"Or rather, as now, I sat looking on while you ate.

I had not taken a long walk, as you had.

It was shortly after you had kicked that physician out of the house, the man who had almost been the death of me with his perpetual bleedings." They went on talking of old times--when life had been better in Venice than it was to-day.
"Not everywhere," said Casanova, with a smiling allusion to The Leads.
Bragadino waved away the suggestion, as if this were not a suitable time for a reference to such petty disagreeables.

"Besides, you must know that I did everything I could to save you from punishment, though unfortunately my efforts proved unavailing.

Of course, if in those days I had already been a member of the Council of Ten!" This broached the topic of political affairs.