant or I can fly without returning to the house. I shall embrace the latter and go to Warsaw on foot, and I leave my wife in your hands, for I know you adore her. It must be your task to give her the dreadful news of the pass to which I have come. Have a care of her, she is too good by far for a poor wretch like me. Take her to Paris and I will write to you there at your brother’s address. I know you have money, but I would die rather than accept a single louis from you. I have still two or three pieces left, and I assure you that I am richer at the present moment than I was two months ago. Farewell; once more I commend Charlotte to your care; I would that she had never known me.", "pos": 5660879}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "I should blame him for doing so. He ought to escape by all means, if only to save his life for my sake. Has my husband done so? Speak openly to me. My spirit is strong enough to resist even so fatal a blow, for I know I have a friend in you. Speak.", "pos": 5662531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I will tell you all. But first of all remember this; you must look upon me as a tender father who will never let you want, so long as life remains to him.", "pos": 5662797}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "In that case I cannot be called unfortunate, for I have a true friend. Say on.", "pos": 5662960}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "I commend Charlotte to your care; I would that she had never known me.", "pos": 5663105}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "Dear friend, since I can count on you, I am far indeed from utter misery.", "pos": 5663559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I swear to you, Charlotte, that I will never leave you till I place you again in your husband’s hands, provided I do not die before.", "pos": 5663635}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "That is enough. I swear eternal gratitude, and to be as submissive to you as a good daughter ought to be.", "pos": 5663770}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There’s another difference, for I made the fortune of the first by finding her an honest husband, whereas I should never have the courage to adopt the same method with the second.", "pos": 5664454}
{"speaker": "Croce", "text": "While Croce lives I am no man’s wife but his, nevertheless I am glad to find myself free.", "pos": 5664647}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "Dearest, I know it is a foolish superstition, but to a woman in my condition such a meeting is of evil omen.", "pos": 5668966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, Charlotte! I thought you were too wise to have such silly fears. A woman in child-bed is not a sick woman, and no woman ever died of giving birth to a child except some other disease intervened.", "pos": 5669077}
{"speaker": "Charlotte", "text": "Yes, my dear philosopher, it is like a duel; there are two men in perfect health, when all of a sudden there comes a sword-thrust, and one of them is dead.", "pos": 5669280}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a witty idea. But bid all gloomy thoughts go by, and after your child is born, and we have placed it in good hands, you shall come with me to Madrid, and there I hope to see you happy and contented.", "pos": 5669438}
{"speaker": "J. B. Dorival", "text": "We, J. B. Dorival, Councillor to the King, Commissary of the Chatelet, formerly Superintendent of Police in the City of Paris, do certify that there has been taken to the Hospital for Children a male infant, appearing to be one day old, brought from the Faubourg St. Denis by the midwife Lamarre, and bearing a certificate of baptism to the effect that its name is Jacques Charles, son of Antonio della Croce and of Charlotte de----. Wherefore, we have delivered the above certificate at our office in the City of Paris, this 18th day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1767, at seven o’clock in the afternoon.", "pos": 5670847}
{"speaker": "DORIVAL", "text": "DORIVAL.", "pos": 5671461}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are an impudent liar,", "pos": 5675242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and if we were out of this room I would give you a kick to teach you to speak respectfully.", "pos": 5675285}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "I congratulate you, and wish you good luck. I hope you will come to supper at my house.", "pos": 5675766}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should be only too happy, but unfortunately I have an engagement; but I will come and see you if you will give me your address.", "pos": 5675858}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "What is this?", "pos": 5676073}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The money you lent me so kindly at Konigsberg.", "pos": 5676089}
{"speaker": "Madame Valville", "text": "This is neither the time nor the place to return it. I will only take it at my own house, so please do not insist.", "pos": 5676138}
{"speaker": "Louis", "text": "It is our good pleasure.", "pos": 5676831}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, chevalier. I have read the little note, and I will try and oblige his majesty as soon as possible. However, if I have not time to get away in twenty-four hours, his majesty must work his dread will on me.", "pos": 5677032}
{"speaker": "Chevalier of St. Louis", "text": "My dear sir, the twenty-four hours are a mere formality. Subscribe the order and give me a receipt for the lettre de cachet, and you can go at your convenience. All I ask of you is that you give me your word of honour not to go to the theatres or public places of amusement on foot.", "pos": 5677255}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I give you my word with pleasure.", "pos": 5677540}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "But, M. Buhot, this news is like March in Lent, it was quite unnecessary; my brother was going in the course of a week.", "pos": 5677863}
{"speaker": "M. Buhot", "text": "All the better. If the minister had been aware of that he would not have troubled himself about it.", "pos": 5677985}
{"speaker": "my brother", "text": "Is the reason known?", "pos": 5678087}
{"speaker": "M. Buhot", "text": "I have heard something about a proposal to kick a gentleman, who though young, is too exalted a person to be spoken to in such a manner.", "pos": 5678110}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why, chevalier, the phrase is a mere formality like the twenty-four hours for if the impudent young rascal had come out he would have met me, and his sword should have been sufficient to ward off any kicks.", "pos": 5678249}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And turn Capuchin, I suppose?", "pos": 5682541}
{"speaker": "they", "text": "You might do much worse.", "pos": 5682573}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; but I shall wait till my beard grows the necessary length in a single night.", "pos": 5682600}
{"speaker": "Duc de Choiseul", "text": "There’s time enough for that.", "pos": 5684243}
{"speaker": "two girls", "text": "It’s very cold, and the road is none of the best. You are no courier, sup here, we will give you a good bed, and you shall start again in the morning.", "pos": 5684427}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have made up my mind to go on, but if you will keep me company at supper I will stay.", "pos": 5684593}
{"speaker": "two girls", "text": "That would cost you too dearly.", "pos": 5684683}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Never too dear. Quick I make up your minds.", "pos": 5684717}
{"speaker": "two girls", "text": "Well, we will sup with you.", "pos": 5684763}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then lay the table for three; I must go on in an hour.", "pos": 5684793}
{"speaker": "two girls", "text": "In an hour! You mean three, sir; papa will take two hours to get you a good supper.", "pos": 5684850}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I will not go on, but you must keep me company all night.", "pos": 5684936}
{"speaker": "two girls", "text": "We will do so, if papa does not object. We will have your chaise put into the coach-house.", "pos": 5685001}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very much, but I have enjoyed still more the company of your charming daughters.", "pos": 5685427}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "I am delighted to hear it. Whenever you come this way they shall keep you company, but now it is past midnight, and time for them to go to bed.", "pos": 5685524}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! To Venice, London, Warsaw, St. Petersburg?", "pos": 5686899}
{"speaker": "Noel's father", "text": "To Constantinople, if you like. You need only give me your address, and you need not pay me till you get the pates.", "pos": 5686950}
{"speaker": "Spaniard", "text": "I have not given myself any trouble in waiting on him.", "pos": 5690478}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are they mad?", "pos": 5691639}
{"speaker": "Senor Andrea", "text": "Not at all. They wear the Capuchin habit out of devotion, and you would not find a chemise on one of them.", "pos": 5691680}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "I want to go to Madrid, and hope to obtain a chaplaincy in the house of a grandee. I have a letter for him.", "pos": 5692622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shew it; they will let you pass then.", "pos": 5692749}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "You are right.", "pos": 5692789}
{"speaker": "the official", "text": "What, senor abbé! you are going to Madrid with a letter from Squillace, and you dare to shew it?", "pos": 5692969}
{"speaker": "Senor Andrea", "text": "Senor Don Jacob, you must bear with it in Spain, for the Holy Inquisition must always be at liberty to inspect the rooms of foreigners.", "pos": 5693889}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But what in the devil’s name does your cursed Inquisition want . . . ?", "pos": 5694027}
{"speaker": "Senor Andrea", "text": "For the love of God, Senor Jacob, speak not thus! if you were overheard we should both be undone.", "pos": 5694100}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, what can the Holy Inquisition want to know?", "pos": 5694200}
{"speaker": "Senor Andrea", "text": "Everything. It wants to know whether you eat meat on fast days, whether persons of opposite sexes sleep together, if so, whether they are married, and if not married it will cause both parties to be imprisoned; in fine, Senor Don Jaime, the Holy inquisition is continually watching over our souls in this country.", "pos": 5694252}
{"speaker": "A clerk", "text": "Senor, this snuff will not pass in Spain", "pos": 5697383}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "What do you want in Spain?", "pos": 5702283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To add fresh treasures to my store of experience, by observing the manners and the customs of the country, and if possible to serve the Government with such feeble talents as I may possess.", "pos": 5702322}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Well, you have no need of my protection. If you do not infringe the laws, no one will disturb you. As to your obtaining employment, you had better go to the representative of your country; he will introduce you at Court, and make you known.", "pos": 5702514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord, the Venetian ambassador will do nothing for me; I am in disgrace with the Government. He will not even receive me at the embassy.", "pos": 5702757}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Then I would advise you to give up all hopes of employment, for the king would begin by asking your ambassador about you, and his answer would be fatal. You will do well to be satisfied with amusing yourself.", "pos": 5702898}
{"speaker": "Gaspar Soderini", "text": "I have presented myself, sir, that my enemies may never reproach me for not having done so; I am not aware that I have ever done anything which makes me too infamous to call on my ambassador. I should have credited myself with much greater hardihood if I had left without fulfilling this duty; but I shall be sorry if the ambassador views my proceedings in the same light as yourself, and puts down to temerity what was meant for a mark of respect. I shall be none the less astonished if his excellency refuses to receive me on account of a private quarrel between myself and the State Inquisitors, of which he knows no more than I do, and I know nothing. You will excuse my saying that he is not the ambassador of the State Inquisitors, but of the Republic of which I am a subject; for I defy him and I defy the Inquisitors to tell me what crime I have committed that I am to be deprived of my rights as a Venetian citizen. I think that, while it is my duty to reverence my prince in the person of my ambassador, it is his duty to afford me his protection. Why don’t you write a letter to the ambassador, with the arguments you have just used to me?", "pos": 5704156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could not write to him before I know whether he will receive me or not. But now, as I have reason to suppose that his opinions are much the same as your own, I will certainly write to him.", "pos": 5705366}
{"speaker": "Gaspar Soderini", "text": "I do not know whether his excellency thinks as I do or not, and, in spite of what I said to you, it is just possible that you do not know my own opinions on the question; but write to him, and he may possibly give you an audience.", "pos": 5705559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall follow your advice, for which I am much obliged.", "pos": 5705792}
{"speaker": "Count Manucci", "text": "I will do my best for you,", "pos": 5707197}
{"speaker": "Mocenigo", "text": "I hope soon to receive a letter from a friend of mine, which will authorise your excellency producing me.", "pos": 5707812}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be delighted, in that case, to present you to all the Spanish ministers.", "pos": 5707920}
{"speaker": "Devotee", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 5711752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because lovers, who feel sure that no one in the pit can see them, may commit improprieties.", "pos": 5711762}
{"speaker": "Elderly gentleman", "text": "I have not got one; I came by myself to enjoy this delightful and excellently-managed entertainment.", "pos": 5713887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but you ought to come with a companion; then you could dance. At present you cannot do so, as every lady has her partner, who will not allow her to dance with anyone else.", "pos": 5713990}
{"speaker": "Elderly gentleman", "text": "Then I must be content not to dance, for, being a stranger, I do not know any lady whom I can ask to come with me.", "pos": 5714169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As a stranger you would have much less difficulty in securing a partner than a citizen of Madrid. Under the new fashion, introduced by the Count of Aranda, the masked ball has become the rage of all the women in the capital. You see there are about two hundred of them on the floor to-night; well, I think there are at least four thousand girls in Madrid who are sighing for someone to take them to the ball, for, as you may know, no woman is allowed to come by herself. You would only have to go to any respectable people, give your name and address, and ask to have the pleasure of taking their daughter to the ball. You would have to send her a domino, mask, and gloves; and you would take her and bring her back in your carriage.", "pos": 5714286}
{"speaker": "Elderly gentleman", "text": "And if the father and mother refused?", "pos": 5715022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you would make your bow and go, leaving them to repent of their folly, for the girl would sigh, and weep, and moan, bewail parental tyranny, call Heaven to witness the innocency of going to a ball, and finally go into convulsions.", "pos": 5715062}
{"speaker": "The masker", "text": "I shall be delighted to hear of your success, and you will find me in the box, where I shall be glad if you will follow me now, to be introduced to the lady who is my constant companion.", "pos": 5715535}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have only been a short time in Madrid, and not having been presented at Court I really know no one.", "pos": 5716116}
{"speaker": "Madame Pichona", "text": "Really! I quite pity you. Come and see me, you will be welcome. My name is Pichona, and anybody will tell you where I live.", "pos": 5716220}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted to pay my respects to you, madam.", "pos": 5716346}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But, does not the Inquisition object to this dance?", "pos": 5717334}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is there?", "pos": 5719700}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Honest folk,", "pos": 5719716}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Senor, there is my daughter, but I don’t know you, and I don’t know whether she wants to go.", "pos": 5720339}
{"speaker": "The young devotee", "text": "I should like to go, if my parents will allow me.", "pos": 5720445}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "Then you know this gentleman?", "pos": 5720497}
{"speaker": "The young devotee", "text": "I have never seen him, and I suppose he has never seen me.", "pos": 5720529}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "You speak the truth, senora.", "pos": 5720590}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "She shall have a good cloak,", "pos": 5721212}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I hope you will take my measure for a pair of shoes.", "pos": 5721308}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "I daren’t do that; I’m an hidalgo, and if I were to take anyone’s measure I should have to touch his foot, and that would be a degradation. I am a cobbler, and that is not inconsistent with my nobility.", "pos": 5721368}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then, will you mend me these boots?", "pos": 5721573}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "I will make them like new; but I see they want a lot of work; it will cost you a pezzo duro, about five francs.", "pos": 5721611}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "By making you happy. I shall make myself happy, too. I will write to you to-morrow, and you will find the letter sewn into the hood of my domino.", "pos": 5724242}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will find me ready to do anything, fair Ignazia, if you will give me hope.", "pos": 5724405}
{"speaker": "Don Francisco de Ramos", "text": "I am employed at the Mint, but my present salary is a very small one. I hope I shall get an increase before long, and then I shall be in a position to make Ignazia happy. All my relations live at Toledo, and I have no friends at Madrid, so when we set up our only friends will be the father and mother of my wife and yourself, for I am sure you love her like a daughter.", "pos": 5725999}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have probed my heart to its core, but just now I am awaiting remittances, and have very little money about me. You may count on my discretion, and I shall be delighted to see you whenever you care to call on me.", "pos": 5726384}
{"speaker": "Madame Pichona", "text": "I did not go, for on that day died my only friend the Duke of Medina-Celi. He was ill for three days.", "pos": 5727651}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I sympathise with you. Was the duke an old man?", "pos": 5727767}
{"speaker": "Madame Pichona", "text": "Hardly sixty. You have seen him; he did not look his age.", "pos": 5727817}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where have I seen him?", "pos": 5727877}
{"speaker": "Madame Pichona", "text": "Did he not bring you to my box?", "pos": 5727902}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You don’t say so! He did not tell me his name and I never saw him before.", "pos": 5727936}
{"speaker": "Count Marazzini de Plaisance", "text": "I am Count Marazzini de Plaisance. I am not rich and I have come to Madrid to try and make my fortune. I hope to enter the bodyguard of his Catholic majesty. I have been indulging in the amusements of the town ever since I came. I saw you at the ball with an unknown beauty. I don’t ask you to tell me her name, but if you are fond of novelty I can introduce you to all the handsomest girls in Madrid. Come with me to the ball, and I will shew you some women worthy of your attention.", "pos": 5728452}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is as good as she is beautiful, she deserves to prosper, and if I have not called on her it is only that I am anxious to do nothing which could injure her reputation.", "pos": 5730140}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Her reputation, Senor Caballero, is above all reproach, and I shall be delighted to see you whenever you honour me with a call.", "pos": 5730323}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The carnival draws near to its end, and if Donna Ignazia would like to go to another ball I shall be happy to take her again.", "pos": 5730453}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "You must come and ask her yourself.", "pos": 5730594}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will not fail to do so.", "pos": 5730632}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have not found anyone worthy to be preferred before you, and if you would like to go to the ball again I should be most happy to take you.", "pos": 5731964}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "What can you ask, and what can I offer, since I must keep myself pure for my husband?", "pos": 5732561}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You should abandon yourself to me without reserve, and you may be sure that I should respect your innocence.", "pos": 5732649}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If your duty, forces you to repulse me in spite of yourself, your duty is a burden on you. If it is a burden on you, it is your enemy, and if it is your enemy why do you suffer it thus lightly to gain the victory? If you were your own friend, you would at once expel this insolent enemy from your coasts.", "pos": 5733363}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "That may not be.", "pos": 5733681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, it may. Only shut your eyes.", "pos": 5733700}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "Like that?", "pos": 5733736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5733749}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "You may, of course, seduce me, but if you really love me you will spare me the shame.", "pos": 5733865}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest Ignazia, there is no shame in a girl giving herself up to the man she loves. Love justifies all things. If you do not love me I ask nothing of you.", "pos": 5733965}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "But how shall I convince you that I am actuated by love and not by complaisance?", "pos": 5734123}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Leave me to do what I like, and my self-esteem will help me to believe you.", "pos": 5734206}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "But as I cannot be certain that you will believe me, my duty plainly points to a refusal.", "pos": 5734284}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but you will make me sad and cold.", "pos": 5734376}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "Then I shall be sad, too.", "pos": 5734424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, but what shall I say to prevent his taking offence?", "pos": 5735558}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "Tell him that it is on account of what he asked you. He is poor, and I am sure he is in despair at not seeing me in the window to-night. I shall tell him I only went to the ball with you to please my father.", "pos": 5735637}
{"speaker": "Antonia", "text": "No exercise is more healthful than dancing, and before his time balls were strictly forbidden. In spite of that he is hated for having expelled ‘los padres de la compagnia de Jesus’, and for his sumptuary regulations. But the poor bless his name, for all the money produced by the balls goes to them.", "pos": 5738563}
{"speaker": "the father", "text": "And thus, to go to the ball is to do a pious work.", "pos": 5738894}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "I have two cousins, who are perfect angels of goodness. I told them that you had taken me to the ball; but they are so poor that they have no hope of going. If you like you can make them quite happy by taking them on the last day of the carnival. The ball closes at midnight, so as not to profane Ash Wednesday.", "pos": 5738966}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be happy to oblige you, all the more as your lady mother will not be obliged to wait for us in the carriage.", "pos": 5739296}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "You are very kind; but I shall have to introduce you to my aunt; she is so particular. When she knows you, I am sure she will consent, for you have all the air of discretion. Go and see her to-day; she lives in the next street, and over her door you will see a notice that lace is washed within. Tell her that my mother gave you the address. To-morrow morning, after mass, I will see to everything else, and you must come here at noon to agree as to our meeting on the last day of the carnival.", "pos": 5739415}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will have the dominos ready at my house, and you must come in at the back door. We will dine in my room, mask, and go to the ball. The eldest of your cousins must be disguised as a man.", "pos": 5739974}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "I won’t tell her anything about that, for fear she might think it a sin, but once in your house you will have no difficulty in managing her.", "pos": 5740174}
{"speaker": "the younger cousin", "text": "she did not think it could be a sin.", "pos": 5741939}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If it were a sin, do you suppose that I should have suggested it to your virtuous sister. Come with me, and do you ladies wait here; I want to enjoy your surprise when you see her in man’s clothes.", "pos": 5741977}
{"speaker": "the eldest cousin", "text": "I am sorry for that.", "pos": 5743989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you allow me to arrange your shirt so as to obviate it?", "pos": 5744012}
{"speaker": "the eldest cousin", "text": "I shall be much obliged, as I have never dressed in man’s clothes before.", "pos": 5744075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Now it’s your turn,", "pos": 5744565}
{"speaker": "the eldest cousin", "text": "Go with him. Don Jaime is as honest a man as you will find in Spain.", "pos": 5744614}
{"speaker": "the younger cousin", "text": "I don’t know. I did everything for myself.", "pos": 5745144}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "I only give in because I can’t resist. I thought I should never have done; I had to alter the whole fit of the domino.", "pos": 5745360}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I understood her, and took her to my house, feeling sure of two hours of mutual pleasure. I had sufficient strength of mind to conceal my rage and disappointment, and told him to come in, adding that his mistress would be delighted at this unexpected visit. In her rage she told him that she would never have asked me to give her a cup of coffee if she had foreseen this piece of importunity, adding that if he had been a gentleman he would have known better than to intrude himself at such an hour. I tried to calm Donna Ignazia, telling her that Don Francisco had seen us by a mere accident, and that it was I who had asked him to come upstairs, in the hope of pleasing her.", "pos": 5746749}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "So take me home, but if you love me come and see me again. The trick the stupid fellow has played me shall cost him dear. Are you sure I don’t love him?", "pos": 5748587}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite certain, for you love me too well to love anybody else.", "pos": 5748741}
{"speaker": "an ill-looking fellow", "text": "of whom. I am one. He knows you have concealed weapons in your room. He knows, or thinks he knows, certain other things which authorize him to seize your person and to take you to the prison where persons destined for the galleys are kept. I give you all this warning because I believe you to be a man of honour. Despise not my advice, but look to yourself, and get into some place of security.", "pos": 5749326}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To-morrow I shall look out for another lodging.", "pos": 5750903}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "Yes, and you might have remained there yourself. I did not think you were so easily frightened.", "pos": 5751054}
{"speaker": "the alcalde", "text": "for otherwise, the Venetian gentleman would never have gone to the house of Chevalier Mengs, where he is out of my power.", "pos": 5751481}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My page must be a thorough-paced scoundrel; the magistrate’s arresting him for warning me is an absolute proof that he knew of my approaching arrest. What is a servant who does not warn his master under such circumstances but a rascal? Indeed I am absolutely certain that he was the informer, for he was the only person who knew where the arms were concealed.", "pos": 5752020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am the Chevalier de Casanova,", "pos": 5753069}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Then I hope you will follow me of your own free will to the prison of Buen Retiro. I cannot use force here, for this house is the king’s, but I warn you that in less than an hour the Chevalier Mengs will have orders to turn you out, and then you will be dragged to prison, which would be unpleasant for you. I therefore advise you to follow me quietly, and to give up such weapons as you may possess.", "pos": 5753111}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Chevalier Mengs will give you the weapons in question. I have carried them with me for eleven years; they are meant to protect me on the highways. I am ready to follow you, but first allow me to write four notes; I shall not be half an hour.", "pos": 5753514}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "I can neither allow you to wait nor to write, but you will be at liberty to do so after you have reached the prison.", "pos": 5753762}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; then I am ready to follow you, for I have no choice. I shall remember Spanish justice!", "pos": 5753881}
{"speaker": "Marazzini", "text": "I hope, not to be condemned before I am heard. The alcalde will come and interrogate you tomorrow, and your answers will be taken down; that’s all. You may then be sent to hard labour in Africa.", "pos": 5755184}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has your case been heard yet?", "pos": 5755392}
{"speaker": "Marazzini", "text": "They were at me about it for three hours yesterday.", "pos": 5755424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What kind of questions did they ask you?", "pos": 5755478}
{"speaker": "Marazzini", "text": "They wished to know what banker furnished me with money for my expenses. I told them I had not got a banker, and that I lived by borrowing from my friends, in the expectation of becoming one of the king’s body-guard. They then asked me how it was that the Parmese ambassador knew nothing about me, and I replied that I had never been presented to him.", "pos": 5755521}
{"speaker": "the interrogators", "text": "Without the favour of your ambassador, you could never join the royal guard, and you must be aware of that, but the king’s majesty shall give you employment where you will stand in need of no commendation;", "pos": 5755875}
{"speaker": "Marazzini", "text": "and so the alcalde left me. If the Venetian ambassador does not interpose in your behalf you will be treated in the same way.", "pos": 5756099}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have no appetite, and I am not going to give a farthing to anyone till the stolen crown is restored to me. I will not give him a farthing; he is no longer in my service, and would to God I had never seen him!", "pos": 5756812}
{"speaker": "Spanish officer", "text": "We are no tyrants, you can write what letters you like.", "pos": 5758157}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then, as this is a free country, is it allowable for a soldier who has received certain moneys to buy certain articles to pocket the money and appropriate it to his own use?", "pos": 5758229}
{"speaker": "Spanish officer", "text": "What is his name? I promise you, sir, that the soldier shall be punished and your money restored to you; and in the meanwhile you shall have pens, ink, paper, a table, and a candle, immediately.", "pos": 5758415}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "And I, promise you that one of the ambassador’s servants shall wait on you at eight o’clock to deliver any letters you may write.", "pos": 5758710}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Serve God and your master. Let his Catholic majesty save me from the hands of the infamous alcalde who has arrested me, an honest and a law-abiding man, who came to Spain trusting in his own innocence and the protection of the laws. The person who writes to you, my lord, has a purse full of doubloons in his pocket; he has already been robbed, and fears assassination in the filthy den in which he has been imprisoned.", "pos": 5760541}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have committed no crime, what compensation am I to have when I am released from this filthy and abominable place? Set me at liberty at once, or tell your hangmen to finish their work, for I warn you that no one shall take me to the galleys alive.", "pos": 5761540}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All I ask of you, is not to tell the ambassador that you have seen the letter I wrote to the Count of Aranda.", "pos": 5763341}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope so, for I am perfectly innocent of any offence.", "pos": 5764252}
{"speaker": "Alcalde Messa", "text": "I do not understand Spanish well, and I shall only give written answers to any questions that may be asked of me, in Italian, French, or Latin. I don’t understand what you say. Get a judge who understands one of the languages I have named, and I will write down my answers.", "pos": 5765631}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My name is Jacques Casanova; I am a subject of the Republic of Venice, by profession a man of letters, and in rank a Knight of the Golden Spur. I have sufficient means, and I travel for my pleasure. I am known to the Venetian ambassador, the Count of Aranda, the Prince de la Catolica, the Marquis of Moras, and the Duke of Lossada. I have offended in no manner against the laws of his Catholic majesty, but in spite of my innocence I have been cast into a den of thieves and assassins by magistrates who deserve a ten times greater punishment. Since I have not infringed the laws, his Catholic majesty must know that he has only one right over me, and that is to order me to leave his realms, which order I am ready to obey. My arms, which I see before me, have travelled with me for the last eleven years; I carry them to defend myself against highwaymen. They were seen when my effects were examined at the Gate of Alcala, and were not confiscated; which makes it plain that they have served merely as a pretext for the infamous treatment to which I have been subjected.", "pos": 5766328}
{"speaker": "Alcalde Messa", "text": "Valga me Dios! You shall suffer for your insolence.", "pos": 5767564}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "He has certainly been shamefully used, but an intelligent man should not lose his head. I should have known nothing about it, but for a furious letter he has written me; and Don Emmanuel de Roda and the Duke of Lossada have received epistles in the same style. Casanova is in the right, but that is not the way to address people.", "pos": 5768000}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If he really said I was in the right, that is sufficient.", "pos": 5768350}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "He said it, sure enough.", "pos": 5768410}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then he must do me justice, and as to my style everyone has a style of their own. I am furious, and I wrote furiously. Look at this place; I have no bed, the floor is covered with filth, and I am obliged to sleep on a narrow bench. Don’t you think it is natural that I should desire to eat the hearts of the scoundrels who have placed me here? If I do not leave this hell by tomorrow, I shall kill myself, or go mad.", "pos": 5768437}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "M. de Casanova! Chevalier, the Count of Aranda is at the gate of the prison; he is much grieved at the treatment you have received. He only heard about it through the letter you wrote him yesterday, and if you had written sooner your pains would have been shorter.", "pos": 5769644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Such was my intention, colonel, but a soldier . . . .", "pos": 5769965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here,", "pos": 5770693}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can neither rest nor sleep, and a man needs sleep every night. If you had come a little earlier you would have seen the disgusting filth with which the floor was covered.", "pos": 5770709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must remember, colonel, that I am suffering from injustice, and am in a furious rage. I am a man of honour, like yourself, and you can imagine the effect of such treatment on me.", "pos": 5770994}
{"speaker": "Count Royas", "text": "Afterwards, you must go and thank his excellency the Count of Aranda, who came here expressly for your sake. He bade me tell you that your release would be delayed till the afternoon, that you may have full satisfaction for the affront you have received, if it is an affront, for the penalties of the law only dishonour the guilty. In this instance the Alcalde Messa has been deceived by the rascal who was in your service.", "pos": 5771400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There he is,", "pos": 5771837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be good enough to have him removed, or else, in my indignation, I might kill him.", "pos": 5771860}
{"speaker": "Count Royas", "text": "He shall be taken away this moment,", "pos": 5771944}
{"speaker": "Alcalde Messa", "text": "If you had not a rascal and a traitor (who shall end his days in the galleys) in your service, Senor Caballero, you would never have written down the servants of his Catholic majesty as scoundrels.", "pos": 5773786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Senor Alcalde, my indignation made me write the same sentence to four of his majesty’s ministers. Then I believed what I wrote, but I do so no longer. Let us forget and forgive; but you must confess that if I had not known how to write a letter you would have sent me to the galleys.", "pos": 5773986}
{"speaker": "Alcalde Messa", "text": "Alas! it is very likely.", "pos": 5774272}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "I advise you, to take the letter to the ambassador immediately. Take my carriage; after what you have undergone for the last few days you cannot be in a walking humour.", "pos": 5775983}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "The ambassador, proposes to introduce you at Court next week, and he wants you to dine with him to-day; there will be a numerous company at dinner.", "pos": 5776696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am engaged to Mengs.", "pos": 5776862}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "No matter, he shall be asked as well; you must come. Consider the effect of your presence at the ambassador’s the day after your triumph.", "pos": 5776887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right. Go and ask Mengs, and tell the ambassador that I have much pleasure in accepting his invitation.", "pos": 5777027}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Your business is done. Stay, here are four letters; take them and read them over again.", "pos": 5779578}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why should I read them again? This is the document I gave the alcalde.", "pos": 5779668}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "I know that. Read, and confess that you should not have written so violently, in spite of the wrongs that vexed you.", "pos": 5779741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I crave your pardon, my lord, but a man who meditates suicide does not pick terms. I believed that your excellency was at the bottom of it all.", "pos": 5779860}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Then you don’t know me. Go and thank Don Emmanuel de Roda, who wants to know you, and I shall be glad if you will call once on the alcalde, not to make him an apology, for you owe him none, but as an act of politeness to salve over the hard things you said of him. If you write the history of Princess Lubomirska, I hope you will tell her that I did my best for you.", "pos": 5780006}
{"speaker": "Colonel Royas", "text": "What could I claim? Everything. Dismissal of the alcalde and compensation to the tune of fifty thousand duros. Spain is a country where a man may speak out save in the matters which the Holy Inquisition looks after.", "pos": 5780483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was delighted to make the acquaintance of Campomanes and Olavides, men of intellect and of a stamp very rare in Spain.", "pos": 5782036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The Swiss, are a very peculiar people; if you transplant them to a foreign shore, they languish and die; they become a prey to home-sickness. When this once begins in a Switzer, the only thing is to take him home to the mountain, the lake, or the valley, where he was born, or else he will infallibly die. It would be wise, I think, to endeavour to combine a Spanish colony with the Swiss colony, so as to effect a mingling of races. At first, at all events, their rules, both spiritual and temporal, should be Swiss, and, above all, you would have to insure them complete immunity from the Inquisition. The Swiss who has been bred in the country has peculiar customs and manners of love-making, of which the Spanish Church might not exactly approve; but the least attempt to restrain their liberty in this respect would immediately bring about a general home-sickness.", "pos": 5786599}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "she would like it as much as I, but as it was Lent and near Holy Week, in which God died for our salvation, it was more fit to think of penance than pleasure. we might consider the matter.", "pos": 5789408}
{"speaker": "Antonio Raphael Mengs", "text": "Yesterday the rector of the parish in which I reside affixed to the church-door a list of those of his parishioners who are Atheists and have neglected their Easter duties. Amongst them your name figures in full, and the aforesaid rector has reproached me bitterly for harbouring a heretic. I did not know what answer to make, for I feel sure that you could have stopped in Madrid a day longer to discharge the duties of a Christian, even if it were only out of regard for me. The duty I owe to the king, my master, the care I am bound to take of my reputation, and my fears of being molested, all make me request you to look upon my house as yours no longer. When you return to Madrid you may go where you will, and my servants shall transport your effects to your new abode. I am, etc.. ANTONIO RAPHAEL MENGS.", "pos": 5791570}
{"speaker": "Messenger", "text": "he had orders to await my reply.", "pos": 5792653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and tell your unworthy master what I did with his letter, and tell him that is the only answer that such a letter deserves.", "pos": 5792755}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes.", "pos": 5794275}
