Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy].
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Date:
- 1717
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![my Brother 6r my Friends of what had pafs’d : They likewife: were in mighty pain about me, concluding for certain, that El was murdered in fome Corner of a Street, or elfe at fome off my Night-Intrigues. ay aM » At‘laft, Belleville, who ftillcontinu’d to fee I/abella, acquaint-- ed her with his Grief, and begged her to affift him to difcover,, at leaft, what they had done with my Body. She was fo induf-- triousto get Information about it, that Ives’s Chambermaid,whop had been ill enough ufed by her Miftrefs, told her the whole: Secret of the Hiftory, altho’ her good Lady had flriétly forbidi her. Upon this News, my Brother ran to beg the King to have ‘pity on me, and to command them to remove me out of thatt Hole, which feemed more like Hell than a Prifon. I fwoonedi away when Ifaw Light. I wasfo wafted, and weak, that I fright-- ed Folks ; but yet I could not come out of Prifon for fome times, becaufe of certain Formalities : And] leave you to think,Madam,, what I meditated againft the perfidious Ives ; but yet I knew not whether ever I fhould bein a condition to put in executiom all the Projets of my juft Revenge; for the Centlentiel who was wounded, continu’d very ill, and his Life was defpaired ofi. ‘Mine depended upon fuch a ticklifh Point, that I put up moftt ardent Prayers for him ; and in fuch a melancholy Uncertainty Il ‘pafs’d a great many Hours. But my Brother, who was perfwad1- ed of my Innocence, omitted nothing for the Difcovery of thee ‘Authors of this murderous AË€. At laff, he underftood thatt this young and wounded Cavalero had a Rival, and he made feo diligent a Search and Examination, that he certainly knew thatt the Blow came from thence. He was fo fortunate to get hitm apprehended, and thisMan freely owned the Fatt, which ae:- quitted me. I was therefore fet at Liberty, and I conceivecd fo much Joy at it, that I was fick for feveral Days after 5 ov ‘yather, perhaps, if was an Effect of that unwholefome Au: which I received in the Prifon. a ©: In themean while, wicked Ives, who to be fure was not mucth at eafe, for fear of what might happen upon her ferving me fuckh ‘a pleafant Trick, having notice that I was fet free, andinacondit- ‘tion to reward her according to her Merits, packed up her Bage ‘gage, and one Night privately ran away, and_no body knew whither fhe wasgone ; fo that when we wanted her, at leaft te make her an Example among the cheating Jilts, we were diff appointed. But I was eafily fatisfied, becaulenaturally I do non love to do any hurt to Women. © But left fhe might play me fore other Pranks, 1 left Madrid, that 1 might alfo avoid thofe of Spain. + 1 am new returning into Frante, Madam, continuecc he](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30538178_0132.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
