to send for a medical man, who ordered an immediate bleeding. But the patient only grew worse, fell into a violent fever, and began to grow delirious. The next step was, to remove him from the dutchess's apartment to another. The latter immediately put on her zendale[1], gave the necessary orders to her waiting-woman, and hastened through a private door of the ducal palace to a gondola, which, by her commands, had been Kept in readiness for several nights on the canal.
Count Selami had likewise taken every precaution to receive her in the house we inhabited. At the least knock given, the door was to be opened. The count never went to bed before day-break, and when he was obliged to go out, I was always waiting for her. The dutchess having intimated to him, that her visit was very nigh, he withdrew from company much sooner than usual, and we spent the remainder of the night in friendly conversation. His expectation was very san-
- ↑ A dress peculiar to the italian ladies. It is a kind of veil.
