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In evidence of my satisfaction I gave him a bottle of Scopolo, which Leah guaranteed pure. We dined together, and seeing that the wine was making her mirthful I told her that her eyes were inflaming me and that she must let me kiss them. "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." "You are cruel."
I went to Barberine at an early hour, and as soon as she saw me she said, "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:" "You astonish me, sweetheart, for how did you manage to get such a good dinner?"
"Quite so, and the good-hearted girl refrains from taunting a man for his weakness for her." I called the maid and told her to go to the Venetian consul's and get me some more Scopolo and Muscat. Leah piqued me once more by saying enthusiastically, "I am sure you are the most good-hearted of men as well as the firmest."
Bonneval made me a present of twelve bottles of malmsey from Ragusa, and of twelve bottles of genuine scopolo a great rarity, with which I made a present in Corfu which proved very useful to me, as the reader will discover.
At dinner-time I talked only to Mardocheus, without glancing at Leah or paying any attention to the witty sallies she uttered to attract me. I only drank Orvieto. At dessert Leah filled my glass with Scopolo, saying that if I did not drink it neither would she. I replied, without looking at her, that I advised her only to drink water for the future, and that I wanted nothing at her hands.
As she drank my Scopolo she said there were several bottles left, as well as some Muscat. "I make you a present of it all," I replied, "it will prime you up for your nocturnal orgies." 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.
As she drank my Scopolo she said there were several bottles left, as well as some Muscat. "I make you a present of it all," I replied, "it will prime you up for your nocturnal orgies." 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.
"Try if you like," I said, "to persuade me to drink some Scopolo or Muscat. I meant to have taken some, but your taunt has turned me to steel. I mean to prove that when I make up my mind I never alter it." "The strong-minded man never gives way," said Leah, "but the good-hearted man often lets himself be overpersuaded."
In evidence of my satisfaction I gave him a bottle of Scopolo, which Leah guaranteed pure. We dined together, and seeing that the wine was making her mirthful I told her that her eyes were inflaming me and that she must let me kiss them. "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." "You are cruel."
He sold me some Scopolo and old Cyprus Muscat, but he began to exclaim when he heard where I was lodging, and how I had come there. "He is rich," he said, "but he is also a great usurer, and if you borrow money of him he will make you repent it." After informing the consul that I should not leave till the end of the month, I went home to dinner, which proved excellent.
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