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Chapter XXV
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The Fair Invalid1 I Cure Her — A Plot Formed to Ruin Me — What Happened at the House of the Young Countess Bonafede — The Erberia — Domiciliary Visit — My Conversation with M. de Bragadin — I Am Arrested by Order of the State Inquisitors.
After leaving Dr. Righelini I went to sup with M. de Bragadin, and gave the generous and worthy2 old man a happy evening. This was always the case; I made him and his two good friends happy whenever I took meals with them.
Leaving them at an early hour, I went to my lodging3 and was greatly surprised to find my bedroom balcony occupied. A young lady of an exquisite4 figure rose as soon as she saw me, and gracefully5 asked me pardon for the liberty she had taken.
“I am,” she said, “the statue you saw this morning. We do not light the candles in the evening for fear of attracting the gnats6, but when you want to go to bed we will shut the door and go away. I beg to introduce you to my younger sister, my mother has gone to bed.”
I answered her to the effect that the balcony was always at her service, and that since it was still early I begged their permission to put on my dressing8-gown and to keep them company. Her conversation was charming; she made me spend two most delightful9 hours, and did not leave me till twelve o’clock. Her younger sister lighted me a candle, and as they went they wished me a good night.
I lay down full of this pretty girl, and I could not believe that she was really ill. She spoke10 to the point, she was cheerful, clever, and full of spirits. I could not understand how it came to pass that she had not been already cured in a town like Venice, if her cure was really only to be effected in the manner described by Dr. Righelini; for in spite of her pallor she seemed to me quite fair enough to charm a lover, and I believed her to be spirited enough to determine to take the most agreeable medicine a doctor can prescribe.
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