{"speaker": "M. de Mocenigo", "text": "I am not at all surprised at what you tell me. Mengs is only liked for his talents in painting; in everything else he is well known to be little better than a fool.", "pos": 5794411}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Just as every poet should be a painter, so every painter should be a poet;", "pos": 5795329}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "these things were but trifles after all, and that I had taken no offence at his omitting the chevalier on the letters he had written to me, though I was a knight of the same order as himself.", "pos": 5798106}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "it was quite right,", "pos": 5798799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was certain that my hand was made like that of all the descendants of Adam.", "pos": 5798916}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "Then whom do you think that I am descended from?", "pos": 5798995}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know, but you are certainly not of the same species as myself.", "pos": 5799046}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "You mean you are not of my species; all well-made hands of men, and women too, are like mine and not like yours.", "pos": 5799119}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I’ll wager a hundred doubloons that you are in the wrong.", "pos": 5799234}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "We shall see which is right. I am delighted that I can boast of being unique in one particular, at all events.", "pos": 5799373}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The picture will be finished to-night.", "pos": 5799785}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "No, I have not, ninety-nine connoisseurs out of a hundred would have pronounced it finished long ago, but I want the praise of the hundredth man. There’s not a picture in the world that can be called finished save in a relative sense; this Magdalen will not be finished till I stop working at it, and then it will be only finished relatively, for if I were to give another day’s work to it it would be more finished still. Not one of Petrarch’s sonnets is a really finished production; no, nor any other man’s sonnets. Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is perfect, save it be a mathematical theorem. He was such a great painter.", "pos": 5799935}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly, but what can you mean by wishing you had been Raphael? This is not sense; if you had been Raphael, you would no longer be existing. But perhaps you only meant to express a wish that you were tasting the joys of Paradise; in that case I will say no more.", "pos": 5800747}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "No, no; I mean I would have liked to have been Raphael without troubling myself about existing now, either in soul or body.", "pos": 5801024}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really such a desire is an absurdity; think it over, and you will see it for yourself. Find me if you can, a poet who can order his supper between the lines of his tragedy, or discuss the weather whilst he is composing epic verses.", "pos": 5801150}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "The ambassador, is going to give a grand official dinner to the ambassadors of the other powers, and as I have not been presented at Court I am excluded from being present. However, if I travel, my absence will not give rise to any remarks. We shall be back in five or six days.", "pos": 5802785}
{"speaker": "Exhibitor", "text": "This proves, gentlemen, that the dragon is not a fabulous animal;", "pos": 5804756}
{"speaker": "Marquis Grimaldi", "text": "Yes, but Spain is thinly peopled everywhere, and your plan would amount to impoverishing one district to make another rich.", "pos": 5805507}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, for if you took ten persons who are dying of poverty in the Asturias, and placed them in the Sierra Morena, they would not die till they had begotten fifty children. This fifty would beget two hundred and so on.", "pos": 5805644}
{"speaker": "Madame Pelliccia", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 5808566}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That gentleman who is looking in your direction now.", "pos": 5808581}
{"speaker": "Madame Pelliccia", "text": "How can I dare to ask him?", "pos": 5808636}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is a true nobleman, and I am sure he will be only too happy to oblige you. Go and ask him now; you will not be denied.", "pos": 5808665}
{"speaker": "Madame Pelliccia", "text": "I haven’t the courage to do so. Come with me and introduce me.", "pos": 5808789}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That would spoil everything; he must not even think that I am your adviser in the matter. I am just going to leave you; you must make your request directly afterwards. The thing’s as good as done,", "pos": 5808854}
{"speaker": "Coachman", "text": "It is not so frequented now, senor. I can easily get by it. Oh, senor! men are getting more wicked every day.", "pos": 5812008}
{"speaker": "Abbé Pico", "text": "Excuse me, I really cannot tell you. Go and see for yourself; your curiosity will soon be satisfied.", "pos": 5812533}
{"speaker": "Young Priest", "text": "Very likely, but it was exactly the physical beauty of the picture that rendered it in my eyes unfit to represent one whose aspect should purify and purge the senses, instead of exciting them. Let all the pictures in the world be destroyed, if they be found to have caused the commission of one mortal sin.", "pos": 5814065}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who allowed you to commit this mutilation? The Venetian State Inquisitors, even M. Barberigo, though he is a devout man, would have put you under the Leads for such a deed. The love of Paradise should not be allowed to interfere with the fine arts, and I am sure that St. Luke himself (who was a painter, as you know) would condemn you if he could come to life again.", "pos": 5814388}
{"speaker": "Young Priest", "text": "Sir, I needed no one’s leave or license. I have to say mass at that altar every day, and I am not ashamed to tell you that I was unable to consecrate. You are a man and a Christian, you can excuse my weakness. That voluptuous picture drew away my thoughts from holy things.", "pos": 5814758}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who obliged you to look at it?", "pos": 5815034}
{"speaker": "Young Priest", "text": "I did not look at it; the devil, the enemy of God, made me see it in spite of myself.", "pos": 5815067}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you should have mutilated yourself like Origen. Your generative organs, believe me, are not so valuable as the picture you have ruined.", "pos": 5815155}
{"speaker": "Young Priest", "text": "Sir, you insult me.", "pos": 5815298}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all, I have no intention of doing so.", "pos": 5815320}
{"speaker": "Grand Inquisitor of Madrid", "text": "The chaplain,” he said, “is himself blameworthy and unfit for his position, in that he has adjudged others to be as weak as himself; in fact, he has committed a wrong against religion. Nevertheless, my dear son, it was not wise of you to go and irritate him.", "pos": 5816993}
{"speaker": "Inquisitor", "text": "You were quite right in your contention, but yet every truth is not good to utter, and it was wrong to call the man an ignoramus in his presence. For the future you would do well to avoid all idle discussion on religious matters, both on dogma and discipline. And I must also tell you, in order that you may not leave Spain with any harsh ideas on the Inquisition, that the priest who affixed your name to the church-door amongst the excommunicated has been severely reprimanded. He ought to have given you a fatherly admonition, and, above all, enquired as to your health, as we know that you were seriously ill at the time.", "pos": 5817675}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I asked him one day whether the king was fond of Gregorio Squillace only because he had been once his wife’s lover.", "pos": 5819398}
{"speaker": "Don Varnier", "text": "That’s an idle calumny. If the epithet of ‘chaste’ can be applied to any monarch, Charles III. certainly deserves it better than any other. He has never touched any woman in his life except his wife, not only out of respect or the sanctity of marriage, but also as a good Christian. He has avoided this sin that his soul may remain pure, and so as not to have the shame of confessing it to his chaplain. He enjoys an iron constitution, sickness is unknown to him, and he is a thorough Spaniard in temperament. Ever since his marriage he has paid his duty to his wife every day, except when the state of her health compelled her to call for a truce. In such seasons this chaste husband brought down his fleshly desires by the fatigue of hunting and by abstinence. You can imagine his distress at being left a widower, for he would rather die than take a mistress. His only resource was in hunting, and in so planning out his day that he should have no time left wherein to think of women. It was a difficult matter, for he cares neither for reading nor writing, music wearies him, and conversation of a lively turn inspires him with disgust. He has adopted the following plan, in which he will preserve till his dying day: He dresses at seven, then goes into his closet and has his hair dressed. At eight o’clock he says his prayers, then hears mass, and when this is over he takes chocolate and an enormous pinch of snuff, over which his big nose ruminates for some minutes; this is his only pinch in the whole day. At nine o’clock he sees his ministers, and works with them till eleven. Then comes dinner, which he always takes alone, then a short visit to the Princess of the Austurias, and at twelve sharp he gets into his carriage and drives to the hunting-grounds. At seven o’clock he takes a morsel wherever he happens to be, and at eight o’clock he comes home, so tired that he often goes to sleep before he can get his clothes off. Thus he keeps down the desires of the flesh.", "pos": 5819515}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Poor voluntary martyr!", "pos": 5821517}
{"speaker": "Don Varnier", "text": "He thought of marrying a second time, but when Adelaide of France saw his portrait she was quite frightened and refused him. He was very mortified, and renounced all thoughts of marriage; and woe to the courtier who should advise him to get a mistress!", "pos": 5821542}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then he is not a hard man, as some say?", "pos": 5822078}
{"speaker": "Don Domingo", "text": "Not at all. Kings seldom have the reputation they deserve. The most accessible monarchs are the least generous; they are overwhelmed with importunate requests, and their first instinct is always to refuse.", "pos": 5822120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But as Charles III. is so inaccessible he can have no opportunity of either granting or refusing.", "pos": 5822328}
{"speaker": "Don Domingo", "text": "People catch him when he is hunting; he is usually in a good humour then. His chief defect is his obstinacy; when he has once made up his mind there is no changing it. He has the greatest liking for his brother, and can scarce refuse him anything, though he must be master in all things. It is thought he will give him leave to marry for the sake of his salvation; the king has the greatest horror of illegitimate children, and his brother has three already. They will go back as they come, and that is empty-handed.", "pos": 5822428}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then they ask impossibilities?", "pos": 5823087}
{"speaker": "Don Domingo", "text": "They don’t ask anything. ‘What do you want?’ says a minister.", "pos": 5823120}
{"speaker": "Don Varnier", "text": "What your excellency will let me have.", "pos": 5823184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What can you do?", "pos": 5823226}
{"speaker": "Don Varnier", "text": "I am ready to do whatever your excellency pleases to think best for me’ Please leave me. I have no time to waste.", "pos": 5823246}
{"speaker": "Biscayan maid", "text": "I have some money, and I will let you have the bill to-morrow.", "pos": 5824391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I went back and asked Philippe, my man, where Don Diego was staying.", "pos": 5824587}
{"speaker": "Philippe", "text": "It’s some distance, sir; I will take you there tomorrow.", "pos": 5824657}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where is my landlord?", "pos": 5824716}
{"speaker": "Philippe", "text": "In the floor above; but they are very quiet people.", "pos": 5824740}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to see him.", "pos": 5824794}
{"speaker": "Philippe", "text": "He is gone out and won’t be home till ten.", "pos": 5824822}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Towards the end of supper Philippe told me that the landlord had come in, and that with my leave he would wish me a good evening. Shew him in by all means.", "pos": 5825446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All you barons, counts, and marquises who laugh at an untitled man who calls himself a gentleman, pause and reflect, spare your disdain till you have degraded him; allow him a gentle title so long as he does gentle deeds. Respect the man that defines nobility in a new way, which you cannot understand. With him nobility is not a series of descents from father to son; he laughs at pedigrees, in which no account is taken of the impure blood introduced by wifely infidelities; he defines a nobleman as one who does noble deeds, who neither lies nor cheats, who prefers his honour to his life.", "pos": 5825783}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "I have a much better lodging than I had before; and the rent of your room pays me for the house four times over.", "pos": 5828465}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about the furniture and the linen?", "pos": 5828580}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "It will all be paid in the course of four years. I hope this house will be the dower of my daughter. It is an excellent speculation, and I have to thank you for it.", "pos": 5828621}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear it; but what is this, you seem to be making new boots?", "pos": 5828788}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Quite so; but if you look you will see that I am working on a last which has been given me. In this way I have not to put them on, nor need I trouble myself whether they fit well or ill.", "pos": 5828863}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How much do you get?", "pos": 5829052}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Thirty reals.", "pos": 5829075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s a larger price than usual.", "pos": 5829091}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Yes, but there’s a great difference between my work and my leather, and the usual work and leather of the bootmakers.", "pos": 5829127}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I will have a last made, and you shall make me a pair of shoes, if you will; but I warn you they must be of the finest skin, and the soles of morocco.", "pos": 5829247}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "They will cost more, and not last so long.", "pos": 5829405}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t help that; I can’t bear any but the lightest boots.", "pos": 5829450}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "I heard about it; this was worse than your imprisonment, and I don’t know what I could have done for you if you had not communicated, and obliged the priest to take out your name. Just now they are trying to annoy me with posters on the walls, but I take no notice.", "pos": 5829753}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do they want your excellency to do?", "pos": 5830021}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "To allow long cloaks and low-crowned hats; you must know all about it.", "pos": 5830064}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I only arrived at Madrid yesterday evening.", "pos": 5830137}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Very good. Don’t come here on Sunday, as my house is to be blown up.", "pos": 5830183}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to see that, my lord, so I will be in your hall at noon.", "pos": 5830254}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "I expect you will be in good company.", "pos": 5830327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If they catch me, they will hang me,", "pos": 5830695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So I shall not let them catch me.", "pos": 5830732}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I was glad to have me in the house, begged me to forget everything that had passed between us.", "pos": 5830805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was sure she knew she was asking an impossibility. I added that even if I could forget the past I would not do so.", "pos": 5831074}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "she had broken with her lover at the beginning of Lent, and begged me not to see him if he called on me.", "pos": 5831906}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "she had shut herself up in her room to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost.", "pos": 5832210}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear Don Diego, don’t let there be any false compliments between us. Before you go out, tell your daughter not to put herself out for me, and that I do not pretend to put my society in comparison with that of God. Tell her to keep her room to-night, and she can sup with me another time. I hope you will take my message to her.", "pos": 5832524}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "As you will have it so, you shall be obeyed.", "pos": 5832857}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am very glad she has taken me at my word, and to-morrow I will thank her for it.", "pos": 5833056}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "a wise father forgives an ecstasy of love.", "pos": 5833339}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Alone, sad, and unhappy. I felt that abstinence was the best thing for me.", "pos": 5833983}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You look downcast.", "pos": 5834073}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "You alone can make me look cheerful.", "pos": 5834094}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "It shall not happen again,", "pos": 5834411}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Would you like to come with me to our Lady of Atocha?", "pos": 5834450}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I should like it very much,", "pos": 5834514}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "My girl, true devotion and merriment go together, and the reason is that the truly devout person has trust in God and in the honesty of all men. Thus you can trust in Don Jaime as an honest man, though he has not the good fortune to be born in Spain. What do you want to take the cousin for? I will answer for Don Jaime.", "pos": 5834591}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "You are very kind, Don Diego, but if Ignazia likes her cousin to come I shall be delighted, provided it be the elder cousin, whom I like better than the younger.", "pos": 5835119}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Entirely, if you will forgive me for loving you. Alas, dearest! I think I shall go mad if I keep up the battle any longer.", "pos": 5835452}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "There needs no battle, dearest Ignazia, either love me as I love you, or tell me to leave the house, and see you no more. I will obey you, but that will not make you happy.", "pos": 5835579}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I know that. No, you shall not go from your own house. But allow me to tell you that you are mistaken in your estimate of my cousins’ characters. I know what influenced you, but you do not know all. The younger is a good girl, and though she is ugly, she too has succumbed to love. But the elder, who is ten times uglier, is mad with rage at never having had a lover. She thought she had made you in love with her, and yet she speaks evil of you. She reproaches me for having yielded so easily and boasts that she would never have gratified your passion.", "pos": 5835754}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Say no more, we must punish her; and the younger shall come.", "pos": 5836311}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I am much obliged to you.", "pos": 5836374}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Does she know that we love each other?", "pos": 5836402}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I have never told her, but she has guessed it, and pities me. She wants me to join her in a devotion to Our Lady de la Soledad, the effect of which would be a complete cure for us both.", "pos": 5836443}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Then she is in love, too?", "pos": 5836631}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Yes; and she is unhappy in her love, for it is not returned. That must be a great grief.", "pos": 5836659}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I pity her, and yet, with such a face, I do not know any man who would take compassion on her. The poor girl would do well to leave love alone. But as to you. . . .", "pos": 5836750}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Say nothing about me: my danger is greater than hers. I am forced to defend myself or to give in, and God knows there are some men whom it is impossible to ward off! God is my witness that in Holy Week I went to a poor girl with the smallpox, and touched her in the hope of catching it, and so losing my beauty; but God would not have it so, and my confessor blamed me, bidding me to do a penance I had never expected.", "pos": 5836917}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Tell me what it is?", "pos": 5837338}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "He told me that a handsome face is the index of a handsome soul, and is a gift of God, for which a woman should render thanks continually; that in attempting to destroy this beauty I had sinned, for I had endeavoured to destroy God’s handiwork. After a good deal of rebuke in this style, he ordered me to put a little rouge on my cheeks whenever I felt myself looking pale. I had to submit, and I have bought a pot of rouge, but hitherto I have not felt obliged to use it. Indeed, my father might notice it, and I should not like to tell him that it is done by way of penance.", "pos": 5837360}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Is your confessor a young man?", "pos": 5837939}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "He is an old man of seventy.", "pos": 5837972}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Do you tell him all your sins without reserve?", "pos": 5838003}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Certainly, for the smallest circumstance may be really a great sin.", "pos": 5838052}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Does he ask you questions?", "pos": 5838122}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "No, for he sees that I am telling him the whole truth. It is a great trial, but I have to submit to it.", "pos": 5838151}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Have you had this confessor for long?", "pos": 5838257}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "For two years. Before him I had a confessor who was quite unbearable. He asked me questions which made me quite indignant.", "pos": 5838297}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "What questions were these?", "pos": 5838422}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You must please excuse me telling you.", "pos": 5838451}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Why do you go to confession so often?", "pos": 5838492}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Why? Would to God I had not good cause! but after all I only go once a week.", "pos": 5838532}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "That’s too often.", "pos": 5838611}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Not so, for when I am in mortal sin I cannot sleep at night. I am afraid of dying in my sleep.", "pos": 5838631}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I pity you, dearest; I have a consolation which is denied you. I have an infinite trust in the infinite mercy of God.", "pos": 5838728}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I am sure that when you go to confession next Sunday you will forget to accuse yourself of having wrongfully suspected Don Jaime of a dishonourable action.", "pos": 5844619}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You have been to confession, I suppose? No; I went last Sunday, and I shall wait till next Sunday.", "pos": 5845536}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I am very glad that your confession will not be lengthened by any sins I have helped you to commit.", "pos": 5845639}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You are wrong.", "pos": 5845741}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Wrong? I understand; but you must know that I am not going to be damned for mere desires. I do not wish to torment you or to become a martyr myself. What you granted me has made me fall deeply in love with you, and it makes me shudder when I imagine that our love has become a subject of repentance with you. I have had a bad night; and it is time for me to think of my health. I must forget you, but to bring about that effect I will see you no longer. I will keep on the house, but I will not live in it. If your religion is an intelligent one, you will approve of my idea. Tell your confessor of it next Sunday, and you will see that he will approve it.", "pos": 5845758}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You are right, but I cannot agree to it. You can go away if you like, and I shall say nothing, but I shall be the most unhappy girl in all Madrid.", "pos": 5846417}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I love you, dearest Ignazia, and I hope not to be damned for my love. I cannot see you without loving you and to this love some positive proof is essential; otherwise, I am unhappy. If I go you say you will be unhappy, and if I stay it is I that will be unhappy, my health will be ruined. But tell me which I shall do stay or go? Say.", "pos": 5846676}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Stay.", "pos": 5847013}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Then you must be as loving and tender as you were before.", "pos": 5847021}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Alas! I promised to commit that sin no more. I tell you to stay, because I am sure that in eight or ten days we shall have become so accustomed to one another that I shall be able to love you like a father, and you will be able to take me in your arms without any amorous sentiments.", "pos": 5847081}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Are you sure of this?", "pos": 5847367}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Yes, dearest, quite sure.", "pos": 5847391}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "You make a mistake.", "pos": 5847419}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Let me be mistaken, and believe me I shall be glad to be mistaken.", "pos": 5847441}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Unhappy devotee!", "pos": 5847510}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Why unhappy? Nothing, nothing. I may be too long, I shall endanger . . . let us say no more about it. I will stay.", "pos": 5847529}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "for, even if I do enjoy her once, Sunday will come again; she will confess, repent, and I shall have to begin all over again. She confessed her love, and flatters herself that she will be able to subdue it--a foolish hope, which could only exist in a mind under the dominion of prejudice.", "pos": 5847765}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I never suspected Don Jaime of such a thing, and I only objected out of shyness.", "pos": 5848291}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "I am laughing at her,", "pos": 5848717}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "I am certain that I was in earnest, and that I had known her before taking her to the ball.", "pos": 5848760}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You are utterly mistaken,", "pos": 5848853}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Your father is wiser than you, senora,", "pos": 5848927}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "What! How and when did you see me?", "pos": 5848979}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "At the church where I heard mass, and you communicated, when you went out with your cousin. I followed you at some distance; you can guess the rest.", "pos": 5849016}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "it’s a fine day, and all Madrid will be there, so one must go early to get a good place. I advise you to go, as you have never seen a bull fight; ask Don Jaime to take you with him, Ignazia.", "pos": 5849300}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Would you like to have my companionship?", "pos": 5849493}
{"speaker": "Don Jaime", "text": "Certainly I would, but you must bring your cousin, as I am in love with her.", "pos": 5849556}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "It is not so impossible after all.", "pos": 5849690}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Villadorias", "text": "She recognized me, and said we were fortunate in meeting one another; and then noticing Donna Ignazia, who was close to her, she congratulated me in French on her charms, and asked me whether she was my mistress or my wife.", "pos": 5850178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I replied that she was a beauty before whom I sighed in vain.", "pos": 5850402}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Villadorias", "text": "She replied, with a smile, that she was rather a sceptical person; and turning to Donna Ignazia began a pleasant and amorous discourse, thinking the girl to be as learned in the laws of love as herself.", "pos": 5850464}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Villadorias", "text": "You will come with me some day,", "pos": 5852208}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to dine at her country house.", "pos": 5852251}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You need not look for that.", "pos": 5852283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 5852313}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Because she is a madwoman. She talked to me in a way that would have offended me if I did not know that she fancied she was honouring me by laying aside her rank.", "pos": 5852324}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you go and see the duchess?", "pos": 5852912}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "No, if you will promise me not to go to confession next Sunday.", "pos": 5852947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what will he say if I do not go?", "pos": 5853013}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Nothing at all, if he understands his business. But let us talk it over a little.", "pos": 5853052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was not thinking of repentance just then, but as you remind me of it, I must tell you that I shall certainly go to confession.", "pos": 5853443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And after you have been to confession will you love me as you love me now?", "pos": 5853574}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I hope God will give me strength to offend Him no more.", "pos": 5853651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I assure you that if you continue loving me God will not give you grace, yet I feel sure that on Sunday evening you will refuse me that which you are now ready to grant.", "pos": 5853709}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Indeed I will, sweetheart; but why should we talk of that now?", "pos": 5853881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because if I abandon myself to pleasure now I shall be more in love with you than ever, and consequently more unhappy than ever, when the day of your repentance comes. So promise me that you will not go to confession whilst I remain at Madrid, or give the fatal order now, and bid me leave you. I cannot abandon myself to love to-day knowing that it will be refused me on Sunday.", "pos": 5853946}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You are cruel. I cannot make you that promise for my conscience sake.", "pos": 5854544}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "We must get her to eat something.", "pos": 5856003}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I think abstinence will do her good, and in the evening I daresay she will be able to sup with you.", "pos": 5856039}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "But will you go another day?", "pos": 5857024}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dearest, because I see it would grieve you.", "pos": 5857055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s all over,", "pos": 5859437}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The poor girl has made a sincere and full confession, she has avowed her love, and the priest’s cruel duty has made him refuse her absolution.", "pos": 5859472}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All is lost. What will come of it?", "pos": 5859616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My peace of mind and hers require me to leave her.", "pos": 5859652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wretch that I am, to have lost all for all! I should have made allowance for the peculiar Spanish character.", "pos": 5859704}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I might have enjoyed her by surprise now and again; the difficulty would have added piquancy to the intrigue. I have behaved as if I were once more twenty, and I have lost all.", "pos": 5859814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At dinner she will be all sad and tearful. I must find some way out of this terrible situation.", "pos": 5859992}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "I am going to be happy, but let us say nothing, and it will come of itself. More than ever, darling; I adore you.", "pos": 5861058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then take me to the bull fight.", "pos": 5861394}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Quick! Fetch the hairdresser.", "pos": 5861428}
{"speaker": "Ignazia", "text": "she was glad that the detestable duchess was not anywhere near us.", "pos": 5861740}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Amigo Senior Don Jaime, I leave you here to enjoy the cool air with my daughter. I am delighted at your loving her, and you may be assured that I shall place no obstacle in the way of your becoming my son-in-law as soon as you can shew your titles of nobility.", "pos": 5863182}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should be only too happy, if it could be managed; but you must know that in my country they only are called nobles who have an hereditary right to rule the state. If I had been born in Spain I should be noble, but as it is I adore you, and I hope you will make me happy.", "pos": 5863489}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Yes, dearest, but we must be happy together; I cannot suffer any infidelity.", "pos": 5863764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I give you my word of honour that I will be wholly faithful to you.", "pos": 5863843}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "Come then, ‘corazon mio’, let us go in.", "pos": 5863913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, let us put out the lights, and stay here a quarter of an hour. Tell me, my angel, whence comes this unexpected happiness?", "pos": 5863955}
{"speaker": "Donna Ignazia", "text": "You owe it to a piece of tyranny which drove me to desperation. God is good, and I am sure He would not have me become my own executioner. When I told my confessor that I could not help loving you, but that I could restrain myself from all excess of love, he replied that this self-confidence was misplaced, as I had already fallen. He wanted me to promise never to be alone with you again, and on my refusing to do so he would not give me absolution. I have never had such a piece of shame cast on me, but I laid it all in the hands of God, and said, ‘Thy will be done.’ Whilst I heard mass my mind was made up, and as long as you love me I shall be yours, and yours only. When you leave Spain and abandon me to despair, I shall find another confessor. My conscience holds me guiltless; this is my comfort. My cousin, whom I have told all, is astonished, but then she is not very clever.", "pos": 5864083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But we can do good business together, and you cannot possibly be moneyless.", "pos": 5869172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know anything about good business, but I do know that I want my money and cannot part with it.", "pos": 5869250}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are at our wits’ end to quiet our landlord; come and speak to him.", "pos": 5869356}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I were to do so I should do you more harm than good. He would ask me if I would answer for you, and I should reply that you are one of those noblemen who stand in need of no surety. All the same, the landlord would think that if I did not stand your surety, it must be from my entertaining doubts as to your solvency.", "pos": 5869428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 5871277}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "I do not know exactly. For the last week I have refused to see the Baron Fraiture, as not being able to give him money, his presence only wearied me. He has written me a letter, in which he threatens to blow out his brains to-day if I will not lend him a hundred pistoles.", "pos": 5871307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He said the same thing to me three days ago; but I replied that I would bet two hundred pistoles that he would do nothing of the kind. This made him angry, and he proposed to fight a duel with me; but I declined on the plea that as he was a desperate man either he would have an advantage over me or I, over him. Give him the same answer, or, better still, no answer at all.", "pos": 5871582}
{"speaker": "Manucci", "text": "I cannot follow your advice. Here are the hundred pistoles. Take them to him and get a receipt.", "pos": 5871959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What can be the matter?", "pos": 5873272}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I cannot imagine, but I will have an explanation, or perish.", "pos": 5873316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may,", "pos": 5875529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "have me assassinated if you like, but I shall not leave Madrid till its suits me to do so.", "pos": 5875548}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come into my carriage,", "pos": 5876532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we will go and hear mass together.", "pos": 5876565}
{"speaker": "Varnier", "text": "The duke, replied that he would cease to know you as soon as he found out the badness of your character himself. Such are the ways of the great when they have abjured all virtue and honesty. Nevertheless, I advise you to keep silence about it, unless you would irritate Manucci still farther.", "pos": 5876736}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "What have you been doing to offend your ambassador?", "pos": 5879059}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord, I have done nothing to him directly, but by an inexcusable act of stupidity I have wounded his dear friend Manucci in his tenderest part. With the most innocent intentions I reposed my confidence in a cowardly fellow, who sold it to Manucci for a hundred pistoles. In his irritation, Manucci has stirred up the great man against me: ‘hinc illae lacrimae’.", "pos": 5879123}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "You have been unwise, but what is done is done. I am sorry for you, because there is an end to all your hopes of advancement. The first thing the king would do would be to make enquiries about you of the ambassador.", "pos": 5879490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel it to my sorrow, my lord, but must I leave Madrid?", "pos": 5879708}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "No. The ambassador did his best to make me send you way, but I told him that I had no power over you so long as you did not infringe the laws. He has calumniated a Venetian subject whom I am bound to protect. In that case, you can resort to the ordinary law, and punish him to the best of your ability. The ambassador finally begged me to order you not to mention the matter to any Venetian subjects at Madrid, and I think you can safely promise me this.", "pos": 5879768}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lord, I have much pleasure in giving your excellency my word of honour not to do so.", "pos": 5880254}
{"speaker": "Count of Aranda", "text": "Very good. Then you can stay at Madrid as long as you please; and, indeed, Mocenigo will be leaving in the course of a week.", "pos": 5880344}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There are only ruins there, senor.", "pos": 5885638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s just what I want to see.", "pos": 5885675}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall never get to Valentia to-night.", "pos": 5885709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here’s a crown; we shall get there to-morrow.", "pos": 5885752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Valga me Dios, es un hombre de buen!", "pos": 5885853}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So help me God, this is an honest man!", "pos": 5885892}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "This place, is always called Murviedro.", "pos": 5886778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is ridiculous to do so,", "pos": 5886839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "common sense forbids us calling a thing old which was once young enough. That’s as if you would tell me that New Castille is really new.", "pos": 5886879}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Well, Old Castille is more ancient than New Castille.", "pos": 5887018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No so. New Castille was only called so because it was the latest conquest; but as a matter of fact it is the older of the two.", "pos": 5887074}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Madam. I have come to offer you my services, and to tell you of the orders his grace has laid on me, of which you may possibly be ignorant.", "pos": 5891212}
{"speaker": "Donna Pelliccia", "text": "I hope, sir, that I am not putting you to any inconvenience, but I am extremely grateful to the duke and to yourself; and I shall have the honour of calling on you to give you my thanks.", "pos": 5891410}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Not at all; I have only to say that I have orders to furnish you with any sums you may require, to the amount of twenty-five thousand doubloons.", "pos": 5891614}
{"speaker": "Donna Pelliccia", "text": "Twenty-five thousand doubloons?", "pos": 5891761}
{"speaker": "Don Diego", "text": "Exactly, madam, two hundred and fifty thousand francs in French money, and no more. Kindly read his grace’s letter; you do not seem to be aware of its contents. You will furnish Donna Pelliccia with whatever sums she may require, not exceeding twenty-five thousand doubloons, at my account.", "pos": 5891795}
{"speaker": "Donna Pelliccia", "text": "at all events. I would rather die of hunger than take a single doubloon of Don Diego.", "pos": 5893721}
{"speaker": "violinist", "text": "The duke would be offended. I think you ought to take something.", "pos": 5893826}
{"speaker": "husband", "text": "You must take it all,", "pos": 5893913}
{"speaker": "Duke of Arcos", "text": "By sending her away, your majesty obliged me to turn fiction into fact, for I only knew her by speaking to her in various public places, and I had never made her the smallest present.", "pos": 5895580}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Then you never gave her twenty-five thousand doubloons?", "pos": 5895766}
{"speaker": "Duke of Arcos", "text": "Sire, I gave her double that sum, but only on the day before yesterday. Your majesty has absolute power, but if she had not received her dismissal I should never have gone to her house, nor should I have given her the smallest present.", "pos": 5895824}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is the famous Nina.", "pos": 5896651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How famous?", "pos": 5896677}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you do not know her story, it is too long to be told here.", "pos": 5896691}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From your accent I should suppose you were an Italian.", "pos": 5897218}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am a Venetian.", "pos": 5897275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So is she.", "pos": 5897294}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count,", "pos": 5897656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is madly in love with her, and allows her fifty doubloons a day.", "pos": 5897679}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should hope she does not spend them.", "pos": 5897746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She can’t do that, but she does not let a day pass without committing some expensive act of folly.", "pos": 5897787}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Excuse me, but this fool of a Spaniard wants to persuade me that this lace is really handsome.", "pos": 5898822}
