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Updated: May 20, 2025
"If Signora Malveda will lend me four thousand scudi, I should then have ten thousand to offer you!" "Well, so be it. Ten thousand scudi will do, if you will add to it a trifling favor." "Name it," said Braschi. "You know that Ganganelli opposes the crowning of our famous improvisatrice, Corilla, in the capitol. This is an injustice which Ganganelli's successor will have to repair.
My whole property consists of six thousand scudi, and that trifling sum I dare not offer you." "Borrow, then, of Signora Malveda!" said Albani. "Cardinal Rezzonico is rich and liberal. Let us speak directly to the point. You would be pope, and I am willing to forward your views. How much will you pay?"
Will you do it?" Braschi gave the cardinal a sly glance. "Ah," said he, "Signora Corilla seems to be less liberal than Signora Malveda? She will allow you no discount of her future laurel-crown, is it not so? I know nothing worse than an ambitious woman.
I know your habits, and know that Signora Malveda usually expects you at this hour, because Cardinal Rezzonico is not then with her! But I have something important to say to you. You know I am a man who, without forms and circumlocutions, always comes directly to the point. I do so now. You desire to be the successor of Ganganelli?" Braschi turned pale, and timidly cast down his eyes.
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