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The Memoires of Casanova

CHAPTER V
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You will not be so cruel as to let me eat alone?
Can you get any bread ?" "Yes, and to please you we must have a second supper." "I ought to be in love with you.

Tell me, beautiful Nanette, if I were as much attached to you as I was to Angela, would you follow her example and make me unhappy ?" "How can you ask such a question?
It is worthy of a conceited man.

All I can answer is, that I do not know what I would do." They laid the cloth, brought some bread, some Parmesan cheese and water, laughing all the while, and then we went to work.

The wine, to which they were not accustomed, went to their heads, and their gaiety was soon delightful.

I wondered, as I looked at them, at my having been blind enough not to see their merit.
After our supper, which was delicious, I sat between them, holding their hands, which I pressed to my lips, asking them whether they were truly my friends, and whether they approved of Angela's conduct towards me.


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