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Updated: May 14, 2025
'The same messenger brought them? asked Ferdinand. 'No, sir; the Count's servant brought the note, and waits for an answer; the packet came by another person. Ferdinand opened the note and read as follows: 'Berkeley-square, half-past 7, morning. 'Mon Ami, Best joke in the world! I broke Crocky's bank three times. Of course; I told you so.
'And sent by Mirabel. I should not wonder, if after all, they have broken the bank at Crocky's. Nothing shall induce me to take a ducat. However, Ferdinand thought fit to rise, and contrived to descend to the best drawing-room about a quarter of an hour after the appointed time. To his extreme surprise he found Lord Montfort.
And assuring him over and over again that he looked upon him as the most fortunate of all his friends, and that if he broke the bank at Crocky's to-night, which he fancied he should, he would send him two or three thousand pounds; at the same time he shook him heartily by the hand, and descended the staircase of the spunging-house, humming Vive la Bagatelle. The Crisis.
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