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When I come to my visit to Spain in 1767, I shall have some more to say about Mengs.
I was anxious to test the skill of my cook, so I ordered her to get a good supper for me, and I gave her some money. "I have some money," she replied, "and I will let you have the bill to-morrow." After taking away whatever I had left with Mengs I went to Don Diego's house, and to my astonishment found it empty. I went back and asked Philippe, my man, where Don Diego was staying.
His meal always consisted of the same dishes, he always went out hunting at the same hour, coming back in the evening thoroughly fatigued. The king was ugly, but everything is relative, he was handsome compared with his brother, who was terrifically ugly. This brother never went anywhere without a picture of the Virgin, which Mengs had painted for him.
"The ambassador," he continued, "proposes to introduce you at Court next week, and he wants you to dine with him to-day; there will be a numerous company at dinner." "I am engaged to Mengs." "No matter, he shall be asked as well; you must come. Consider the effect of your presence at the ambassador's the day after your triumph." "You are right.
My Departure From Paris My Journey to Madrid The Count of Aranda The Prince de la Catolica The Duke of Lossada Mengs A Ball Madame Pichona Donna Ignazia "Well, chevalier," I said, "I have read the little note, and I will try and oblige his majesty as soon as possible. However, if I have not time to get away in twenty-four hours, his majesty must work his dread will on me."
Mengs sided with the ambassador, and begged me to come and live with him, so as not to be liable to any more inconveniences from spying servants. I did not accept this invitation till I had been pressed for some time, and I noted the remark of the ambassador, who said I owed Mengs this reparation for the indirect affront he had received.
I was anxious to test the skill of my cook, so I ordered her to get a good supper for me, and I gave her some money. "I have some money," she replied, "and I will let you have the bill to-morrow." After taking away whatever I had left with Mengs I went to Don Diego's house, and to my astonishment found it empty. I went back and asked Philippe, my man, where Don Diego was staying.
My brother glanced at them and looked at me with astonishment. I was not thinking of the subject at that moment, and his gaze surprised me. "Twenty-seven," he cried, "came out fifth." "All the better," said I, "we shall have some amusement out of it." I told the story to Mengs, who said, "It's a lucky folly for you this time; but it always is a folly."
Another time I suppressed a heavy and stupid criticism of his on someone who had maintained that there were no monuments still existing of the antediluvian period. Mengs thought he would confound the author by citing the remains of the Tower of Babel a double piece of folly, for in the first place there are no such remains, and in the second, the Tower of Babel was a post-diluvian building.
My Departure From Paris My Journey to Madrid The Count of Aranda The Prince de la Catolica The Duke of Lossada Mengs A Ball Madame Pichona Donna Ignazia "Well, chevalier," I said, "I have read the little note, and I will try and oblige his majesty as soon as possible. However, if I have not time to get away in twenty-four hours, his majesty must work his dread will on me."
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