{"speaker": "tradesman", "text": "Madam, if you do not like the lace, leave it; will you keep the stuffs?", "pos": 5899104}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Yes, and as for the lace, I will shew you that it is not the money that deters me.", "pos": 5899200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a pity!", "pos": 5899383}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "People will say that you have gone off your head.", "pos": 5899451}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Be silent, you pimping rogue! Go to Don Diego Valencia; he will pay you immediately. You needn’t be surprised at my way of treating him. He’s a rascal whom Ricla has placed in my house to spy out my actions, and I treat him as you have seen, so that he may have plenty of news to write to his master. My father, was the famous charlatan Pelandi; you may have known him at Venice.", "pos": 5899503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As for Molinari, after which I had seen, I could only set him down as an infamous wretch.", "pos": 5901409}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "That may be so, but now he is not here, and yet you do nothing. One would not think it, to look at you.", "pos": 5903928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, for I have my feelings like any other man, but he has disgusted me too much. Wait till tomorrow, and let me not see that monster so unworthy of enjoying you.", "pos": 5904034}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "He does not enjoy me. If I thought he did I would rather die than let him have to do with me, for I detest him.", "pos": 5904209}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! you do not love him, and yet you make use of him in the way you do?", "pos": 5904323}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Yes, just as I might use a mechanical instrument.", "pos": 5904399}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will have got over the effects of the wine.", "pos": 5904662}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "I tell you he will be ill. Come to-morrow, and come every evening.", "pos": 5904711}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going the day after to-morrow.", "pos": 5904780}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "You will not go for a week, and then we will go together.", "pos": 5904818}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s impossible.", "pos": 5904878}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "If you go you will insult me beyond bearing. I only use him to satisfy my desires, and because I am certain that he does not love me; if I thought he did I would rather die than allow him to do anything with me, for I detest him. Alas! we shall have to sup alone; Molinari has got the colic.", "pos": 5904899}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You said he would be ill; have you poisoned him?", "pos": 5905648}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "I am quite capable of doing so, but I hope I never shall.", "pos": 5905699}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But you have given him something?", "pos": 5905759}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Only what he likes himself; but we will talk of that again. Let us sup and play till to-morrow, and tomorrow evening we will begin again.", "pos": 5905795}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going away at seven o’clock to-morrow.", "pos": 5905935}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "No, no, you are not; and your coachman will have no cause for complaint, for he has been paid; here is the receipt.", "pos": 5905981}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What astonishes me, is that with this fine house you do not care to entertain company.", "pos": 5906292}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Everybody is afraid to come; they fear Ricla’s jealousy, for it is well known that that animal who is now suffering from the colic tells him everything I do. He swears that it is not so, but I know him to be a liar. Indeed, I am very glad he does write to Ricla, and only wish he had something of real importance to write about.", "pos": 5906391}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He will tell him that I have supped alone with you.", "pos": 5906722}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "All the better; are you afraid?", "pos": 5906776}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; but I think you ought to tell me if I have anything really to fear.", "pos": 5906810}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Nothing at all; it will fall on me.", "pos": 5906884}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But I should not like to involve you in a dispute which might be prejudicial to your interests.", "pos": 5906922}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Not at all; the more I provoke him, the better he loves me, and I will make him pay dearly when he asks me to make it up.", "pos": 5907020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you don’t love him?", "pos": 5907144}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "Yes, to ruin him; but he is so rich that there doesn’t seem much hope of my ever doing that.", "pos": 5907171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am astonished to hear it, for no one but myself can say what I can afford or not.", "pos": 5911179}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Sir, everything is paid for.", "pos": 5911265}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Paid for! I will not have it!", "pos": 5911296}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You can settle that with her, but I shall certainly take no payment.", "pos": 5911328}
{"speaker": "Viceroy", "text": "I hope you will enjoy yourself, but I must warn you that if you indulge in the pleasures which my nephew Peralada will doubtless offer you, you will not enjoy a very good reputation at Barcelona.", "pos": 5913719}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am glad to hear it, but I do not think you are wise in inviting me to your house at such late hours.", "pos": 5915823}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "I only do so to avoid scandal amongst my neighbours.", "pos": 5915928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In my opinion my coming so late is only likely to increase the probability of scandal, and to make your viceroy jealous.", "pos": 5915983}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "He will never hear of your coming.", "pos": 5916106}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you are mistaken.", "pos": 5916143}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Speak, sir. I will take whatever you say in good part.", "pos": 5916842}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Very good. You are a stranger, sir, and may not be acquainted with our Spanish manners, consequently you are unaware of the great risk you run in going to see Nina every evening after the count has left her.", "pos": 5916912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What risk do I run? I have no doubt that the count knows all about it and does not object.", "pos": 5917122}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "I have no doubt as to his knowing it, and he may possibly pretend to know nothing before her, as he fears as well as loves her; but if she tells you that he does not object, she either deceives herself or you. He cannot love her without being jealous, and a jealous Spaniard . . . Follow my advice, sir, and forgive my freedom.", "pos": 5917215}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sincerely obliged to you for your kind interest in me, but I cannot follow your advice, as by doing so I should be wanting in politeness to Nina, who likes to see me and gives me a warm welcome. I shall continue to visit her till she orders me not to do so, or till the count signifies to me his displeasure at my visits to his mistress.", "pos": 5917546}
{"speaker": "The worthy officer", "text": "The count will never do such a thing; he is too careful of his dignity.", "pos": 5917890}
{"speaker": "Nina", "text": "He’s a painter.", "pos": 5919338}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am well acquainted with his history, and will tell you all about it presently; but send him away, or I shall go.", "pos": 5919356}
{"speaker": "Genoese", "text": "Se ne pentira. He shall be sorry for it.", "pos": 5919668}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am going to bed, and I leave my great coat and the sword in your charge. Tomorrow morning I shall ask you to come with me before the magistrate to denounce this act of assassination, for if the man was killed it must be shewn that I only slew him to save my own life.", "pos": 5920894}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I think your best plan would be to fly Barcelona immediately.", "pos": 5921192}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you think I have not told you the strict truth?", "pos": 5921256}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I am sure you have; but I know whence the blow comes, and God knows what will befall you!", "pos": 5921311}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing at all; but if I fly I shall be accounted guilty. Take care of the sword; they tried to assassinate me, but I think the assassins got the worst of it. I have no intention of resisting. By whose authority do you ask me for my papers?", "pos": 5921403}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "By the authority of the governor. They will be returned to you if nothing suspicious is found amongst them.", "pos": 5922081}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are you going to take me?", "pos": 5922191}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "To the citadel.", "pos": 5922225}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "These are all the papers I have,", "pos": 5922406}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "I advise you, sir, to put all necessary articles into a portmanteau.", "pos": 5922496}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Only my passports.", "pos": 5922681}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "That’s exactly what we want,", "pos": 5922702}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My passports are sacred; I will never give them to anyone but the governor-general. Reverence your king; here is his passport, here is that of the Count of Aranda, and here the passport of the Venetian ambassador. You will have to bind me hand and foot before you get them.", "pos": 5922765}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Be more moderate, sir. In giving them to me it is just as if you gave them to the viceroy. If you resist I will not bind you hand and foot, but I shall take you before the viceroy, and then you will be forced to give them up in public. Give them to me with a good grace, and you shall have an acknowledgement.", "pos": 5923041}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What can this imprisonment have to do with my last night’s adventure? They are bent on examining my papers; they must think I have been tampering in some political or religious intrigue; but my mind is quite at ease on that score. I am well lodged at present, and no doubt shall be set free after my papers have been examined; they can find nothing against me there. The affair of my attempted assassination will, no doubt, be considered separately. Even if the rascal is dead, I do not see what they can do to me. On the other hand, my landlord’s advice to fly from Barcelona looks ominous; what if the assassins received their orders from some person high in authority? It is possible that Ricla may have vowed my ruin, but it does not seem probable to me. Would it have been wise to follow the landlord’s advice? Possibly, but I do not think so; my honour would have suffered, and I might have been caught and laid up in some horrid dungeon, whereas for a prison I am comfortable enough here. In three or four days the examination of my papers will have been completed, and as there is nothing in them likely to be offensive to the powers that be, they will be returned to me with my liberty, which will taste all the sweeter for this short deprivation. As for my passports they all speak in my favour. I cannot think that the all-powerful hand of the viceroy could have directed the assassin’s sword; it would be a dishonour to him, and if it were so, he would not be treating me so kindly now. If it were his doing, he must have heard directly that the blow had failed, and in that case I do not think he would have arrested me this morning. Shall I write to Nina? Will writing be allowed here? Alas! here is fresh food for conjecture. The fellow told Nina’s sister that I should be sorry for what I had done. He must have directed some fearful calumny against me, and they are imprisoning him so as to be sure of his evidence.", "pos": 5924390}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that, sir?", "pos": 5927545}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "I have received orders to transfer you to the bottom of the tower.", "pos": 5927566}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To transfer me?", "pos": 5927635}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 5927653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then they must have discovered in me a criminal of the deepest dye! Let us go at once. How about lights?", "pos": 5927660}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "You may lave one lamp always burning, and that will be enough, as books are not allowed. When your dinner is brought, the officer on duty will open the pies and the poultry to see that they do not contain any documents; for here no letters are allowed to come in or go out.", "pos": 5928045}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have these orders been given for my especial benefit?", "pos": 5928321}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "No, sir; it is the ordinary rule. You will be able to converse with the sentinel.", "pos": 5928377}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The door will be open, then?", "pos": 5928461}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 5928492}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How about the cleanliness of my cell?", "pos": 5928506}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "A soldier will accompany the officer in charge of your dinner, and he will attend to your wants for a trifle.", "pos": 5928546}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "May I amuse myself by making architectural plans with the pencil?", "pos": 5928658}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "As much as you like.", "pos": 5928726}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then will you be good enough to order some paper to be bought for me?", "pos": 5928749}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "With pleasure.", "pos": 5928821}
{"speaker": "Tadini", "text": "I have spoken to the lady, and I have mentioned your name as a person who will answer for me.", "pos": 5930978}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have done wrong; in such a matter I would not stand surety for the most learned of men, and I know nothing about your learning.", "pos": 5931089}
{"speaker": "Tadini", "text": "But you know I am an oculist.", "pos": 5931223}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know you were introduced to me as such, but that’s all. As a professional man, you should not need anyone’s commendation, you should be able to say, ‘Operibus credite’. That should be your motto.", "pos": 5931255}
{"speaker": "The old professor", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 5932879}
{"speaker": "Tadini", "text": "A substance which I can place in the cornea to supply the loss of the crystalline matter.", "pos": 5932918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As you want to hear it, here it is. There’s a great difference between a tooth and the crystalline humour; and though you may have succeeded in putting an artificial tooth into a gum, this treatment will not do with the eye.", "pos": 5933398}
{"speaker": "Tadini", "text": "Sir, I am not a dentist.", "pos": 5933637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, nor an oculist either.", "pos": 5933664}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What have you done with your crystals?", "pos": 5935764}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "I have renounced them since I left Warsaw, though I am sure they would succeed.", "pos": 5935805}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where are we going?", "pos": 5936038}
{"speaker": "Officer of the guard", "text": "I am about to deliver you to an officer of the viceroy, who is waiting.", "pos": 5936060}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I knew that all along.", "pos": 5936545}
{"speaker": "Government official", "text": "I suppose so, but we had reasons for doubting their authenticity.", "pos": 5936570}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "They must have been strange reasons, for, as you now confess, these reasons were devoid of reason.", "pos": 5936638}
{"speaker": "Government official", "text": "You must be aware that I cannot reply to such an objection.", "pos": 5936739}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t ask you to do so.", "pos": 5936801}
{"speaker": "Government official", "text": "Your character is perfectly clear; all the same I must request you to leave Barcelona in three days, and Catalonia in a week.", "pos": 5936829}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course I will obey; but it strikes me that the Catalonian method of repairing injustice is somewhat peculiar.", "pos": 5936957}
{"speaker": "Government official", "text": "If you think you have ground for complaint you are at liberty to go to Madrid and complain to the Court.", "pos": 5937072}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have certainly grounds enough for complaint, sir, but I shall go to France, and not to Madrid; I have had enough of Spanish justice. Will you please give me the order to leave in writing?", "pos": 5937179}
{"speaker": "Emmanuel Badillo", "text": "That’s unnecessary; you may take it for granted. My name is Emmanuel Badillo; I am a secretary of state. That gentleman will escort you back to the room where you were arrested. You will find everything just as you have left it. You are a free man. To-morrow I will send you your passport, signed by the viceroy and myself. Good day, sir.", "pos": 5937371}
{"speaker": "Officer", "text": "I should like to hear you say that I had done nothing but my duty, and that personally I have not done you any injury. Farewell, sir. I hope you will have a pleasant journey.", "pos": 5938294}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You do not owe me anything, sir. Here is your bill for the period preceding your imprisonment, and, as you see, it has been settled. I also received orders from the same source to provide for you during your imprisonment, and as long as you stayed at Barcelona.", "pos": 5939262}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Did you know how long I should remain in prison?", "pos": 5939526}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "No, I was paid by the week.", "pos": 5939577}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who paid you?", "pos": 5939607}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You know very well.", "pos": 5939623}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you had any note for me?", "pos": 5939645}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Nothing at all.", "pos": 5939677}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What has become of the valet de place?", "pos": 5939695}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I paid him, and sent him away immediately after your arrest.", "pos": 5939736}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to have him with me as far as Perpignan.", "pos": 5939799}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You are right, and I think the best thing you can do is to leave Spain altogether, for you will find no justice in it.", "pos": 5939856}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What do they say about my assassination?", "pos": 5939977}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Why, they say you fired the shot that people heard yourself, and that you made your own sword bloody, for no one was found there, either dead or wounded.", "pos": 5940020}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That’s an amusing theory. Where did my hat come from?", "pos": 5940176}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "It was brought to me three days after.", "pos": 5940232}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What a confusion! But was it known that I was imprisoned in the tower?", "pos": 5940273}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Everybody knew it, and two good reasons were given, the one in public, and the other in private.", "pos": 5940346}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are these reasons?", "pos": 5940445}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "The public reason was that you had forged your passports; the private one, which was only whispered at the ear, was that you spent all your nights with Nina.", "pos": 5940471}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You might have sworn that I never slept out of your inn.", "pos": 5940631}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "I told everyone as much, but no matter; you did go to her house, and for a certain nobleman that’s a crime. I am glad you did not fly as I advised you, for as it is your character is cleared before everybody.", "pos": 5940690}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should like to go to the opera this evening; take me a box.", "pos": 5940901}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "It shall be done; but do not have anything more to do with Nina, I entreat you.", "pos": 5940965}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, my good friend, I have made up my mind to see her no more.", "pos": 5941047}
{"speaker": "M. Augustin Grimaldi", "text": "Passano has been vainly endeavouring to persuade me to send these bills to Barcelona, so that they may be protested, and you arrested. I now send them to you to convince you that I am not one of those who delight in trampling down the victims of bad fortune.", "pos": 5941348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "--Genoa, November 30th, 1768.", "pos": 5941608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Amor che fa gentile un cor villano", "pos": 5943319}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Amor che fa villan un cor gentile", "pos": 5943427}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, I may be, but what makes you ask that question?", "pos": 5947126}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "As you were leaving Barcelona yesterday, I noticed three ill-looking fellows watching us, armed to the teeth. Last night they slept in the stable with my mules. They dined here to-day, and they went on three quarters of an hour ago. They don’t speak to anyone, and I don’t like the looks of them.", "pos": 5947192}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What shall we do to avoid assassination, or the dread of it?", "pos": 5947491}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "We must start late, and stop at an inn I know of, a league this side of the ordinary stage where they will be awaiting us. If they turn back, and sleep at the same inn as ourselves, we shall be certain.", "pos": 5947554}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you have been drinking with them?", "pos": 5948529}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "Yes, and after we had dispatched a bottle at my expense, one of them asked me why I had not gone on to the end of the stage, where you would be better lodged. I replied that it was late, and you were cold. I might have asked in my turn, why they had not stayed at the stage themselves, and where they were going, but I took care to do nothing of the kind. All I asked was whether the road to Perpignan was a good one, and they told me it was excellent all the way.", "pos": 5948570}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What are they doing now?", "pos": 5949037}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "They are sleeping by my mules, covered with their cloaks.", "pos": 5949064}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What shall we do?", "pos": 5949124}
{"speaker": "Driver", "text": "We will start at day-break after them, of course, and we shall dine at the usual stage; but after dinner, trust me, we will take a different road, and at midnight we shall be in France safe and sound.", "pos": 5949144}
{"speaker": "Madame Castelbajac", "text": "I have no doubt that my husband will finally introduce you to me as his wife.", "pos": 5954568}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I remember her well enough--a delightful and most respectable young woman; but I did not know she came from Montpellier. She was very pretty and very sensible, and I expect she did a good business. I have seen her in several European cities, and the last time at Vienna, where I was able to be of some slight service to her. Her admirable behaviour won her the esteem of all the ladies with whom she came in contact. In England I met her at the house of a duchess.", "pos": 5954783}
{"speaker": "Apothecary", "text": "Do you think you would recognize her if you saw her again?", "pos": 5955255}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "By Jove! I should think so! But is she at Montpellier? If so, tell her that the Chevalier de Seingalt is here.", "pos": 5955316}
{"speaker": "Apothecary", "text": "Sir, you shall speak to her yourself, if you will do me the honour to follow me. There she is.", "pos": 5955429}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, mademoiselle! You here? I am delighted to see you.", "pos": 5955685}
{"speaker": "Apothecary", "text": "This is not a young lady, sir, ‘tis my dear wife; but I hope that will not hinder you from embracing her.", "pos": 5955744}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have never had such an honour; but I will avail myself of your permission with pleasure. Then you have got married at Montpellier. I congratulate both of you, and wish you all health and happiness. Tell me, did you have a pleasant journey from Vienna to Lyons?", "pos": 5955852}
{"speaker": "Madame Blasin", "text": "Oh, I hope you won’t go, you must do my husband the honour of dining with us.", "pos": 5956743}
{"speaker": "Chief servant", "text": "My lord, I do my best, but it is really impossible to spend more, unless I compel the inn-keepers to take double the amount of their bills; and your eminence will admit that nothing in the way of rich and expensive dishes has been spared.", "pos": 5959302}
{"speaker": "Spanish cardinal", "text": "That may be, but you ought to use your wits a little; you might for example order meals when we shall not require any. Take care that there are always three tables--one for us, one for my officers, and the third for the servants. Why I see that you only give the postillions a franc over the legal charge, I really blush for you; you must give them a crown extra at least. When they give you change for a louis, leave it on the table; to put back one’s change in one’s pocket is an action only worthy of a beggar. They will be saying at Versailles and Madrid, and maybe at Rome itself, that the Cardinal de la Cerda is a miser. I am no such thing, and I do not want to be thought one. You must really cease to dishonour me, or leave my service.", "pos": 5959543}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Una crostata, but I really do not know the Italian for the ‘beatilles’ with which it is stuffed.", "pos": 5965313}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "in calling them ‘beatilles’ I was making a mock of the glories of hereafter.", "pos": 5965533}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe it will be Ganganelli, as he is the only monk in the conclave.", "pos": 5966015}
{"speaker": "Marquis d’Eguille", "text": "Why should it be necessary to choose a monk?", "pos": 5966103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because none but a monk would dare to commit the excess which the Spaniards will demand of the new pope.", "pos": 5966150}
{"speaker": "Marquis d’Eguille", "text": "You mean the suppression of the Jesuits.", "pos": 5966257}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 5966300}
{"speaker": "Marquis d’Eguille", "text": "They will never obtain such a demand.", "pos": 5966311}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope not, for the Jesuits were my masters, and I love them accordingly. But all the same Ganganelli will be elected, for an amusing and yet a weighty reason.", "pos": 5966351}
{"speaker": "Marquis d’Eguille", "text": "Tell us the reason.", "pos": 5966513}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He is the only cardinal who does not wear a wig; and you must consider that since the foundation of the Holy See the Pope has never been bewigged.", "pos": 5966535}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "The Pope could never suppress the order,", "pos": 5966897}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It seems that you have never been at a Jesuit seminary, for the dogma of the order is that the Pope can do everything, ‘et aliquid pluris’.", "pos": 5966949}
{"speaker": "Narrator's brother", "text": "The person who gave me the news, was one of your best friends, Count Manucci, an attache at the Venetian embassy. He said there could be no doubt as to the truth of the report.", "pos": 5971252}
{"speaker": "Serafina Feliciani", "text": "We are going back to Rome, well pleased with our devotions to St. James of Compostella and to Our Lady del Pilar. We have walked the whole way on foot, living on alms, so as to more surely win the mercy of the God whom I have offended so grievously. We have had silver, and even gold money given us, and in every town we came to we gave what remained to the poor, so as not to offend God by lack of faith. My husband is strong, and has not suffered much, but I have found so much walking very fatiguing. We have slept on straw or bad beds, always with our clothes on, to avoid contracting diseases it would be hard to rid one’s self of.", "pos": 5973918}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think of making any stay?", "pos": 5974733}
{"speaker": "Serafina Feliciani", "text": "My weariness will oblige us to stay here for three days; then we shall go to Rome by the way of Turin, where we shall pay our devotion to the Holy Sudary.", "pos": 5974768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You know, of course, that there are several of them in Europe.", "pos": 5974925}
{"speaker": "Serafina Feliciani", "text": "So we have heard, but we are assured that the Sudary of Turin is the true one. It is the kerchief with which St. Veronica wiped the face of Our Lord, who left the imprint of His divine face upon it.", "pos": 5974990}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you. If you are not a rich man, you are, at least, certain of earning a living with this talent.", "pos": 5975972}
{"speaker": "Balsamo", "text": "Everybody says the same, but it is a mistake. I have pursued this craft at Rome and at Naples, and found I had to work all day to make half a tester, and that’s not enough to live on.", "pos": 5976086}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Impossible! You are a man of talents, for it is much harder to imitate a handwriting than an engraving. You ought to make this talent serve you in good stead; but be careful, or it may cost you your life.", "pos": 5977823}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 5979963}
{"speaker": "Marquis d’Argens", "text": "Because I was foolish enough to write the truth. Never give way to this temptation, if it assails you. If you once begin on this plan you are not only compelled to record all your vices and follies, but to treat them in the severe tone of a philosophical historian. You must not, of course, omit the good you may have done; and so praise and blame is mingled on every page. All the evil you say of yourself will be held for gospel, your peccadilloes will be made into crimes, and your good deeds will not only be received with incredulity, but you will be taxed with pride and vanity for having recorded them. Besides, if you write your memoirs, you make an enemy in every chapter if you once begin to tell the truth. A man should neither talk of himself nor write of himself, unless it be to refute some calumny or libel.", "pos": 5979982}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then she is not here.", "pos": 5984575}
{"speaker": "Man at the door", "text": "No, sir; she is at Aix.", "pos": 5984599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Since when?", "pos": 5984625}
{"speaker": "Man at the door", "text": "For the last six months.", "pos": 5984639}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where does she live?", "pos": 5984666}
{"speaker": "Man at the door", "text": "In her town house. She will be coming here in three weeks to spend the summer as usual.", "pos": 5984689}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you let me write a letter?", "pos": 5984779}
{"speaker": "Man at the door", "text": "If you will get down you will find all the necessary materials in madam’s room.", "pos": 5984813}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You live here, then.", "pos": 5984986}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 5985009}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Since when?", "pos": 5985021}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "For the last ten years.", "pos": 5985035}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did you come to nurse me?", "pos": 5985061}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "If you will step upstairs I will tell you. Madam sent for me in haste, and told me to go and attend to you as if it were herself. She told me to say that the doctor had sent me if you asked any questions.", "pos": 5985093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "The doctor said he didn’t know you.", "pos": 5985328}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Perhaps he was speaking the truth, but most likely he had received orders from madam. That’s all I know, but I wonder you haven’t seen her at Aix.", "pos": 5985366}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She cannot see any company, for I have been everywhere.", "pos": 5985515}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "She does not see any company at her own house, but she goes everywhere.", "pos": 5985573}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s very strange. I must have seen her, and yet I do not think I could have passed her by unrecognized. You have been with her ten years?", "pos": 5985646}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Yes, sir, as I had the honour of informing you.", "pos": 5985787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has she changed? Has she had any sickness? Has she aged?", "pos": 5985837}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Not at all. She has become rather stout, but I assure you you would take her for a woman of thirty.", "pos": 5985896}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I must be blind, or I cannot have seen her. I am going to write to her now. Ought I to return to Aix immediately?", "pos": 5985998}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is your sister doing? Is she still at Barcelona?", "pos": 5987244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but she will not be there long, for the bishop will not have her in the town or the diocese, and the bishop is stronger than the viceroy. She only returned to Barcelona on the plea that she wished to pass through Catalonia of her way home, but she does not need to stay there for nine or ten months on that account. She will have to leave in a month for certain, but she is not much put out, as the viceroy is sure to keep her wherever she goes, and she may eventually succeed in ruining him. In the meanwhile she is revelling in the bad repute she has gained for her lover.", "pos": 5987300}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know something of her peculiarities; but she cannot dislike a man who has made her rich.", "pos": 5987882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Rich! She has only got her diamonds. Do you imagine this monster capable of any feelings of gratitude? She is not a human being, and no one knows her as I do. She has made the count commit a hundred acts of injustice so that all Spain may talk of her, and know that she has made herself mistress of his body and soul, and all he has. The worse his actions are, the more certain she feels that people will talk of her, and that is all she wants. Her obligations to me are beyond counting, for she owes me all, even to her existence, and instead of continuing my husband in her service she has sent him about his business.", "pos": 5987975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I wonder how she came to treat me so generously.", "pos": 5988598}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you knew all, you would not feel grateful to her.", "pos": 5988654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me all, then.", "pos": 5988709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She only paid for your keep at the inn and in prison to make people believe you were her lover, and to shame the count. All Barcelona knows that you were assassinated at her door, and that you were fortunate enough to run the fellow through.", "pos": 5988730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she cannot have been the instigator of, or even the accomplice in, the plot for my assassination. That’s against nature.", "pos": 5988974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dare say, but everything in Nina is against nature. What I tell you is the bare truth, for I was a witness of it all. Whenever the viceroy visited her she wearied him with praise of your gallantry, your wit, your noble actions, comparing you with the Spaniards, greatly to their disadvantage.", "pos": 5989101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count got impatient and told her to talk of something else, but she would not; and at last he went away, cursing your name. Two days before you came to grief he left her, saying,--", "pos": 5989397}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Valga me Dios! I will give you a pleasure you do not expect.", "pos": 5989584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I assure you that when we heard the pistol-shot after you had gone, she remarked, without evincing the slightest emotion, that the shot was the pleasure her rascally Spaniard had promised her.", "pos": 5989647}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I said that you might be killed.", "pos": 5989841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the worse for the count,", "pos": 5989876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for his turn will come also.", "pos": 5989920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My man--I did not know that he was in correspondence with her.", "pos": 5990245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I suppose not; but I assure you the worthy man was very much attached to you.", "pos": 5990310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure he was. Go on.", "pos": 5990394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nina then wrote a note to your landlord. She did not shew it me, but it no doubt contained instructions to supply you with everything.", "pos": 5990421}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The man told us that he had seen your sword all red with blood, and that your cloak had a bullet hole through it. She was delighted, but do not think it was because she loved you; she was glad you had escaped that you might take your revenge. However, she was troubled by the pretext on which the count had had you arrested.", "pos": 5990557}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ricla did not come to see her that day, but he came the next day at eight o’clock, and the infamous creature received him with a smiling face. She told him she had heard he had imprisoned you, and that she was obliged to him, as he had, of course, done so to protect you from any fresh attempts on your life.", "pos": 5990883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He answered, dryly, that your arrest had nothing to do with anything that might have happened the night before. He added that you had only been seized pending the examination of your papers, and that if they were found to be in good form, you would be set at liberty in the course of a few days.", "pos": 5991193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nina asked him who was the man that you had wounded. He replied that the police were enquiring into the matter, but that so far they had neither found a dead man nor a wounded man, nor any traces of blood. All that had been found was Casanova’s hat, and this had been returned to him.", "pos": 5991490}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I left them alone together till midnight, so I cannot say what further converse they may have had on the subject, but three or four days later everybody knew that you were imprisoned in the tower.", "pos": 5991776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nina asked the count the reason of this severity in the evening, and he replied that your passports were thought to be forgeries, because you were in disgrace with the State Inquisitors, and therefore would not be in a position to get a passport from the Venetian ambassador. On this supposition he said you had been placed in the tower, and if it proved to be a true one, you would be still more severely punished.", "pos": 5991974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This news disturbed us, and when we heard that Pogomas had been arrested we felt certain he had denounced you in revenge for your having procured his dismissal from Nina’s house. When we heard that he had been let out and sent to Genoa, we expected to hear of your being set at liberty, as the authorities must have been satisfied of the genuine character of your passports; but you were still shut up, and Nina did not know what to think, and the count would not answer her when she made enquiries about you. She had made up her mind to say no more about it, when at last we heard you had been set free and that your passports had been declared genuine.", "pos": 5992391}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nina thought to see you in the pit of the opera-house, and made preparations for a triumph in her box; but she was in despair when she heard no performance was to be given. In the evening the count told her that your passports had been returned with the order to leave in three days. The false creature praised her lover’s prudence to his face, but she cursed him in her heart.", "pos": 5993047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She knew you would not dare to see her, and when you left without writing her a note, she said you had received secret orders not to hold any further communications with her. She was furious with the viceroy.", "pos": 5993426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If Casanova had had the courage to ask me to go with him, I would have gone,", "pos": 5993637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your man told her of your fortunate escape from three assassins. In the evening she congratulated Ricla on the circumstance, but he swore he knew nothing about it. Nina did not believe him. You may thank God from the bottom of your heart that you ever left Spain alive after knowing Nina. She would have cost you your life at last, and she punishes me for having given her life.", "pos": 5993726}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! Are you her mother?", "pos": 5994107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; Nina, that horrible woman, is my daughter.", "pos": 5994135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Really? Everybody says you are her sister.", "pos": 5994185}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is the horrible part of it, everybody is right.", "pos": 5994230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Explain yourself!", "pos": 5994285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, though it is to my shame. She is my sister and my daughter, for she is the daughter of my father.", "pos": 5994305}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! your father loved you?", "pos": 5994410}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know whether the scoundrel loved me, but he treated me as his wife. I was sixteen then. She is the daughter of the crime, and God knows she is sufficient punishment for it. My father died to escape her vengeance; may he also escape the vengeance of God. I should have strangled her in her cradle, but maybe I shall strangle her yet. If I do not, she will kill me.", "pos": 5994441}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does Nina know that you are her mother?", "pos": 5994909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Her own father told her the secret when she was twelve, after he had initiated her into the life she has been living ever since. He would have made her a mother in her turn if he had not killed himself the same year, maybe to escape the gallows.", "pos": 5994951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How did the Conte de Ricla fall in love with her?", "pos": 5995199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a short story and a curious one. Two years ago she came to Barcelona from Portugal, and was placed in one of the ballets for the sake of her pretty face, for as to talents she had none, and could only do the rebaltade (a sort of skip and pirouette) properly.", "pos": 5995251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The first evening she danced she was loudly applauded by the pit, for as she did the rebaltade she shewed her drawers up to her waist. In Spain any actress who shews her drawers on the stage is liable to a fine of a crown. Nina knew nothing about this, and, hearing the applause, treated the audience to another skip of the same kind, but at the end of the ballet she was told to pay two crowns for her immodesty. Nina cursed and swore, but she had to give in. What do you think she did to elude the law, and at the same time avenge herself?", "pos": 5995517}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Danced badly, perhaps.", "pos": 5996061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She danced without any drawers at all, and did her rebaltade as before, which caused such an effervescence of high spirits in the house as had never been known at Barcelona.", "pos": 5996086}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the mean time,", "pos": 5996441}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "bring her before me.", "pos": 5996470}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are an immodest woman, and have failed in your duty to the public.", "pos": 5996593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What have I done?", "pos": 5996667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You performed the same skip as before.", "pos": 5996688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but I haven’t broken your law, for no one can have seen my drawers as I took the precaution not to put any on. What more can I do for your cursed law, which has cost me two crowns already? Just tell me.", "pos": 5996730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will dance no more before you or your people. Let me go away, or kill me if you like; do your worst on me, and you shall find that I am a Venetian and a free woman!", "pos": 5998622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell his highness,", "pos": 5999435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that I will come, and that he will find me as gentle as a lamb and as good as an angel.", "pos": 5999478}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "My Dear Old Friend,--Nothing could be more romantic than our meeting at my country house six years ago, and now again, after a parting of so many years. Naturally we have both grown older, and though I love you still I am glad you did not recognize me. Not that I have become ugly, but I am stout, and this gives me another look. I am a widow, and well enough off to tell you that if you lack money you will find some ready for you in Henriette’s purse. Do not come back to Aix to see me, as your return might give rise to gossip; but if you chance to come here again after some time, we may meet, though not as old acquaintances. I am happy to think that I have perhaps prolonged your days by giving you a nurse for whose trustworthiness I would answer. If you would like to correspond with me I should be happy to do my part. I am very curious to know what happened to you after your flight from The Leads, and after the proofs you have given me of your discretion I think I shall be able to tell you how we came to meet at Cesena, and how I returned to my country. The first part is a secret for everyone; only M. d’Antoine is acquainted with a portion of the story. I am grateful for the reticence you have observed, though Marcoline must have delivered the message I gave her. Tell me what has become of that beautiful girl. Farewell!", "pos": 6000007}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I thank you, signor, and I am sure that you are telling me the truth, as I am in Switzerland.", "pos": 6005914}
