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I have told some of my friends who are fond of gaming." "Does the charming Frenchwoman like gaming?" "No, but her husband does." "What's his name?" "He calls himself Count de Castelbajac." "Ah! Castelbajac?" "Yes." "He is a Gascon?" "Yes." "Tall, thin, and dark, and marked with the smallpox? "Exactly! I am delighted to find you know him. You will agree with me that his wife is very pretty?"
My landlord was a Swiss who told me in confidence that he had received instructions to treat me well, and that I had only to ask for what I wanted. We shall see soon what was the result of all this. My Imprudence Passano I Am Imprisoned My Departure from Barcelona Madame Castelbajac at Montpellier Nimes I Arrive at Aix
He was the chief of the police, and told me that if I would pay for the journey he would arrest Castelbajac at Dover, for which town he had started at noon. As to the other he was sure of having him in the course of the night. I gave him a guinea, and told him it would be enough to catch the one, and that the other could go where he liked.
Eccentricity of the English Castelbajac Count Schwerin Sophie at School My Reception at the Betting Club The Charpillon I passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation. It seemed as if the house, which I had hitherto thought so beautiful, was like a millstone about my neck.
I seemed to have become young again; but I was altered, for several beautiful and clever actresses appeared on the stage without arousing any desires within me; and I would have it so. I had a lively desire to find Madame Castelbajac, not with any wish to renew my old relations with her.
One often goes to a wise man for advice which one has not the courage to follow. In the evening I went to the general's, and found the self-styled Countess Castelbajac seated on Lord Pembroke's knees. The supper was a good one, and passed off pleasantly; the two rascals were not there, and their absence was not remarked. When we left the table we went into another room, and played till day-break.
The Gascon and the Prussian were the last to come. We sat down to table at two and left it at four, all of us well pleased with the cook, and still more so with the wine merchant; for though we had emptied forty bottles of wine, not one of us was at all intoxicated. After coffee had been served the general invited us all to sup with him, and Madame Castelbajac begged me to hold a bank.
Two days afterwards the so-called countess came to my house, saying that now Castelbajac and Schewirin were gone, she knew not where to lay her head. She complained bitterly of Lord Pembroke, who deserted her after making her give him the clearest proofs of her affection. By way of consolation I told her that it would be very foolish of him to have abandoned her before instead of after.
Lord Pembroke introduced us all to each other, and when he came to me Castelbajac said he was delighted to see me again, although he might easily have pretended not to know me under my name of Seingalt. We had a good English dinner, and afterwards the lady proposed a game of faro.
In the meantime let him imagine me rolling peacefully along the Dresden road. My Arrival at Dresden with Maton She Makes Me a Present Leipzig Castelbajac Schwerin Return to Dresden and Departure I Arrive at Vienna Pocchini's Vengeance When I saw myself in the carriage with this pretty girl, who had fallen on me as if from the clouds, I imagined I was intended to shape her destiny.
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