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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete
Giacomo Casanova Translator: Arthur Machen
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VOLUME 1 -- VENETIAN YEARS
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VOLUME 2 -- TO PARIS AND PRISON
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VOLUME 3 -- THE ETERNAL QUEST
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VOLUME 4 -- ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH
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VOLUME 5 -- TO LONDON AND MOSCOW
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VOLUME 6 -- SPANISH PASSIONS
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CHAPTER I My Family Pedigree--My Childhood
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CHAPTER II My Grandmother Comes to Padua, and Takes Me to Dr. Gozzi’s
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CHAPTER III Bettina Is Supposed to Go Mad--Father Mancia--The Small-pox--
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CHAPTER IV I receive the minor orders from the patriarch of Venice--
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CHAPTER V An Unlucky Night I Fall in Love with the Two Sisters, and
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CHAPTER VI My Grandmother’s Death and Its Consequences--I Lose M. de
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CHAPTER VII My Short Stay in Fort St. Andre--My First Repentance in Love
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CHAPTER VIII My Misfortunes in Chiozza--Father Stephano--The Lazzaretto
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CHAPTER IX My Stay in Naples; It Is Short but Happy--Don Antonio
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CHAPTER X Benedict XIV--Excursion to Tivoli--Departure of Lucrezia--
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CHAPTER XI My Short But Rather Too Gay Visit To Ancona--Cecilia,
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CHAPTER XII Bellino’s History--I Am Put Under Arrest--I Run Away Against
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CHAPTER XIII I Renounce the Clerical Profession, and Enter the Military
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CHAPTER XIV An Amusing Meeting in Orsera--Journey to Corfu--My Stay in
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CHAPTER XV Progress of My Amour--My Journey to Otranto--I Enter the
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CHAPTER XVI A Fearful Misfortune Befalls Me--Love Cools Down--Leave
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CHAPTER XVII I Turn Out A Worthless Fellow--My Good Fortune--I Become A
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CHAPTER XVIII I lead a dissolute life--Zawoiski--Rinaldi--L’Abbadie--the
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CHAPTER XIX I Fall in Love with Christine, and Find a Husband Worthy of
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CHAPTER XX Slight Misfortunes Compel Me to Leave Venice--My Adventures
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CHAPTER XXI My Journey to Cesena in Search of Treasure--I Take Up My
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CHAPTER XXII The Incantation--A Terrible Storm--My Fright--Javotte’s
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CHAPTER XXIII I Purchase a Handsome Carriage, and Proceed to Parma With
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CHAPTER I Leave Bologna a Happy Man--The Captain Parts from Us in
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CHAPTER II I Engage a Box at the Opera, in Spite of Henriette’s
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CHAPTER III Henriette Receives the Visit of M. d’Antoine--I Accompany Her
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CHAPTER IV I Receive Good News From Venice, to Which City I Return with
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CHAPTER V I Stop at Ferrara, Where I Have a Comic Adventure--
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CHAPTER VI My Apprenticeship in Paris--Portraits--Oddities--All Sorts
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CHAPTER VII My Blunders in the French Language, My Success, My Numerous
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CHAPTER VIII My Broil With Parisian Justice--Mdlle. Vesian
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CHAPTER IX The Beautiful O-Morphi--The Deceitful Painter--I Practice
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CHAPTER X My Stay in Vienna--Joseph II--My Departure for Venice
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CHAPTER XI I Return the Portrait I Had Stolen in Vienna--I Proceed to
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CHAPTER XII Progress of My Intrigue with the Beautiful C. C.
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CHAPTER XIII Continuation of My Intrigues with C. C.--M. de Bragadin Asks
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CHAPTER XIV I Get Rich Again--My Adventure At Dolo--Analysis of a Long
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CHAPTER XV Croce Is Expelled From Venice--Sgombro--His Infamy and
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CHAPTER XVI Countess Coronini--A Lover’s Pique--Reconciliation--The
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CHAPTER XVII Continuation of the Last Chapter--My First Assignation With
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CHAPTER XVIII Visit to the Convent and Conversation With M. M.--A Letter
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CHAPTER XIX I Give My Portrait to M. M.--A Present From Her--I Go to the
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CHAPTER XX I Am in Danger of Perishing in the Lagunes--Illness--Letters
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CHAPTER XXI Supper at My Casino With M. M. and M. de Bernis, the French
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CHAPTER XXII M. De Bernis Goes Away Leaving Me the Use of His Casino--His
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CHAPTER XXIII Continues the Preceding Chapter--M. M. Recovers--I Return to
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CHAPTER XXIV Pleasant Ending of the Adventure of the False Nun--M. M.