{"speaker": "Signor Bargello", "text": "I must take the liberty of telling you, sir, that it is customary for strangers who take up their residence in Lugano, to pay some trifling sum, either by the week, the month, or the year.", "pos": 6006023}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And if they refuse to pay?", "pos": 6006214}
{"speaker": "Signor Bargello", "text": "Then their safety is not so sure.", "pos": 6006243}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Money does everything in Lugano, I suppose.", "pos": 6006279}
{"speaker": "Signor Bargello", "text": "But, sir----", "pos": 6006325}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I understand, but let me tell you that I have no fears, and I shall consequently beg to be excused from paying anything.", "pos": 6006341}
{"speaker": "Signor Bargello", "text": "You will forgive me, but I happen to know that you have some disputes with the Venetian Government.", "pos": 6006464}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are making a mistake, my good fellow.", "pos": 6006566}
{"speaker": "Signor Bargello", "text": "No, I am not.", "pos": 6006610}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If you are so sure, find someone to bet me two hundred sequins that I have reason to fear the Venetian Government; I will take the bet and deposit the amount.", "pos": 6006626}
{"speaker": "My landlord", "text": "He’s a very nice Swiss gentleman, and his wife a clever woman, and as fair as the day.", "pos": 6007080}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will go and see him to-morrow.", "pos": 6007180}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Don’t let him go! send for the bargello and have him away to prison. You will hear that at M. de R----’s, where I shall await you.", "pos": 6014624}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What fate is that? I have seen a good deal of misfortune since I left you.", "pos": 6015614}
{"speaker": "Madame Bellucci", "text": "I mean the presidio.", "pos": 6015702}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But that has never been my lot, thank God! Who told you such a story?", "pos": 6015725}
{"speaker": "Madame Bellucci", "text": "A Count Marazzani, who was here three weeks ago, and told me he had been luckier than you, as he had made his escape.", "pos": 6015797}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He’s a liar and a scoundrel; and if ever I meet him again he shall pay me dearly.", "pos": 6015917}
{"speaker": "M. de R.", "text": "You can make the document more effective, by placing your actual grievance in a strong light, and laying stress on his sudden appearance in your room without sending in his name. That’s what you had better do, and it remains to be seen how I shall answer your plea. I shall ask him for his passport and delay the case, and order him to be severely treated; but in the end I shall only be able to drive him out of the town, unless he can find good bail.", "pos": 6016725}
{"speaker": "M. de R----", "text": "And furthermore. M. Casanova’s suspicion that you were going to assassinate him is justified by your giving a false name, for the plaintiff maintains that you are not Count Marazzani at all. He offers to furnish surety on this behalf, and if M. Casanova does you wrong, his bail will escheat to you as damages. In the mean time you will remain in prison till we have further information about your real status.", "pos": 6017731}
{"speaker": "Acton", "text": "Do you want a thousand guineas? You can have them if you like, on the condition that your wife travels with me for three years without our having the pleasure of your society.", "pos": 6023339}
{"speaker": "Dubois-Chateleraux", "text": "He will be setting sail before long. I have advices from Leghorn to that effect.", "pos": 6027133}
{"speaker": "M. Rivarola", "text": "That's just what I mean to find out before embarking my effects.", "pos": 6030043}
{"speaker": "English consul", "text": "You won’t be able to speak to him till to-morrow.", "pos": 6030110}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 6030391}
{"speaker": "Da Loglio", "text": "What are you doing here, my dear Casanova?", "pos": 6030517}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am waiting for an interview with the admiral.", "pos": 6030571}
{"speaker": "Da Loglio", "text": "He is very busy.", "pos": 6030621}
{"speaker": "Orloff", "text": "After dinner, if you please. Eat away, gentlemen, eat away; Quite so; but kindly tell me, count, what is to be my status or employment on board your ship? At present I have no special employ to give you; that will come in time. Come on board as my friend. The offer is an honourable one so far as you are concerned, but all the other officers might treat me with contempt. I should be regarded as a kind of fool, and I should probably kill the first man who dared to insult me. Give me a distinct office, and let me wear your uniform; I will be useful to you. I know the country for which you are bound, I can speak the language, and I am not wanting in courage. My dear sir, I really have no particular office to give you. Then, count, I wish you a pleasant sail; I am going to Rome. I hope you may never repent of not taking me, for without me you will never pass the Dardanelles. Is that a prophecy? It’s an oracle. We will test its veracity, my dear Calchus.", "pos": 6031601}
{"speaker": "Marchioness Chigi", "text": "her dear abbé,", "pos": 6036403}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Sit down. So you are going to stay a week, I see, from the dear abbé’s letter. That’s a short time for us, but perhaps it may be too long for you. I hope the abbé has not painted us in too rosy colours.", "pos": 6036768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He only told me that I was to spend a week here, and that I should find with you all the charms of intellect and sensibility.", "pos": 6036986}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Stratico should have condemned you to a month without mercy.", "pos": 6037114}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why mercy? What hazard do I run?", "pos": 6037177}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Of being tired to death, or of leaving some small morsel of your heart at Sienna.", "pos": 6037212}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All that might happen in a week, but I am ready to dare the danger, for Stratico has guarded me from the first by counting on you, and from the second by counting on myself. You will receive my pure and intelligent homage. My heart will go forth from Sienna as free as it came, for I have no hope of victory, and defeat would make me wretched.", "pos": 6037296}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Is it possible that you are amongst the despairing?", "pos": 6037642}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, and to that fact I owe my happiness.", "pos": 6037696}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "It would be a pity for you if you found yourself mistaken.", "pos": 6037740}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not such a pity as you may think, Madam. ‘Carpe diem’ is my motto. ‘Tis likewise the motto of that finished voluptuary, Horace, but I only take it because it suits me. The pleasure which follows desires is the best, for it is the most acute.", "pos": 6037801}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "True, but it cannot be calculated on, and defies the philosopher. May God preserve you, madam, from finding out this painful truth by experience! The highest good lies in enjoyment; desire too often remains unsatisfied. If you have not yet found out the truth of Horace’s maxim, I congratulate you.", "pos": 6038044}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I had rather contradict you, than renounce all hopes of pleasing you. The abbé has thrown the apple of discord between us, but if we continue as we have begun I shall take up my abode at Sienna. Pray do not take the trouble. I want to leave Sienna with the feeling that you are the only lady to whom I have done homage, and that the Abbé Chiaccheri has been my only guide.", "pos": 6038638}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t understand that, 'sublata lucerna', you know.", "pos": 6042594}
{"speaker": "Abbé Chiaccheri", "text": "Not at all. I love her for her face, since it is inseparable from my idea of her.", "pos": 6042660}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Stratico admires Fortuna, and I confess that her writings have great merit, but it’s a pity one cannot go to the house, except under an incognito.", "pos": 6044146}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 6044319}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "What! you did not tell him whose house it is?", "pos": 6044361}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "I did not think it necessary, her father and mother rarely shew themselves.", "pos": 6044433}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Well, it’s of no consequence.", "pos": 6044511}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But what is her father? the hangman, perhaps?", "pos": 6044543}
{"speaker": "The Marchioness", "text": "Worse, he’s the ‘bargello’, and you must see that a stranger cannot be received into good society here if he goes to such places as that. I saw her sister once, she is really charmingly pretty, and it’s a great pity that with her beauty and irreproachable morality she should be condemned to marry a man of her father’s class.", "pos": 6044602}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I once knew a man named Coltellini, he is the son of the bargello of Florence, and is poet-in-ordinary to the Empress of Russia. I shall try to make a match between him and Fortuna’s sister; he is a young man of the greatest talents.", "pos": 6045082}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t want anyone.", "pos": 6046502}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "You are wrong, for she is very beautiful.", "pos": 6046525}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she by herself?", "pos": 6046569}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "No, she is with a gentleman on horseback, who wishes to ride all the way to Rome.", "pos": 6046590}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then how did the girl come here?", "pos": 6046674}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "On horseback, but she is tired out, and cannot bear it any longer. The gentleman has offered me four sequins to take her to Rome, and as I am a poor man I think you might let me earn the money.", "pos": 6046709}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose he will follow the carriage?", "pos": 6046905}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "He can go as he likes; that can’t make much difference to either of us.", "pos": 6046946}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You say she is young and pretty.", "pos": 6047020}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "I have been told so, but I haven’t seen her myself.", "pos": 6047055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What sort of a man is her companion?", "pos": 6047109}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "He’s a fine man, but he can speak very little Italian.", "pos": 6047148}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has he sold the lady’s horse?", "pos": 6047205}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "No, it was hired. He has only one trunk, which will go behind the carriage.", "pos": 6047237}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This is all very strange. I shall not give any decision before speaking to this man.", "pos": 6047315}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "I will tell him to wait on you.", "pos": 6047402}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your wife, sir?", "pos": 6047702}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "God be praised! You can speak my native tongue. Yes, sir, she is an Englishwoman and my wife. I am sure she will be no trouble to you.", "pos": 6047777}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. I don’t want to start later than I had arranged. Will she be ready at five o’clock?", "pos": 6047914}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 6048011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I hope you can speak French madam?", "pos": 6049155}
{"speaker": "the English girl", "text": "Yes, and a little Italian too.", "pos": 6049201}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate myself on having you for my travelling companion.", "pos": 6049234}
{"speaker": "the English girl", "text": "I think you should congratulate me.", "pos": 6049301}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I heard you came to Sienna on horseback.", "pos": 6049339}
{"speaker": "the English girl", "text": "Yes, but I will never do such a foolish thing again.", "pos": 6049382}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think your husband would have been wise to sell his horse and buy a carriage.", "pos": 6049437}
{"speaker": "the English girl", "text": "He hired it; it does not belong to him. From Rome we are going to drive to Naples.", "pos": 6049519}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You like travelling?", "pos": 6049604}
{"speaker": "the English girl", "text": "Very much, but with greater comfort.", "pos": 6049627}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He has given me a mark of his confidence, madam, and there is nothing to be offended at.", "pos": 6051211}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madame, you must please look upon me as an old friend. I guess you have no money about you, and that you wish to fast from motives of delicacy. Your husband shall repay me, if he will have it so. If I told the landlord to only prepare dinner for myself I should be dishonouring the count, yourself possibly, and myself most of all.", "pos": 6051805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel you are right sir. Let dinner be served for two, then; but I cannot eat, for I feel ill, and I hope you will not mind my lying on the bed for a moment.", "pos": 6052149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "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.", "pos": 6052310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wait a moment before you bring in the dinner. I will go and see if the lady is awake.", "pos": 6053400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I opened the door gently, and saw she was still asleep, but as I closed the door after me the noise awoke her, and she asked if I had dined.", "pos": 6053487}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall not take any dinner, madam, unless you do me the honour to dine with me. You have had a five hours’ rest, and I hope you are better.", "pos": 6053628}
{"speaker": "The Englishwoman", "text": "I will sit down with you to dinner, as you wish it.", "pos": 6053771}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That makes me happy, and I will order dinner to be served forthwith.", "pos": 6053825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has Sophie grown tall?", "pos": 6054696}
{"speaker": "The Englishwoman", "text": "No, she is quite small, but she is very pretty, and so clever.", "pos": 6054721}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She must now be seventeen.", "pos": 6054786}
{"speaker": "The Englishwoman", "text": "Exactly. We are of the same age.", "pos": 6054815}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you ill?", "pos": 6054901}
{"speaker": "The Englishwoman", "text": "Not at all. I scarcely like to say it, but Sophie is the very image of you.", "pos": 6054916}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why should you hesitate to say so? It has been remarked to me before. No doubt it is a mere coincidence. How long ago is it since you have seen her?", "pos": 6054994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Eighteen months; she went back to her mother’s, to be married as it was said, but I don’t know to whom.", "pos": 6055145}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your news interests me deeply.", "pos": 6055251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was Miss Nancy Steyne there when you left?", "pos": 6055949}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Was she pretty when you knew her?", "pos": 6056234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She was a beauty, but her loveliness was a fatal gift to her. Nancy was a close friend of mine, we loved each other tenderly; and perhaps our sympathy arose from the similarity of the fate in store for us. Nancy, too loving and too simple, is now, perhaps, even more unhappy than myself.", "pos": 6056270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "More unhappy? What do you mean?", "pos": 6056560}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas!", "pos": 6056594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is it possible that fate has treated you harshly? Is it possible that you can be unhappy with such a letter of commendation as nature has given you?", "pos": 6056602}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas! let us speak of something else.", "pos": 6056753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me why you think Nancy is unhappy.", "pos": 6056900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She ran away with a young man she loved; they despaired of gaining the parents’ consent to the match. Since her flight nothing has been heard of her, and you see I have some reason to fear that she is unhappy.", "pos": 6056942}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right. I would willingly give my life if it could be the saving of her.", "pos": 6057154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where did you know her?", "pos": 6057236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In my own house. She and Sophie dined with me, and her father came in at the end of the meal.", "pos": 6057262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now I know who you are. How often have I heard Sophie talking of you. Nancy loved you as well as her father. I heard that you had gone to Russia, and had fought a duel with a general in Poland. Is this true? How I wish I could tell dear Sophie all this, but I may not entertain such hopes now.", "pos": 6057358}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have heard the truth about me; but what should prevent you writing what you like to England? I take a lively interest in you, trust in me, and I promise you that you shall communicate with whom you please.", "pos": 6057654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am vastly obliged to you.", "pos": 6057866}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This blockhead does not understand what I say to him; but as he may have right on his side, I must ask you to give him two sequins. I will return you the money at Rome. By an odd chance I happen to have no money about me, but the fellow might trust me as he has got my trunk. However, he says he must be paid, so will you kindly oblige me? You shall hear more of me at Rome.", "pos": 6061390}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Laugh too,", "pos": 6062150}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I agree with you that it’s laughable enough, but I have not the spirit to laugh.", "pos": 6062215}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, sit down at all events.", "pos": 6062298}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand your grief, but you must try to overcome it. I have only one favour to ask of you, and if you refuse to grant me that, I shall be as sad as you, so we shall be rather a melancholy couple.", "pos": 6062516}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What can I do for you?", "pos": 6062719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can tell me on your word of honour whether that extraordinary character is your husband, or only your lover.", "pos": 6062744}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will tell you the simple truth; he is not my husband, but we are going to be married at Rome.", "pos": 6062859}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I breathe again. He never shall be your husband, and so much the better for you. He has seduced you, and you love him, but you will soon get over that.", "pos": 6062957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never, unless he deceives me.", "pos": 6063111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has deceived you already. I am sure he has told you that he is rich, that he is a man of rank, and that he will make you happy; and all that is a lie.", "pos": 6063143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can you know all this?", "pos": 6063299}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Experience--experience is my great teacher. Your lover is a young feather-brain, a man of no worth. He might possibly marry you, but it would be only to support himself by the sale of your charms.", "pos": 6063328}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He loves me; I am sure of it.", "pos": 6063527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, he loves you, but not with the love of a man of honour. Without knowing my name, or my character, or anything about me, he delivered you over to my tender mercies. A man of any delicacy would never abandon his loved one thus.", "pos": 6063559}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is not jealous. You know Frenchmen are not.", "pos": 6063792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A man of honour is the same in France, and England, and Italy, and all the world over. If he loved you, would he have left you penniless in this fashion? What would you do, if I were inclined to play the brutal lover? You may speak freely.", "pos": 6063841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should defend myself.", "pos": 6064083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; then I should abandon you here, and what would you do then? You are pretty, you are a woman of sensibility, but many men would take but little account of your virtue. Your lover has left you to me; for all he knew I might be the vilest wretch; but as it is, cheer up, you have nothing to fear.", "pos": 6064109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can you think that adventurer loves you? He is a mere monster. I am sorry that what I say makes you weep, but it must be said. I even dare tell you that I have taken a great liking to you; but you may feel quite sure that I shall not ask you to give me so much as a kiss, and I will never abandon you. Before we get to Rome I shall convince you that the count, as he calls himself, not only does not love you, but is a common swindler as well as a deceiver.", "pos": 6064415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will convince me of that?", "pos": 6064879}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, on my word of honour! Dry your eyes, and let us try to make this day pass as pleasantly as yesterday. You cannot imagine how glad I feel that chance has constituted me your protector. I want you to feel assured of my friendship, and if you do not give me a little love in return, I will try and bear it patiently.", "pos": 6064911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would it not be better to go on now?", "pos": 6065995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it will be very hot from ten till noon.", "pos": 6066057}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but the Comte de l’Ltoile, whom we should be sure to meet at Radicofani, would not like to see me.", "pos": 6066099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not? I am sure he would.", "pos": 6066205}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You mean to go as far as Centino, I suppose,", "pos": 6070019}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, we must push on, as the lady’s husband may be in need of help. The wounded postillion has followed him; and as he speaks Italian very imperfectly, there’s no knowing what may happen to him.", "pos": 6070129}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good; we will go off.", "pos": 6070325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you like us to go on to Acquapendente?", "pos": 6071849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good. Get me two horses immediately.", "pos": 6072221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where’s the slashed postillion?", "pos": 6072921}
{"speaker": "Comte de l'Etoile", "text": "He is drinking to my health with his comrade; they have both begged my pardon.", "pos": 6072964}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Yes, this gentleman gave him a crown.", "pos": 6073045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a pity! You shouldn’t have given them anything.", "pos": 6073099}
{"speaker": "Comte de l'Etoile", "text": "You see my lover is only without money by chance; he has a bill of exchange for a large amount.", "pos": 6073903}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe it to be a forgery.", "pos": 6074001}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "You are really too cruel.", "pos": 6074033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all; I only wish I were mistaken, but I am sure of the contrary. Twenty years ago I should have taken it for a good one, but now it’s another thing, and if the bill is a good one, why did he not negotiate it at Sienna, Florence, or Leghorn?", "pos": 6074061}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "It may be that he had not the time; he was in such a hurry to be gone. Ah! if you knew all!", "pos": 6074311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only want to know what you like to tell me, but I warn you again that what I say is no vague suspicion but hard fact.", "pos": 6074405}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Then you persist in the idea that he does not love me.", "pos": 6074527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay, he loves you, but in such a fashion as to deserve hatred in return.", "pos": 6074584}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 6074659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you not hate a man who loved you only to traffic in your charms?", "pos": 6074678}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "I should be sorry for you to think that of him.", "pos": 6074751}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you like, I will convince you of what I say this evening.", "pos": 6074801}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "You will oblige me; but I must have some positive proof. It would be a sore pain to me, but also a true service.", "pos": 6074864}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when you are convinced, will you cease to love him?", "pos": 6074979}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Certainly; if you prove him to be dishonest, my love will vanish away.", "pos": 6075037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are mistaken; you will still love him, even when you have had proof positive of his wickedness. He has evidently fascinated you in a deadly manner, or you would see his character in its true light before this.", "pos": 6075110}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "All this may be true; but do you give me your proofs, and leave to me the care of shewing that I despise him.", "pos": 6075326}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will prove my assertions this evening; but tell me how long you have known him?", "pos": 6075438}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "About a month; but we have only been together for five days.", "pos": 6075522}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And before that time you never accorded him any favours?", "pos": 6075585}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Not a single kiss. He was always under my windows, and I had reason to believe that he loved me fondly.", "pos": 6075644}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes! he loves you, who would not? but his love is not that of a man of honour, but that of an impudent profligate.", "pos": 6075750}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "But how can you suspect a man of whom you know nothing?", "pos": 6075871}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would that I did not know him! I feel sure that not being able to visit you, he made you visit him, and then persuaded you to fly with him.", "pos": 6075929}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Yes, he did. He wrote me a letter, which I will shew you. He promises to marry me at Rome.", "pos": 6076071}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And who is to answer for his constancy?", "pos": 6076164}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "His love is my surety.", "pos": 6076206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you fear pursuit?", "pos": 6076231}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "No.", "pos": 6076254}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did he take you from a father, a lover, or a brother?", "pos": 6076260}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "From a lover, who will not be back at Leghorn for a week or ten days.", "pos": 6076316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where has he gone?", "pos": 6076388}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "To London on business; I was under the charge of a woman whom he trusted.", "pos": 6076409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s enough; I pity you, my poor Betty. Tell me if you love your Englishman, and if he is worthy of your love.", "pos": 6076485}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Alas! I loved him dearly till I saw this Frenchman, who made me unfaithful to a man I adored. He will be in despair at not finding me when he returns.", "pos": 6076600}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he rich?", "pos": 6076753}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Not very; he is a business man, and is comfortably off.", "pos": 6076767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he young?", "pos": 6076825}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "No. He is a man of your age, and a thoroughly kind and honest person. He was waiting for his consumptive wife to die to marry me.", "pos": 6076840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Poor man! Have you presented him with a child?", "pos": 6076972}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "No. I am sure God did not mean me for him, for the count has conquered me completely.", "pos": 6077021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everyone whom love leads astray says the same thing.", "pos": 6077109}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Now you have heard everything, and I am glad I told you, for I am sure you are my friend.", "pos": 6077164}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will be a better friend to you, dear Betty, in the future than in the past. You will need my services, and I promise not to abandon you. I love you, as I have said; but so long as you continue to love the Frenchman I shall only ask you to consider me as your friend.", "pos": 6077256}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "I accept your promise, and in return I promise not to hide anything from you.", "pos": 6077527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me why you have no luggage.", "pos": 6077607}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "I escaped on horseback, but my trunk, which is full of linen and other effects, will be at Rome two days after us. I sent it off the day before my escape, and the man who received it was sent by the count.", "pos": 6077642}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then good-bye to your trunk!", "pos": 6077850}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Why, you foresee nothing but misfortune!", "pos": 6077881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, dear Betty, I only wish my prophecies may not be accomplished. Although you escaped on horseback I think you should have brought a cloak and a carpet bag with some linen.", "pos": 6077924}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "All that is in the small trunk; I shall have it taken into my room tonight.", "pos": 6078103}
{"speaker": "Comte de l'Etoile", "text": "Thus. Betty ought to procure me the enjoyment of Fanny, if she has reason to think I have taken a fancy to her; and per contra, as I adore Betty, if I found that she loved you I should procure her the pleasure of sleeping with you.", "pos": 6079001}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I confess, my dear count,", "pos": 6079310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that, theoretically speaking, your system strikes me as sublime, and calculated to bring about the return of the Golden Age; but I am afraid it would prove absurd in practice. No doubt you are a man of courage, but I am sure you would never let your mistress be enjoyed by another man. Here are twenty-five sequins. I will wager that amount that you will not allow me to sleep with your wife.", "pos": 6079349}
{"speaker": "Comte de l'Etoile", "text": "Ha! ha! You are mistaken in me, I assure you. I’ll bet fifty sequins that I will remain in the room a calm spectator of your exploits. My dear Betty, we must punish this sceptic; go to bed with him.", "pos": 6079744}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "You are joking.", "pos": 6079945}
{"speaker": "Comte de l'Etoile", "text": "Not at all; to bed with you, I shall love you all the more.", "pos": 6079963}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "You must be crazy, I shall do nothing of the kind.", "pos": 6080025}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Are you ready to go, my dear Betty?", "pos": 6081805}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am much better, but I should so like a cup of tea.", "pos": 6081843}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "For pity’s sake do not abandon a poor girl, more worthy of compassion than blame!", "pos": 6082915}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Be a father to me, do not advise but command; you may reckon on my obedience. I have no need to give you any further particulars, for you have guessed all except the horror with which the thought of my betrayer now inspires me. If it had not been for you, he would have plunged me into an abyss of shame and misery.", "pos": 6083726}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can you reckon on the Englishman forgiving you?", "pos": 6084056}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "I think so.", "pos": 6084106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we must go back to Leghorn. Are you strong enough to follow this counsel? I warn you that if you approve of it, it must be put into execution at once. Young, pretty, and virtuous as you are, you need not imagine that I shall allow you to go by yourself, or in the company of strangers. If you think I love you, and find me worthy of your esteem, that is sufficient regard for me. I will live with you like a father, if you are not in a position to give me marks of a more ardent affection. Be sure I will keep faith with you, for I want to redeem your opinion of men, and to shew you that there are men as honourable as your seducer was vile.", "pos": 6084120}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "You need not think, my dear friend, that my silence proceeds from irresolution. If my mind were not made up already I should despise myself. I am wise enough at any rate to appreciate the wisdom of your generous counsels. I thank Providence that I have fallen into the hands of such a man who will treat me as if I were his daughter.", "pos": 6085093}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we will go back to Leghorn, and start immediately.", "pos": 6085429}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "My only doubt is how to manage my reconciliation with Sir B---- M----. I have no doubt he will pardon me eventually; but though he is tender and good-hearted he is delicate where a point of honour is concerned, and subject to sudden fits of violence. This is what I want to avoid; for he might possibly kill me, and then I should be the cause of his ruin.", "pos": 6085487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must consider it on the way, and tell me any plans you may think of.", "pos": 6085845}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "He is an intelligent man, and it would be hopeless to endeavour to dupe him by a lie. I must make a full confession in writing without hiding a single circumstance; for if he thought he was being duped his fury would be terrible. If you will write to him you must not say that you think me worthy of forgiveness; you must tell him the facts and leave him to judge for himself. He will be convinced of my repentance when he reads the letter I shall bedew with my tears, but he must not know of my whereabouts till he has promised to forgive me. He is a slave to his word of honour, and we shall live together all our days without my ever hearing of this slip. I am only sorry that I have behaved so foolishly.", "pos": 6085920}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must not be offended if I ask you whether you have ever given him like cause for complaint before.", "pos": 6086630}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Never.", "pos": 6086735}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is his history?", "pos": 6086744}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "He lived very unhappily with his first wife; and he was divorced from his second wife for sufficient reasons. Two years ago he came to our school with Nancy’s father, and made my acquaintance. My father died, his creditors seized everything, and I had to leave the school, much to Nancy’s distress and that of the other pupils. At this period Sir B---- M---- took charge of me, and gave me a sum which placed me beyond the reach of want for the rest of my days. I was grateful, and begged him to take me with him when he told me he was leaving England. He was astonished; and, like a man of honour, said he loved me too well to flatter himself that we could travel together without his entertaining more ardent feelings for me than those of a father. He thought it out of the question for me to love him, save as a daughter. This declaration, as you may imagine, paved the way for a full agreement.", "pos": 6086767}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "However you love me. I shall be well pleased, and if I can do anything for you I shall be all the happier. Dry your eyes, dear Betty, he is sure to forgive you. I have friends at Leghorn, and no one shall find out that we have made acquaintance. I will put you in good hands, and I shall not leave the town till I hear you are back with Sir B---- M----. If he prove inexorable I promise never to abandon you, and to take you back to England if you like.", "pos": 6087670}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "But how can you spare the time?", "pos": 6088348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will tell you the truth, my dear Betty. I have nothing particular to do at Rome, or anywhere else. London and Rome are alike to me.", "pos": 6088382}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "How can I shew my gratitude to you?", "pos": 6088518}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will read it all to-morrow, to-day we have something else to do. If you like. I will have a bed made up for me in the next room.", "pos": 6089895}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "No, dear friend, ought I not to love your society? What would have become of me without you?", "pos": 6090227}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Listen, it is absolutely necessary for me to recover my pocket-book, and I hope to find it at Acquapendente.", "pos": 6090714}
{"speaker": "Vetturino", "text": "Very good, sir, very good, pay me as if I had taken you to Rome, and a sequin a day for the future, and if you like, I will take you to England on those terms.", "pos": 6090835}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "He might pursue us.", "pos": 6091593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He dare not do so. I expect not, but if he does I will give him a warm welcome. If he does not take himself off I will blow out his brains.", "pos": 6091615}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Not even the reward you gave me?", "pos": 6091855}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Oh, yes! That is a little secret between ourselves.", "pos": 6091890}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Heaven is arranging everything. My mistake will serve as a warning to me for the future, for the lesson has been a severe one, and might have been much worse if I had not had the good fortune of meeting you.", "pos": 6093581}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I congratulate you on having cured yourself so quickly of a passion that had deprived you of your reason.", "pos": 6093791}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Ah! a woman’s reason is a fragile thing. I shudder when I think of the monster; but I verily believe that I should not have regained my senses if he had not called me a hypocrite, and said that he was certain I had already granted you my favours. These infamous words opened my eyes, and made me see my shame. I believe I would have helped you to pierce him to the heart if the coward had not run away. But I am glad he did run away, not for his sake but for ours, for we should have been in an unpleasant position if he had been killed.", "pos": 6093913}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right; he escaped my sword because he is destined for the rope.", "pos": 6094453}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Let him look to that himself, but I am sure he will never dare to shew his face before you or me again.", "pos": 6094527}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "Ah! there you are. Let me go, traitor!", "pos": 6095291}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "No, no! he is my preserver.", "pos": 6095619}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "Let me go, traitors!", "pos": 6095731}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, you are labouring under a delusion.", "pos": 6096178}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "What do you mean by ‘preserver’?", "pos": 6096331}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Read that.", "pos": 6096421}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "You must forgive my conduct, sir, for I could not guess that the man I found with her was her saviour and not her betrayer. I thank Heaven which inspired you with the idea of catching hold of me from behind, as I should certainly have killed you the moment I set eyes on you, and at this moment I should be the most wretched of men. You must forgive me, sir, and become my friend. Forgiveness? you may be sure I have already forgiven her, and she well deserves it. Poor Betty repented directly you shewed her the path she was treading, and the tears she is shedding now are tears of sorrow at her mistake. I am sure she recognizes her folly, and will never be guilty of such a slip again.", "pos": 6097867}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "I provided myself with two good pistols, not with the idea of using one against her, for my first thought about her was pity, and my second forgiveness; but I determined to blow out the scoundrel’s brains, and I mean to do it yet. We will start for Rome to-morrow.", "pos": 6099989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We shall find him at Roland’s. I understand your purpose, but you shall not execute your plans without me. Let me have the charge of seeing that justice is done you. If you will not agree, I shall start for Rome directly, I shall get there before you, and shall give the wretched actor warning of your approach. If you had killed him before I should have said nothing, but at Rome it is different, and you would have reason to repent of having indulged your righteous indignation. You don’t know Rome and priestly justice. Come, give me your hand and your word to do nothing without my consent, or else I shall leave you directly.", "pos": 6100435}
