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Casanova’s Homecoming

CHAPTER TWO
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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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