Casanova And His Time
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An old debt — Advice at two sequins.
In reading Casanova's Memoirs, one is not more amazed by the audacity and variety of his undertakings than by the insolent success which accompanied them. Love, gambling, intrigue, the Cabala, all smiled upon him in turn, making him suffer no hardships except the inequalities of luck or trifling blows to his vanity. More than once, it is true, we see him in a sorry plight : his temerity, want of fore- sight, and cynicism led him sometimes to the very verge o... 193 CASANOVA AND HIS TIME of having to expiate cruelly the fancy of a day. We behold him ruined, ill, threatened with a savage duel, trapped, imprisoned in the blackest cells. Was a brilliant career like this to end with any one of such accidents, the accidents which daunt, and yet are native to, mediocre spirits ? No ; for at the moment when his ruin seemed imminent, his energy, his pluck, his charm, or his graceful manners — in a word, his "gKme" — once more pulled him through.
He has such a delightful confidence in the power of his charm and wit !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
An old debt — Advice at two sequins.
In reading Casanova's Memoirs, one is not more amazed by the audacity and variety of his undertakings than by the insolent success which accompanied them. Love, gambling, intrigue, the Cabala, all smiled upon him in turn, making him suffer no hardships except the inequalities of luck or trifling blows to his vanity. More than once, it is true, we see him in a sorry plight : his temerity, want of fore- sight, and cynicism led him sometimes to the very verge o... 193 CASANOVA AND HIS TIME of having to expiate cruelly the fancy of a day. We behold him ruined, ill, threatened with a savage duel, trapped, imprisoned in the blackest cells. Was a brilliant career like this to end with any one of such accidents, the accidents which daunt, and yet are native to, mediocre spirits ? No ; for at the moment when his ruin seemed imminent, his energy, his pluck, his charm, or his graceful manners — in a word, his "gKme" — once more pulled him through.
He has such a delightful confidence in the power of his charm and wit !
What to read after Casanova And His Time?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Mayne, Ethel Colburn, D. 1941, Tr to read onlineMoreLess
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