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CHAPTER XXV The Fair Invalid I Cure Her--A Plot Formed to Ruin Me--What
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CHAPTER XXVI Under The Leads--The Earthquake
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CHAPTER XXVII Various Adventures--My Companions--I Prepare to Escape--
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CHAPTER XXVIII The Subterranean Prisons Known as the Wells--Lawrence’s
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CHAPTER XXIX Treason of Soradaci--How I Get the Best of Him--Father Balbi
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CHAPTER XXX The Escape--I Nearly Lose My Life on the Roof--I Get out of
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CHAPTER XXXI I Find a Lodging in the House of the Chief of the Sbirri--I
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CHAPTER XXXII The Minister of Foreign Affairs M. de Boulogne, the
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CHAPTER I Count Tiretta of Trevisa Abbé Coste--Lambertini, the Pope’s
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CHAPTER II The Abby de la Ville--The Abby Galiani--The Neapolitan
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CHAPTER III The Count de la Tour D’Auvergne and Madame D’Urfe--Camille--
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CHAPTER IV Absurd Ideas of Madame D’Urfe on My Supernatural Powers--
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CHAPTER V My Fortune in Holland--My Return to Paris with Young
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CHAPTER VI I Meet With a Flattering Reception From My Patron--Madame
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CHAPTER VII I Continue My Relations With Mdlle. X. C. V.--Vain Attempts
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CHAPTER VIII Fresh Adventures--J. J. Rousseau--I set Up A Business--
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CHAPTER IX My Examination--I Give the Clerk Three Hundred Louis--The
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CHAPTER X Portrait of the Pretended Countess Piccolomini--Quarrel and
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CHAPTER XI I Undeceive Esther--I set out for Germany--Adventure Near
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CHAPTER XII Gardella Portrait of The Duke of Wurtemburg--My Dinner with
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CHAPTER XIII I Resolve to Become a Monk--I go to Confession--Delay of a
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CHAPTER XIV I Leave Zurich--Comic Adventure at Baden--Soleure--M. De
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CHAPTER XV My Country House--Madame Dubois--Malicious Trick Played on
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CHAPTER XVI Continuation of the Preceding Chapter--I Leave Soleure
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CHAPTER XVII Berne--La Mata Madame de la Saone--Sara--My Departure--
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CHAPTER XVIII M. Haller--My Stay at Lausanne--Lord Rosebury--The Young
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CHAPTER XIX M. de Voltaire; My Discussions with That Great Man--Ariosto-
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CHAPTER XX My Adventures at Aix--My Second M. M.--Madame Zeroli
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CHAPTER XXI End of My Adventure with the Nun from Chamberi--My Flight
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CHAPTER I The Door-Keeper’s Daughters--The Horoscopes--Mdlle. Roman
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CHAPTER II My Departure from Grenoble--Avignon--The Fountain of
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CHAPTER III Rosalie--Toulon--Nice--I Arrive at Genoa--M. Grimaldi--
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CHAPTER IV The Play--The Russian--Petri--Rosalie at the Convent
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CHAPTER V I Fall in Love With Veronique--Her Sister--Plot Against
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CHAPTER VI A Clever Cheat--Passano--Pisa--Corilla--My Opinion of
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CHAPTER VII The Corticelli--The Jew Manager Beaten--The False Charles
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CHAPTER VIII Cardinal Passionei--The Pope--Masiuccia--I Arrive At Naples
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CHAPTER IX My Short But Happy Stay at Naples--The Duke de Matalone--My
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CHAPTER X My Carriage Broken--Mariuccia’s Wedding--Flight of Lord
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CHAPTER XI My Arrival at Bologna--I Am Expelled from Modena--I Visit
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CHAPTER XII My Victory Over the Deputy Chief of Police--My Departure--
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CHAPTER XIII My Stay at Paris and My Departure for Strasburg, Where I
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CHAPTER XIV The Actors--Bassi--The Girl From Strasburg--The Female Count--My Return to Paris--I Go to Metz--Pretty Raton--The
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CHAPTER XV I Returned to Paris With The Corticelli, Now Countess
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CHAPTER XVI I Send The Corticelli to Turin--Helen is Initiated Into The
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CHAPTER XVII My Old Friends--Pacienza--Agatha--Count Boryomeo--The Ball--
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CHAPTER XVIII I Give up Agatha to Lord Percy--I Set out for Milan--
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CHAPTER XIX Humiliation of The Countess--Zenobia’s Wedding--Faro
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CHAPTER XX The Masquerade--My Amour with the Fair Marchioness--The
