un caractere un peu viril. Soit a cause de cela, soit a cause
de l'habitude qu'elle en avait contractee dans la vie de commis qu'elle
avait menee a Scio, et qu'elle menait encore a Venise, elle garda
toujours son elegant costume sciote, qui lui allait a merveille, et qui
la faisait prendre pour un jeune homme par tous les etrangers. Dans
ces occasions, Veneranda, quoique decrepite, se redressait encore, et
triomphait d'avoir un si beau sigisbe au bras. La princesse laissa
une partie de ses biens a cet heureux couple, a la charge de la faire
ensevelir dans une robe de drap d'or et de prendre soin de son petit
chien.

FIN DE MATTEA.

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