Volume 2: To Paris and Prison · Episode 7: Venice
Chapter XII
Progress of My Intrigue with the Beautiful C. C.
The next morning P—— C—— called on me with an air of triumph; he told me that his sister had confessed to her mother that we loved one another, and that if she was ever to be married she would be unhappy with any other husband.
“I adore your sister,” I said to him; “but do you think that your father will be willing to give her to me?”
“I think not; but he is old. In the mean time, love one another. My mother has given her permission to go to the opera this evening with us.”
“Very well, my dear friend, we must go.”
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