If you knew me better, you would not doubt what I say.

Come to Venice, and I assure you that you shall return here in four or five days with your daughter." She read the letter which had been written to me by her daughter again, and told me that, being a poor widow, she had not the money necessary to pay the expenses of her journey to Venice, or of her return to Louisa.
"In Venice you shall not want for anything," I said; "in the mean time, here are ten sequins." "Ten sequins! Then I can go with my sister-in-law ?" "Come with anyone you like, but let us go soon so as to reach Chiozza, where we must sleep.

To-morrow we shall dine in Venice, and I undertake to defray all expenses." We arrived in Venice the next day at ten o'clock, and I took the two women to Castello, to a house the first floor of which was empty.

I left them there, and provided with the deed signed by the abbe I went to dine with my three friends, to whom I said that I had been to Chiozza on important business.

After dinner, I called upon the lawyer, Marco de Lesse, who told me that if the mother presented a petition to the President of the Council of Ten, she would immediately be invested with power to take her daughter away with all the furniture in the house, which she could send wherever she pleased.