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Updated: June 9, 2025
I had won more than fifteen thousand ducats, and this sum added to what I had before and Leonilda's dowry should have sufficed for an honest livelihood. Next day, as I was at supper with the duke and Leonilda, she said, "What will my mother say to-morrow evening, when she sees you?" "She will say that you are silly to marry a stranger whom you have only known for a week.
Donna Lucrezia approved of the arrangement as she did not want the marquis to think that I had only come to Salerno for her sake. My apartments were next to Leonilda's, but before I could get into her room I should be obliged to pass through that occupied by Anastasia, who slept with another maid still prettier than herself.
I had won more than fifteen thousand ducats, and this sum added to what I had before and Leonilda's dowry should have sufficed for an honest livelihood. Next day, as I was at supper with the duke and Leonilda, she said, "What will my mother say to-morrow evening, when she sees you?" "She will say that you are silly to marry a stranger whom you have only known for a week.
I thought, too, that the banker might have his doubts after the two heavy losses I had sustained, and I confess that I was also actuated by the gambler's superstition that by making a change of any kind one changes the luck. I spent four hours at the theatre in Leonilda's box, where I found her more gay and charming than I had seen her before.
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