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I took the opportunity of handing over to Greppi Canano's cheque, and he gave me a receipt for it. Therese asked us to supper for the ensuing evening, and said, "There will be four of us in all." Greppi seemed curious to know who the fourth person could be, but I right guessed it would be my dear son Cesarino.
I followed them about for a quarter of an hour, and the curiosity about them only increased, and then I paid a visit to Canano's table, where play was running high. A masquer dressed in the Venetian style was punting on a single card, going fifty sequins paroli and paix de paroli, in my fashion.
"I saw you losing money at Canano's bank," said he, "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." "Where does this club meet?" "In an extremely respectable house.
When she had left the room the marquis gave me the fifteen thousand francs, telling me that they would bring me good luck at Canano's. "You are a great favourite of Canano's," he added, "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."
I took the opportunity of handing over to Greppi Canano's cheque, and he gave me a receipt for it. Therese asked us to supper for the ensuing evening, and said, "There will be four of us in all." Greppi seemed curious to know who the fourth person could be, but I right guessed it would be my dear son Cesarino.
Good-bye, countess, I will go and warm myself by my own fire, and to-morrow I will wage war on Canano's bank." "You are certainly a sad dog. Stay here, I like your conversation." Without more ado I locked the door, took off my clothes, and seeing that her back was turned to me, jumped into bed beside her.
I followed them about for a quarter of an hour, and the curiosity about them only increased, and then I paid a visit to Canano's table, where play was running high. A masquer dressed in the Venetian style was punting on a single card, going fifty sequins paroli and paix de paroli, in my fashion.
Thus armed against the glances of the curious, I sat down at Canano's table and commenced to play in quite a different fashion. I had a hundred Spanish pieces in my pocket worth seven hundred Venetian sequins. I had got this Spanish money from Greppi, and I took care not to use what Triulzi had given me for fear he should know me.
When she had left the room the marquis gave me the fifteen thousand francs, telling me that they would bring me good luck at Canano's. "You are a great favourite of Canano's," he added, "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."
"I saw you losing money at Canano's bank," said he, "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." "Where does this club meet?" "In an extremely respectable house.
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