Unfortunately for me, I had no sooner begun to proceed without
difficulty, than M. de Francueil took a little journey, during which I
remained intrusted with the cash, which, at that time, did not
amount to more than twenty-five to thirty thousand francs. The anxiety
of mind this sum of money occasioned me, made me perceive I was very
unfit to be a cash-keeper, and I have no doubt but my uneasy
situation, during his absence, contributed to the illness with which I
was seized after his return.
I have observed in my first part that I was born in a dying state. A
defect in the bladder caused me, during my early years, to suffer an
almost continual retention of urine; and my aunt Suson, to whose
care I was intrusted, had inconceivable difficulty in preserving me.
However, she succeeded, and my robust constitution at length got the
better of all my weakness, and my health became so well established
that except the illness from languor, of which I have given an
account, and frequent heats in the bladder which the least heating
of the blood rendered troublesome, I arrived at the age of thirty
almost without feeling my original infirmity. The first time this
happened was upon my arrival at Venice. The fatigue of the voyage, and
the extreme heat I had suffered, renewed the burnings, and gave me a
pain in the loins, which continued until the beginning of winter.
After having seen padoana, I thought myself near the end of my career,
but I suffered not the least inconvenience.
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