The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...I am so grateful to you that I share your desires." " What is there to prevent us from satisfying such natural desires? Let us embrace one another tenderly." What a lesson in philosophy It seemed to us such a sweet one, our happiness was so complete, that at day-break we were still kissing one another, and it was only when we parted in the morning that we discovered that the door of the room had remained open all night. i Baletti gave her a few lessons, and she was received at the opera; but she did not remain there more than two or three months, regulating her conduct carefully according to the precepts I had laid out for her. She never received Narbonne again, and at last accepted a nobleman who proved himself very different from all others, for the first thing he did was to make her give up the stage, although it was not a thing according to the fashion of those days. I do not recollect his name exactly; it was Count of Tressan or Trean. She behaved in a respectable way, and remained with him until his death. No one speaks of her now, although she is living in very easy circumstances; but she is fifty-six, and in Paris a woman of that age is no longer considered as being among the living. ' After she left the Hotel de Bourgogne, I never spoke to her. Whenever I met her covered with jewels and diamonds, our souls saluted each other with joy, but her happiness was too precious for me to make any attempt against it. Her brother found a situation, but I lost sight of him. CHAPTER IX THE BEAUTIFUL O-MORPI-Il--TI-IE DECEITFUL PAINTER---I PRACTICE CABALISM FOR THE DUCI-IESS DE CHARTRES----I LEAVE PARIS----MY STAY IN DRESDEN AND MY DEPARTURE FROM THAT CITY I WENT to St. Lawrence's Fair with my friend Patu, who, taking it into ...