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At the present time I feel very thankful that I acted as I did, but I confess that if I had felt sure that it was not a trap I should have promised the money. The fear of committing myself spared me this crime. The next day I got to Parma, and I put up at the posting-house under the name of the Chevalier de Seingalt, which I still bear.
"Will you be so good as to introduce me to the Chevalier de Seingalt? I have no doubt that it is the Chevalier whom I have the pleasure of seeing." Casanova bowed, saying: "Yes, I am he." "I am the Marchese Celsi. Let me present the Marchesa, my spouse." The lady offered her finger tips. Casanova touched them with his lips.
Yet now, when Olivo introduced him to Marcolina as Signor Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt, she smiled as she would have smiled at some utterly indifferent name that carried with it no aroma of adventure and mystery.
A clerk was immediately sent to the criminal lieutenant, praying him to command the advocate to bring before him, in three days, the plea of one Anami, alias Pogomas, alias Possano, the said plea being against Jacques Casanova, commonly called the Chevalier de Seingalt. This document, to which I affixed my signature, was laid before the criminal lieutenant.
I accepted the invitation, and she immediately told her servant that she was not at home to anyone. The small messenger who had taken the note to Passi returned at four o'clock with the following epistle: "The moment in which I see the Chevalier de Seingalt once more will be one of the happiest of my life.
As soon as I came in she told me joyously that my niece's father had just received a letter from the father of the Genoese, asking the hand of his daughter for his only son, who had been introduced to her by the Chevalier de Seingalt, her uncle, at the Paretti's. "The worthy man thinks himself under great obligations to you," said Madame Audibert.
It was Sunday, a day on which all persons, save criminals, are exempt from arrest; but, nevertheless, the following adventure befell me: I was dressed magnificently, and was driving home in my carriage, with my negro and another servant seated behind me; and just as we entered Pall Mall I heard a voice crying, "Good night, Seingalt."
"You are the Chevalier de Seingalt?" "That is my name, and I have come here to ask how I can oblige you?" "I have summoned you here to order you to leave the place in three days at latest." "And as you have no right to give such an order, I have come here to tell you that I shall go when I please, and not before." "I will expel you by force." "You may do that whenever you please.
I know you by repute, and if I am not mistaken you are a relation of Calsabigi, who has spoken of you to me. I have read some of your satires." "May I ask to whom I have the honour of speaking?" "My name is Seingalt. Have you finished your edition of the Decameron?" "I am still at work on it, and trying to increase the number of my subscribers."
The queen made up for the king, however, and I was delighted to observe that the proud ambassador from my beloved Venice was also present. When M. de Guerchi introduced me under the name of the Chevalier de Seingalt, Zuccato looked astonished, for Mr. Morosini had called me Casanova in his letter.
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