She was fair and as gentle as a lamb.

Nobody would have taken her for an Italian.
Living is very cheap in Venice; we gave a little money to the mother, and provided for the subsistence of her daughter.

She had a voice, and to procure her some resource we gave her a spinnet, and a singing--master.
All these expenses did not cost each of us more than two sequins a month, and we contrived to save a much greater sum in other matters; but as we were obliged to wait until she became of a riper age, this was sowing a long time before we could possibly reap.

However, satisfied with passing our evenings, chatting and innocently playing with the child, we perhaps enjoyed greater pleasure than if we had received the last favors.

So true is it that men are more attached to women by a certain pleasure they have in living with them, than by any kind of libertinism.