Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 23: English

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Title: In London And Moscow: The English The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725-1798
Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Release Date: October 31, 2006 [EBook #2973]
Language: English
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE
SEINGALT
THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED
BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW,
Volume 5c—THE ENGLISHTHE ENGLISHCHAPTER X
Eccentricity of the English—Castelbajac Count Schwerin—Sophie at
School—My Reception at the Betting Club—The Charpillon
I passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man
on the smallest provocation. It seemed as if the house, which I had hitherto thought so beautiful, was like a millstone
about my neck. I went out in my travelling clothes, and walked into a coffee-house, where I saw a score of people reading
the papers.
I sat down, and, not understanding English, passed my ...