[The Memoires of Casanova by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Memoires of Casanova CHAPTER IV 26/50
The next day at dinner the account of my adventure caused much amusement to the old senator. Throughout the summer, I carried on a course of Platonic love with my charming Angela at the house of her teacher of embroidery, but her extreme reserve excited me, and my love had almost become a torment to myself.
With my ardent nature, I required a mistress like Bettina, who knew how to satisfy my love without wearing it out.
I still retained some feelings of purity, and I entertained the deepest veneration for Angela. She was in my eyes the very palladium of Cecrops.
Still very innocent, I felt some disinclination towards women, and I was simple enough to be jealous of even their husbands. Angela would not grant me the slightest favour, yet she was no flirt; but the fire beginning in me parched and withered me.
The pathetic entreaties which I poured out of my heart had less effect upon her than upon two young sisters, her companions and friends: had I not concentrated every look of mine upon the heartless girl, I might have discovered that her friends excelled her in beauty and in feeling, but my prejudiced eyes saw no one but Angela.
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