“Where is he, I have not yet seen him.”
“He is abroad.”
“I am curious to get acquainted with him.”
“Don’t come near him, lest he catch you in the same snare in which he has caught your father.”
“Fear nothing, I shall endeavour to deliver my father from that shameful captivity.”
“O! if you could do it! But be on your guard, lest he whom you are going to draw out of the pit, drag you after him into the abyss.”
I promised it, and he clasped me in his arms.
Previous to my departure from P——l, I had promised the Marquis to keep a journal, and to insert the most remarkable incidents, which I was to communicate to him after my return. He enquired now after that journal.
“It abounds with remarkable incidents,” I replied, “and you will learn strange things on perusing it: I have not mentioned a syllable of them in my letters to you, in order to surprise you. However, you must curb your curiosity till I shall have arranged my papers.”
The Marquis consented to my request.