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Updated: June 11, 2025
I am in your hands, and I feel certain that I shall have no cause to repent it." I needed all she had just told' me to confirm me in the interest which I had felt in her from the first moment. I told her unsparingly that Steffani had seduced and abandoned her of malice aforethought, and that she ought to think of him only to be revenged of his perfidy.
"It strikes me that it would be better not to insist upon a compulsory marriage which would seal your daughter's misery, for Steffani is, in every respect, one of the most worthless young men we have amongst our government clerks." "Were I in your place," said M. de Bragadin, "I would let my daughter's repentance disarm my anger, and I would forgive her." "Where is she?
We had no hope of contriving another meeting, for I had promised to bring her brother in the afternoon. The count and his son dined with us, and after dinner M. de Bragadin said, "I have joyful news for you, count; your beloved daughter has been found!" What an agreeable surprise for the father and son! M. de Bragadin handed them the promise of marriage written by Steffani, and said,
The answer seemed wonderful to the three friends, and I was myself surprised at my boldness, but I had a foreboding that Steffani was to meet his death at the hands of somebody; love might have given birth to that presentiment. M. de Bragadin, who believed my oracle infallible, observed that it had never given such a clear answer, and that Steffani was certainly dead. He said to M. de Barbaro,
I lead a dissolute life Zawoiski Rinaldi L'Abbadie the young countess the Capuchin friar Z. Steffani Ancilla La Ramor I take a gondola at St. Job to go to Mestra.
I promise you that to-morrow at the latest you shall know whether Steffani is in Venice, what he intends to do with you, and what we may compel him to do. Until then my advice is not to let him know your arrival in Venice." "Good God! where shall I go to-night?" "To a respectable house, of course." "I will go to yours, if you are married." "I am a bachelor."
On leaving this interesting but hapless girl, I proceeded to the house of Steffani. I heard from one of his mother's gondoliers that he had returned to Venice three days before, but that, twenty-four hours after his return, he had gone away again without any servant, and nobody knew his whereabouts, not even his mother.
I had no other purpose in view but to restore calm to her mind, and to obliterate the bad opinion which the unworthy Steffani had given her of men in general. I never thought of inspiring her with love for me, and I had not the slightest idea that I could fall in love with her.
"Then," observed M. Barbaro, "it is impossible to be certain that he actually seduced her, or to prove that she went off with him." "Very true, sir, but although it cannot be proved, there is no doubt of it, and now that no one knows where Steffani is, he can be nowhere but with her. I only want him to marry her."
An individual wearing a mask was waiting for her, joined her at once, and they both disappeared without leaving any trace of their whereabouts." "Very likely it was Steffani waiting there for her." "No, for he is short, and the man with the mask was tall. Besides, I have heard that Steffani had left Venice two days before the arrival of my daughter.
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