text: Romance Books - Memoirs of Casanova Volume 6d Florence to Trieste Page 40
  At three o'clock the Venetian consul came, saying that Count Strasoldo had begged him to use his good offices with me to persuade me to deliver up the fair Leuzica.
  "You must speak to the girl herself," I replied; "she came here and stays here of her own free will."
  When the worthy man had heard the girl's story he went away, saying that we had the right on our side.
  Everybody exclaimed at me,--
  "You have nothing to fear. You are with honest people. Your suspicion is quite offensive."
  "That is all very fine, ladies and gentlemen, and I will come with all my heart, if your excellences will assure me that my joining this little party will not be known to the State Inquisitors possibly by to-morrow."
  Some Adventures at Trieste--I Am of Service to the Venetian Government-- My Expedition to Gorice and My Return to Trieste--I Find Irene as an Actress and Expert Gamester
  Some of the ladies of Trieste thought they would like to act a French play, and I was made stage manager.