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I Stop at Ferrara, Where I Have a Comic Adventure — My Arrival in Paris
Precisely1 at twelve o’clock the peotta landed me at Ponte di Lago Oscuro, and I immediately took a post-chaise to reach Ferrara in time for dinner. I put up at St. Mark’s Hotel. I was following the waiter up the stairs, when a joyful2 uproar3, which suddenly burst from a room the door of which was open, made me curious to ascertain4 the cause of so much mirth. I peeped into the room, and saw some twelve persons, men and women, seated round a well-supplied table. It was a very natural thing, and I was moving on, when I was stopped by the exclamation5, “Ah, here he is!” uttered by the pretty voice of a woman, and at the same moment, the speaker, leaving the table, came to me with open arms and embraced me, saying,
“Quick, quick, a seat for him near me; take his luggage to his room.”
A young man came up, and she said to him, “Well, I told you he would arrive to-day?”
She made me sit near her at the table, after I had been saluted6 by all the guests who had risen to do me honour.
“My dear cousin,” she said, addressing me, “you must be hungry;” and as she spoke7 she squeezed my foot under the table. “Here is my intended husband whom I beg to introduce to you, as well as my father and mother-in-law. The other guests round the table are friends of the family. But, my dear cousin, tell me why my mother has not come with you?”
At last I had to open my lips!
“Your mother, my dear cousin, will be here in three or four days, at the latest.”
I thought that my newly-found cousin was unknown to me, but when I looked at her with more attention, I fancied I recollected9
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