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In regard to myself, sir, I ask for nothing, and as during the course of a war I may hope to acquire rank, you might either give me one of those commissions of M. de Sartine, which are only of use in America, or one that would not prevent my seniors from resuming afterwards their rank, or else letters of service, to enable me simply to command in the capacity of an American general officer.
X. C. V. Goes With Her Mother to Brussels and From Thence to Venice, Where She Becomes a Great Lady My Work-girls Madame Baret I Am Robbed, Put in Prison, and Set at Liberty Again I Go to Holland Helvetius' "Esprit" Piccolomini The day after my interview with M. de Sartine I waited on Madame du Rumain at an early hour.
He advised me to go next morning and tell the tale to M. de Sartine, who knew me, and would be glad to have the account from my own lips. I said nothing, as I knew the famous superintendent of police to be a dreadful sermoniser. The lettre de cachet was dated November 6th, and I did not leave Paris till the 20th.
He there began an enumeration of his grievances, but was civilly interrupted by M. de Sartine "Sir, you have not much reason to complain; but for your visit to me here, you would have been murdered this night at twelve."
"Sir," replied the other, "how many persons, do you suppose, cross the bridge in one day?" "From ten to twelve thousand," replied de Sartine. "Well, sir, how many intelligent persons do you suppose there are among them?" "A hundred," replied the official. "That's a liberal allowance," said the charlatan, "but let us leave it at that.
I saw M. de Sartine, 'sedentem pro tribunali'. At the end of the sitting he told me that he was obliged to remand me, and that during my remand I must not leave Paris or get married, as all my civil rights were in suspense pending the decision. I promised to follow his commands.
A charitable woman, moved by his misfortunes, gave him a temporary home, and at the end of a few weeks he was transferred to the Bicêtre then an hospital for foundlings through the intervention of M. de Sartine, the well-known minister of police. Here his conduct was remarkable.
Such as the letters were I was obliged to make use of them. The Abbe de Saint-Simon wrote to Grimaldo and to Sartine, enclosing these letter, for I myself did not yet dare to write on account of the precautions I was obliged to use against the bad air.
The other person need not, in that case, take any part in it, and according to the orders received from M. de Sartine, it appeared to me, from what M. de Chaumont said, that the Bonhomme Richard, and other vessels, if required, might be in readiness before the expiration of three weeks. I intend to have the honour of paying my respects to you after dinner on Saturday.
I was sure that Farsetti had the chief hand in all this trouble, that he was continually on my track, and that he paid the spies mentioned by M. de Sartine. He it was who had set Vauversin, the barrister, after me, and I had no doubt that he would do all in his power to ruin me.
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