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CHAPTER XXI An Ancient Castle--Clementine--The Fair Penitent--Lodi--
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CHAPTER XXII Our Excursion--Parting From Clementine--I Leave Milan With
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CHAPTER I I Find Rosalie Happy--The Signora Isola-Bella--The Cook--
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CHAPTER II Disgraceful Behaviour of My Brother, the Abbé, I Relieve Him
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CHAPTER III My Arrival at Marseilles--Madame d’Urfe--My Niece Is
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CHAPTER IV I Leave Marseilles--Henriette at Aix--Irene at Avignon--
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CHAPTER V I Meet the Venetian Ambassadors at Lyons, and also Marcoline’s Uncle--I Part from Marcoline and Set Out for Paris--An Amorous Journey
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CHAPTER VI I Drive My Brother The Abbé From Paris--Madame du Rumain
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CHAPTER VII My Arrival in London; Madame Cornelis--I Am Presented at
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CHAPTER VIII The Assembly--Adventure at Ranelagh--The English Courtezans--
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CHAPTER IX Pauline’s Story--I Am Happy--Pauline Leaves Me
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CHAPTER X Eccentricity of the English--Castelbajac Count Schwerin--
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CHAPTER XI The Charpillon--Dreadful Consequences of My Acquaintance
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CHAPTER XII Goudar’s Chair
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CHAPTER XIII The End of the Story Stranger Than the Beginning
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CHAPTER XIV Bottarelli--A Letter from Pauline--The Avenging Parrot--Pocchini--Guerra, the Venetian--I Meet Sara Again; My Idea of Marrying Her and Settling in Switzerland--The Hanoverians
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CHAPTER XV The Hanoverians
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CHAPTER XVI Augusta Becomes Lord Pembroke’s Titular Mistress--The King of
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CHAPTER XVII My Cure--Daturi is Beaten by Some Soldiers--I Leave Wesel
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CHAPTER XVIII Lord Keith--My Appointment to Meet the King in the Garden of
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CHAPTER XIX My Stay at Riga--Campioni St. Heleine--D’Asagon--Arrival of
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CHAPTER XX Crèvecœur--Bomback--Journey to Moscow--My Adventures At St.
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CHAPTER XXI I See the Empress--My Conversations with Her--The Valville--
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CHAPTER XXII My Duel with Branicki--My Journey to Leopol and Return to
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CHAPTER XXIII My Arrival at Dresden with Maton--She Makes Me a Present--
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CHAPTER I I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna--The Empress Moderates but Does
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CHAPTER II My Stay at Spa--The Blow--The Sword--Della Croce--Charlotte;
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CHAPTER III My Departure From Paris--My Journey to Madrid--The Count of
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CHAPTER IV My Amours With Donna Ignazia--My Imprisonment At Buen
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CHAPTER V Campomanes--Olavides--Sierra Morena--Aranjuez--Mengs--The
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CHAPTER VI My Amours With Donna Ignazia--Return of M. de Mocenino to
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CHAPTER VII I Make a Mistake and Manucci Becomes My Mortal Foe--His
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CHAPTER VIII My Imprudence--Passano--I Am Imprisoned--My Departure from
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CHAPTER IX My Stay at Aix; I Fall Ill--I am Cared for By an Unknown
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CHAPTER X My Departure--Letter from Henriette--Marsellies--History of
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CHAPTER XI The Punishment of Marazzani--I Leave Lugano--Turin--
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CHAPTER XII Miss Betty--The Comte de L’Etoile--Sir B * * * M * * *--
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CHAPTER XIII Rome--The Actor’s Punishment--Lord Baltimore--Naples--Sara
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CHAPTER XIV My Amours with Gallimena--Journey to Sorrento--Medini--
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CHAPTER XV Margarita--Madame Buondcorsi--The Duchess of Fiano--Cardinal
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CHAPTER XVI I Sup at the Inn With Armelline and Emilie
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CHAPTER XVII The Florentine--Marriage of Emilie--Scholastica--Armelline
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CHAPTER XVIII Madame Denis--Dedini--Zanovitch--Zen--I Am Obliged to Leave--
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CHAPTER XIX Farinello and the Electress Dowager of Saxony--Madame
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CHAPTER XX A Jew Named Mardocheus Becomes My Travelling Companion--
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CHAPTER XXI Pittoni--Zaguri--The Procurator Morosini--The Venetian
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CHAPTER XXII Some Adventures at Trieste--I Am of Service to the Venetian
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VOLUME 3 -- THE ETERNAL QUEST
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