Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 09: the False Nun

The Project Gutenberg EBook of To Paris And Prison: The False Nun by Jacques Casanova de SeingaltThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: To Paris And Prison: The False Nun The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725-1798Author: Jacques Casanova de SeingaltRelease Date: October 30, 2006 [EBook #2959]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TO PARIS AND PRISON: THE FALSE NUN ***Produced by David WidgerMEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798TO PARIS AND PRISON, Volume 2d—The False NunTHE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVEREDBY ARTHUR SYMONS.THE FALSE NUNCHAPTER XXISupper at My Casino With M. M. and M. de Bernis, the French Ambassador—AProposal from M. M.; I Accept It—Consequences—C. C. is Unfaithful toMe, and I Cannot ComplainI felt highly pleased with the supper-party I had arranged with M—— M——, and I ought to have been happy. Yet I was notso; but whence came the anxiety which was a torment to me? Whence? From my fatal habit of gambling. That passionwas rooted in me; to live and to play were to me two identical things, and as I could not hold the bank I would go and puntat the ridotto, where I lost my money morning and night. That ...