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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES
CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-
1798 IAN YEARS, Volume
1e--MILAN AND MANTUA
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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MILAN AND MANTUA
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CHAPTER XX
Slight pel Me to Leave Venice--My
Adventures in Milan and Mantua
On Low Sunday Charles paid us a visit with his lovely
wife, who seemed totally indifferent to what Christine
used to be. Her hair dressed with powder did not please
me as well as the raven black of her beautiful locks, and
her fashionable town attire did not, in my eyes, suit her as
well as her rich country dress. But the countenances of
husband and wife bore the stamp of
reproached me in a friendly manner because I had not
called once upon them, and, in order to atone for my
apparent negligence, I went to see them the next day with
M. Dandolo. Charles told me that his wife was idolized
by his aunt and his sister who had e her bosom
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friend; that she was kind, affectionate, unassuming, and of
a disposition which enforced affection. I was no less
pleased with this favourable state of things than with the
facility with which Christine was learning the ian
dialect.
When M. Dandolo and I called at their house, Charles was
not at home;Christine was alone with his two relatives.
The most friendly e was proffered to us, and in the
course of conversation the aunt praised the progress made
by Christine in her writing very highly, and asked her to
let me see her copy-book. I followed her to the next
room, where she told me that she was very happy; that
every day she discovered new virtues in her husband. He
had told her,without the slightest appearance of suspicion
of displeasure, that he knew that we had spent two days
together in Treviso,