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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 24: London to BerlinThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 24: London to BerlinThus ended the first act of the comedy; the second began the next morning. I was just getting up, when I heard a noise at the street door, and on putting my...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 23: EnglishThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 23: EnglishI passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation. It seemed as if the...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 22: to LondonThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 22: to LondonThus freed from the cares which the dreadful slanders of Possano had caused me, I gave myself up to the enjoyment of my fair Venetian, doing all in my power to increase her...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 21: South of FranceThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 21: South of FranceAt Genoa, where he was known to all, Pogomas called himself Possano. He introduced me to his wife and daughter, but they were so ugly and disgusting in every respect that I...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: MilanThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: MilanFar from punishing the Corticelli by making her live with Redegonde, the Count d'Aglie seemed to have encouraged her; and I was not sorry for it, since as long as she did not trouble...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 19: Back Again to ParisThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 19: Back Again to ParisAt ten o'clock in the morning, cheered by the pleasant feeling of being once more in that Paris which is so imperfect, but which is the only true town in the...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 18: Return to NaplesThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 18: Return to NaplesCardinal Passionei received me in a large hall where he was writing. He begged me to wait till he had finished, but he could not ask me to take a seat as...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 17: Return to ItalyThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 17: Return to Italy"I see what you mean; I like that! But console your self, Veronique is nothing compared to you, in my eyes at all events. You are my only beauty; but to reassure...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 16: Depart SwitzerlandThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 16: Depart SwitzerlandThe idea of the sorry plight in which I had left the Marquis de Prie, his mistress, and perhaps all the company, who had undoubtedly coveted the contents of my cash-box, amused me...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 15: With VoltaireThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 15: With VoltaireThis Voltairean sally made all present laugh, as was to be expected, for those who laugh keep one party in countenance at the other's expense, and the side which has the laughter is...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 14: SwitzerlandThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 14: SwitzerlandThe cool way in which the abbot told these cock-and-bull stories gave me an inclination to laughter, which the holiness of the place and the laws of politeness had much difficulty in restraining. All...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 13: Holland and GermanyThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 13: Holland and GermanyPortrait of the Pretended Countess PiccolominiQuarrel and DuelEsther and Her Father, M. D'O.Esther Still Taken with the CabalaPiccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 12: Return to ParisThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 12: Return to ParisAmongst the letters which were waiting for me was one from the comptroller-general, which advised me that twenty millions in Government securities had been placed in the hands of M. d'Afri, who...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and HollandThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and HollandCount Tiretta of Trevisa Abbe CosteLambertini, the Pope's Niece Her NickName for Tiretta The Aunt and NieceOur Talk by the FiresidePunishment of DamienTiretta's Mistake Anger of Madame***Their ReconciliationMy Happiness with Mdlle. de...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 10: under the LeadsThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 10: under the LeadsWhat a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul! I, who the evening before so bravely fortified myself with my innocence and courage, by the word tribunal was turned...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 09: the False NunThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 09: the False NunI 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...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 08: Convent AffairsThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 08: Convent AffairsMy beautiful nun had not spoken to me, and I was glad of it, for I was so astonished, so completely under the spell of her beauty, that I might have given her...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 07: VeniceThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 07: VeniceArrived, for the first time, in the capital of Austria, at the age of eight-and-twenty, well provided with clothes, but rather short of moneya circumstance which made it necessary for me to curtail my...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 06: ParisThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 06: ParisLeave Bologna a Happy ManThe Captain Parts from Us in Reggio, where I Spend a Delightful Night with HenrietteOur Arrival in ParmaHenriette Resumes the Costume of a Woman; Our Mutual FelicityI Meet Some Relatives...
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 05: Milan and MantuaThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 05: Milan and MantuaOn Low Sunday Charles paid us a visit with his lovely wife, who seemed totally indifferent to what Christine used to be. Her hair dressed with powder did not please me as...
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