CHAPTER IV

I Receive Good News From Venice, to Which City I Return with De la Haye and Bavois--My Three Friends Give Me a Warm Welcome; Their Surprise at Finding Me a Model of Devotion--Bavois Lures Me Back to My Former Way of Living--De la Haye a Thorough Hypocrite--Adventure with the Girl Marchetti--I Win a Prize in the Lottery--I Meet Baletti--De la Haye Leaves M. de Bragadin's Palace--My Departure for Paris

Whilst De la Haye was every day gaining greater influence over my weakened mind, whilst I was every day devoutly attending mass, sermons, and every office of the Church, I received from Venice a letter containing the pleasant information that my affair had followed its natural course, namely, that it was entirely forgotten; and in another