{"speaker": "Betty", "text": "Yes, dearest, leave vengeance to the friend whom Heaven has sent us.", "pos": 6101594}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "I consent to do so, provided everything is done in concert between us.", "pos": 6101679}
{"speaker": "Vetturino", "text": "For Rome! Then you have found your pocketbook? It seems to me, my good sir, that you would have been wiser not to search for it.", "pos": 6101905}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I promise you to have the rogue imprisoned as soon as we reach Rome, and that ought to be sufficient vengeance for you. Instead of the advantages he proposed for himself, he will receive only shame and all the misery of a prison.", "pos": 6102862}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You see, that our demand is a very moderate one, and we could get all we want by the ordinary channels of the law; but we are in a hurry, and I want you to take charge of the whole affair. If you care to do so we shall be prepared to defray legal expenses to the extent of fifty crowns.", "pos": 6104414}
{"speaker": "the bargello", "text": "As soon as I have made him confess the facts you allege against him, we shall be able to do something. I have already heard that he is at Roland’s, and has been trying to get the Englishwoman’s trunk. If you liked to spend a hundred crowns instead of fifty we could send him to the galleys for a couple of years.", "pos": 6104962}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "We will see about that, for the present we will have him into prison.", "pos": 6105298}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How’s this? I thought you were still at the Place d’Espagne.", "pos": 6105952}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "I have given my old house to my daughter who has married a prosperous Frenchman, while I have taken this palace where there are some magnificent rooms.", "pos": 6106025}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Has your daughter many foreigners staying at her house now?", "pos": 6106179}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "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.", "pos": 6106241}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I advise you to wait till to-morrow, and to say nothing about the advice I have given you.", "pos": 6106398}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "Why should I wait?", "pos": 6106491}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t say any more just now. I understood that my brother could not come to Rome.", "pos": 6106512}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "He came with a safe-conduct which the Dowager Electress of Saxony obtained for him from the Holy Father. He wants his case to be re-tried, and there he makes a mistake, for if it were heard a hundred times the sentence would continue the same. No one will see him, everyone avoids him, even Mengs will have nothing to say to him.", "pos": 6106865}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Mengs is here, is he? I though he had been at Madrid.", "pos": 6107197}
{"speaker": "Roland", "text": "He has got leave of absence for a year, but his family remains in Spain.", "pos": 6107253}
{"speaker": "Sir B---- M----", "text": "Before making up my mind I should like to speak to him,", "pos": 6108039}
{"speaker": "the bargello", "text": "You can do so to-morrow. He confessed everything without any trouble, and made a jest of it, saying he was not afraid of any consequences, as the young lady had gone with him of her own free will. I shewed him the bill of exchange, but he evinced no emotion whatever. He told me that he was an actor by profession, but also a man of rank. As to the horse, he said he was at perfect liberty to sell it, as the watch he had left in pledge was worth more than the beast.", "pos": 6108119}
{"speaker": "l’Etoile", "text": "I owed him twenty-five Louis as he had left Betty to sleep with me. Are you Betty’s lover?", "pos": 6109471}
{"speaker": "The Englishman", "text": "Yes, and if I had caught you with her I should have blown out your brains, for you have deceived her doubly; you’re only a beggarly actor.", "pos": 6109649}
{"speaker": "l’Etoile", "text": "I have three thousand crowns.", "pos": 6109790}
{"speaker": "The Englishman", "text": "I will pay six thousand if the bill proves to be a good one. In the meanwhile you will stay here, and if it be false, as I expect it is, you will go to the galleys.", "pos": 6109822}
{"speaker": "l’Etoile", "text": "Very good. I shall speak to my counsel.", "pos": 6109989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t care who the punter is, it is not of the slightest consequence to me, as I tell you plainly that as long as Medini is the banker I will have nothing to do with it.", "pos": 6117870}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I have told Medini about it and wanted to take a third away from the bank, but he seemed offended and said he would make up any loss to you, but that he could not have the bank touched.", "pos": 6118054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but if he does not bring me my money by to-morrow morning there will be trouble. Indeed, the responsibility lies with you, for I have told you that as long as Medini deals I will have nothing to do with it.", "pos": 6118242}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "Of course you have a claim on me for two hundred ounces, but I hope you will be reasonable; it would be rather hard for me to lose two-thirds.", "pos": 6118462}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will you kindly give me my two hundred ounces, for, of course, Goudar told you that I was out of it?", "pos": 6118942}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "I confess myself indebted to you for that amount, as you absolutely insist, but pray tell me why you refuse to be interested in the bank when I am dealing.", "pos": 6119055}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I have no confidence in your luck.", "pos": 6119213}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "You must see that your words are capable of a very unpleasant interpretation.", "pos": 6119258}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can’t prevent your interpreting my words as you please, but I have a right to my own opinion. I want my two hundred ounces, and I am quite willing to leave you any moneys you propose to make out of the conqueror of to-night. You must make your arrangements with M. Goudar, and by noon to-morrow, you, M. Goudar, will bring me that sum.", "pos": 6119338}
{"speaker": "Goudar", "text": "I can’t remit you the money till the count gives it me, for I haven’t got any money.", "pos": 6119678}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sure you will have some money by twelve o’clock to-morrow morning. Goodnight.", "pos": 6119765}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "begging me to call on him and settle the matter.", "pos": 6120141}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I replied that he must make his arrangements with Goudar, and I begged to be excused calling on him.", "pos": 6120190}
{"speaker": "Sara", "text": "You are in the right about your money, but just at present my husband has not got any; you really must wait two or three days, I will guarantee the payment.", "pos": 6121521}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am really sorry, not to be able to oblige such a charming woman, but the only thing that will pacify me is my money, and till I have had it, you will see me no more in your house, against which I declare war.", "pos": 6121692}
{"speaker": "The advocate", "text": "I will do it myself,", "pos": 6122423}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Now I am a rich woman, and my good fortune is all your making; so take back what you gave me. Don’t be offended; I am so grateful to you, and my good husband and I agreed on this plan this morning.", "pos": 6122791}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "So pretty, and yet poor?", "pos": 6124027}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Yes, for she will have all or nothing; and lovers of that kind are rare in Naples.", "pos": 6124054}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But she must have some lover?", "pos": 6124139}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "If she has, no one has heard of him. You had better make her acquaintance and go and see her. You will soon be friends.", "pos": 6124171}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What’s her name?", "pos": 6124293}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Callimena. The lady who is speaking to her is her aunt, and I expect they are talking about you.", "pos": 6124312}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "It is my baptismal name.", "pos": 6125166}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It is Greek; but, of course, you know what it means?", "pos": 6125193}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "No.", "pos": 6125248}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Mad beauty, or fair moon.", "pos": 6125254}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "I am glad to say that I have nothing in common with my name.", "pos": 6125282}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you any brothers or sisters?", "pos": 6125345}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "I have only one married sister, with whom you may possibly be acquainted.", "pos": 6125381}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is her name, and who is her husband?", "pos": 6125457}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Her husband is a Piedmontese, but she does not live with him.", "pos": 6125501}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is she the Madame Slopis who travels with Aston?", "pos": 6125565}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 6125616}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I can give you good news of her.", "pos": 6125627}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "My husband is her godfather.", "pos": 6125722}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is her exact age?", "pos": 6125753}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Fourteen.", "pos": 6125778}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She’s a simple prodigy! What loveliness!", "pos": 6125790}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Her sister is still handsomer.", "pos": 6125833}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have never seen her.", "pos": 6125866}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "M. Goudar would like to have a little private conversation with the advocate.", "pos": 6125917}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then that’s all settled, and I am very glad of it. I have certainly made an eternal enemy of him, but that doesn’t trouble me much.", "pos": 6126149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told her all I knew about her sister, and promised I would write to Turin to enquire whether she were still there. I told her that I loved her, and that if she would allow me, I would come and see her. Her reply was extremely satisfactory.", "pos": 6126402}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All that makes you more desirable in my eyes, and I am only sorry that I cannot offer you a fortune.", "pos": 6127032}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Not one.", "pos": 6127369}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And have you never had one?", "pos": 6127380}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Never.", "pos": 6127410}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not even a fancy for anyone?", "pos": 6127419}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "No, never.", "pos": 6127450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What, with your beauty and sensibility, is there no man in Naples who has succeeded in inspiring you with desire?", "pos": 6127463}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "No one has ever tried to do so. No one has spoken to me as you have, and that is the plain truth.", "pos": 6127579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe you, and I see that I must make haste to leave Naples, if I would not be the most unhappy of men.", "pos": 6127679}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 6127789}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should love you without the hope of possessing you, and thus I should be most unhappy.", "pos": 6127809}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Love me then, and stay. Try and make me love you. Only you must moderate your ecstacies, for I cannot love a man who cannot exercise self-restraint.", "pos": 6127900}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As just now, for instance?", "pos": 6128051}
{"speaker": "Callimena", "text": "Yes. If you calm yourself I shall think you do so for my sake, and thus love will tread close on the heels of gratitude.", "pos": 6128080}
{"speaker": "the aunt", "text": "Alas! I have only too great a need of twenty ducats (about eighty francs) to pay my rent.", "pos": 6130232}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who are you? I think I have seen you before, and yet . . .", "pos": 6131222}
{"speaker": "Venetian gentleman", "text": "I will soon tell you my name and the story of my woes; but first give me something to eat, for I am dying of hunger. I have had nothing but bad soup for the last few days.", "pos": 6131303}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; go downstairs and have your dinner, and then come back to me; you can’t eat and speak at the same time. Sit down, and speak freely.", "pos": 6131477}
{"speaker": "Albergoni", "text": "My name is Albergoni.", "pos": 6131912}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What!", "pos": 6131936}
{"speaker": "Albergoni", "text": "A club of young rakes, of whom I was one, had a casino at the Zuecca; we passed many a pleasant hour there without hurting anyone. Some one imagined that these meetings were the scenes of unlawful pleasures, the engines of the law were secretly directed against us, and the casino was shut up, and we were ordered to be arrested. All escaped except myself and a man named Branzandi. We had to wait for our unjust sentence for two years, but at last it appeared. My wretched fellow was condemned to lose his head, and afterwards to be burnt, while I was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment ‘in carcere duro’. In 1765 I was set free, and went to Padua hoping to live in peace, but my persecutors gave me no rest, and I was accused of the same crime. I would not wait for the storm to burst, so I fled to Rome, and two years afterwards the Council of Ten condemned me to perpetual banishment. I might bear this if I had the wherewithal to live, but a brother-in-law of mine has possessed himself of all I have, and the unjust Tribunal winks at his misdeeds. A Roman attorney made me an offer of an annuity of two paoli a day on the condition that I should renounce all claims on my estate. I refused this iniquitous condition, and left Rome to come here and turn hermit. I have followed this sorry trade for two years, and can bear it no more.", "pos": 6132434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go back to Rome; you can live on two paoli a day.", "pos": 6133780}
{"speaker": "Albergoni", "text": "I would rather die.", "pos": 6133832}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have stolen more than twenty from me.", "pos": 6135390}
{"speaker": "handkerchief thief", "text": "Not I, but some of my mates. If you come with me, perhaps we shall be able to get them all back.", "pos": 6135434}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is it far off?", "pos": 6135533}
{"speaker": "handkerchief thief", "text": "In the Largo del Castello. Let me go; people are looking at us.", "pos": 6135550}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What kind of commodities are they?", "pos": 6136250}
{"speaker": "Neapolitan dealer", "text": "Watches, snuff-boxes, rings, and jewels, which I dare not sell here.", "pos": 6136287}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Aren’t you afraid of being discovered?", "pos": 6136358}
{"speaker": "Neapolitan dealer", "text": "Not much, I don’t tell everyone of my business.", "pos": 6136399}
{"speaker": "Bartoldi", "text": "Bartoldi was an old friend of mine.", "pos": 6136817}
{"speaker": "Hanoverian Lady", "text": "If you are alone. I should be glad to share your repast.", "pos": 6145078}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; I will order dinner for two.", "pos": 6145149}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you married to the marquis?", "pos": 6145726}
{"speaker": "Hanoverian Lady", "text": "No.", "pos": 6145760}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then how could you keep him for seven years?", "pos": 6145766}
{"speaker": "Hanoverian Lady", "text": "Alas . . . . You can think of a hundred ways, and they would all be true.", "pos": 6145813}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see.", "pos": 6145889}
{"speaker": "Hanoverian Lady", "text": "Can you procure me an interview with the duchess?", "pos": 6145898}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will try, but I warn you that I shall tell her the simple truth.", "pos": 6145950}
{"speaker": "Hanoverian Lady", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 6146019}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Come again to-morrow.", "pos": 6146032}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What’s his name?", "pos": 6147109}
{"speaker": "official", "text": "His name is Gaetano, and he says he is a relation of yours.", "pos": 6147128}
{"speaker": "Prisoner", "text": "gossip.", "pos": 6147555}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry to see you here, but what can I do for you?", "pos": 6147810}
{"speaker": "Gaetano", "text": "You can pay me the hundred crowns you owe me, for the goods supplied to you at Paris by me.", "pos": 6147867}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Sir, the man is mad; I don’t owe him anything, and the evidence of this book is utterly worthless.", "pos": 6148512}
{"speaker": "Advocate", "text": "You make a mistake, sir, this ledger is good evidence, and our laws deal very favorably with imprisoned creditors. I am retained for them, and if you do not settle the matter by to-morrow I shall serve you with a summons.", "pos": 6148622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How did you come to Naples? Whom are you with?", "pos": 6150444}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "I am by myself. I wanted to see Italy, and my mother gave me this pleasure. I have seen Turin, Milan, Genoa, Florence, Venice, and Rome; and after I have done Italy I shall see Switzerland and Germany, and then return to England by way of Holland.", "pos": 6150493}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How long is this expedition to take?", "pos": 6150743}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "Six months.", "pos": 6150782}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose you will be able to give a full account of everything when you go back to London?", "pos": 6150796}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "I hope to convince my mother that the money she spent was not wasted.", "pos": 6150890}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How much do you think it will cost you?", "pos": 6150962}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "The five hundred guineas she gave me, no more.", "pos": 6151004}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you mean to say you are only going to spend five hundred guineas in six months? I can’t believe it.", "pos": 6151053}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "Economy works wonders.", "pos": 6151158}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I suppose so. How have you done as to letters of introduction in all these countries of which you now know so much?", "pos": 6151183}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "I have had no introductions. I carry an English passport, and let people think that I am English.", "pos": 6151301}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Aren’t you afraid of getting into bad company?", "pos": 6151401}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "I don’t give myself the chance. I don’t speak to anyone, and when people address me I reply in monosyllables. I always strike a bargain before I eat a meal or take a lodging. I only travel in public conveyances.", "pos": 6151450}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. Here you will be able to economize; I will pay all your expenses, and give you an excellent cicerone, one who will cost you nothing.", "pos": 6151664}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "I am much obliged, but I promised my mother not to accept anything from anybody.", "pos": 6151810}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think you might make an exception in my case.", "pos": 6151893}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "No. I have relations in Venice, and I would not take so much as a single dinner from them. When I promise, I perform.", "pos": 6151943}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Are you in any business?", "pos": 6153121}
{"speaker": "Joseph", "text": "No. My mother is always talking of buying a cargo and sending me with it to the Indies, but the day never seems to come, and I am afraid it never will come. To buy a cargo one must have some money, and my mother has none.", "pos": 6153148}
{"speaker": "Advocate", "text": "one could play without being afraid of anything.", "pos": 6154317}
{"speaker": "Callimena's aunt", "text": "as I seemed inclined to do something for her niece, she would let me know as soon as possible what she wanted most.", "pos": 6155825}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "as I should soon be leaving for Rome, I should like to sup with her niece every evening.", "pos": 6155957}
{"speaker": "Callimena's aunt", "text": "this a very natural wish on my part,", "pos": 6156058}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It had been agreed that his wife should come with him.", "pos": 6156971}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "Ti aspettero nel medesimo luogo, ed alla stessa ora, coll’ impazienza medesima che ha una vacca che desidera l’avicinamento del toro.", "pos": 6158223}
{"speaker": "Queen", "text": "Chi infamia!", "pos": 6158359}
{"speaker": "Englishmen and Saxons", "text": "they should be delighted to play if she or I would take the bank, but they feared the count’s extraordinary fortune.", "pos": 6158969}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will not deal under a half share, though I have no confidence in my luck. I would never have consented if fortune had been kinder to me. I should like to have the value of the jewels,", "pos": 6159160}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "it would be unmannerly to refuse; there could be no humiliation in it,", "pos": 6162021}
{"speaker": "tutor", "text": "they must give in,", "pos": 6162228}
{"speaker": "King", "text": "there would be no danger;", "pos": 6162473}
{"speaker": "Pascal", "text": "He is never more grieved, than when his minister Tanucci shews him that he must be severe, and his greatest joy is to grant a favour.", "pos": 6163493}
{"speaker": "Ferdinand", "text": "Don’t put yourselves out, take care that Tanucci doesn’t catch you, but don’t mind me. There are four things which astonish me very much. The first is that though the Jesuits were said to be so rich, not a penny was found upon them at the suppression; the second, that though the Scrivani of Naples are supposed to take no fees, yet their wealth is immense; the third, that while all the other young couples have children sooner or later, we have none; and the fourth, that all men die at last, except Tanucci, who, I believe, will live on in ‘saecula saeculorum’.", "pos": 6164272}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I had intended to visit him, if Lucrezia were still with him.", "pos": 6168986}
{"speaker": "Abbé Galiani", "text": "She lives at Salerno, with her daughter the Marchioness C----.", "pos": 6169059}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "if he knew the Marchioness C----.", "pos": 6169280}
{"speaker": "Abbé Galiani", "text": "I only know the marquis, he is old and very rich.", "pos": 6169315}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "a gentleman would be rather more choice in his expressions.", "pos": 6169746}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "Maybe, but I am not going to learn manners from you.", "pos": 6169807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was tired of the rudeness with which he treated me in company.", "pos": 6170171}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "You would find me ruder still, if we could meet without company.", "pos": 6170237}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think I could convince you of your mistake if we could have a private meeting.", "pos": 6170318}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "I should very much like to see you do it.", "pos": 6170401}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "When you see me go out, follow me, and don’t say a word to anyone.", "pos": 6170445}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "I will not fail.", "pos": 6170514}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "With pleasure, at Rome, and I hope the third lesson will be more effectual than the two I have already given you.", "pos": 6171579}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "She is longing to see you, and her husband too; he is a worthy old man, and will be so glad to know you.", "pos": 6172950}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How does he know of my existence?", "pos": 6173057}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "Leonilda has mentioned your name a thousand times during the five years they have been married. He is aware that you gave her five thousand ducats. We shall sup together.", "pos": 6173093}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Let us go directly; I cannot rest till I have seen my Leonilda and the good husband God has given her. Have they any children?", "pos": 6173266}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "No, unluckily for her, as after his death the property passes to his relations. But Leonilda will be a rich woman for all that; she will have a hundred thousand ducats of her own.", "pos": 6173395}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You have never married.", "pos": 6173577}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "No.", "pos": 6173603}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are as pretty as you were twenty-six years ago, and if it had not been for the Abbé Galiani I should have left Naples without seeing you.", "pos": 6173609}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "My dear friend, embrace me.", "pos": 6174297}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Your sweetheart will explain it to you,", "pos": 6177181}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "They are all ugly, awkward lads, more like peasants than noblemen; all their education has been given them by a pack of ignorant priests; and so it is not to be wondered that the marquis does not care for them much.", "pos": 6178862}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But is Leonilda really happy?", "pos": 6179080}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "She is, though her husband cannot be quite so ardent as she would like at her age.", "pos": 6179112}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He doesn’t seem to me to be a very jealous man.", "pos": 6179197}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "He is entirely free from jealousy, and if Leonilda would take a lover I am sure he would be his best friend. And I feel certain he would be only too glad to find the beautiful soil which he cannot fertile himself fertilized by another.", "pos": 6179247}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is it positively certain that he is incapable of begetting a child?", "pos": 6179485}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "No, when he is well he does his best; but there seems no likelihood of his ardour having any happy results. There was some ground to hope in the first six months of the marriage, but since he has had the gout so badly there seems reason to fear lest his amorous ecstasies should have a fatal termination. Sometimes he wants to approach her, but she dare not let him, and this pains her very much.", "pos": 6179555}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "I have come on an affair of the highest importance, and if I fail I shall for ever lose the reputation of a diplomatist.", "pos": 6180321}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is the other diplomatist with whom you are afraid of failing?", "pos": 6180456}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "'Tis yourself.", "pos": 6180525}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then your battle is over, for I consent before I know what you ask. I only make a reserve on one point.", "pos": 6180541}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "So much the worse, as that may turn out to be just what I want you to do. Tell me what it is.", "pos": 6180647}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I was going to Rome, when the Abbé Galiani told me that Donna Lucrezia was here with you.", "pos": 6180743}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "And can a short delay interfere with your happiness? Are you not your own master?", "pos": 6180835}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Smile on me once more; your desires are orders which must be obeyed. I have always been my own master, but I cease to be so from this moment, since I am your most humble servant.", "pos": 6180919}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Very good. Then I command you to come and spend a few days with us at an estate we have at a short distance. My husband will have himself transported here. You will allow me to send to the inn for your luggage?", "pos": 6181100}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Here, sweet marchioness, is the key to my room. Happy the mortal whom you deign to command. When had I the pleasure of knowing you, mademoiselle?", "pos": 6181313}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "Nine year ago. You have often spoken to me and teased me.", "pos": 6181785}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where, may I ask?", "pos": 6181845}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "At the Duchess of Matalone’s.", "pos": 6181865}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That may be, and I think I do begin to remember, but I really cannot recollect having teased you.", "pos": 6181897}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It strikes me, that you were much smaller in those days.", "pos": 6182530}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "Yes, I was only twelve or thirteen. You have changed also.", "pos": 6182599}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I have aged.", "pos": 6182660}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I suppose you will not mind having our friend for a neighbor?", "pos": 6184431}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "No, but we will be discreet, for the flower of our lives has withered.", "pos": 6184516}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I shall believe as much of that as I please.", "pos": 6184601}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Yes, yes, but get ready to receive me. Draw the bill, and to-morrow I will accept it.", "pos": 6186117}
{"speaker": "Donna Lucrezia", "text": "I promise you, to do my best to ensure your meeting your obligations.", "pos": 6186310}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think I may draw my bill at nine months?", "pos": 6186684}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "It will very probably be met,", "pos": 6186742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Really?", "pos": 6186784}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "Yes, really; and it will be to you that my husband will owe the happiness he has so long desired. He told me so when he left me an hour ago.", "pos": 6186794}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be delighted to add to your mutual happiness.", "pos": 6186936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In an hour and a half we arrived at his fine and well-situated castle.", "pos": 6187953}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "I shall lock my door, because it is my duty to do so. This room is my mistress’s closet, and my companion would probably make some remark if I left the door open contrary to my usual custom.", "pos": 6189297}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your reasons are too good for me to overcome, but will you not sit down beside me for a few minutes and help me to recollect how I used to tease you?", "pos": 6189502}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "I don’t want you to recollect anything about it; please let me go.", "pos": 6189654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must please yourself,", "pos": 6189723}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I applauded her virtuous resistance, but I said she might safely assist at your toilette every evening.", "pos": 6190021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, she doesn’t tire me at all; she is pretty and amusing. But how can you imagine that I really love her, when you know very well that the whole affair is only designed to cast dust in everyone’s eyes?", "pos": 6191247}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Anastasia fully believes that you adore her, and indeed I am not sorry that you should give her a little taste for gallantry.", "pos": 6191452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I can persuade her to leave her door open I can easily visit you, for she will not imagine for a moment that after leaving her I go to your room instead of my own.", "pos": 6191580}
{"speaker": "marchioness", "text": "Take care how you set about it.", "pos": 6191749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will see what I can do this evening.", "pos": 6191783}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "I am glad to see you so calm, you quite frightened me at supper.", "pos": 6192296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The reason is that I know you think yourself in danger when you are alone with me.", "pos": 6192375}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "Not at all; you are much more discreet than you were nine years ago.", "pos": 6192460}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What folly did I commit then?", "pos": 6192531}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "No folly, but you did not respect my childhood.", "pos": 6192563}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only gave you a few caresses, for which I am now sorry, as you are frightened of me, and persist in locking your door.", "pos": 6192613}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "I don’t mistrust you, but I have told you my reasons for locking the door. I think that you must mistrust me, as you won’t go to bed while I am in the room.", "pos": 6192736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must think me very presumptuous. I will go to bed, but you must not leave me without giving me a kiss.", "pos": 6192895}
{"speaker": "Anastasia", "text": "I promise to do so.", "pos": 6193004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "These five thousand ducats,", "pos": 6197195}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "with seven thousand from the duke, composed her dower, and I have added a hundred thousand, so that she is sure of a comfortable living, even if I die without a successor.", "pos": 6197235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, I want you to take back the five thousand ducats you gave her; and she herself is as desirous of your doing so as I am. She did not like to ask you herself; she is too delicate.", "pos": 6197408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I should have refused Leonilda if she had asked me, but I accept this mark of your friendship. A refusal would have borne witness to nothing but a foolish pride, as I am a poor man. I should like Leonilda and her mother to be present when you give me the money.", "pos": 6197593}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Embrace me; we will do our business after dinner.", "pos": 6197863}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I think of paying my suit to him to-morrow,", "pos": 6209200}
{"speaker": "Prince of Santa Croce", "text": "Do so, for I have never heard his eminence speak of anyone with as much consideration as he speaks of yourself.", "pos": 6209254}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "He has been very kind to me, and I shall always be grateful to him. Your eminence, is a little stouter, otherwise you look as fresh as ever and not at all changed.", "pos": 6209368}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "You make a mistake. I am very different from what I was then. I am fifty-five now, and then I was thirty-six. Moreover, I am reduced to a vegetable diet.", "pos": 6209792}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is that to keep down the lusts of the flesh?", "pos": 6209948}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "I wish people would think so; but no one does, I am afraid. We will begin to break the ice to-morrow. You shall dine with me, and his excellence shall hear of it. I shall write about you to M---- M----. I have always kept up a correspondence with that delightful nun. You ought to ask the Prince of Santa Croce to introduce you to the princess. We might pass some pleasant hours with her, though not in our old Venetian style, for the princess is not at all like M---- M----.", "pos": 6209995}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And yet she serves to amuse your eminence?", "pos": 6210988}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "Well, I have to be content with what I can get.", "pos": 6211033}
{"speaker": "Prince Santa Croce", "text": "I have been expecting that, even since the cardinal talked to her about you for more than an hour. You can call any day at eleven in the morning or two in the afternoon.", "pos": 6211731}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Where is your daughter?", "pos": 6220310}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "She’s asleep, and I really cannot allow you to pass the whole night with her any longer.", "pos": 6220348}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But she only stays with me till I get into bed. This new whim wounds my feelings. I object to such unworthy suspicions. What has Margarita been telling you? If she has made any complaints of me, she has lied, and I shall leave your house to-morrow.", "pos": 6220439}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "You are wrong; Margarita has made no complaints; on the contrary she says that you have done nothing to her.", "pos": 6220690}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. Do you think there is any harm in a little joking?", "pos": 6220801}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "No, but you might be better employed.", "pos": 6220865}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And these are your grounds for a suspicion of which you should be ashamed, if you are a good Christian.", "pos": 6220905}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "God save me from thinking evil of my neighbour, but I have been informed that your laughter and your jests are of such a nature as to be offensive to people of morality.", "pos": 6221011}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then it is my neighbour the abbé who has been foolish enough to give you this information?", "pos": 6221183}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "I cannot tell you how I heard it, but I have heard it.", "pos": 6221276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. To-morrow I shall seek another lodging, so as to afford your tender conscience some relief.", "pos": 6221333}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Can’t I attend on you as well as my daughter?", "pos": 6221438}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; your daughter makes me laugh, and laughing is beneficial to me, whereas you would not make me laugh at all. You have insulted me, and I leave your house to-morrow.", "pos": 6221486}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "I shall have to tell my husband the reason of your departure, and I do not want to do that.", "pos": 6221656}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can do as you like; that’s no business of mine. Go away; I want to get into bed.", "pos": 6221750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Allow me to wait on you.", "pos": 6221836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly not; if you want anybody to wait on me, send Margarita.", "pos": 6221863}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She’s asleep.", "pos": 6221931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then wake her up.", "pos": 6221947}
{"speaker": "Margarita", "text": "I was sleeping soundly, and my mother woke me up all of a sudden, and told me to come and wait on you, or else you would leave, and my father would think we had been in mischief.", "pos": 6222189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will stay, if you will continue to wait on me.", "pos": 6222383}
{"speaker": "Margarita", "text": "I should like to come very much, but we mustn’t laugh any more, as the abbé has complained of us. Sire,", "pos": 6222434}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! it is the abbé, is it?", "pos": 6222534}
{"speaker": "Margarita", "text": "Of course it is. Our jests and laughter irritate his passions.", "pos": 6222563}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The rascal! We will punish him rarely. If we laughed last night, we will laugh ten times louder tonight.", "pos": 6222628}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come now,", "pos": 6223209}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "do you think our amusements criminal?", "pos": 6223229}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "Not a bit; but you see your innocent orgies keep your neighbour awake.", "pos": 6223269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then he had better go and sleep somewhere else; I am not going to put myself out for him. I will even say that you must choose between him and me; if I consent to stay with you, you must send him away, and I will take his room.", "pos": 6223342}
{"speaker": "Mother", "text": "I can’t send him away before the end of the month, and I am afraid he will say things to my husband which will disturb the peace of the house.", "pos": 6223572}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise you he shall go to-morrow and say nothing at all. Leave him to me; the abbé shall leave of his own free will, without giving you the slightest trouble. In future be afraid for your daughter when she is alone with a man and you don’t hear laughing. When one does not laugh, one does something serious.", "pos": 6223717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good,", "pos": 6224701}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will present you with another twenty crowns; but you must go to-day, and not say a word to anyone, unless you wish me to become your implacable enemy.", "pos": 6224722}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "My dear Casanova, let us forget what happened at Madrid and be friends once more.", "pos": 6226773}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So be it, provided no allusion is made to the cause of our quarrel; for I warn you that I cannot speak of it and keep my head cool.", "pos": 6226857}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "I dare say; but if you had understood my position at Madrid you would never have obliged me to take a course which gave me great pain.", "pos": 6226991}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not understand you.", "pos": 6227128}
