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Chapter XXI
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My Journey to Cesena in Search of Treasure — I Take Up My Quarters in Franzia’s House — His Daughter Javotte
The opera was nearly over when I was accosted1 by a young man who, abruptly2, and without any introduction, told me that as a stranger — I had been very wrong in spending two months in Mantua without paying a visit to the natural history collection belonging to his father, Don Antonio Capitani, commissary and prebendal president.
“Sir,” I answered, “I have been guilty only through ignorance, and if you would be so good as to call for me at my hotel to-morrow morning, before the evening I shall have atoned3 for my error, and you will no longer have the right to address me the same reproach”
The son of the prebendal commissary called for me, and I found in his father a most eccentric, whimsical sort of man. The curiosities of his collection consisted of his family tree, of books of magic, relics4, coins which he believed to be antediluvian5, a model of the ark taken from nature at the time when Noah arrived in that extraordinary harbour, Mount Ararat, in Armenia. He load several medals, one of Sesostris, another of Semiramis, and an old knife of a queer shape, covered with rust6. Besides all those wonderful treasures, he possessed7, but under lock and key, all the paraphernalia8 of freemasonry.
“Pray, tell me,” I said to him, “what relation there is between this collection and natural history? I see nothing here representing the three kingdoms.”
“What! You do not see the antediluvian kingdom, that of Sesostris and that of Semiramis? Are not those the three kingdoms?”
When I heard that answer I embraced him with an
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