After all, if she predicted the future, it was not through superstition, or in consequence of some vain foreboding which reason must condemn, but through her knowledge of the world, and of the nature of the person she was addressing.

She used to laugh because she never made a mistake.
I embarked from St: Mark's landing.

M.Grimani had given me ten sequins, which he thought would keep me during my stay in the lazzaretto of Ancona for the necessary quarantine, after which it was not to be supposed that I could want any money.

I shared Grimani's certainty on the subject, and with my natural thoughtlessness I cared nothing about it.

Yet I must say that, unknown to everybody, I had in my purse forty bright sequins, which powerfully contributed to increase my cheerfulness, and I left Venice full of joy and without one regret.
EPISODE 2 -- CLERIC IN NAPLES.