32 The ADVENTURES of
'ftiarr.e, and wept with vexation, for the affront T had received. To crown my cohfufion, the aftors and aftrefles got notice of the adventure that very evening : one would think thefe people entertain a daemon, v\*ho ■delights in reporting to one whatever happens to another. If an aft or | for example, is guilty of fotne extravagant aftion in a debauch, or an aft refs enteis-into articles with a rich gallant, the company is immediately informed of the circutnttapce. All my comrades therefore, knew what happened at the concert, and God knows how they rejoiced at my expence. A fpirit of charity; which reigns among them, ufualjy manifefts irfelf on thefe occafions. I put myl’clf, however, above their tittle-tattle, and confolcd my- fclf for the lofs-of the duke de Medina Celi; for he vifited me no more, and I learned a few days after, that a Carthufian nun had made a conqueft of him.
When a lady belonging to the theatre has the good fortune to be in vogue, fne ca-nnot want lovers; and the paflion of a grandee, though it docs not latt above three days, greatly inhanccs her price. I found my- felf befieged with adorers, as foon as it was known in Madrid that the dukehadforlaken me. Thofe rivals whom I bad facrificed to him, more captivated by my charms than ever, returned in crowds, as candidates for rr.y favour; I received homage from a thoufand other ncatts, and was never fo much in falhion before. Of all men who courted my graces, a fat Get man, gentleman to the duke d’OlTuna, feemed the moll eager. He had not a very amiable perfon, but attracted my attention by a thouland piltoles, which he had am a (fed in the fervice of his matter, and which he fquaudered away, in order to be deemed worthy of being in the lift of my happy gallants. As long as this worthy admirer, whofe name was Brutandorf, had money to fpend, I gave him a favourable rcce.p- tion ; but when he was ruined, he found my door always (hut againtt him. This proceeding of rnihe dil- plcai'cd him. and be came to fcarch for me at the
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