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"The count will never do such a thing; he is too careful of his dignity." The worthy officer then narrated to me all the acts of injustice which Ricla had committed since he had fallen in love with this woman.
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. "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.
"A week after one of my husband's ballets was given. It was so well received that the audience encored it with enthusiasm. Ricla gave orders that the public should be satisfied, and all the dancers were told they would have to reappear. "Nina, who was almost undressed, told my husband to do as best he could, as she was not going to dance again.
"A week after one of my husband's ballets was given. It was so well received that the audience encored it with enthusiasm. Ricla gave orders that the public should be satisfied, and all the dancers were told they would have to reappear. "Nina, who was almost undressed, told my husband to do as best he could, as she was not going to dance again.
He would have made her a mother in her turn if he had not killed himself the same year, maybe to escape the gallows." "How did the Conte de Ricla fall in love with her?" "It is a short story and a curious one. "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.
She told me she would be in Florence during the Carnival of 1773, but I did not see her again till the year 1776, when I was at Venice. The dreadful Nina Bergonci, who had made a madman of Count Ricla, and was the source of all my woes at Barcelona, had come to Bologna at the beginning of Lent, occupying a pleasant house which she had taken.
"The Conte de Ricla had seen her from his box, and was divided between horror and admiration, and sent for the inspector to tell him that this impudent creature must be punished. "'In the mean time, said he, 'bring her before me. "Presently Nina appeared in the viceroy's box, and asked him, impudently, what he wanted with her.
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