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Crevecoeur — Bomback — Journey to Moscow — My Adventures At St. Petersburg
The day on which I took Zaira I sent Lambert away, for I did not know what to do with him. He got drunk every day, and when in his cups he was unbearable1. Nobody would have anything to say to him except as a common soldier, and that is not an enviable position in Russia. I got him a passport for Berlin, and gave him enough money for the journey. I heard afterwards that he entered the Austrian service.
In May, Zaira had become so beautiful that when I went to Moscow I dared not leave her behind me, so I took her in place of a servant. It was delicious to me to hear her chattering3 in the Venetian dialect I had taught her. On a Saturday I would go with her to the bath where thirty of forty naked men and women were bathing together without the slightest constraint4. This absence of shame must arise, I should imagine, from native innocence5; but I wondered that none looked at Zaira, who seemed to me the original of the statue of Psyche6 I had seen at the Villa7 Borghese at Rome. She was only fourteen, so her breast was not yet developed, and she bore about her few traces of puberty. Her skin was as white as snow, and her ebony tresses covered the whole of her body, save in a few places where the dazzling whiteness of her skin shone through. Her eyebrows8 were perfectly9 shaped, and her eyes, though they might have been larger, could not have been more brilliant or more expressive10. If it had not been for her furious jealousy11 and her blind confidence in fortune- telling by cards, which she consulted every day, Zaira would have been a
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