"I submit to Your Royal Highness' wishes, but I fear that I shall deceive your hopes. I shall do no good in Prague."
She pushed me towards the door:
"Go, go, you can do everything."
I stepped into my carriage at eleven o'clock: it was a rainy night. It seemed to me as though I were going back to Venice, for I followed the Mestre Road: I felt more inclined to see Zanze again than Charles X.
[145] This book was written at Ferrara, between 16 and 18 September 1833, and at Padua, on the 20th of September.—T.
[146] Marco Polo (1254-1324) joined his father, Niccolo Polo, and his uncle, Maffeo Polo, at Acre, in 1269. They set out for China in 1271 and, after a protracted stay, left for home, in 1292, and reached Venice in 1295.—T.
[147] Vide Zanze's manuscript, infra.—T.
[148] Abbé Nicolas Lenglet-Dufresnoy (1674-1755), a man of very great learning but no critical taste. He was several times sent to the Bastille, under Louis XV., for the boldness of his writings, and died, at last, of an accident, having fallen into the fire before which he was reading. His chief works are De l'usage des romans, avec une bibliothèque des romans (1734), his Histoire justifiée contre les romans (1735), un Histoire de la philosophie hermétique (1742) and a Traité sur des apparitions (1751). His Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc was published in 1753, two years before his death.—T.
[149] A character in Bojardo's Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and daughter of Galaphron King of Cathay (Catajo, not Marco Polo's Cathay, as the Abbé Lenglet seems to have thought).—T.