Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 15: with Voltaire by Giacomo Casanova
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page 70 of 107 (65%)
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"How did you become amorous of a fellow like that?" "I never loved him, but he contrived to gain my pity. I thought he would kill himself, and I promised to be in the garden on the night he appointed, but I only went there with the intention of bidding him begone, and he did so, but after he had carried his evil designs into effect." "Did he use violence towards you, then?" "No, for that would have been no use. He wept, threw himself on his knees, and begged so hard, that I let him do what he liked on the condition that he would not kill himself, and that he would come no more to the garden." "Had you no fear of consequences?" "I did not understand anything about it; I always thought that one could not conceive under three times at least." "Unhappy ignorance! how many woes are caused by it! Then he did not ask you to give him any more assignations?" "He often asked me, but I would not grant his request because our confessor made me promise to withstand him thenceforth, if I wished to be absolved." "Did you tell him the name of the seducer?" |
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