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To Paris and Prison — The False Nun Chapter XXI
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Supper at My Casino With M. M. and M. de Bernis, the French Ambassador — A Proposal from M. M.; I Accept It — Consequences — C. C. is Unfaithful to Me, and I Cannot Complain
I felt highly pleased with the supper-party I had arranged with M—— M— — and I ought to have been happy. Yet I was not so; but whence came the anxiety which was a torment1 to me? Whence? From my fatal habit of gambling2. That passion was rooted in me; to live and to play were to me two identical things, and as I could not hold the bank I would go and punt at the ridotto, where I lost my money morning and night. That state of things made me miserable3. Perhaps someone will say to me:
“Why did you play, when there was no need of it, when you were in want of nothing, when you had all the money you could wish to satisfy your fancies?”
That would be a troublesome question if I had not made it a law to tell the truth. Well, then, dear inquisitive4 reader, if I played with almost the certainty of losing, although no one, perhaps, was more sensible than I was to the losses made in gambling, it is because I had in me the evil spirit of avarice5; it is because I loved prodigality6, and because my heart bled when I found myself compelled to spend any money that I had not won at the gaming-table. It is an ugly vice7, dear reader, I do not deny it. However, all I can say is that, during the four days previous to the supper, I lost all the gold won for me by M—— M——
On the anxiously-expected day I went to my casino, where at the appointed hour M—— M—— came with her friend, whom she introduced to me as soon as he had taken off his mask.
“I had an ardent9 wish, sir,” said M. de Bernis to me, “to renew acquaintance with you, since I heard from madame that we had known each other in Paris.”
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