Without a word, he slipped the cloak from his shoulders and let it fall to the floor, where it lay between the two men, a shapeless mass of cloth.

Casanova withdrew his kerchief filled with the gold pieces from beneath the bolster, and emptied the money on the table.

He counted the coins under Lorenzi's eyes--a process which was soon over, for many of the gold pieces were worth several ducats each.

Putting the stipulated sum into two purses, he handed these to Lorenzi.

This left about a hundred ducats for himself.