{"speaker": "Mengs", "text": "I dare say not. You must know, then, that I was strongly suspected of being a Protestant; and if I had shewn myself indifferent to your conduct, I might possibly have been ruined. But dine with me tomorrow; we will make up a party of friends, and discuss our quarrel in a good bottle of wine. I know that you do not receive your brother, so he shall not be there. Indeed, I do not receive him myself, for if I did all honest people would give me the cold shoulder.", "pos": 6227155}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where do you come from?", "pos": 6228098}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "From Venice; I had to leave the place, as I could no longer make a living there.", "pos": 6228124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then how do you think of making a living at Rome?", "pos": 6228207}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "By saying masses and teaching French.", "pos": 6228259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You a teacher of languages! Why, you do not know your native tongue.", "pos": 6228299}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "I know Italian and French too, and I have already got two pupils.", "pos": 6228370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They will no doubt make wonderful progress under your fostering care. Who are they?", "pos": 6228438}
{"speaker": "Brother", "text": "The son and daughter of the inn-keeper, at whose house I am staying. But that’s not enough to keep me, and you must give me something while I am starting.", "pos": 6228524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have no right to count on me. Leave the room.", "pos": 6228681}
{"speaker": "Abbé Ceruti", "text": "You can keep him out of Rome, and he is ready to go if you will allow him three paoli a day.", "pos": 6229218}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "I suppose you know him well, and as I am going to present him to the Holy Father to-morrow, I should be much obliged if you could tell me who he really is.", "pos": 6230676}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I knew him at Madrid, where he lived with Mocenigo our ambassador; he is well mannered, polite, and a fine looking young man, and that’s all I know about him.", "pos": 6230857}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Was he received at the Spanish Court?", "pos": 6231018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think so, but I cannot be positive.", "pos": 6231058}
{"speaker": "Ambassador", "text": "Well, I think he was not received; but I see that you won’t tell me all you know about him. It’s of no consequence; I shall run no risk in presenting him to the Pope. He says he is descended from Manucci, the famous traveller of the thirteenth century, and from the celebrated printers of the same name who did so much for literature. He shewed me the Aldine anchor on his coat of arms which has sixteen quarters.", "pos": 6231098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How and where have you seen your mistress?", "pos": 6238629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for there I see nothing but darkness.", "pos": 6238694}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The first time the governess chanced to have a candle, but this privilege is confined, under pain of excommunication, to relations.", "pos": 6238733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then she will have a light to-day?", "pos": 6238867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I expect not, as the portress will have sent up word that there was a stranger with me.", "pos": 6238904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could you see your sweetheart, as you are not related to her?", "pos": 6238994}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By chance; the first time she came my sister’s governess--a good soul--said nothing about it. Ever since there has been no candle when she has been present.", "pos": 6239066}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then there are a good many old women here?", "pos": 6240033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There are a hundred of us, and the number is only decreased by death and by occasional marriages.", "pos": 6240078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how do those who go out to get married succeed in inspiring the love of their husbands?", "pos": 6240178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been here for twenty years, and in that time only four have gone out, and they did not know their husbands till they met at the altar. As might be expected, the men who solicit the cardinal for our hands are either madmen, or fellows of desperate fortunes who want the two hundred piastres. However, the cardinal-superintendent refuses permission unless the postulant can satisfy him that he is capable of supporting a wife.", "pos": 6240272}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How does he choose his bride?", "pos": 6240706}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He tells the cardinal what age and disposition he would prefer, and the cardinal informs the mother-superior.", "pos": 6240738}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose you keep a good table, and are comfortably lodged.", "pos": 6240850}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all. Three thousand crowns a year are not much to keep a hundred persons. Those who do a little work and earn something are the best off.", "pos": 6240913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What manner of people put their daughters in such a prison?", "pos": 6241060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Either poor people or bigots who are afraid of their children falling into evil ways. We only receive pretty girls here.", "pos": 6241122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is the judge of their prettiness?", "pos": 6241245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The parents, the priest, and on the last appeal the cardinal-superintendent, who rejects plain girls without pity, observing that ugly women have no reason to fear the seductions of vice. So you may imagine that, wretched as we are, we curse those who pronounced us pretty.", "pos": 6241285}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I pity you, and I wonder why leave is not given to see you openly; you might have some chance of getting married then.", "pos": 6241561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The cardinal says that it is not in his power to give permission, as anyone transgressing the foundation is excommunicated.", "pos": 6241682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I should imagine that the founder of this house is now consumed by the flames of hell.", "pos": 6241808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We all think so, and hope he may stay there. The Pope ought to take some order with the house.", "pos": 6241902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose I shall never see your mistress or your sister,", "pos": 6242202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "your sister’s voice went to my heart.", "pos": 6242270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should think your ten paistres ought to work miracles.", "pos": 6242310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose there is another parlour.", "pos": 6242369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but only priests are allowed to enter it under pain of excommunication, unless you get leave from the Holy Father.", "pos": 6242407}
{"speaker": "Governess", "text": "The mother-superior is well pleased, and all my young companions are overjoyed; but the older ones whom circumstance has made into bigots are scandalized at everything. The superior has already given orders for windows to be made in the dark parlours, though the old women say that she cannot go beyond the concessions she has already received. To this the superior answered that as free communication had been allowed, it would be absurd to retain the darkness. She has also given orders for the alteration of the double grating, as there was only a single one in the large parlour.", "pos": 6246887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I envy your lot,", "pos": 6248669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for your happiness is assured, while I, though I love your sister, despair of possessing her.", "pos": 6248696}
{"speaker": "Menicuccio", "text": "Are you married then?", "pos": 6248792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alas, yes! Keep my counsel, for I propose visiting her every day, and if it were known that I was married, my visits would be received with suspicion.", "pos": 6248826}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "All this, cannot improve them from a mortal point of view, and takes up a lot of their time, so that they have none left for their work, by the sale of which they procure some small comforts for themselves.", "pos": 6249900}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How many confessors have you?", "pos": 6250120}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "Four.", "pos": 6250152}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you satisfied with the other three?", "pos": 6250160}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "Yes, they are sensible men, and do not ask too much of poor human nature.", "pos": 6250202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will carry your just complaint to the cardinal; will you write out your petition?", "pos": 6250278}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "Kindly give me a model.", "pos": 6250364}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "what there was in common between affection and the inconvenience of sleeping two in a narrow bed.", "pos": 6252692}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Can I continue to live, dear Armelline, with no other consolation than that of kissing your fair hands?", "pos": 6254527}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I saw you at St. Peter’s, at the midnight mass on Christmas Eve, but not daring to approach you because of the people with whom I was, I told a friend of mine to follow you and find out where you lived.", "pos": 6255355}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is it that I have tried to find you out in vain for the last three months?", "pos": 6255572}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "My husband set up at Frascati eight years ago, and we have lived there very happily ever since.", "pos": 6255653}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very glad to hear it. Have you any children?", "pos": 6255751}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "Four; and the eldest, who is nine years old, is very like you.", "pos": 6255803}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you love her?", "pos": 6255868}
{"speaker": "Mariuccia", "text": "I adore her, but I love the other three as well.", "pos": 6255887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He’s a rascal; he robbed me.", "pos": 6256361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I guessed as much; his theft did him no good. He left his wife two years after their marriage, and no one knows what has become of him.", "pos": 6256392}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How about his wife?", "pos": 6256530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She is living miserably in Rome. Her father is dead.", "pos": 6256552}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "The cardinal will make no objection, as Armelline has taken no vows; but as you must know our friend’s mistress before making your request, you have only to tell the cardinal that you would like to see the interior of the house.", "pos": 6257384}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "Do you think he will give me leave?", "pos": 6257626}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "Certainly; the inmates are not cloistered nuns. We will go with you.", "pos": 6257664}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "You will come too? that will be a delightful party indeed.", "pos": 6257735}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "Ask for leave, and we will arrange the day.", "pos": 6257796}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "To-morrow afternoon, we will fix the day and the hour for the visit.", "pos": 6258300}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I know it. I am coming with her.", "pos": 6258577}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "When is she coming?", "pos": 6258622}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I don’t know yet, but I will inform you later on.", "pos": 6258644}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "This novelty has turned the house upside down. The devotees scarcely know whether they are awake or dreaming, for with the exception of a few priests, the doctor, and the surgeon, no one has ever entered the house since its foundation.", "pos": 6258696}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "All these restrictions are now removed, and you need not ask the cardinal’s permission to receive visits from your friends.", "pos": 6258934}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I know that, but I don’t like to go so far.", "pos": 6259060}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "I shall mention your name to Cardinal Orsini, and you may be sure I shall do you all the justice you deserve. I have heard of your sadness, but I know the reason of it. You are a good girl, and pretty too, and I shall get you a husband who will cure you of your melancholy.", "pos": 6259929}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "his eminence had now a perfect right to relax any or all of the rules of the establishment.", "pos": 6260995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but I haven’t the slightest doubt that we shall get rid of a score at least.", "pos": 6264333}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Bernis", "text": "My dear fellow. I shall take two or three days before I congratulate you on your self-restraint.", "pos": 6268724}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go and tell your sister, that I shall continue to interest the princess on her behalf, but that I shall see her no more.", "pos": 6269222}
{"speaker": "Menicuccio", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 6269355}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I wish to cure myself of an unhappy passion. Your sister does not love me: I am sure of it. I am no longer a young man, and I don’t feel inclined to become a martyr to her virtue. Virtue goes rather too far when it prevents a girl giving the man who adores her a single kiss.", "pos": 6269366}
{"speaker": "Menicuccio", "text": "Indeed, I would not have believed that of her.", "pos": 6269652}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless it is the fact, and I must make an end of it. Your sister cannot understand the danger she runs in treating a lover in this fashion. Tell her all that, my dear Menicuccio, but don’t give her any advice of your own.", "pos": 6269701}
{"speaker": "Menicuccio", "text": "You can’t think how grieved I am to hear all this; perhaps it’s Emilie’s presence that makes her so cold.", "pos": 6269931}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No; I have often pressed her when we have been alone together, but all in vain. I want to cure myself, for if she does not love me I do not wish to obtain her either by seduction or by any feeling of gratitude on her part. Tell me how your future bride treats you.", "pos": 6270039}
{"speaker": "Menicuccio", "text": "Very well, ever since she has been sure of my marrying her.", "pos": 6270306}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Because I am in love with Armelline.", "pos": 6271729}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "If that reason brought you here every day, I do not see how it can have suddenly operated in another direction.", "pos": 6271768}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And yet it is all quite natural; for when one loves one desires, and when one desires in vain one suffers, and continual suffering is great unhappiness. And so you see that I am bound to act thus for my own sake.", "pos": 6271882}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I pity you, and see the wisdom of your course; but allow me to tell you that, esteeming Armelline, you have no right to lay her open to a judgment being passed upon her which is very far from the truth.", "pos": 6272097}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what judgment is that?", "pos": 6272302}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "That your love was only a whim, and that as soon as it was satisfied you abandoned her.", "pos": 6272331}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am sorry indeed to hear of this, but what can I do? I must cure myself of this unhappy passion. Do you know any other remedy than absence? Kindly advise me.", "pos": 6272421}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I don’t know much about the affection called love, but it seems to me that by slow degrees love becomes friendship, and peace is restored.", "pos": 6272582}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "True, but if it is to become friendship, love must be gently treated. If the beloved object is not very tender, love grows desperate and turns to indifference or contempt. I neither wish to grow desperate nor to despise Armelline, who is a miracle of beauty and goodness. I shall do my utmost for her, just as if she had made me happy, but I will see her no more.", "pos": 6272723}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I am in complete darkness on the matter. They assure me that they have never failed in their duty towards you, and that they cannot imagine why you have ceased coming here.", "pos": 6273089}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whether by prudence, or timidity, or a delicate wish not to say anything against me, they have told you a lie; but you deserve to know all, and my honour requires that I should tell you the whole story.", "pos": 6273263}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Please do so; you may count on my discretion.", "pos": 6273468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have always tried,", "pos": 6273562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "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 and intimate an acquaintance you could have kept yourself so severely within bounds. In my opinion there would be much less harm in a kiss than in all this scandal.", "pos": 6273595}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure that Armelline does not care about it.", "pos": 6273921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She does nothing but weep.", "pos": 6273972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Her tears probably spring from vanity, or from the cause her companions assign for my absence.", "pos": 6274001}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I have told them all that you are ill.", "pos": 6274098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What does Emilie say?", "pos": 6274143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She does not weep, but she looks sad, and says over and over again that it is not her fault if you do not come, thereby hinting that it is Armelline’s fault. Come tomorrow to oblige me. They are dying to see the opera at the Aliberti, and the comic opera at the Capronica.", "pos": 6274167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, then I will breakfast with them to-morrow morning, and to-morrow evening they shall see the opera.", "pos": 6274442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are very good; I thank you. Shall I tell them the news?", "pos": 6274554}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Please tell Armelline that I am only coming after hearing all that you have said to me.", "pos": 6274616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would not have said anything if I had had anything important to say.", "pos": 6275187}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Armelline has become unhappy through knowing you.", "pos": 6275260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because she does not want to fail in her duty, and she sees that you only love her to turn her from it.", "pos": 6275312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But her unhappiness will cease when I cease troubling her.", "pos": 6275418}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you mean you are not going to see her any more?", "pos": 6275479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly. Do you think that it costs me no pain? But I must make the effort for the sake of my peace of mind.", "pos": 6275532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then she will be sure that you do not love her.", "pos": 6275643}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She must think what she pleases. In the meanwhile I feel sure that if she loved me as I loved her, we should be of one mind.", "pos": 6275693}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have duties which seem to press lightly on you.", "pos": 6275820}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then be faithful to your duties, and permit a man of honour to respect them by visiting you no more.", "pos": 6275873}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why do you look so grave and pale?", "pos": 6276024}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Because you have grieved me.", "pos": 6276061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come then, be gay once more, and allow me to cure myself of a passion, the essence of which is to induce you to fail in your duty. I shall be still your friend, and I shall come to see you once a week while I remain in Rome.", "pos": 6276092}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Once a week! You needn’t have begun by coming once a day.", "pos": 6276319}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; it was your kind expression which deceived me, but I hope you will allow me to become rational again. For this to happen, I must try not to see you more than I can help. Think over it, and you will see that I am doing all for the best.", "pos": 6276379}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "It’s very hard that you can’t love me as I love you.", "pos": 6276632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You mean calmly, and without desires.", "pos": 6276687}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I don’t say that; but holding your desires in check, if they are contrary to the voice of duty.", "pos": 6276727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m too old to learn this method, and it does not seem to me an attractive one. Kindly tell me whether the restraint of your desires gives you much pain?", "pos": 6276825}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I don’t repress my desires when I think of you, I cherish them; I wish you were the Pope, I wish you were my father, that I might caress you in all innocence; in my dreams I wish you could become a girl, so that we might always live happily together.", "pos": 6276981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Would you dare to sleep in the same bed with him?", "pos": 6278421}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "No; an honest girl ought always to sleep by herself.", "pos": 6278482}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "If I had foreseen that,", "pos": 6279721}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would have ordered a good supper, whereas I have now only potluck to offer you.", "pos": 6279759}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Never mind. How many shall we be?", "pos": 6279843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We three.", "pos": 6279879}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "So much the better; we shall be more at liberty.", "pos": 6279891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you don’t like the princess?", "pos": 6279942}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I beg your pardon, but she wants me to kiss her in a way I don’t like.", "pos": 6279978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nevertheless, you kissed her ardently enough.", "pos": 6280051}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I was afraid she would take me for a simpleton if I did not do so.", "pos": 6280099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then do you think you committed a sin in kissing her like that?", "pos": 6280168}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Certainly not, for it was very unpleasant for me.", "pos": 6280234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then why won’t you make the same effort on my behalf?", "pos": 6280286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They are from the arsenal at Venice,", "pos": 6280587}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and we can’t sell them under fifty pains a hundred.", "pos": 6280638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, I will take a hundred, but you must open them here.", "pos": 6280692}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I beg pardon, Armelline,", "pos": 6281188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I only took my hand away because it was not worthy of being carried to your fair lips.", "pos": 6281223}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Not on account of its delicacy,", "pos": 6282543}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "but because at every mouthful we swallow half a paulo.", "pos": 6282590}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Half a paolo and the Holy Father does not forbid such a luxury? If this is not the sin of gluttony, I don’t know what is. These oysters are delightful; but I shall speak about the matter to my director.", "pos": 6282647}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure you are too sensible to find anything wrong in that,", "pos": 6283755}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "Why don’t you ask Armelline?", "pos": 6283971}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Do you give him one first, and if you have the courage I will try to do the same.", "pos": 6284022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What courage do you want? It’s a child’s game; there’s no harm in it.", "pos": 6284124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you are not afraid of my turning you from the path of duty?", "pos": 6286372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I feel quite safe with you.", "pos": 6286439}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what do you say, dear Emilie?", "pos": 6286473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall love you too, when you do for me what the superioress will tell you to-morrow.", "pos": 6286509}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do anything, but I shan’t come to speak to her till the evening, for it is three o’clock now.", "pos": 6286598}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "What will the mother say?", "pos": 6286744}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "You missed your opportunity,", "pos": 6287404}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "I don’t think so. I believe, on the contrary, that he has made his victory more sure for another time.", "pos": 6287454}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "If you do this, you will have the merit of making Emilie happy. Are you still determined to cure yourself of your love for Armelline?", "pos": 6288360}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but I shall not begin the cure till Lent.", "pos": 6288589}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I congratulate you; the carnival is unusually long this year.", "pos": 6288638}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "I will give you no other favours. than those which Armelline may give you. You ought to try to get her married also.", "pos": 6291299}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "You are the only man I have ever seen; and as I have no hopes of getting married I will give you no pledges at all, though I do not know what you mean by the word.", "pos": 6291505}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want a room with a bed,", "pos": 6292105}
{"speaker": "Waiter", "text": "That’s not allowed in Rome, signor, but on the third floor we have two rooms with large sofas which might do instead, without the Holy Office being able to say anything.", "pos": 6292155}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have just heard your name,", "pos": 6293398}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and tomorrow I shall have the honour of delivering the letter in person, if you will kindly give me your address.", "pos": 6293438}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The charming marchioness has deigned to entrust me with the answer you speak of.", "pos": 6293810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I long to read it.", "pos": 6293893}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I may give you the letter now, though I shall still claim the privilege of calling on you to-morrow. I will bring it to you in your box, if you will allow me.", "pos": 6293914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pray do so.", "pos": 6294080}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall stay in Rome till Easter,", "pos": 6294453}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "as I want to see all the sights; though indeed I cannot hope to see anything more beautiful than the vision now before me.", "pos": 6294498}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "He is a fine man, but his compliments shews he has no taste. Tell me, is it the custom for people of fashion to make a young girl blush the first time they see her?", "pos": 6295174}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dear Armelline, it is neither customary nor polite; and anyone who wishes to mix in good society would never do such a thing.", "pos": 6295341}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had hoped he had pleased her.", "pos": 6296213}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I want my oyster,", "pos": 6302316}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take it, then.", "pos": 6302344}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "it it had given me much pleasure to play the part of an infant.", "pos": 6303121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, dearest,", "pos": 6303186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but it’s only an innocent jest.", "pos": 6303213}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I don’t think so; and I hope you will say nothing about it to the superioress. It may be innocent for you, but it is not for me, as I experienced sensations which must partake of the nature of sin. We will pick up no more oysters.", "pos": 6303247}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "These are mere trifles, the stain of which will easily be wiped out with a little holy water. At all events we can swear that there has been no kissing between us.", "pos": 6303480}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "She will be bigger than I, though I am the taller.", "pos": 6304206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, there would be no harm in letting me see.", "pos": 6304277}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I think there would.", "pos": 6304327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I will feel with my hands.", "pos": 6304350}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "No, you would look at the same time.", "pos": 6304385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I swear I will not.", "pos": 6304424}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Let me bandage your eyes.", "pos": 6304446}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly; but I will bandage yours too.", "pos": 6304474}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Yes; we will play, at blindman’s buff.", "pos": 6304517}
{"speaker": "Margarita", "text": "I made him some coffee, and he was pleased to pronounce it excellent. He would not tell me his name, but he will come again tomorrow. He gave me a piece of money, but I hope you will not mind. I don’t know how much it is worth.", "pos": 6309590}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who knows? I may eventually do so.", "pos": 6312175}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "Princess, I can tell you an interesting history of my six hours of adventure, but you must give me a free hand, for some of the episodes must be told strictly after nature.", "pos": 6312412}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Is it anything in the style of Sister M---- M----?", "pos": 6312587}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, my lord, something of the kind.", "pos": 6312660}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Princess, will you be deaf?", "pos": 6312699}
{"speaker": "Princess Santa Croce", "text": "Of course I will,", "pos": 6312748}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "In three or four days, you will have the dispensation, and then Emilie can marry whom she likes.", "pos": 6313084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At the same time,", "pos": 6314415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you shall have your grant of two hundred crowns.", "pos": 6314444}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "What shall I do, without Emilie? What shall I do when you are gone? I am unhappy. I love myself no longer. I don’t want a thousand crowns, but I hope you will see me married as you say; if you do not keep your promise it will kill me.", "pos": 6314696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would die rather than deceive you; but you on your side must forgive my love, which, perhaps, made me go too far the other evening.", "pos": 6315087}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "I forgive you everything if you will remain my friend.", "pos": 6315223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will; and now let me kiss your beautiful lips.", "pos": 6315280}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "I want you to do as much for Armelline’s new friend as you have done for Emilie,", "pos": 6315529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do everything in my power,", "pos": 6315622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and in return I hope you will allow me to take these young ladies to the theatre this evening.", "pos": 6315669}
{"speaker": "Superioress", "text": "You will find them ready; how could I refuse you anything?", "pos": 6315766}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "Our consent! we should be ungrateful indeed if we refused you anything after all you have done for us.", "pos": 6315929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you, Armelline, will you withstand my love?", "pos": 6316049}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "No; so long as it keeps within due bounds. No more blind man’s buff!", "pos": 6316099}
{"speaker": "Emilie", "text": "And it is such a nice game! You really grieve me. Well, invent another game,", "pos": 6316170}
{"speaker": "Marchioness d'Aout", "text": "Because the young ladies were getting tired. I have found out that they do not belong to the Venetian ambassador’s household.", "pos": 6317296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right, and I hope you will pardon my small fiction.", "pos": 6317425}
{"speaker": "Marchioness d'Aout", "text": "It was an impromptu effort to avoid telling me who they are, but they are known.", "pos": 6317487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I congratulate the curious.", "pos": 6317570}
{"speaker": "Marchioness d'Aout", "text": "The one I addressed deserves to excite general curiosity; but if I were in your place I should make her use a little powder.", "pos": 6317605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have not the authority to do so, and if I had, I would not trouble her for the world.", "pos": 6317732}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "it would do if I turned my back,", "pos": 6323319}
{"speaker": "Scholastica", "text": "I will do as you like, but I am very sorry to be in the way. You are in love with each other, and here am I preventing you from giving one another marks of your affection. Why don’t you treat me with confidence? I am not a child, and I am your friend.", "pos": 6323393}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, fair Scholastics. I do love Armelline, but she does not love me, and refuses to make me happy on one pretence or another.", "pos": 6323739}
{"speaker": "Scholastica", "text": "I was sure that I was in the way, and if you do not trust me, I warn you that I will not go with you to the opera to-morrow.", "pos": 6324463}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "Well, then, embrace him,", "pos": 6324602}
{"speaker": "Scholastica", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 6324645}
{"speaker": "Florentine", "text": "You are making a mistake. I have a brother who is very like me, just as you have a sister who is your living portrait. My brother had the pleasure of exchanging a few words with her at the Capronica.", "pos": 6327839}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "This gentleman says I have only to imitate him, and that I cannot possibly make any mistakes.", "pos": 6329064}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I cannot have the honour, and my two companions know the reason.", "pos": 6330599}
{"speaker": "Marchioness d'Aout", "text": "That is as much as to say, that he will do as you please,", "pos": 6330679}
{"speaker": "Armelline", "text": "True, but you can do as you please. Very well, go and ask her.", "pos": 6330936}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As to my necessities. I shall ask for help of no one; I have sufficient funds to ensure my independence. I think of devoting the whole of my time to study.", "pos": 6338250}
{"speaker": "young grand duke", "text": "So long as your conduct is good, the laws guarantee your freedom; but I am glad you have applied to me. Whom do you know in Florence?", "pos": 6338419}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ten years ago, my lord, I had some distinguished acquaintances here; but now I propose to live in retirement, and do not intend renewing any old friendships.", "pos": 6338569}
{"speaker": "The landlord", "text": "The whole lot, won’t pay the vetturino, and the sooner they are out of my house the better I shall be pleased.", "pos": 6345956}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How in the world, could he contract this enormous debt? The vetturino will never take me as bail for such an amount, and even if he would I should never be so foolish as to contract such a debt.", "pos": 6346364}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "Let me have a word with you in the next room. I will put the matter clearly before you.", "pos": 6346852}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 6346953}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "I know, but there is play going on in these houses, and I am sure of gaining immense sums.", "pos": 6347710}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may be aware that I have no confidence in your good luck.", "pos": 6347814}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "Then I have another resource.", "pos": 6347878}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 6347910}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Give him a fortnight’s respite, and if he escapes before the expiration of that term I will pay you.", "pos": 6350701}
{"speaker": "The vetturino", "text": "Very good, sir, but I am not going to pay any legal expenses.", "pos": 6350859}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Zen was a patrician name, and I felt obliged to ask what titles I ought to give him.", "pos": 6357945}
{"speaker": "Zen", "text": "Such titles as one old friend gives another, though it is very possible you do not recollect me, as I was only ten years old when we saw each other last. That’s twenty-eight years ago; but I remember you, though you had not had the small-pox in those days.", "pos": 6358031}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "But as his highness must have his reasons, it seems to me that I am within my rights in enquiring what they are.", "pos": 6362366}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "If you think so you had better betake yourself to the prince; I know nothing about it. He left yesterday for Pisa, where he will stay three days; you can go there.", "pos": 6362481}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Will he pay for my journey?", "pos": 6362647}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "I should doubt it, but you can see for yourself.", "pos": 6362677}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall not go to Pisa, but I will write to his highness if you will promise to send on the letter.", "pos": 6362728}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "I will do so immediately, for it is my duty.", "pos": 6362830}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good; you shall have the letter before noon tomorrow, and before day-break I shall be in the States of the Church.", "pos": 6362877}
{"speaker": "magistrate", "text": "There’s no need for you to hurry yourself.", "pos": 6362999}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "There is a very great hurry. I cannot breathe the air of a country where liberty is unknown and the sovereign breaks his word; that is what I am going to write to your master.", "pos": 6363044}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "What! have you been expelled, too?", "pos": 6363399}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 6363436}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "What have you done?", "pos": 6363443}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 6363465}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "Nor I. Let us go to Pisa.", "pos": 6363476}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can go if you like, but I shall leave Florence tonight. My Lord; The thunder which Jove has placed in your hands is only for the guilty; in launching it at me you have done wrong. Seven months ago you promised that I should remain unmolested so long as I obeyed the laws. I have done so scrupulously, and your lordship has therefore broken your word. I am merely writing to you to let you know that I forgive you, and that I shall never give utterance to a word of complaint. Indeed I would willingly forget the injury you have done me, if it were not necessary that I should remember never to set foot in your realms again. The magistrate tells me that I can go and see you at Pisa, but I fear such a step would seem a hardy one to a prince, who should hear what a man has to say before he condemns him, and not afterwards. I am, etc.", "pos": 6363504}
{"speaker": "Medini", "text": "We are all going to Pisa, and cannot imagine why you do not come, too.", "pos": 6364815}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good, but please to leave me now as I have to do my packing.", "pos": 6364899}
{"speaker": "Madame Dennis", "text": "She cursed the grand duke, saying she could not imagine how he could confound the innocent with the guilty. She informed me that Madame Lamberti had received orders to quit, as also a hunchbacked Venetian priest, who used to go and see the dancer but had never supped with her.", "pos": 6365198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You may think what you like, but if you knew all you would see that his highness has done me a very great service though quite unintentionally.", "pos": 6367239}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Braneaforte", "text": "Oh, here you are! I was expecting you.", "pos": 6368016}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How could you, my lord? Why should I have come to Bologna rather than to any other place?", "pos": 6368085}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Braneaforte", "text": "For two reasons. In the first place because Bologna is better than many other places, and besides I flatter myself you thought of me. But you needn’t say anything here about the life we led together when we were young men.", "pos": 6368177}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It has always been a pleasant recollection to me.", "pos": 6368402}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Braneaforte", "text": "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?", "pos": 6368454}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It has been no trouble at all, but I hope you will read the letter. It is written by M. de Zaguri, whom I asked to do me this service, as I have long desired to make your lordship’s acquaintance.", "pos": 6379914}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Is he a general in the Polish service as well?", "pos": 6382067}
{"speaker": "Severini", "text": "I really don’t know.", "pos": 6382125}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I understand it all. In Poland a chamberlain has the rank of adjutant-general, and the marquis calls himself general. But general what? The adjective without a substantive is a mere cheat.", "pos": 6382148}
{"speaker": "Electress", "text": "Now I can die happy.", "pos": 6384191}
{"speaker": "Farinello", "text": "Queen Barbara was as good as Elizabeth of Parma was wicked.", "pos": 6384637}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I could stake my life, that Nina is no more with child than you are.", "pos": 6388213}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Oh, come! that is really too strong; why shouldn’t she have a child? It is a very simple matter, it seems to me. Possibly it may not be Ricla’s child but there can be no doubt that she is with somebody’s child. What object could she have for feigning pregnancy?", "pos": 6388294}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To make herself famous by defiling the Count de Ricla, who was a model of justice and virtue before knowing this Messalina. If your eminence knew the hideous character of Nina you would not wonder at anything she did.", "pos": 6388579}
