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I have heard much of you: you are intimate with Milord Bolingbroke. Would that I had fifty friends like /him/." "Monseigneur would have little trouble in his regency if his wish were realized," said Chatran. "/Tant mieux/, so long as I had little odium, as well as little trouble, a happiness which, thanks to you and Dubois, I am not likely to enjoy, but there is the carriage!"
"Well, now, it is a little hard that a man who has been toiling all day for the public good should feel ashamed of indulging for an hour or two at night in his private amusements; but so it is. 'Once grave, always grave! is the maxim of the world; eh, Chatran?" The companion bowed. "'Tis a very good saying, please your Royal Highness, and is intended to warn us from the sin of ever being grave!"
"Her lover! you astonish me: why, she seemed almost fond of her husband; the tears came in her eyes when she spoke of him." "She is fond of him!" said Chatran, dryly.
"Ha! ha! ha!" said Chatran, laughing; "I then am the /diable tout de bon/! 'tis well I /am no worse/; for we reckon the /roues/ a devilish deal worse than the very worst of the devils, but see, the Regent approaches us." And, leaving a very pretty and gay-looking lady, the Regent sauntered towards us. It was in walking, by the by, that he lost all the grace of his mien.
The party consisted of twenty: nine gentlemen of the court besides myself; four men of low rank and character, but admirable buffoons; and six ladies, such ladies as the Duke loved best, witty, lively, sarcastic, and good for nothing. De Chatran accosted me.
WHAT a singular scene was that private supper with the Regent of France and his /roues/! The party consisted of twenty: nine gentlemen of the court besides myself; four men of low rank and character, but admirable buffoons; and six ladies, such ladies as the Duke loved best, witty, lively, sarcastic, and good for nothing. De Chatran accosted me.
"Ha! ha! you have a great turn for morality, my good Chatran!" cried the Duke, "and would draw a rule for conduct out of the wickedest bon mot of Dubois. Monsieur, pardon me, but I have seen you before: you are the Count " "Devereux, Monseigneur." "True, true! I have heard much of you: you are intimate with Milord Bolingbroke. Would that I had fifty friends like him."
"Ha! ha! ha!" said Chatran, laughing; "I then am the diable tout de bon! 'tis well I am no worse; for we reckon the roues a devilish deal worse than the very worst of the devils, but see, the Regent approaches us." And, leaving a very pretty and gay-looking lady, the Regent sauntered towards us. It was in walking, by the by, that he lost all the grace of his mien.
"Count Devereux," said the merry Regent, "you will enter; my duty requires that, at this seductive hour, I should see a young gentleman of your dangerous age safely lodged at his hotel!" We entered, Chatran gave the orders, and we drove off rapidly. The Regent hummed a tune, and his two companions listened to it in respectful silence.
"Well, now, it is a little hard that a man who has been toiling all day for the public good should feel ashamed of indulging for an hour or two at night in his private amusements; but so it is. 'Once grave, always grave! is the maxim of the world; eh, Chatran?" The companion bowed.
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