[Casanova’s Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler]@TWC D-Link bookCasanova’s Homecoming CHAPTER TWO 20/38
Yet he is young and handsome.
I almost think him handsomer than you ever were, Casanova!" "He was a suitor for her hand ?" "Ask Olivo if you don't believe me." "Well, what do I care about that? What care I whether she be virgin or strumpet, wife or widow--I want to make her mine!" "I can't give her to you, my friend!" Amalia's voice expressed genuine concern. "You see for yourself," he said, "what a pitiful creature I have become. Ten years ago, five years ago, I should have needed neither helper nor advocate, even though Marcolina had been the very goddess of virtue.
And now I am trying to make you play the procuress.
If I were only a rich man.
Had I but ten thousand ducats.
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