{"speaker": "Cardinal", "text": "Well, we shall see.", "pos": 6388799}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes. It must be for some great crime,", "pos": 6388821}
{"speaker": "Severini", "text": "No doubt. It is the woman who was with Nina the day before yesterday.", "pos": 6389287}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What! has Nina been brought to bed?", "pos": 6389359}
{"speaker": "Severini", "text": "Yes; but of a still-born child.", "pos": 6389397}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I see it all.", "pos": 6389431}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi", "text": "Here is a treasure for you,", "pos": 6392733}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi's husband", "text": "She’s certainly very pretty, but what am I to do with her? She does not belong to me.", "pos": 6392799}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi", "text": "Yes she does, as I have given her to you. You must know that she has six thousand francs a year, and that I shall be her cashier till I get her married to a good dancer. I want her to learn character dancing, and to make her appearance on the boards. You must take her out on holidays.", "pos": 6392887}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi's husband", "text": "What shall I say if people ask me who she is?", "pos": 6393175}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi", "text": "Say she is your daughter, and that you are certain, because your wife gave her to you.", "pos": 6393223}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi's husband", "text": "I can’t say that.", "pos": 6393312}
{"speaker": "Madame Soavi", "text": "Ah, you have always stayed at home, and consequently your wits are homely. Fox, you have deceived so many tender pullets, that I don’t like to trust you with this one, for fear of your making her too precocious.", "pos": 6393332}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I did not think of that, but you are right.", "pos": 6393723}
{"speaker": "Adelaide", "text": "My mother brought me into the world, and I think she will send me out of it; this dancing is killing me.", "pos": 6394216}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Misfortune? Does she make you sigh in vain? If so you should leave her, and thus regain your happiness.", "pos": 6398275}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "How can I sigh? I am not in love with her. She is in love with me, and tries to make me her slave.", "pos": 6398381}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 6398482}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "She wants me to marry her, and I promised to do so, partly from weakness, and partly from pity; and now she is in a hurry.", "pos": 6398501}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I daresay; all these elderly girls are in a hurry.", "pos": 6398626}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Every evening she treats me to tears, supplications, and despair. She summons me to keep my promise, and accuses me of deceiving her, so you may imagine that my situation is an unhappy one.", "pos": 6398679}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you any obligations towards her?", "pos": 6398871}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "None whatever. She has violated me, so to speak, for all the advances came from her. She has only what her sister gives her from day to day, and if she got married she would not get that.", "pos": 6398911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you got her with child?", "pos": 6399101}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I have taken good care not to do so, and that’s what has irritated her; she calls all my little stratagems detestable treason.", "pos": 6399132}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Nevertheless, you have made up your mind to marry her sooner or later?", "pos": 6399261}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I’d as soon hang myself. If I got married to her I should be four times as poor as I am now, and all my relations at Novara would laugh at me for bringing home a wife of her age. Besides, she is neither rich nor well born, and at Novara they demand the one or the other.", "pos": 6399334}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then as a man of honour and as a man of sense, you ought to break with her, and the sooner the better.", "pos": 6399607}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I know, but lacking normal strength what am I to do? If I did not go and sup with her to-night, she would infallibly come after me to see what had happened. I can’t lock my door in her face, and I can’t tell her to go away.", "pos": 6399712}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, but neither can I go on in this miserable way. You must make up your mind, and cut the Gordian knot, like Alexander.", "pos": 6399938}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I haven’t his sword.", "pos": 6400062}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will lend it you.", "pos": 6400085}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 6400107}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Listen to me. You must go and live in another town. She will hardly go after you there, I suppose.", "pos": 6400127}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "That is a very good plan, but flight is a difficult matter.", "pos": 6400228}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Difficult? Not at all. Do you promise to do what I tell you, and I will arrange everything quite comfortably. Your mistress will not know anything about it till she misses you at supper.", "pos": 6400290}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I will do whatever you tell me, and I shall never forget your kindness; but Brigida will go mad with grief.", "pos": 6400479}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well my first order to you is not to give her grief a single thought. You have only to leave everything to me. Would you like to start to-morrow?", "pos": 6400589}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "To-morrow?", "pos": 6400737}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes. Have you any debts?", "pos": 6400750}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "No.", "pos": 6400777}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you want any money?", "pos": 6400783}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I have sufficient. But the idea of leaving tomorrow has taken my breath away. I must have three days delay.", "pos": 6400808}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 6400918}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I expect some letters the day after to-morrow, and I must write to my relations to tell them where I am going.", "pos": 6400928}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will take charge of your letters and send them on to you.", "pos": 6401041}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Where shall I be?", "pos": 6401103}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "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 myself.", "pos": 6401123}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "Very good. I am to go without my trunk, then.", "pos": 6401367}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes. You must dine with me every day till you go, and mind not to tell anyone whatsoever that you intend leaving Bologna.", "pos": 6401415}
{"speaker": "Abbé", "text": "I will take care not to do so.", "pos": 6401539}
{"speaker": "Bolini", "text": "She has all my linen, but I hope to get a good part of it back under one pretext or another, and she is welcome to the rest.", "pos": 6402426}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Every family is troubled by some small tragedy, which should be kept private with the greatest care. In fine, people should learn to wash their dirty linen in private.", "pos": 6410084}
{"speaker": "Horace", "text": "Nulla est mihi religio!", "pos": 6411112}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.", "pos": 6413054}
{"speaker": "Vetturino", "text": "whether I would allow him to accommodate a Jew who was going to Ancona in the chaise.", "pos": 6414591}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must take this poor Israelite;", "pos": 6414822}
{"speaker": "Vetturino", "text": "Then you must make up your mind to start at an earlier hour, for it is Friday to-morrow, and you know the Jews are not allowed to travel after sunset.", "pos": 6414936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall not start a moment earlier than I intended, but you can make your horses travel as quickly as you like.", "pos": 6415089}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "why I did not like Jews.", "pos": 6415346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because your religion teaches you to hate men of all other religions, especially Christians, and you think you have done a meritorious action when you have deceived us. You do not look upon us as brothers. You are usurious, unmerciful, our enemies, and so I do not like you.", "pos": 6415372}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "You are mistaken, sir. Come with me to our synagogue this evening, and you will hear us pray for all Christians, beginning with our Lord the Pope.", "pos": 6415649}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "True,", "pos": 6415849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but the prayer comes from the mouth only, and not from the heart. If you do not immediately confess that the Jews would not pray for the Christians if they were the masters, I will fling you out of the chaise.", "pos": 6415868}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "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 only drank water because he was not sure that the wine was unadulterated.", "pos": 6416428}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "You stupid fellow, how can you ever be certain of the purity of wine unless you have made it yourself?", "pos": 6416637}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "that if I liked to come and stay with him, and to content myself with such dishes as God had not forbidden, he would make me more comfortable than if I went to the inn, and at a cheaper rate.", "pos": 6416794}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "Then you let lodgings to Christians?", "pos": 6416987}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "I don’t let lodgings to anybody, but I will make an exception in your case to disabuse you of some of your mistaken notions. I will only ask you six paoli a day, and give you two good meals without wine.", "pos": 6417026}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "Then you must give me fish and wine, I paying for them as extras.", "pos": 6417232}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "Certainly; I have a Christian cook, and my wife pays a good deal of attention to the cooking.", "pos": 6417300}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "You can give me the foie gras every day, if you will eat it with me.", "pos": 6417396}
{"speaker": "Jew", "text": "I know what you think, but you shall be satisfied.", "pos": 6417467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sire,", "pos": 6419398}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "it was not necessary to be in love before one married.", "pos": 6421229}
{"speaker": "old woman", "text": "she had not been in love with her husband till the first child was born.", "pos": 6421344}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "that I could give my linen to the maid, and that Leah could get it up for me.", "pos": 6421737}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I had relished my supper, but that I should like the foie gras every day as I had a dispensation.", "pos": 6421826}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "You shall have some to-morrow, but Leah is the only one of us who eats it.", "pos": 6421925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then Leah must take it with me, and you can tell her that I shall give her some Cyprus wine which is perfectly pure.", "pos": 6422002}
{"speaker": "consul", "text": "He is rich, but he is also a great usurer, and if you borrow money of him he will make you repent it.", "pos": 6422581}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "how I liked my lace got up.", "pos": 6422890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I left it all to her, and that she could do what she liked with the linen.", "pos": 6423097}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Then it will all come under my hands if you are in no hurry to go.", "pos": 6423173}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can make me stay as long as you like,", "pos": 6423242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everything is quite right,", "pos": 6423339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "except the chocolate; I like it well frothed.", "pos": 6423381}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Then I will make it for you myself.", "pos": 6423429}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I will give out a double quantity, and we will take it together.", "pos": 6423467}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I don’t like chocolate.", "pos": 6423539}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sorry to hear that; but you like foie gras?", "pos": 6423565}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Yes, I do; and from what father tells me I am going to take some with you to-day.", "pos": 6423616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be delighted.", "pos": 6423700}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I suppose you are afraid of being poisoned?", "pos": 6423724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all; I only wish we could die together.", "pos": 6423770}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I will stay then, but I am afraid my father will object.", "pos": 6424685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good. Call your master,", "pos": 6424756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have a word to speak to him.", "pos": 6424834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My dear Mardocheus,", "pos": 6424867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "your daughter’s appetite doubles mine, and I shall be much obliged if you will allow her to keep me company whenever we have foie gras.", "pos": 6424910}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "It isn’t to my profit to double your appetite, but if you like to pay double I shall have no objection.", "pos": 6425048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very good, that arrangement will suit me.", "pos": 6425154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "her eyes are inflaming me and that she must let me kiss them.", "pos": 6425373}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "My duty obliges me to say nay. No kissing and no touching; we have only got to eat and drink together, and I shall like it as much as you.", "pos": 6425435}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are cruel.", "pos": 6425576}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I am wholly dependent on my father.", "pos": 6425593}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Shall I ask your father to give you leave to be kind?", "pos": 6425631}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I don’t think that would be proper, and my father might be offended and not allow me to see you any more.", "pos": 6425687}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And supposing he told you not to be scrupulous about trifles?", "pos": 6425795}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Then I should despise him and continue to do my duty.", "pos": 6425859}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "It’s too much for honour and too little for love.", "pos": 6426576}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why didn’t you take any supper?", "pos": 6427591}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I suppose it was because of your excellent Cyprus wine, to which my father has taken a great liking.", "pos": 6427625}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Ah! he like it? We will give him some. Are you not aware that you have a beautiful breast?", "pos": 6427728}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I thought all young girls were just the same.", "pos": 6427940}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you no suspicion that the sight is a very pleasant one for me?", "pos": 6427988}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "If that be so, I am very glad, for I have nothing to be ashamed of, for a girl has no call to hide her throat any more than her face, unless she is in grand company.", "pos": 6428058}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you like the little heart?", "pos": 6428363}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Very much. Is it pure gold?", "pos": 6428403}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly. Certainly, and that being so I think I may offer it to you. Take it; I will never ask any favour of you.", "pos": 6428433}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "But I should be indebted to you, and that’s the reason why I never take anything.", "pos": 6428653}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This girl, who breaks the law of her religion with such levity, who likes pleasure and does not conceal it, this is the girl who wants to make me believe that she is insensible to the pleasures of love; that’s impossible, though she may not love me. She must have some secret means of satisfying her passions, which in my opinion are very violent. We will see what can be done this evening with the help of a bottle of good Muscat.", "pos": 6429648}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are whole right, for if I were to see the whole breast I might not think it beautiful.", "pos": 6430615}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I shan’t care to see them. But her breast is like any other,", "pos": 6430948}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Take away your handkerchief.", "pos": 6431228}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Take it back; it’s disgusting. It’s well enough done, but it’s no novelty for me.", "pos": 6431259}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No novelty for you?", "pos": 6431382}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Of course not; every girl does like that before she gets married.", "pos": 6431404}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you do it, too?", "pos": 6431472}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Whenever I want to.", "pos": 6431495}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do it now.", "pos": 6431517}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "A well-bred girl always does it in private.", "pos": 6431530}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And what do you do after?", "pos": 6431576}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "If I am in bed I go to sleep.", "pos": 6431604}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My dear Leah, your sincerity is too much for me. Either be kind or visit me no more.", "pos": 6431636}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "You are very weak, I think.", "pos": 6431723}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, because I am strong.", "pos": 6431753}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Then henceforth we shall only meet at dinner. But shew me some more miniatures.", "pos": 6431781}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have some pictures which you will not like.", "pos": 6431863}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Let me see them.", "pos": 6431911}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Do you think them interesting?", "pos": 6432075}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Yes, very; they are so natural. But a good girl should not look at such pictures; anyone must be aware that these voluptuous attitudes excite one’s emotions.", "pos": 6432116}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I believe you, Leah, and I feel it as much as you. Look here!", "pos": 6432276}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 6433119}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "but you must answer all my questions as to your sex.", "pos": 6433143}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I promise to do so, if they arise naturally from the pictures.", "pos": 6433198}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Do you mean to say, that one man is not as good as another?", "pos": 6434361}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "How do you mean?", "pos": 6434435}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Are not all men able to make love every day, and every hour, just as they eat, drink and sleep every day?", "pos": 6434454}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "No, dear Leah, they that can make love every day are very scarce.", "pos": 6434562}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "With all my heart, but be sure I shall not be the first to break the conditions.", "pos": 6435612}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I am sure you would not be guilty of such a disgraceful action. I don’t love you.", "pos": 6438998}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your father, will hand them all over to the Venetian consul, who will send them to me at Trieste.", "pos": 6440138}
{"speaker": "captain of the boat", "text": "I intend setting out an hour before dusk.", "pos": 6440454}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I shall be ready. I shall be delighted to do you this small service.", "pos": 6440498}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I make you a present of it all, it will prime you up for your nocturnal orgies.", "pos": 6441286}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "She smiled and said I had had a gratuitous sight of a spectacle which was worth money, and that if I were not going so suddenly she would gladly have given me another opportunity.", "pos": 6441380}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I should like to help you to pack,", "pos": 6442244}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And I should like to be left alone,", "pos": 6442291}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will take coffee, mademoiselle, and as I do not want foie gras any longer, I will take dinner by myself. Consequently, you may tell your father that I shall only pay seven paoli a day. In future I shall only drink Orvieto wine.", "pos": 6445324}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "You have still four bottles of Scopolo and Cyprus.", "pos": 6445570}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I never take back a present; the wine belongs to you. I shall be obliged by your leaving me alone as much as possible, as your conduct is enough to irritate Socrates, and I am not Socrates. Besides, the very sight of you is disagreeable to me. Your body may be beautiful, but knowing that the soul within is a monster it charms me no longer. You may be very sure that the sailors brought my luggage here without my orders, or else you would never have seen me here again, where I dread being poisoned every day. I have not mortified her, my dear Mardocheus, or at all events, such was not my intention; but as I have put myself on diet, I shall be eating no more foie gras, and consequently I shall dine by myself, and save three paoli a day.", "pos": 6445623}
{"speaker": "Mardocheus", "text": "Leah is quite ready to pay me out of her private purse, and she wants to dine with you to assure you against being poisoned, as she informs me that you have expressed that fear.", "pos": 6446854}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That was only a jest; I am perfectly aware that I am in the house of an honest man. I don’t want your daughter to pay for herself, and to prove that I am not actuated by feelings of economy, you shall dine with me too. To offer to pay for me is an impertinence on her part. In fine, I will either dine by myself and pay you seven pawls a day, or I will pay you thirteen, and have both father and daughter to dine with me.", "pos": 6447034}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Who is there?", "pos": 6448181}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "'Tis I; I have not come to disturb you, but to justify myself. Not before you have heard what I have to say.", "pos": 6448249}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Go on; I am listening to you.", "pos": 6448727}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I swear I love you, and I would have given you good proof before now if I had not been so unfortunate as to love the young Christian you saw with me, while he does not care for me in the least; indeed I have to pay him. In spite of my passion. I have never given him what a girl can give but once. I had not seen him for six months, and it was your fault that I sent for him, for you inflamed me with your pictures and strong wines.", "pos": 6449091}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then it is not true that you don’t like chocolate?", "pos": 6451403}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I feel obliged to relieve you of all fear of being poisoned.", "pos": 6451456}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Your resolves are not strong enough to withstand seduction,", "pos": 6452318}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Try if you like, 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.", "pos": 6452601}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "The strong-minded man never gives way, but the good-hearted man often lets himself be overpersuaded.", "pos": 6452807}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Quite so, and the good-hearted girl refrains from taunting a man for his weakness for her.", "pos": 6452923}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "I am sure you are the most good-hearted of men as well as the firmest.", "pos": 6453174}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You can tell me now what you want to say.", "pos": 6454297}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "No, it will take some time, and I should not like to come till everyone is asleep. You have nothing to be afraid of; you are lord of yourself. You can go to bed in peace.", "pos": 6454341}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have certainly nothing to be afraid of, and to prove it to you I will leave the door open. Well; what do you want with me?", "pos": 6454514}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Dearest Leah, you oblige me to adore you; why did you first inspire me with hate? Are you not come here merely to humiliate me, to obtain an empty victory? If so, I forgive you; but you are in the wrong, for, believe me, enjoyment is sweeter far than vengeance.", "pos": 6455760}
{"speaker": "Leah", "text": "Nay, I have not come to achieve a shameful victory, but to give myself to you without reserve, to render you my conqueror and my king. Prove your love by making me 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 must be the worst of men.", "pos": 6456024}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "My heart tells me, that your excellence’s name is Zaguri?", "pos": 6465774}
{"speaker": "Zaguri", "text": "Exactly so, my dear Casanova. As soon as my friend Dandolo told me of your arrival here, I determined to come and congratulate you on your approaching recall, which will take place either this year or the next, as I hope to see two friends of mine made Inquisitors. You may judge of my friendship for you when I tell you that I am an ‘avogador’, and that there is a law forbidding such to leave Venice. We will spend to-day and to-morrow together. What! Casanova has been here for the last ten days, and does not know the Venetian consul?", "pos": 6465845}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "It’s my own fault. I did not like calling on this gentleman, for fear he might think me contraband.", "pos": 6466752}
{"speaker": "Count Francis Charles Coronini", "text": "I myself am perfectly happy.", "pos": 6470922}
{"speaker": "M. de St. Sauveur", "text": "If you like. I will introduce you to the harlequin’s family, and I am sure you will appreciate her charms when you see her as a girl.", "pos": 6474962}
{"speaker": "Venetian consul", "text": "This alteration, would greatly benefit the commerce of the two states; but the Municipal Council of Trieste opposes it for a plausible but ridiculous reason.", "pos": 6477049}
{"speaker": "Count Wagensberg", "text": "Councillor Rizzi, is the most obstinate of them all, and has led astray the rest with his sophisms. But do you send me in a memorandum shewing that the alteration will have a much better effect on the large commerce of Trieste than on the comparatively trifling trade of Udine. I shall send it into the Council without disclosing the authorship, but backing it with my authority, and challenging the opposition to refute your arguments. Finally, if they do not decide reasonably I shall proclaim before them all my intention to send the memoir to Vienna with my opinion on it.", "pos": 6477974}
{"speaker": "Armenian monk", "text": "Besides, no rascally priest has any right to cut off good Christians from communion with the Saviour, and we are sure that our patriarch will give us absolution and send us some more monks.", "pos": 6482135}
{"speaker": "Count Wagensberg", "text": "Here, you will be able to serve your country without in any way injuring Austria. I am going to confide in you a State secret (it being understood of course that my name is never to be mentioned) which ought to be greatly to your advantage, whether you succeed or fail; at all hazards your patriotism, your prompt action, and your cleverness in obtaining such information will be made manifest. Remember you must never divulge your sources of information; only tell your Government that you are perfectly sure of the authenticity of the statement you make. You must know,", "pos": 6484813}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that all the commodities we export to Lombardy pass through Venice where they have to pay duty. Such has long been the custom, and it may still be so if the Venetian Government will consent to reduce the duty of four per cent to two per cent.", "pos": 6485419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A plan has been brought before the notice of the Austrian Court, and it has been eagerly accepted. I have received certain orders on the matter, which I shall put into execution without giving any warning to the Venetian Government.", "pos": 6485663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "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 Modena; a ship can cross the gulf in the night, and our goods will be placed in storehouses, which will be erected.", "pos": 6485897}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In this way we shall shorten the journey and decrease the freights, and the Modenese Government will be satisfied with a trifling sum, barely equivalent to a fourth of what we pay to Venice.", "pos": 6486173}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In spite of all this, I feel sure that if the Venetian Government wrote to the Austrian Council of Commerce expressing their willingness to take two per cent henceforth, the proposal would be accepted, for we Austrians dislike novelties.", "pos": 6486365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall not lay the matter before the Town Council for four or five days, as there is no hurry for us; but you had better make haste, that you may be the first to inform your Government of the matter.", "pos": 6486604}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If everything goes as I should wish I hope to receive an order from Vienna suspending the decree just as I am about to make it public.", "pos": 6486806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They will have a number of very learned consultations, and then they will do nothing at all, and the Austrians will send their goods wherever they please.", "pos": 6487903}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the Government is such a wise one.", "pos": 6488060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Or rather has the reputation of wisdom.", "pos": 6488101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you think it lives on its reputation?", "pos": 6488143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; like all your mouldy institutions, they continue to be simply because they have been. Old Governments are like those ancient dykes which are rotten at the base, and only stay in position by their weight and bulk.", "pos": 6488188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told you so,", "pos": 6488728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "now, what do you think of the wisdom of our sages?", "pos": 6488762}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think Bedlam of Charenton were their best lodging.", "pos": 6488815}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you want, my dear?", "pos": 6490972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forgive me, sir, but I don’t want to go with Strasoldo, and I thought you would protect me. Nobody will be able to guess where I am, and Strasoldo will be obliged to go by himself. You will not be so cruel as to drive me away?", "pos": 6491010}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, dearest.", "pos": 6491239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I promise you I will go away to-morrow, for Strasoldo is going to leave at day-break.", "pos": 6491254}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lovely Leuzica (this was her name), no one would refuse you an asylum, I least of all. You are safe here, and nobody shall come in without your leave. I am only too happy that you came to me, but if it is true that the count is your lover you may be sure he will not go so easily. He will stay the whole of to-morrow at least, in the hope of finding you again.", "pos": 6491342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No doubt he will look for me everywhere but here. Will you promise not to make me go with him even if he guesses that I am with you?", "pos": 6491708}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I swear I will not.", "pos": 6491843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I am satisfied.", "pos": 6491865}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you will have to share my bed.", "pos": 6491888}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If I shall not inconvenience you, I agree with all my heart.", "pos": 6491925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You shall see whether you inconvenience me or not. Undress, quick! But where are your things?", "pos": 6491988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All that I have is in a small trunk behind the count’s carriage, but I don’t trouble myself about it.", "pos": 6492084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The poor count must be raging at this very moment.", "pos": 6492188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, for he will not come home till midnight. He is supping with Madame Bissolotti, who is in love with him.", "pos": 6492241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Remember your promise,", "pos": 6493507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You may be sure of that.", "pos": 6493542}
{"speaker": "Leuzica", "text": "Well; well, let them come; they will get nothing by it.", "pos": 6493648}
{"speaker": "Strasoldo", "text": "Only tell me that it is not my maid. We are sure she is here, as the sentinel at the gate saw her come in at ten o’clock.", "pos": 6493877}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are right, the fair Leuzica is at this moment in my room. I have given her my word of honour that no violence shall be used, and you may be sure I shall keep my word.", "pos": 6494040}
{"speaker": "Strasoldo", "text": "I shall certainly not attempt any violence, but I am sure she would come of her own free will if I could speak to her.", "pos": 6494213}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will ask her if she wishes to see you. Wait a moment.", "pos": 6494334}
{"speaker": "Leuzica", "text": "The only reason is that I don’t want to go to Vienna. I told you so a week ago. If you are an honest man you will leave me my trunk, and as to my wages you can send them to me at my aunt’s at Laibach if you haven’t got any money now.", "pos": 6494887}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You are not the man to tell me what I ought and what I ought not to do, and after I have received her in my apartments you ought to moderate your expressions.", "pos": 6495333}
{"speaker": "Leuzica", "text": "That’s where you are mistaken, for there’s only one bed, and I did not sleep on the floor.", "pos": 6495692}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You must speak to the girl herself, she came here and stays here of her own free will.", "pos": 6496236}
{"speaker": "Everybody", "text": "You have nothing to fear. You are with honest people. Your suspicion is quite offensive.", "pos": 6498046}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That is all very fine, ladies and gentlemen, and I will come with all my heart, if your excellences will assure me that my joining this little party will not be known to the State Inquisitors possibly by to-morrow.", "pos": 6498137}
{"speaker": "M. Myriel", "text": "Sire,", "pos": 6501241}
{"speaker": "A handsome negress", "text": "I can’t make out how you can be so much in love with my mistress, who is as white as the devil.", "pos": 6502120}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Have you never loved a white man?", "pos": 6502218}
{"speaker": "The negress", "text": "Yes, but only because I had no negro, to whom I should certainly have given the preference.", "pos": 6502263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Well, well. I will go and hear the pleadings; it will be an amusement for me. Come, come, Casanova, you may be all abroad. Knowledge of character is an unfathomable gulf. We thought we had studied it deeply, but there is still more to learn; we shall see. He may have said nothing out of delicacy. I should be sorry to be found wanting in politeness, though indeed I am puzzled to know what I have done amiss.", "pos": 6507156}
{"speaker": "Count Torres", "text": "I shall be there, too, as I am curious to see what sort of a face Torriano will put on it, if the countryman wins. I know something about the case, and Torriano is sure of victory, unless the documents attesting the farmer’s indebtedness happen to be forgeries. On the other hand, the farmer ought to win unless it can be shewn that the receipts signed by Torriano are forgeries. The farmer has lost in the first court and in the second court, but he has paid the costs and appealed from both, though he is a poor man. If he loses to-morrow he will not only be a ruined man, but be sentenced to penal servitude, while if he wins, Torriano should be sent to the galleys, together with his counsel, who has deserved this fate many times before.", "pos": 6508045}
{"speaker": "Torres", "text": "And the client too,", "pos": 6511909}
{"speaker": "defendant", "text": "I shall appeal in another sort,", "pos": 6512644}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Ah! 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.", "pos": 6513440}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "Our master has given us no instructions on the subject, but of course we will wait on you whenever you call us.", "pos": 6514437}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "And who will do my room?", "pos": 6514751}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "The maid.", "pos": 6514787}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then she has a key of her own?", "pos": 6514799}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "There is no need for a key, as your door has no lock, but you can bolt yourself in at night.", "pos": 6514832}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will also be kind enough to tell your man to give me a touch with his comb after he has done with you.", "pos": 6516027}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "I wonder you did not bring a servant.", "pos": 6516136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "If I had guessed that I should be troubling you, I should certainly have brought one.", "pos": 6516176}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "It will not trouble me but you, for you will be kept waiting.", "pos": 6516264}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Not at all. Another thing I want is a lock to my door, for I have important papers for which I am responsible, and I cannot lock them up in my trunk whenever I leave my room.", "pos": 6516328}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Everything is safe in my house.", "pos": 6516505}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Of course, but you see how absurd it would be for you to be answerable in case any of my papers were missing. I might be in the greatest distress, and yet I should never tell you of it.", "pos": 6516539}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "You have guessed what it is,", "pos": 6517225}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "Sir. I could only give you what the priest gave me; I received a wax taper for my master and a candle for you.", "pos": 6518476}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Provided I can lock my door. I care not how it’s done.", "pos": 6519071}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "I should never dare to give you tapers, sir, without express orders from the count.", "pos": 6519318}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I should have thought such a thing would go without saying.", "pos": 6519404}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Yes, in other houses, but here nothing goes without saying. I have to buy the tapers and he pays me, and every time he has one it is noted down.", "pos": 6519466}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then you can give me a pound of wax lights if I pay you for them?", "pos": 6519613}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Of course, but I think I must tell the count, for you know . . . .", "pos": 6519681}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Yes, I know all about it, but I don’t care.", "pos": 6519750}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "It is usually, but to-day I wanted to pay some calls and take you with me, so I decided on dining at noon. You will have plenty of time.", "pos": 6520198}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 6521997}
{"speaker": "priest", "text": "Because the count left yesterday for Gorice, telling me he did not know when he should come back. He ordered me to give you your meals in your room.", "pos": 6522016}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good. I will dine at one.", "pos": 6522167}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I came to Spessa, to keep you company and to amuse myself; but I see that I am in the way, so I hope you will take me back to Gorice and leave me there. You must know that I like society as much as you do, and I do not feel inclined to die of solitary weariness in your house.", "pos": 6522712}
{"speaker": "peasants", "text": "We have as good a right to taste the vines which we have watered with the sweat of our brow, as your cook has to taste the dishes before they are served on your table.", "pos": 6525424}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Try to prevent his doing so, even by violence, but in the first place endeavour to pacify him.", "pos": 6526362}
{"speaker": "Madame Costa", "text": "Though he is a vigorous lover, it is a matter of great difficulty with him to obtain the crisis; and the wretched woman in his arms is in imminent danger of being strangled to death if she cannot conceal her amorous ecstacy. He cannot bear to see another’s pleasure. I pity his wife most heartily.", "pos": 6529276}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "As you won’t speak to me, I have come to speak to you.", "pos": 6532555}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "What have you got to say?", "pos": 6532612}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "If you leave my house in this fashion you will dishonour me, and I will not allow it.", "pos": 6532640}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Excuse me, but I should very much like to see how you are going to prevent me from leaving your house.", "pos": 6532728}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "I will not allow you to go by yourself; we must go together.", "pos": 6532833}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Certainly; I understand you perfectly. Get your sword or your pistols, and we will start directly. There is room for two in the carriage.", "pos": 6532896}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "That won’t do. You must dine with me, and then we can go in my carriage.", "pos": 6533036}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You make a mistake. I should be a fool if I dined with you when our miserable dispute is all over the village; to-morrow it will have reached Gorice.", "pos": 6533111}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "If you won’t dine with me, I will dine with you, and people may say what they like. We will go after dinner, so send away that conveyance.", "pos": 6533263}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "She had just left my arms, was I not therefore her natural protector? Only a coward or a monster like yourself would have remained indifferent, though, indeed, I believe that even you would have done the same. I don’t agree with you as far as I am concerned, and as to the duel, you can fight or not fight, as you please; for my part I have had satisfaction. If we come to a duel I hope to leave you in the land of the living, though I shall do my best to lay you up for a considerable time, so that you may have leisure to reflect on your folly. On the other hand, if fortune favours you, you may act as you please.", "pos": 6533788}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "We will go into the wood by ourselves, and my coachman shall have orders to drive you wherever you like if you come out of the wood by yourself.", "pos": 6534579}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Very good indeed; and which would you prefer--swords or pistols?", "pos": 6534726}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "Swords, I think.", "pos": 6534793}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Then I promise to unload my pistols as soon as we get into the carriage.", "pos": 6534812}
