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. 1830 Excerpt: ...gaming tables and amongst the frail females, who intest Rome with their pestiferous beauties. All the household were assembled before their mistress, and ordered to consider lUr. Armsfeldt as their matter, and honour and obey his authority. Presuming' upon his power over his mistress, he took no pains to curb his ...
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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. 1830 Excerpt: ...gaming tables and amongst the frail females, who intest Rome with their pestiferous beauties. All the household were assembled before their mistress, and ordered to consider lUr. Armsfeldt as their matter, and honour and obey his authority. Presuming' upon his power over his mistress, he took no pains to curb his inclinations, and his intrigues with girls of the game were well known to her. At a party given by a relative of Lucien Bonaparte's, General W--r, the Hanoverian, was one of the invited, and addressed Mr. Armsfeldt by his proper cognomen, " Colonel Carroll," to the confusion of himself and friend. No public notice was taken of this, but the Italian ladies of questionable character, whom our heroine had treated with dignified coldness, from thenceforth began to throw off all reserve, and became " Hail fellow well met" with our heroine, who they justly set down as no better than themselves, pronouncing the Colonel her " man of business;" and as such he became known to every one in Rome. The Colonel's situation now was not very comfortable, and he rendered it more unpalatable by his indiscretions, appearing at the Opera in a box facing that of my heroine's, with a famous fille dejoye in his company, remaining out for nights successively--getting into squabbles with the police, from which she had to extricate him--insulting old Gonsalvi and his nephew, whom he considered as a rival, and damning the Pope for an old jackass. These things gradually weaned the affections of his mistress from him; and it was not without many painful struggles betwixt her affection and resolution, that she told him they must separate, if he did not commence a complete reformation in his mode of living, and adopt a better line of conduct towards ...
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