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Remember that Querini and no other must take you back to Venice; he must treat you as if you were his daughter. If he will not consent, you shall not return at all." "Would to God it were so!" Early the next morning I got a note from M. Querini requesting me to call on him, as he wanted to speak to me on a matter of importance. "We are getting on," said Marcoline.
I gave her the hours of the moon in writing, and also directions for the journey. As soon as the marchioness had gone I left the "Treize Cantons" and went to live with Marcoline, giving her four hundred and sixty louis, which, with the hundred and forty she had won at biribi, gave her a total of six hundred louis, or fourteen thousand four hundred francs.
Marcoline, who did not like night travelling, was in high glee, and threw her arms around my neck, saying, "Are we at Avignon now?" "Yes, dearest." "Then I conscientiously discharge the trust which the countess placed in me when she embraced me for the last time this morning. She made me swear not to say a word about it till we got to Avignon." "All this puzzles me, dearest; explain yourself."
We were dying of hunger, but the delicious supper which was waiting for us brought us to life again. As soon as we got into the room Marcoline took off her green clothes and put on her woman's dress, saying, "I was not born to wear the breeches. Here, take the beautiful necklace the madwoman gave me!" "I will sell it, fair Undine, and you shall have the proceeds." "Is it worth much?"
"Yes, it did make me laugh, because I did not know that a priest could get married; and he excited my curiosity by telling me that they managed it at Geneva. Curiosity and wantonness made me escape with him; you know the rest." Thus did Marcoline amuse me during the evening, and then we went to bed and slept quietly till the morning.
I did not care for the three days' delay, but my counsel told me it was always given, and that I must make up my mind to submit to all the vexation I should be obliged to undergo, even if we were wholly successful. As Madame d'Urfe had taken her departure in conformity with the orders of Paralis, I dined with Marcoline at the inn, and tried to raise my spirits by all the means in my power.
When I had thus successfully accomplished my designs by means of the all-powerful lever, gold, which I knew how to lavish in time of need, I was once more free for my amours. I wanted to instruct the fair Marcoline, with whom I grew more in love every day.
I Meet the Venetian Ambassadors at Lyons, and also Marcoline's Uncle I Part from Marcoline and Set Out for Paris An Amorous Journey Thus freed from the cares which the dreadful slanders of Possano had caused me, I gave myself up to the enjoyment of my fair Venetian, doing all in my power to increase her happiness, as if I had had a premonition that we should soon be separated from one another.
I left her to go to Marcoline, whom I longed to press to my heart. I found her in an ecstasy of joy, and she said that if she could understand what her maid said her happiness would be complete.
Marcoline followed the young bride about like a shadow, and the latter, who was going to Genoa in a week, wanted Marcoline to come in her train, promising to have her taken to Venice by a person of trust, but my sweetheart would listen to no proposal for separating her from me, "I won't go to Venice," she said, "till you send me there."
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