{"speaker": "Count", "text": "You were in the right; we must remain friends. Promise me not to tell anyone of what has happened.", "pos": 6535939}
{"speaker": "Irene", "text": "Since that. I have heard of my father’s death, but I do not know what has become of my mother. I have no lovers here, but I give little suppers to a few friends. I don’t mind the expense, as I win some money at faro.", "pos": 6540987}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will come after the play to-night, but you must not expect any high play of me.", "pos": 6541449}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "You will be sorry for this some day.", "pos": 6542157}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, well, I confess! and if you tell me how much you lost you shall have it back, and if you like you shall be a partner in the game.", "pos": 6542234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, thank you, Irene, I will not be present at any more of your suppers. But I warn you to be cautious; games of chance are strictly forbidden.", "pos": 6542372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I know that, but all the young men have promised strict secrecy.", "pos": 6542518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come and breakfast with me whenever you like.", "pos": 6542585}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Grand Dieu, et vous tous temoins de ma mort, j’ai vecu en philosophe, et je meurs en Chretien,", "pos": 6548887}
{"speaker": "The Prince de Ligne", "text": "He would be a handsome man if he were not ugly; he is tall and strongly built, but his dark complexion and his glittering eyes give him a fierce expression. He is easier to annoy than amuse; he laughs little but makes others laugh by the peculiar turn he gives to his conversation. He knows everything except those matters on the knowledge of which he chiefly prides himself, namely, dancing, the French language, good taste, and knowledge of the world. Everything about him is comic, except his comedies; and all his writings are philosophical, saving those which treat of philosophy. He is a perfect well of knowledge, but he quotes Homer and Horace ad nauseam.", "pos": 6549943}
{"speaker": "Bragadin", "text": "that I might have enough,", "pos": 6551434}
{"speaker": "Bandiera", "text": "One sees everywhere this unhappy rebel against the justice of the August Council, presenting himself boldly, his head carried high, and well equipped. He is received in many houses and announces his intention of going to Trieste and, from there, of returning to Germany. He is a man of forty years or more, of high stature and excellent appearance, vigorous, of a very brown color, the eye bright, the wig short and chestnut-brown. He is said to be haughty and disdainful; he speaks at length, with spirit and erudition.", "pos": 6552742}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Fifteen years afterwards, I saw her again and she was a widow, happy enough, apparently, and enjoying a great reputation on account of her rank, wit and social qualities, but our connection was never renewed. for love’s sake alone 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 her death in due time. a widow and poorly off. of whom I shall have to speak very often.", "pos": 6553911}
{"speaker": "Lorenzo Da Ponte", "text": "I made his acquaintance, at the house of Zaguri and the house of Memmo, who both sought after his always interesting conversation, accepting from this man all he had of good, and closing their eyes, on account of his genius, upon the perverse parts of his nature.", "pos": 6555896}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "had become a charming girl; and our acquaintance was renewed in the tenderest manner.", "pos": 6556728}
{"speaker": "Barbara", "text": "she had guessed my real feelings and had been amused by my foolish restraint.", "pos": 6557136}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "This young man was as like her as two drops of water, but she did not find that a sufficient reason for avowing herself his mother.", "pos": 6559395}
{"speaker": "Tribunal of Inquisitors", "text": "The impressario of S. Benedetto, Mickel de l’Agata, shall be summoned immediately; it has been ordered that he cease, under penalty of his life, from giving the ballet Coriolanus at the theater. Further, he is to collect and deposit all the printed programmes of this ballet. Ser Jean Carlo, Abbé Grimani, to be gently reminded, by the Secretary, of the injunction to abstain from all commerce with foreign ministers and their adherents.", "pos": 6560836}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "To the Illustrious and Most Excellent Lords, the Inquisitors of State: Filled with confusion, overwhelmed with sorrow and repentance, recognizing myself absolutely unworthy of addressing my vile letter to Your Excellencies confessing that I have failed in my duty in the opportunities which presented themselves, I, Jacques Casanova, invoke, on my knees, the mercy of the Prince; I beg that, in compassion and grace, there may be accorded me that which, in all justice and on reflection, may be refused me. I ask the Sovereign Munificence to come to my aid, so that, with the means of subsistence, I may apply myself vigorously, in the future, to the service to which I have been privileged. After this respectful supplication, the wisdom of Your Excellencies may judge the disposition of my spirit and of my intentions.", "pos": 6563294}
{"speaker": "Francesca Buschini", "text": "Where are all the pleasures which formerly you procured me? Where are the theatres, the comedies which we once saw together?", "pos": 6566512}
{"speaker": "Francesca", "text": "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 . . .", "pos": 6566679}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This little book has recently come from my inexperienced pen, in the hours of leisure which are frequent at Abano for those who do not come only for the baths.", "pos": 6567810}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "French is not my tongue; I make no pretentions and, wrong or astray, I place on the paper what heaven sends from my pen. I give birth to phrases turned to Italian, either to see what they look like or to produce a style, and often, also, to draw, into a purist’s snare, some critical doctor who does not know my humor or how my offense amuses me.", "pos": 6568419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madam,", "pos": 6569513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The fine epistle which V. E. has allowed to be printed upon the sojourn of C. and of the C. du Nord in this city, exposes you, in the position of an author, to endure the compliments of all those who trouble themselves to write. But I flatter myself, Madam, that V. E. will not disdain mine.", "pos": 6569521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The little romance, Madam, a translation from my dull and rigid pen, is not a gift but a very paltry offering which I dare make to the superiority of your merit.", "pos": 6569814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have found, Madam, in your letter, the simple, flowing style of gentility, the one which alone a woman of condition who writes to her friend may use with dignity. Your digressions and your thoughts are flowers which . . . (forgive an author who pilfers from you the delicious nonchalance of an amiable writer) or . . . a will-o’-the-wisp which, from time to time, issues from the work, in spite of the author, and burns the paper.", "pos": 6569977}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I aspire, Madam, to render myself favorable to the deity to which reason advises me to make homage. Accept then the offering and render happy he who makes it with your indulgence.", "pos": 6570411}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have the honor to sign myself, if you will kindly permit me, with very profound respect.", "pos": 6570592}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Giacomo Casanova.", "pos": 6570684}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur", "pos": 6570704}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "a true blessing, a charming young man of twenty-five, the young and lovely O-Morphi I wrote my name on his tablets and begged him to present my compliments to his mother. We shall hear of the young gentleman in twenty-one years at Fontainebleau. When I paid my third visit to Paris, with the intention of ending my days in that capital, I reckoned on the friendship of M. d’Alembert, but he died, like, Fontenelle, a fortnight after my arrival, toward the end of 1783. A few days after the death of the illustrious d’Alembert,", "pos": 6580718}
{"speaker": "Franklin", "text": "The matter is still in its infancy, so we must wait.", "pos": 6581989}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "nil tam verentur, quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videantur. His new wife drove him away from Paris.", "pos": 6582262}
{"speaker": "Francesca", "text": "I see by your good letter that you will go to Dresden and then to Berlin and that you will return to Vienna the 10th January . . . . I am astonished, my dear friend, at the great journeys you make in this cold weather, but, still, you are a great man, big-hearted, full of spirit and courage; you travel in this terrible cold as though it were nothing . . . .", "pos": 6583193}
{"speaker": "Count Lamberg", "text": "I know M. le C. de Waldstein through having heard him praised by judges worthy of appreciating the transcendent qualities of more than one kind peculiar to the Count. I congratulate you on having such a Maecenas, and I congratulate him in his turn on having chosen such a man as yourself.", "pos": 6586349}
{"speaker": "Francesca", "text": "I see that you will print one of your books; you say that you will send me two hundred copies which I can sell at thirty sous each; that you will tell Zaguri and that he will advise those who wish copies to apply to me . . . 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 . . . . You say that your fortune consists of one sequin . . . . I hope that you obtained permission to print your book, that you will send me the two hundred copies, and that I may be able to sell them. . . . You say that a man without money is the image of death, that he is a very wretched animal. I learn with regret that I am unlikely to see you at the approaching Festival of the Ascension . . . that you hope to see me once more before dying . . . . You make me laugh, telling me that at Vienna a balloon was made which arose in the air with six persons and that it might be that you would go up also. I see, to my lively regret, that you have been in bed with your usual ailment . But I am pleased to know that you are better. You certainly should go to the baths . . . . I have been discouraged in seeing that you have not come to Venice because you have no money .... P. S. Just at this moment I have received a good letter, enclosing a bill of exchange, which I will go and have paid . . . .", "pos": 6586954}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": ". . . Mme. Zenobia has asked me if I would enjoy her company. Certain that you would consent I have allowed her to come and live with me. She has sympathy for me and has always loved me.", "pos": 6590928}
{"speaker": "Francesca", "text": "Your silence greatly disturbs me! To receive no more of your letters! By good post I have sent you three letters, with this one, and you have not replied to any of them. Certainly, you have reason for being offended at me, because I hid from you something which you learned from another . . . . But you might have seen, from my last letter, that I have written you all the truth about my fault and that I have asked your pardon for not writing it before.... Without you and your help, God knows what will become of us.... For the rent of your chamber Mme. Zenobia will give us eight lires a month and five lires for preparing her meals. But what can one do with thirteen lires! . . . I am afflicted and mortified. . . . Do not abandon me.", "pos": 6591132}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "In 1785, I found this runagate at Vienna. He was then Count Erdich’s man, and when we come to that period, the reader shall hear what I did.", "pos": 6592075}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Twelve years ago, if it had not been for my guardian angel, I would have foolishly married, at Vienna, a young, thoughtless girl, with whom I had fallen in love. I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better; and whenever I have been in danger of losing it, fate has come to my rescue. When, Catton, to your sight is shown the love Which all my tenderest caresses prove, Feeling all pleasure’s sharpest joys and fears, Burning one moment, shivering the next, Caressing you while showering you with tears, Giving each charm a thousand eager kisses, Wishing to touch at once a thousand blisses And, at the ones beyond my power, vexed, Abandoned in a furious desire, Leaving these charms for other charms that fire, Possessing all and yet desiring Until, destroyed by excesses of pleasure, Finding no words of love nor anything To express my fires overflowing measure Than deepening sighs and obscure murmuring: Ah! Then you think to read my inmost heart To find the love that can these signs impart ....Be not deceived. These transports, amorous cries, These kisses, tears, desires and heavy sighs, Of all the fire which devours me Could less than even the lightest tokens be.", "pos": 6595222}
{"speaker": "Caton M. . . .", "text": "You will infinitely oblige me if you will tell me to whom you wrote such pretty things about me; apparently it is the Abbé Da Ponte; but I would go to his house and, either he would prove that you had written it or I would have the honor of telling him that he is the most infamous traducer in the world. I think that the lovely picture which you make of my future has not as much excuse as you may think, and, in spite of your science, you deceive yourself.... But just now I will inform you of all my wooers and you can judge for yourself by this whether I deserve all the reproaches you made me in your last letter. It is two years since I came to know the Count de K . . . ; I could have loved him but I was too honest to be willing to satisfy his desires . . . . Some months afterward, I came to know the Count de M . . . ; he was not so handsome as K . . . , but he possessed every possible art for seducing a girl; I did everything for him, but I never loved him as much as his friend. In fine, to tell you all my giddinesses in a few words, I set everything right again with K . . . . and got myself into a quarrel with M . . . ., then I left K. . . . and returned to M . . . ., but at the house of the latter there was always an officer who pleased me more than both the two others and who sometimes conducted me to the house; then we found ourselves at the house of a friend, and it is of this same officer that I am ill. So, my dear friend, that is all. I do not seek to justify my past conduct; on the contrary, I know well that I have acted badly.... I am much afflicted at being the cause of your remaining away from Venice during the Carnival . . . . I hope to see you soon again and am, with much love. Monsieur, your sincere", "pos": 6596861}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Caton M. . . .", "pos": 6598605}
{"speaker": "Caton M. . . .", "text": "I have spoken with the Abbé Da Ponte. He invited me to come to his house because, he said, he had something to tell me for you. I went there, but was received so coldly that I am resolved not to go there again. Also, Mlle. Nanette affected an air of reserve and took it on herself to read me lessons on what she was pleased to call my libertinism . . . . I beg that you will write nothing more about me to these two very dangerous personages.... Just now I will tell you of a little trick which I played on you, which without doubt deserves some punishment. The young, little Kasper, whom you formerly loved, came to ask me for the address of her dear Monsieur de Casanova, so that she could write a very tender letter full of recollections. I had too much politeness to wish to refuse a pretty girl, who was once the favorite of my lover, so just a request, so I gave her the address she wished; but I addressed the letter to a city far from you. Is it not, my dear friend, that you would like well to know the name of the city, so that you could secure the letter by posts. But you can depend on my word that you will not know it until you have written me a very long letter begging me very humbly to indicate the place where the divine letter of the adorable object of your vows has gone. You might well make this sacrifice for a girl in whom the Emperor interests himself, for it is known that, since your departure from Vienna, it is he who is teaching her French and music; and apparently he takes the trouble of instructing her himself, for she often goes to his house to thank him for his kindnesses to her, but I know not in what way she expresses herself. Farewell, my dear friend. Think sometimes of me and believe that I am your sincere friend.", "pos": 6598638}
{"speaker": "Maximilian-Joseph, Count Lamberg", "text": "A celebrated man, M. Casanova, will deliver to you, my dear friend, the visiting card with which he is charged for Mme. Opiz and yourself. Knowing this amiable and remarkable man, will mark an epoch in your life, be polite and friendly to him, ‘quod ipsi facies in mei memoriam faciatis’. Keep yourself well, write to me, and if you can direct him to some honest man at Carlsbad, fail not to do so. . . .", "pos": 6601034}
{"speaker": "M. Opiz", "text": "Your letter of the 30th, including your cards for my wife and myself, was delivered the first of this month by M. Casanova. He was very anxious to meet the Princess Lubomirski again at Carlsbad. But as something about his carriage was broken, he was obliged to stop in Czaslau for two hours which he passed in my company. He has left Czaslau with the promise of giving me a day on his return. I am already delighted. Even in the short space of time in which I enjoyed his company, I found in him a man worthy of our highest consideration and of our love, a benevolent philosopher whose homeland is the great expanse of our planet (and not Venice alone) and who values only the men in the kings . . . . I know absolutely no one at Carlsbad, so I sincerely regret being unable to recommend him to anyone there, according to your desire. He did not wish, on account of his haste, to pause even at Prague and, consequently, to deliver, at this time, your letter to Prince Furstemberg.", "pos": 6601518}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "As to Zawoiski, I did not tell him the story until I met him in Carlsbad old and deaf, forty years later.", "pos": 6602724}
{"speaker": "Arthur Symons", "text": "I had the sensation of an enormous building: all Bohemian castles are big, but this one was like a royal palace. Set there in the midst of the town, after the Bohemian fashion, it opens at the back upon great gardens, as if it were in the midst of the country. I walked through room after room, corridor after corridor; everywhere there were pictures, everywhere portraits of Wallenstein, and battle scenes in which he led on his troops. The library, which was formed, or at least arranged, by Casanova, and which remains as he left it, contains some twenty-five thousand volumes, some of them of considerable value . . . . The library forms part of the Museum, which occupies a ground-floor wing of the castle. The first room is an armoury, in which all kinds of arms are arranged, in a decorative way, covering the ceiling and the walls with strange patterns. The second room contains pottery, collected by Casanova’s Waldstein on his Eastern travels. The third room is full of curious mechanical toys, and cabinets, and carvings in ivory. Finally, we come to the library, contained in the two innermost rooms. The book shelves are painted white and reach to the low vaulted ceilings, which are whitewashed. At the end of a bookcase, in the corner of one of the windows, hangs a fine engraved portrait of Casanova.", "pos": 6603214}
{"speaker": "Francesca", "text": "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 call me Friend, but Madame . . . . You have reason to chide me and to reproach me for having rented a house without surety or means of paying the rent. As to the advice you give me that if some honest person would pay me my rent, or at least a part of it, I should have no scruples about taking it because a little more, or a little less, would be of little importance . . . . I declare to you that I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified . . . . You tell me that you have near you a young girl who merits all your solicitations and your love, she and her family of six persons who adore you and give you every attention; that she costs you all you have, so that you cannot send me even a sou . . . . I am pained to hear you say that you will never return to Venice, and yet I hope to see you again. . . . My only true friend,", "pos": 6604902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is two days since I received your dear letter; I was very happy to see your writing .... You have reason to mortify me and reproach me in recalling all the troubles I caused you, and especially that which you call treachery, the sale of your books, of which in part I was not guilty . . . . Forgive me, my dear friend, me and my foolish mother who, despite all my objections, absolutely insisted on selling them. Regarding that which you write me that you know that my mother, last year, told about that you had been my ruin, this may unhappily be true, since you already know the evil thoughts of my mother, who even says that you are still at Venice . . . . When have I not been always sincere with you, and when have I not at least listened to your good advices and offers? I am in a desperate situation, abandoned by all, almost in the streets, almost about to be homeless . . . . Where are all the pleasures which formerly you procured me? Where are the theatres, the comedies which we once saw together? . . .", "pos": 6606339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The first of the year I received your dear letter with the bill of exchange for one hundred and twenty-five lires which you sent me so generously . . . . You say you have forgiven me for all the troubles I have caused you. Forget all, then, and do not accuse me any more of things which are but too true and of which the remembrance alone cuts me to the heart . . . . You write me that you have been forgotten by a person of whom you were very fond, that she is married and that you have not seen her for more than a month.", "pos": 6607378}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Until the other day, I had been waiting for your arrival, hoping that you would come to assist at the entry of the Procurator Memmo . . . . I see by your good letter that you were not able to get away, since your presence is nearly always necessary in the great castle . . . . I learn of the visit you have received from the Emperor who wished to see your library of forty-thousand volumes! . . . You say that you detest the chase and that you are unhappy when politeness obliges you to go . . . . I am pleased to know that you are in good health, that you are stout and that you have a good appetite and sleep well . . . . I hope that the printing of your book is going according to your wishes. If you go to Dresden for the marriage of your niece, enjoy yourself for me . . . . Forget not to write to me; this gives me such pleasure! Remember me. Full of confidence in your friendship, I am, and always will be, your true and sincere friend,", "pos": 6607971}
{"speaker": "Francesca Buschina", "text": "I have felt a very particular desire to evidence to you the estimation due your spirit and your eminent qualities: the superb sonnet augmented my wish. But the inconveniences of childbirth and the cares required by a little girl whom I adore, made me defer this pleasure. During my husband’s absence, your last and much honored letter came to my hands. Your amiable compliments to me, engage me to take the pen to give you renewed assurance that I have in me a sincere admirer of your great talent . . . . When I wish to point out a person who writes and thinks with excellence, I name Monsieur Casanova . . . .", "pos": 6609837}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I am struck by a woman at first sight, she completely ravishes me, and I am perhaps lost, for she may be a Charpillon.", "pos": 6613914}
{"speaker": "Marianne de Charpillon", "text": "I know not, Monsieur, whether you forgot the engagement Saturday last; as for me, I remember that you consented to give us the pleasure of having you at dinner to-day, Monday, the 12th of the month. I would greatly like to know whether your ill-humor has left you; this would please me. Farewell, in awaiting the honor of seeing you. Monsieur. As I have a part in all which concerns you, I am greatly put out to know of the new illness which incommodes you; I hope that this will be so trifling that we will have the pleasure of seeing you well and at our house, to-day or to-morrow. And, in truth, the gift which you sent me is so pretty that I know not how to express to you the pleasure it has given me and how much I value it; and I cannot see why you must always provoke me by telling me that it is my fault that you are filled with bile, while I am as innocent as a new-born babe and would wish you so gentle and patient that your blood would become a true clarified syrup; this will come to you if you follow my advice. I am, Monsieur. Your very humble servant. Wednesday at six o’clock", "pos": 6614337}
{"speaker": "Zaguri", "text": "Have you tried riding horseback? Do you not think that is an excellent preservative? I tried it this last summer and I find myself very well.", "pos": 6615557}
{"speaker": "Leonilda", "text": "spend the remainder of my days with her.", "pos": 6616158}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I have in my capitularies more than four hundred sentences which pass for aphorisms and which include all the tricks which place one word for another. One can read in Livy that Hannibal overcame the Alps by means of vinegar. No elephant ever uttered such a stupidity. Livy? Not at all. Livy was not a beast; it is you who are, foolish instructor of credulous youth! Livy did not say aceto which means vinegar, but aceta which means axe.", "pos": 6616255}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Your rascally Vidierol . . . tore my portrait out of one of my books, scrawled my name on it, with the epithet which you taught him and then stuck it on the door of the privy .... Determined to make sure of the punishment of your infamous valet, and wishing at the same time to give proof of my respect for Count Waldstein, not forgetting that, as a last resort, I have the right to invade his jurisdiction, I took an advocate, wrote my complaint and had it translated into German . . . . Having heard of this at Teplitz, and having known that I would not save your name, you came to my chamber to beg me to write whatever I wished but not to name you because it would place you wrong before the War Council and expose you to the loss of your pension . . . . I have torn up my first complaint and have written a second in Latin, which an advocate of Bilin has translated for me and which I have deposited at the office of the judiciary at Dux....", "pos": 6617665}
{"speaker": "Count Waldstein's mother", "text": "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 am sure he will give you all the satisfaction you wish.", "pos": 6620336}
{"speaker": "Zaguri", "text": "I hope that the gout in your hand will not torment you any more. . . . You have told me the story I asked about and which begins: ‘Two months have passed since an officer, who is at Vienna, insulted me!’ I cannot understand whether he who wrote you an insulting letter is at Vienna or whether he is at Dux. When will the Count return? . . . You should await his return because you would have, among other reasons to present to him, that of not wishing to have recourse to other jurisdiction than his. . . You say your letters have been intercepted? Someone has put your portrait in the privy? The devil! It is a miracle that you have not killed someone. Positively, I am curious to know the results and I hope that you make no mistakes in this affair which appears to me very delicate.", "pos": 6620603}
{"speaker": "Da Ponte", "text": "When Cicero wrote to his friends, he avoided telling them of his affairs. Count Waldstein has lived a very obscure life in London, badly lodged, badly dressed, badly served, always in cabarets, cafes, with porters, with rascals, with . . . we will leave out the rest. He has the heart of an angel and an excellent character, but not so good a head as ours.", "pos": 6622024}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Madame. I handed the Count your letter two minutes after having received it, finding him easily. I told him that he should respond at once, for the post was ready to go; but, as he begged to wait for the following ordinary, I did not insist. The day before yesterday, he begged me to wait again, but he did not find me so complaisant. I respond to you, Madame, for his carelessness in replying to letters is extreme; he is so shameful that he is in despair when he is obliged to it. Although he may not respond, be sure of seeing him at your house at Berlin after the Leipzig Fair, with a hundred bad excuses which you will laugh at and pretend to believe good ones . . . . This last month, my wish to see Berlin again has become immeasurable, and I will do my best to have Count Waldstein take me there in the month of October or at least to permit me to go . . . . You have given me an idea of Berlin far different than that the city left with me when I passed four months there twenty-nine years ago . . . . If my ‘Icosameron’ interests you, I offer you its Spirit. I wrote it here two years ago and I would not have published it if I had not dared hope that the Theological Censor would permit it. At Berlin no one raised the least difficulty . . . . If circumstances do not permit me to pay you my respects at Berlin, I hope for the happiness of seeing you here next year . . . .", "pos": 6624033}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "One is never old with your heart, your genius and your stomach. Two years ago, I set out for Hamburg, but my good genius made me return to Dux. What had I to do at Hamburg?", "pos": 6631364}
{"speaker": "Princess Clari", "text": "She is charming in every way, pretty as love, always amiable; she has had great success. Prince Kaunitz loves her to the point of madness.", "pos": 6632238}
{"speaker": "Teresa", "text": "Before thanking you for your charming letter, my very kind uncle, I should announce the issue of our pension of one hundred and sixty crowns a year, which is to say, eighty crowns apiece; I am well satisfied for I did not hope to receive so much.", "pos": 6632653}
{"speaker": "Don Antonio", "text": "Your letter gave me great pleasure as the sweet souvenir of our old friendship, unique and faithful over a period of fifty years.", "pos": 6633327}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "That which proves that revolution should arrive, is that it has arrived.", "pos": 6633585}
{"speaker": "Carlo Angiolini", "text": "This evening, Teresa will marry M. le Chambellan de Veisnicht whom you know well.", "pos": 6633822}
{"speaker": "Mlle. Henriette de Schuckmann", "text": "I was with the Chamberlain Freiberg, and I was greatly moved, as much by your conversation as by your kindness which provided me with a beautiful edition of Metastasio, elegantly bound in red morocco.", "pos": 6634413}
{"speaker": "Henriette", "text": "But certainly, my good friend, your letters have given me the greatest pleasure, and it is with a rising satisfaction that I pore over all you say to me. I love, I esteem, I cherish, your frankness . . . . I understand you perfectly and I love to distraction the lively and energetic manner with which you express yourself. You will read to-day, if you please, a weary letter; for your silence, Monsieur, has given me humors. A promise is a debt, and in your last letter you promised to write me at least a dozen pages. I have every right to call you a bad debtor; I could summon you before a court of justice; but all these acts of vengeance would not repair the loss which I have endured through my hope and my fruitless waiting . . . . It is your punishment to read this trivial page; but although my head is empty, my heart is not so, and it holds for you a very living friendship.", "pos": 6634974}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Our late friend, the worthy Count Max Josef Lamberg, could not bear the idea of my burning my Memoirs, and expecting to survive me, had persuaded me to send him the first four volumes. But now there is no longer any questions that his good soul has left his organs. Three weeks ago I wept for his death, all the more so as he would still be living if he had listened to me. I am, perhaps, the only one who knows the truth. He who slew him was the surgeon Feuchter at Cremsir, who applied thirty-six mercurial plasters on a gland in his left groin which was swollen but not by the pox, as I am sure by the description he gave me of the cause of the swelling. The mercury mounted to his esophagus and, being able to swallow neither solids nor fluids, he died the 23rd June of positive famine . . . . The interest of the bungling surgeon is to say that he died of the pox. This is not true, I beg, you to give the lie to anyone you hear saying it. I have before my eyes four hundred and sixty of his letters over which I weep and which I will burn. I have asked Count Leopold to burn mine, which he had saved, and I hope that he will please me by doing it. I have survived all my true friends. ‘Tempus abire mihi est’ Horace says to me. Returning to my Memoirs . . . I am a detestable man; but I do not care about having it known, and I do not aspire to the honor of the detestation of posterity. My work is full of excellent moral instructions. But to what good, if the charming descriptions of my offences excite the readers more to action than to repentance? Furthermore, knowing readers would divine the names of all the women and of the men which I have masked, whose transgressions are unknown to the world, my indiscretion would injure them, they would cry out against my perfidy, even though every word of my history were true . . . . Tell me yourself whether or not I should burn my work? I am curious to have your advice. The letter of recommendation you ask of me to the professor my brother for your younger son, honors me; and there is no doubt that, having for you all the estimation your qualities merit, I should send it to you immediately. But this cannot be. And here is the reason. My brother is my enemy; he has given me sure indications of it and it appears that his hate will not cease until I no longer exist. I hope that he may long survive me and be happy. This desire is my only apology. The epigraph of the little work which I would give to the public, is ‘In pondere et mensura’. It is concerned with gravity and measure. I would demonstrate not only that the course of the stars is irregular but also that it is susceptible only to approximate measures and that consequently we must join physical and moral calculations in establishing celestial movements. For I prove that all fixed axes must have a necessarily irregular movement of oscillation, from which comes a variation in all the necessary curves of the planets which compose their eccentricities and their orbits. I demonstrate that light has neither body nor spirit; I demonstrate that it comes in an instant from its respective star; I demonstrate the impossibility of many parallaxes and the uselessness of many others. I criticize not only Tiko-Brahi, but also Kepler and Newton . . . . I wish to send you my manuscript and give you the trouble of publishing it with my name at Prague or elsewhere . . . . I will sell it to the printer or to yourself for fifty florins and twenty-five copies on fine paper when it is printed.", "pos": 6636192}
{"speaker": "Opiz", "text": "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.", "pos": 6639826}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I will have my Reveries printed at Dresden, and I will be pleased to send you a copy. I laughed a little at your fear that I would take offense because you did not want my manuscript by sending me the ridiculous sum I named to you. This refusal, my dear friend, did not offend me. On the contrary it was useful as an aid in knowing character. Add to this that in making the offer I thought to make you a gift. Fear nothing from the event. Your system of economy will never interfere with either my proceedings or my doctrines; and I am in no need of begging you, for I think that your action followed only your inclination and consequently your greatest pleasure.", "pos": 6640175}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "One day M. de Bragadin said to me: ‘Jacques, be careful never to convince a quibbler, for he will become your enemy.’ After this wise advice I avoided syllogism, which tended toward conviction. But in spite of this you have become my enemy. . . . Jacques, be careful never to convince a quibbler, for he will become your enemy.", "pos": 6641376}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "I remained at Padua long enough to prepare myself for the Doctor’s degree, which I intended to take the following year.", "pos": 6645852}
{"speaker": "Cecilia Roggendorff", "text": "By the way, how do you call yourself, by your baptismal name? On what day and in what year were you born? You may laugh, if you wish, at my questions, but I command you to satisfy me . . .", "pos": 6646276}
{"speaker": "Casanova", "text": "Summary of My Life:--my mother brought me into the world at Venice on the 2nd April, Easter day of the year 1725. She had, the night before, a strong desire for crawfish. I am very fond of them. At baptism, I was named Jacques-Jerome. I was an idiot until I was eight-and-a-half years old. After having had a hemorrhage for three months, I was taken to Padua, where, cured of my imbecility, I applied myself to study and, at the age of sixteen years I was made a doctor and given the habit of a priest so that I might go seek my fortune at Rome. At Rome, the daughter of my French instructor was the cause of my being dismissed by my patron, Cardinal Aquaviva. At the age of eighteen years, I entered the military service of my country, and I went to Constantinople. Two years afterward, having returned to Venice, I left the profession of honor and, taking the bit in my teeth, embraced the wretched profession of a violinist. I horrified my friends, but this did not last for very long. At the age of twenty-one years, one of the highest nobles of Venice adopted me as his son, and, having become rich, I went to see Italy, France, Germany and Vienna where I knew Count Roggendorff. I returned to Venice, where, two years later, the State Inquisitors of Venice, for just and wise reasons, imprisoned me under The Leads. This was the state prison, from which no one had ever escaped, but, with the aid of God, I took flight at the end of fifteen months and went to Paris. In two years, my affairs prospered so well that I became worth a million, but, all the same, I went bankrupt. I made money in Holland; suffered misfortune in Stuttgart; was received with honors in Switzerland; visited M. de Voltaire; adventured in Genoa, Marseilles, Florence and in Rome where the Pope Rezzonico, a Venetian, made me a Chevalier of Saint-Jean-Latran and an apostolic protonotary. This was in the year 1760. In the same year I found good fortune at Naples; at Florence I carried off a girl; and, the following year, I was to attend the Congress at Augsburg, charged with a commission from the King of Portugal. The Congress did not meet there and, after the publication of peace, I passed on into England, which great misfortunes caused me to leave in the following year, 1764. I avoided the gibbet which, however, should not have dishonored me as I should only have been hung. In the same year I searched in vain for fortune at Berlin and at Petersburg, but I found it at Warsaw in the following year. Nine months afterwards, I lost it through being embroiled in a pistol duel with General Branicki; I pierced his abdomen but in eight months he was well again and I was very much pleased. He was a brave man. Obliged to leave Poland, I returned to Paris in 1767, but a ‘lettre de cachet’ obliged me to leave and I went to Spain where I met with great misfortunes. I committed the crime of making nocturnal visits to the mistress of the ‘vice-roi’, who was a great scoundrel.", "pos": 6646509}
{"speaker": "Jacques Casanova", "text": "At the frontiers of Spain, I escaped from assassins only to suffer, at Aix, in Provence, an illness which took me to the edge of the grave, after spitting blood for eighteen months. In the year 1769, I published my Defense of the Government of Venice, in three large volumes, written against Amelot de la Houssaie. In the following year the English Minister at the Court of Turin sent me, well recommended, to Leghorn. I wished to go to Constantinople with the Russian fleet, but as Admiral Orlof, would not meet my conditions, I retraced my steps and went to Rome under the pontificate of Ganganelli. A happy love affair made me leave Rome and go to Naples and, three months later, an unhappy love made me return to Rome. I had measured swords for the third time with Count Medini who died four years ago at London, in prison for his debts. Having considerable money, I went to Florence, where, during the Christmas Festival, the Archduke Leopold, the Emperor who died four or five years ago, ordered me to leave his dominions within three days. I had a mistress who, by my advice, became Marquise de * * * at Bologna. Weary of running about Europe, I determined to solicit mercy from the Venetian State Inquisitors. For this purpose, I established myself at Trieste where, two years later, I obtained it. This was the 14th September 1774. My return to Venice after nineteen years was the most pleasant moment of my life. In 1782, I became embroiled with the entire body of the Venetian nobility. At the beginning of 1783, I voluntarily left the ungrateful country and went to Vienna. Six months later I went to Paris with the intention of establishing myself there, but my brother, who had lived there for twenty-six years, made me forget my interests in favor of his. I rescued him from the hands of his wife and took him to Vienna where Prince Kaunitz engaged him to establish himself. He is still there, older than I am by two years. I placed myself in the service of M. Foscarini, Venetian Ambassador, to write dispatches. Two years later, he died in my arms, killed by the gout which mounted into his chest. I then set out for Berlin in the hope of securing a position with the Academy, but, half way there, Count Waldstein stopped me at Teplitz and led me to Dux where I still am and where, according to all appearances, I shall die. This is the only summary of my life that I have written, and I permit any use of it which may be desired. 'Non erubesco evangelium'. This 17th November 1797. Jacques Casanova.", "pos": 6649480}
{"speaker": "Cecilia Roggendorff", "text": "You tell me in one of your letters that, at your death, you will leave me, by your will, your Memoirs which occupy twelve volumes.", "pos": 6655102}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "... the various adventures which, at the age of seventy-two years, impel me to write these Memoirs ...", "pos": 6655460}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I left Venice in the year 1783, God ought to have sent me to Rome, or to Naples, or to Sicily, or to Parma, where my old age, according to all appearances, might have been happy. My genius, who is always right, led me to Paris, so that I might see my brother Francois, who had run into debt and who was just then going to the Temple. I do not care whether or not he owes me his regeneration, but I am glad to have effected it. If he had been grateful to me, I should have felt myself paid; it seems to me much better that he should carry the burden of his debt on his shoulders, which from time to time he ought to find heavy. He does not deserve a worse punishment. To-day, in the seventy-third year of my life, my only desire is to live in peace and to be far from any person who might imagine that he has rights over my moral liberty, for it is impossible that any kind of tyranny should not coincide with this imagination.", "pos": 6655754}
{"speaker": "Zaguri", "text": "I note with the greatest sorrow the blow which has afflicted you.", "pos": 6656868}
{"speaker": "Elisa von der Recke", "text": "Your letter, my friend, has deeply affected me. Although myself ill, the first fair day which permits me to go out will find me at your side. The Montboisier family, Milady Clark, my children and myself have all made vows for your recovery.", "pos": 6657238}