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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES
CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-
1798 ADVENTURES IN THE
SOUTH, Volume 4d--BACK
AGAIN TO PARIS
THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF
1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO
WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS
DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
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BACK AGAIN TO PARIS
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CHAPTER XIII
My Stay at Paris and My Departure for Strasburg, Where I
Find the Renaud--My Misfortunes at Munich and My Sad
Visit to Augsburg
At ten o'clock in the morning, cheered by the pleasant
feeling of being once more in that Paris which is so
imperfect, but which is the only true town in the world, I
called on my dear Madame d'Urfe, who received me with
open arms. She told me that the young Count d'Aranda
was quite well, and if I liked she would ask him to dinner
the next day. I told her I should be delighted to see him,
and then I informed her that the operation by which she
was to e a man could not be performed till
Querilinto, one of the three chiefs of the Fraternity of the
Rosy Cross, was liberated from the dungeons of the
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Inquisition, at Lisbon.
"This is the reason," I added, "that I am going to Augsburg
in the course of next month, where I shall confer with the
Earl of Stormont as to the liberation of the adept, under
the pretext of a mission from the Portuguese Government.
For these purposes I shall require a good letter of credit,
and some watches and snuff-boxes to make presents with,
as we shall have to win over certain of the profane."
"I will gladly see to all that, but you need not hurry
yourself as the Congress will not meet till September."
"Believe me, it will never meet at all, but the ambassadors
of the belligerent powers will be there all the same. If,
contrary to my expectation, the Congress is held, I shall be
obliged to go to Lisbon. In any case, I promise to see
you