This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...in her own opinion, a thing I much doubted, I asked if she was conscious of no one good quality in the character of Don Ignazio. "No one good quality you say, good sir? Why that would be miserable indeed! Say, rather, no bad one, except his extreme stinginess and his abominable partiality to garlick. He is sober, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...in her own opinion, a thing I much doubted, I asked if she was conscious of no one good quality in the character of Don Ignazio. "No one good quality you say, good sir? Why that would be miserable indeed! Say, rather, no bad one, except his extreme stinginess and his abominable partiality to garlick. He is sober, faithful to the marriage bed, complaisant in every thing not requiring pecuniary sacrifice, and, at bottom, sincerely attached to me, as I have had an opportunity of convincing myself in my last illness. Five successive nights did the poor devil sit up by my bedside. In addition to his own professional attendance, I had twice a day the advice of two of our first physicians. Nothing that could be got was too expensive for him then. As soon as I began to recover, such was his joy, that gowns, lace, and trinkets, came in faster than the medicines while I was ill. That beautiful comb you saw in my hair at Portici, solid gold as it is, and beset with pearls, every one of which cost a ducat, he gave me on that occasion; and two days afterwards he brought me a most valuable diamond cross, which you you shall see when he comes home, for he keeps every thing under lock and key. I really one time flattered myself he had totally changed his nature. But I soon found my mistake; as I got better, he got worse: and no sooner was I quite well, than I found him as bad as ever'; so that, droll as you may think it, without a little illness now and then, I should soon be starved to death. But, as you are pleased to say, every one has his failings; and, if it were known, more perhaps are worse, than better than he: patience, therefore, is the best remedy. What's the use of repining at a thing you cannot alter. Come, sir, you seemed pleased with the little song I a...
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