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Updated: June 13, 2025
She had heard that I was at Naples, and wanted me to help her, not as the Marquis della Petina wished, by lending him money, but by employing my influence with the Duchess of Kingston to make that lady take her to England with her in her service. "Are you married to the marquis?" "No." "Then how could you keep him for seven years?"
"And the Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum? I can't believe it." "The ambassador won't have anything to do with him, because he left Naples without the leave of the Government." "Tell your sister that if the ambassador assures me that her lover's name is really the Marquis de Petina, I will get him out of prison immediately."
When I got back to my room I found there the mistress of the wretched Marquis Petina, who told me that her happiness depended on a certificate from the Neapolitan ambassador that her lover was really the person he professed to be. With this document he would be able to claim a sum of two hundred guineas, and then they could both go to Naples, and he would marry her there.
This convinced me that Steyne was an intelligent man, though his French was execrable. He left at seven, after giving a beautiful ring to my daughter, whom he escorted back to school with Miss Nancy. The Marquis Petina foolishly observed to me that he did not know where to find a bed. I understood what he wanted, but I told him he would easily find one with a little money.
"It is important that I should be informed on that point," he added, "for the persons who are going to discount the bill want me to put my signature to it." "Sir," I replied, "I certainly am acquainted with the marquis, but I know nothing about his fortune. However, the Neapolitan ambassador assured me that he was the Marquis Petina."
They were his former wife, Aelia Petina, who had only been divorced in consequence of trivial disagreements, and who was supported by Narcissus; Lollia Paulina, so celebrated in antiquity for her beauty and splendour, and who for a short time had been the wife of Caius; and Agrippina the younger, the daughter of the great Germanicus, and the niece of Claudius himself.
She was the eldest of the five Hanoverians, the same that had fled with the Marquis dells Petina. I told her to come in, and ordered dinner to be brought up. "If you are alone," she said, "I should be glad to share your repast." "Certainly; I will order dinner for two." Her story was soon told. She had come to Naples with her husband, whom her mother refused to recognize.
She told me that her sister's lover was a Neapolitan, calling himself Marquis de Petina, and that they were to get married as soon as he was out of prison. It seemed he was expecting remittances, and the mother would be delighted to see her daughter a marchioness. "How much does the marquis owe?" "Twenty guineas."
"It is important that I should be informed on that point," he added, "for the persons who are going to discount the bill want me to put my signature to it." "Sir," I replied, "I certainly am acquainted with the marquis, but I know nothing about his fortune. However, the Neapolitan ambassador assured me that he was the Marquis Petina."
I bade him welcome, and summoning the eldest sister told the ambassador that this young lady was going to marry the Marquis Petina as soon as his remittances arrived.
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