21/38 I am a beggar, Amalia." "Had you a hundred thousand, you could not buy Marcolina. What does she care about money? She has inherited a small competence which more than suffices for her needs." "Were I but a sovereign prince," cried Casanova, somewhat theatrically, as was his wont when strongly moved. "Had I but the power to commit men to prison, to send them to the scaffold. |