tout a vous,

JAQUES ROQUE.


It was but changing the Corporal into the Count,--and saying
nothing about mounting guard on Wednesday,--and the letter was
neither right nor wrong: --so, to gratify the poor fellow, who
stood trembling for my honour, his own, and the honour of his
letter,--I took the cream gently off it, and whipping it up in my
own way, I seal'd it up and sent him with it to Madame de L-;--and
the next morning we pursued our journey to Paris.


PARIS.


When a man can contest the point by dint of equipage, and carry all
on floundering before him with half a dozen of lackies and a couple
of cooks--'tis very well in such a place as Paris,--he may drive in
at which end of a street he will.

A poor prince who is weak in cavalry, and whose whole infantry does
not exceed a single man, had best quit the field, and signalize
himself in the cabinet, if he can get up into it;--I say UP INTO
IT--for there is no descending perpendicular amongst 'em with a "Me
voici! mes enfans"--here I am--whatever many may think.

I own my first sensations, as soon as I was left solitary and alone
in my own chamber in the hotel, were far from being so flattering