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Rh face and her bosom. She was delighted, and studied the eruption to an end with all the curiosity of a physician.

The night seemed short, though we had not lost a moment's space, and at daybreak we had to part. I left them in bed, being fortunate to get away observed of none.

In the evening, after supper, Casanova contrives another meeting with his charmers.

……Going out with my heroines, I worked wonders. Hedvige philosophised over the pleasure, and told me that she would ne'er have tasted it had I not chanced to encounter her uncle. Helène did not speak; more voluptous than her cousin, she swelled out like a dove, and came to life only to expire a moment after. I wondered at her amazing fecundity, although such is not uncommon; while I was engaged in one operation, she passed fourteen times from life to death. True, 'twas the sixth course I had run, so I made my pace somewhat slower to enjoy the pleasure she took in the business.……

After passing another night with the cousins, Casanova again sets out on his travels; and here, for the time being, we will leave him.