27/30 I had taken a share of one-fourth in the bank of an honest patrician, and early in Lent he handed me a large sum. He was engaged at the St.Moses Theatre as ballet-master during the Fair of the Assumption. He was with Marina, but they did not live together. She made the conquest of an English Jew, called Mendez, who spent a great deal of money for her. That Jew gave me good news of Therese, whom he had known in Naples, and in whose hands he had left some of his spoils. |