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Canano studied me, but I saw he could not make me out. I heard whispers running round the table. "It isn't Seingalt; he doesn't play like that; besides, he is at the ball." The luck turned; three deals were in my favour, and brought me back more than I had lost.
He lost three hundred sequins, and as he was a man of about the same size as myself people said it was Casanova, but Canano would not agree. In order that I might be able to stay at the table, I took up the cards and punted three or four ducats like a beginner. The next deal the Venetian masquer had a run of luck, and going paroli, paix de paroli and the va, won back all the money he had lost.
The next deal was also in his favour, and he collected his winnings and left the table. I sat down in the chair he had occupied, and a lady said, "That's the Chevalier de Seingalt." "No," said another. "I saw him a little while ago in the ball-room disguised as a beggar, with four other masquers whom nobody knows." "How do you mean, dressed as a beggar?" said Canano.
I thought she would have gone mad with joy. We went off in sedan-chairs, and the ball not having commenced we went to the assembly-rooms. Canano had not yet done anything, and he opened a pack of cards and pretended not to recognize me, but he smiled to see the pretty masker, my companion, sit down and play instead of me.
The thousand sequins came in, and I carried them all off in two deals. "Would you like to go on playing?" said Canano. I shook my head, and indicating with a sign of my hand that I would take a cheque, he weighed my winnings and gave me a cheque for twenty-nine pounds of gold, amounting to two thousand, five hundred sequins.
The thousand sequins came in, and I carried them all off in two deals. "Would you like to go on playing?" said Canano. I shook my head, and indicating with a sign of my hand that I would take a cheque, he weighed my winnings and gave me a cheque for twenty-nine pounds of gold, amounting to two thousand, five hundred sequins.
Canano shook me by the hand, and told me he expected me and the marquis to dinner every day, and I promised we would come at the earliest opportunity. I went to Therese's, and found Greppi there before me. Therese and Don Cesarino, whom I covered with kisses, came in a quarter of an hour afterwards. The banker stared at him in speechless wonder.
"If you behave well to me, you will always find me so. "And will you love me?" "That depends on you. So you are going to sacrifice Canano to me this evening." "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."
The three mendicants bowed gratefully to me and left the room. The Marquis Triulzi who sat near Canano, said, "The beggar in the straw-coloured dress is certainly Casanova." "I recognized him directly," replied the banker, "but who are the others?" "We shall find out in due time." "A dearer costume could not be imagined; all the dresses are quite new."
Canano introduced me to two handsome women, one of whom was his mistress, and to five or six marquises; for at Milan no noble who is not a marquis is thought anything of, just as in the same way they are all counts at Vicenza. The dinner was magnificent and the conversation highly intellectual.
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