the whole of the next.html">next day in having my likeness painted in miniature
in after times made a great deal of money in Venice. When he had
the same size, and a clever Venetian jeweller made the ring, the
hardly visible on the white enamel which surrounded it, corresponded
was obtained by pressing on the blue spot with the point of a pin.
On the following Friday, as we were rising from the dinner-table, a
recognized the writing of P---- C----. He asked me to pay him a
information. Thinking that he might have something to say concerning
release from prison I asked him for the news he had to communicate.
"I am certain," he said, "that my sister is in a convent, and I shall
eagerness to communicate it had a very different object in view than
for a sum of fifteen thousand florins, and the man with whom I have
advanced me six thousand florins in four letters of exchange.html">exchange."
He shewed me the letters of exchange, endorsed by a name which I did
looms of Vicenza, and to give in payment to the merchants these
with a profit of tenpercent. Come with us to Vicenza; I will give
you will find yourself covered for the guarantee which you have been
the transaction within twenty.html">twenty-four hours."
I did not feel much inclination for the trip, but I allowed myself to
and which I had no doubt I would be called upon to pay some day or
at a loss of twenty-five per cent., and I shall get nothing."
I promised to accompany him. He shewed me several letters of
fixed for early the next morning. I was at the "Star Hotel" by
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