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The pleading of Maitre Allou was very, successful: he claimed three hundred thousand francs damages, in addition to the confiscation for the benefit of the Comedie Francaise of the forty-three thousand francs which that theatre owed me. Maitre Barboux was my advocate. He was an intimate friend of Perrin. He defended me very indifferently.
Maitre Allou, the advocate of the Comedie Francaise, invented wicked little histories about me. He took pleasure in trying to make me ridiculous. He had a big file of letters from me to Perrin, letters which I had written in softer moments or in anger. Perrin had kept them all, even the shortest notes. I had kept none of his.
Maitre Allou in his pleadings pretended that the London public had tired of me very quickly, and did not care to come to the performances of the Comedie in which I appeared. The following list gives the best possible denial to the assertions of Maitre Allou: While I was in London I learned that I had lost my lawsuit. "The Court with its 'Inasmuch as, 'Nevertheless, &c. declares hereby that Mlle.
I cannot tell how the truth may be: I say the tale as 'twas said to me. The present representative of this ancient and dignified house, Harry Headlong, Esquire, was, like all other Welsh squires, fond of shooting, hunting, racing, drinking, and other such innocent amusements, meizonos d' allou tinos, as Menander expresses it.
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