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We never pressed for our winnings or declined to receive promissory notes in lieu of gold. But woe to the man who did not pay when the note became due! Redmond de Balibari was sure to wait upon him with his bill, and I promise you there were very few bad debts: on the contrary, gentlemen were grateful to us for our forbearance, and our character for honour stood unimpeached.
How the Princess could trust the latter as she persisted in doing, is beyond my comprehension; but there is no infatuation like that of a woman in love: and you will remark, my dear Monsieur de Balibari, that our sex generally fix upon a bad man. 'Not always, madam, I interposed; 'your humble servant has created many such attachments.
Open my despatch-box yonder, where the great secrets of the Austrian Chancery lie; put your hair back off you forehead; clap me on this patch and these moustaches, and now look in the glass! 'The Chevalier de Balibari, said I, bursting with laughter, and began walking the room in his manner with his stiff knee.
The black and white barriers came in view at last, hard by Bruck, and opposite them the green and yellow of Saxony. The Saxon custom-house officers came out. 'I have no luggage, said the Chevalier. 'The gentleman has nothing contraband, said the Prussian officers, grinning, and took their leave of their prisoner with much respect. The Chevalier de Balibari gave them a Frederic apiece.
'From the Chevalier de Balibari to Redmond Barry, Esquire, Gentilhomme Anglais, a l'Hotel des 3 Couronnes, a Dresde en Saxe. 'Nephew Redmond, This comes to you by a sure hand, no other than Mr. Lumpit of the English Mission, who is acquainted, as all Berlin will be directly, with our wonderful story.
You have told me with what difficulty you have induced the Princess Olivia to consent to the project of your union with the Grafinn Ida, whom you don't love. I know whom you love very well. 'Monsieur de Balibari! said the discomfited Chevalier; he could get out no more. The truth began to dawn upon him. I am no more an admirer of that lady than you are; but I want her estate.
With this sum of money, and a good run of luck which ensued presently, we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure. There was not a party of the nobility to which the two gentlemen of Balibari were not invited.
His difference with Messieurs de Magny was known; he begged his Highness to employ any other official person in the judgment of the accusation brought against the young Chevalier. 'All these things were going on while the Chevalier was at play. A run of luck you had great luck in those days, Monsieur de Balibari was against him. He stayed and lost his 4000 ducats.
One thing you can say about the religious folks that are big with cocksureness and a mission they may make mistakes, but the mistake doesn't talk and criticise. The only rascal worthy to travel in company with Stevenson's rascals is the Chevalier Balibari, of Castle Barry, in Ireland, whose admirable memoirs have been so well told by Mr. Thackeray.
Fortune smiling at parting upon Monsieur de Balibari, enabled him to win a handsome sum with his faro-bank. At ten o'clock the next morning, the carriage of the Chevalier de Balibari drew up as usual at the door of his hotel; and the Chevalier, who was at his window, seeing the chariot arrive, came down the stairs in his usual stately manner.
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