Maimbourg, Fabricius, Father Lelong and Father Pitou, all the poets,
all the historians, all the fathers, all the doctors, all the
theologians, all the humanists, all the compilers, assembled high
and low on the walls, became witnesses to our kisses.

"'I could not resist you,' she said to me; 'don't conceive a bad
opinion of me.'

"She expressed her love for me in singular raptures. Once she made
me try on neck and wrist bands of fine lace, and finding them suit
me well she insisted on my accepting them. I did not want to. But on
her becoming irritated by my refusal, which she considered an
offence against love, I finally consented to accept them, afraid to
offend her.

"My good fortune lasted till I was to be replaced by an officer. I
became spiteful over it, and in the ardour of avenging myself I
informed the College Regents that I did not go any longer to the
_Golden Bible_, for fear of seeing there expositions rather
offensive to the modesty of a young clerical. To say the truth, I
had not to congratulate myself on this contrivance. Madame Pigoreau,
becoming aware of my sayings, publicly accused me of having robbed
her of a set of lace neck and wrist bands. Her false complaint
reached the ears of the College Regents, who had my boxes searched;
therein was found the garment, a matter of considerable value. I was
expelled from college and had, like Hippolyte and Bellerophon, to
put up with the wiles and wickedness of woman.

"Finding myself in the streets with my few rags and my copybooks, I
ran great risk of starving, when, dressed in my clerical suit, I