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She came flying downstairs in her pretty silken deshabille, with her hair streaming, and flung her arm round her aunt's neck. "Ma chatte, where have you been?" "On the terrace." "Fi donc, menteuse! I saw you and my father land at the west stairs, five minutes ago." "We had been looking at the fire." "And never offered to take me with you! What a greedy pig!"

In June, Casanova composed for the theater of Princess Clari, at Teplitz, a piece entitled: 'Le Polemoscope ou la Calomnie demasquee par la presence d'esprit, tragicomedie en trois actes'. The manuscript was preserved at Dux, together with another form of the same, having the sub-title of 'La Lorgnette Menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquee'. It may be assumed that the staging of this piece was an occasion of pleasant activity for Casanova.

Then there are a number of more or less complete manuscripts of some extent. Tragicomedie en trois actes, composed a Dux dans le mois de Juin de l'Annee, 1791, which recurs again under the form of the 'Polemoscope: La Lorgnette menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquge, acted before the Princess de Ligne, at her chateau at Teplitz, 1791.

Then there are a number of more or less complete manuscripts of some extent. Tragicomedie en trois actes, composed a Dux dans le mois de Juin de l'Annee, 1791, which recurs again under the form of the 'Polemoscope: La Lorgnette menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquge, acted before the Princess de Ligne, at her chateau at Teplitz, 1791.