demoivre

Updated: June 27, 2025

With hands and eyes uplifted, Jerningham left the apartment; and the Duke, without thinking a moment farther on old or new intrigues on the friendship he had formed, or the enmity he had provoked on the beauty whom he had carried off from her natural protectors, as well as from her lover or on the monarch against whom he had placed himself in rivalship, sat down to calculate chances with all the zeal of Demoivre, tired of the drudgery in half-an-hour, and refused to see the zealous agent whom he had employed in the city, because he was busily engaged in writing a new lampoon.

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak