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Come and see me to-morrow with the duke." The duke came in at that moment, and asked me if I had liked the opera. Leonilda answered for me, "We have been talking about love all the time, so we don't know what has been going on the stage." "You have done well." "I trust you will bring M. Casanova to see me tomorrow morning, as I hope he will bring me news that he has won."
"Well, I should have refused Leonilda if she had asked me, but I accept this mark of your friendship. A refusal would have borne witness to nothing but a foolish pride, as I am a poor man. I should like Leonilda and her mother to be present when you give me the money." "Embrace me; we will do our business after dinner."
Leonilda had already turned my first feeling of admiration into something much warmer, and the opera, which lasted for five hours, seemed over in a moment. After the two ladies had gone the duke said, "Now we must part, unless you are fond of games of chance." "I don't object to them when I am to play with good hands."
"Let us go directly; I cannot rest till I have seen my Leonilda and the good husband God has given her. Have they any children?" "No, unluckily for her, as after his death the property passes to his relations. But Leonilda will be a rich woman for all that; she will have a hundred thousand ducats of her own." "You have never married." "No."
"Will you accept it, then, my dear Leonilda?" "Yes, papa dear," she said, embracing me, "on the condition that you will promise to come and see me again as soon as you hear of my marriage." I promised to do so, and I kept my word. "As you are going to-morrow," said the duke, "I shall ask all the nobility of Naples to meet you at supper.
While dressing she maintained with much ingenuity that a wise girl will be much more chary of her favours towards a man she loves than towards a man she does not love, because she would be afraid to lose the first, whereas she does not care about the second. "It will not be so with me, charming Leonilda," said I. "You make a mistake, I am sure."
You would have done better not to play, for I should have loved you all the same, and you would have been two thousand ducats better off." "And I two thousand ducats worse off," said the duke, laughing. "Never mind, dear Leonilda, I shall win this evening if you grant me some favour to-day. If you do not do so, I shall lose heart, and you will mourn at my grave before long."
"Let us be united for life; we are of the same age, we love each other, our means are sufficient for us, we may hope to live a happy life, and to die at the same moment." "Tis the darling wish of my heart," Lucrezia replied, "but let us stay at Naples and leave Leonilda to the duke. We will see company, find her a worthy husband, and our happiness will be complete."
The pictures with which the closet where we breakfasted was adorned were admirable more from the colouring and the design than from the amorous combats they represented. "They don't make any impression on me," said the duke, and he shewed us that it was so. Leonilda looked away, and I felt shocked, but concealed my feelings.
"Dear Leonilda," I said, "the love I feel for you will suffer no delay and no rivals, not even the slightest inconstancy. I have told the duke that I am ready to marry you, and that I will give you a dower of five thousand ducats." "What did he say?" "That I must ask you, and that he would offer no opposition." "Then we should leave Naples together."
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