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"Excuse me, madam, but I thought it better to put my body behind my hand." This sally made Branicki laugh, but his sister said to me, "You wanted to kill my brother, for you aimed at his head." "God forbid, madam! my interest lay in keeping him alive to defend me from his friends." "But you said you were going to fire at his head."
"What has happened?" became at once the general question. I held my tongue, and when they asked Lubomirski he replied that as I kept silence it was his duty to do the same. Thereupon the palatin, speaking in his friendliest manner, said to me, "What has taken place between you and Branicki?" "I will tell you the whole story, my lord, in private after supper."
Just as I embraced her who should enter but Branicki, whom I had left a moment before with Madame Binetti. He had clearly followed me in the hopes of picking a quarrel. He was accompanied by Bininski, his lieutenant-colonel. As soon as he appeared, politeness made me stand up and turn to go, but he stopped me. "It seems to me I have come at a bad time; it looks as if you loved this lady."
Branicki, who was dressed in a magnificent gown and supported by pillows and cushions, greeted me by taking off his nightcap. He was as pale as death. "I have come here, my lord," I began, "to offer you my service, and to assure you how I regret that I did not pass over a few trifling words of yours." "You have no reason to reproach yourself, M. Casanova." "Your excellency is very kind.
"That's what I think, for no one heard the bullet; but it was a mere chance." "Quite so." Just then an officer of the palatin's came to me with a note from his master, which ran as follows: "Read what the king says to me, and sleep well." The king's note was thus conceived: "Branicki, my dear uncle, is dangerous wounded.
I called on Prince Moszczinski, and Madame Binetti happened to be there; the moment she saw me she made her escape. "What has she against me?" I asked the count. "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.
"That's what I think, for no one heard the bullet; but it was a mere chance." "Quite so." Just then an officer of the palatin's came to me with a note from his master, which ran as follows: "Read what the king says to me, and sleep well." The king's note was thus conceived: "Branicki, my dear uncle, is dangerous wounded.
Branicki stooped as he walked, and gazed at me curiously, apparently wondering where all the blood on my clothes came from. When we got to the inn, Branicki laid himself down in an arm-chair. We unbuttoned his clothes and lifted up his shirt, and he could see himself that he was dangerously wounded.
I remember in my time when Branicki started in his coach to Jassy,148 and after that dishonourable coach streamed a train of Targowica confederates, as the tail follows that comet. The plain people, though they did not meddle in public deliberations, guessed at once that that train was an omen of treason.
My Duel with Branicki My Journey to Leopol and Return to Warsaw I Receive the Order to Leave My Departure with the Unknown One On reflection I concluded that Branicki had not done an ungentlemanly thing in getting into Tomatis's carriage; he had merely behaved with impetuosity, as if he were the Catai's lover.
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