The decision made it necessary for him not only to cease his visits to M.de Bragadin, but even to give up his intercourse with De la Haye, who was the guest of that senator.
It is one of the strictest laws of the Republic that the patricians and their families shall not hold any intercourse with the foreign ambassadors and their suites.

But the decision taken by Bavois did not prevent my friends speaking in his favour, and they succeeded in obtaining employment for him, as will be seen further on.
The husband of Christine, whom I never visited, invited me to go to the casino which he was in the habit of frequenting with his aunt and his wife, who had already presented him with a token of their mutual affection.

I accepted his invitation, and I found Christine as lovely as ever, and speaking the Venetian dialect like her husband.

I made in that casino the acquaintance of a chemist, who inspired me with the wish to follow a course of chemistry.

I went to his house, where I found a young girl who greatly pleased me.