She had spoken very rapidly, and without giving me time to utter a single word; I had nothing more to ask her.  We went off, and took a gondola to our garden.  The wind was very high, it blew almost a hurricane, and the gondola having only one rower the danger was great.  C——­ C——­, who had no idea of it, was playing with me to make up for the restraint under which she had been all day; but her movements exposed the gondolier to danger; if he had fallen into the water, nothing could have saved us, and we would have found death on our way to pleasure.  I told her to keep quiet, but, being anxious not to frighten her, I dared not acquaint her with the danger we were running.  The gondolier, however, had not the same reasons for sparing her feelings, and he called out to us in a stentorian voice that, if we did not keep quiet, we were all lost.  His threat had the desired effect, and we reached the landing without mishap.  I paid the man generously, and he laughed for joy when he saw the money for which he was indebted to the bad weather.

We spent six delightful hours in our casino; this time sleep was not allowed to visit us.  The only thought which threw a cloud over our felicity was that, the carnival being over, we did not know how to contrive our future meetings.  We agreed, however, that on the following Wednesday morning I should pay a visit to her brother, and that she would come to his room as usual.

We took leave of our worthy hostess, who, entertaining no hope of seeing us again, expressed her sorrow and overwhelmed us with blessings.  I escorted my darling, without any accident, as far as the door of her house, and went home.

I had just risen at noon, when to my great surprise I had a visit from De la Haye with his pupil Calvi, a handsome young man, but the very copy of his master in everything.  He walked, spoke, laughed exactly like him; it was the same language as that of the Jesuits correct but rather harsh French.  I thought that excess of imitation perfectly scandalous, and I could not help telling De la Haye that he ought to change his pupil’s deportment, because such servile mimicry would only expose him to bitter raillery.  As I was giving him my opinion on that subject, Bavois made his appearance, and when he had spent an hour in the company of the young man he was entirely of the same mind.  Calvi died two or three years later.  De la Haye, who was bent upon forming pupils, became, two or three months after Calvi’s death, the tutor of the young Chevalier de Morosini, the nephew of the nobleman to whom Bavois was indebted for his rapid fortune, who was then the Commissioner of the Republic to settle its boundaries with the Austrian Government represented by Count Christiani.